Little Reblog Game Thingy Because I Love Making These (and Want To Show Some Love To My Mutuals)!

Hey, if you're ever feeling awful because you're super overwhelmed by the news, too overwhelmed to do anything, but you feel like you can't stop without being a horrible person who's just sticking their head in the sand...

Try thinking of it this way:

Maybe the moral thing to do actually IS to never look at the news...

so that you have the energy and will and lack of huge, petrifying fear needed to help

We've seen over and over again, especially in the climate movement, how often it's small, local efforts at making a difference that really start to change things

There's no moral value to being burned out and depressed.

Yes, knowing what's going on in your state/country/the world is good if it's something you can actually sustain

But if you have to choose between following the news/doomscrolling/etc. and actually having the energy to help?

I think that in the vast majority of situations, morally, you SHOULD choose to do something to help

Showing up to your city council meetings, or cleaning up trash in your neighborhood, or volunteering at a food pantry, or registering people to vote, or joining the underground abortion pill network, or doing a fundraiser for bipoc-led nonprofits, or mailing books to people in prison, or seedbombing native grasses, or phone-banking for a nonprofit you care about, or building benches and leaving them at bus stops, or knitting hats and giving them to unhoused people to stay warm, or starting a community garden, or sponsoring refugees for immigration, or taking a stand at school board meetings, or, or, or

all do infinitely more to help other people than doomscrolling and sharing depressing news posts ever will

read somewhere "jujutsu kaisen is just a story of people desperately trying to make the world a better place for their loved ones and failing miserably" and oh boy do i fucking agree with this

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

Whilst you were exploring each others bodies, I was exploring the catacombs

Something I'm unexpectedly appreciating about tumblr is how there's something of a speed limit.

Open, scroll, reblog, tee-hee have a good time, close.

Some time later: open, scroll, reblog, why does this already have my name on it, oh goddamnit I'm caught up. Time to go find some non-digital enrichment.

It's not like the Other Apps that have endless content! It protects me from myself!

Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmile

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