I actually made a video about this a few months ago: activities one can do on bad depression days when you don’t have any energy to do anything.

For the TLDW crowd, though, here’s the list:

• Sewing (My top task on bad depression days, conquering my sewing pile.)
• Adult Coloring Books (Or Art)
• Bird Watching / Feeding
• Watch Stupid Movies (My go-tos are Rampage and Ocean’s 8)
• Food Prep
• Delete Old Stuff Off Your Phone (This one may only be suitable for those of us with anhedonia.)
• Do Your Basic Computer Maintenance

All of these things take minimal energy and keep the brain engaged without making you overly emotional.

Can confirm. That is 100% natural, god-given talent right there.

Talk about shitty luck.

Oh what mischievous fun.

Agreed.

There’s a reason why you never hear about the Battle of Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square. It’s why your education focuses on MLK instead of Malcolm X, and why no school child has ever heard of Marsha P. Johnson.

Throwing bricks helps move progress along, but no one will teach that to you because the people in power don’t want you to be thinking about kicking their asses. Hell, Luigi probably saved thousands of lives by scaring health care companies into looking past the profit motive for a few days and approving claims.

I’m older and I understand that my optimism for the world, our species, and my assumption that people are basically good were all total bullshit.

The pantheon was surely pleased to receive another furry little goddess. <3 I’m sorry for your loss.

True.

Also predicted in September 2024 that she would fail and they’d blame the Greens. And I was right.

Because they didn’t take five seconds and look at my profile.

Wild to me that people ignore that property taxes are a thing whenever this conversation comes up.

It’s easy to tax stock. Just requires an assessment, and you get one every day.

Goddamn, he’s so insecure.

Fuck yes.

Hell yeah.

We have a dedicated lane for our streetcar line here in KC and it is glorious.

Claude “Powered”

Powered.

Powered in the same way that my digestive tract is powered after eating out on a Taco Tuesday.

And pretty soon these same fuckers may be jamming their AI into air traffic control systems.

Awesome.

The next step in this process: Figure out a way to buy a million bucks in Trumpcoin, and then have an intermediary secure a pardon from the president.

I wish I was joking.

Minutely is the correct word.

When we elect Democrats, the major difference is that the regressive movements progress more strongly at the state level, and the Dems we elected claim to be powerless to stop it. (Which we know is untrue because we’ve seen Donald wield near unilateral executive power.)

At the end of the day there is such little material difference between Democrats and Republicans that a growing segment of the population sees no use in missing a day’s pay to vote.

This is why I think it’s a tad incorrect to say “you get what you vote for”. Because we really don’t.

That is factually untrue in most respects.

Ours is not a representative democracy, if you look past a surface level analysis of American politics and read up on just how strong the correlation between public opinion and our governance actually is in reality.

“Going Grey”

I definitely relate to this. I think I’ve used a form of this analogy when explaining it to normies myself.

What coping mechanisms do you use?

My biggest one is exercise. I walk my dogs four times a day and make it a point to do some form of activity daily, plus I lift weights three or four times a week. I also do a lot of reading, which in reference to the color analogy, sort of feels like an injection of color into the grey. I also made a YT video earlier this year about activities one can do on those exceedingly grey days, if you’re interested. (No sweat if not.)

That is a good analogy.