What bothers you and why?
AI-produced slop: as a stand-in for real and soulful human creativity. People can recognise the beauty of other people’s work and long may it remain.
The comfort of apathy: people being too lazy or willfully naive to actually face the genocide that is going on in Gaza. History will not be kind to those who turned away from it, covered it up, silenced the growing global dissent or attempted to make the Palestinian people dissappear. They will NOT disappear and in the age of the internet and everyone having a mobile phone, it’s a fucking joke that anybody would even try and control and manipulate that narrative.
People who think the world owes them something: The world doesn’t give a shit about you, or me, or anyone else. The only way for anyone to start giving a shit about you is if you work hard and produce something of value and quality and then put this out into the world, whether it be a skill, knowledge, some kind of gift or ability. Otherwise why should anybody give a shit about you or what you have to say?
Possibly that last one sounds a bit harsh but I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard people moan about this online. Just find the thing that you’re good at and that you enjoy and keep getting better and better at it over many years…there are no shortcuts (unless you have wealthy parents). I think being born into privilege and with expectations of the world giving something to you actually makes you weaker in the mind.
People who “trump”-et about how great they are: A woman my own age who wasn’t on drugs and wasn’t mentally ill asked me to look through my garbage today to find cans and bottles she could sell. It seems hugely unfair that I have a heated home and food and a job when she doesn’t. It seems hugely unfair on the grander scale that gigantic pieces of shit are running the world’s biggest companies like Amazon and Tesla and the world’s largest (former) democracy. It’s always good to be humble about your own position. It could just as easily have been me digging in other people’s trash, it could just as easily be you. There’s very little that actually separates any of us living in houses from those without shelter. Whereas there’s a whole universe of wealth and unimaginable ego that separates all of us from oligarchs and tyrants. When people are busy tearing each other to pieces, they are more susceptible to control.
That’s about it for now.
Reading back on this I didn’t realise how angry I felt but I guess I am angry about all of these things.
Content Catnip 
I see your point on all these and they’re good. I agree.
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Thanks so much Fedora for reading and so glad it resonates with you 🤗
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I read this first on my mobile, all of them things that bother me as well. Was coming here on my laptop, and scrolled first up the photo of that wonderful piece of Earth, having just read that another coalmine is to be opened, and how we need to stop them. All I can think about miners and oilers and frackers is that they’ll soon be stopped by Earth herself. Thank you for your thoughts.
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Rita I know exactly what you mean I read this news. So many assholes in charge I hope one day the adults with long term ideas of the environment will be in charge and not the greedy ones, it makes me so upset the insanity of it all. Yes mother nature wins ultimately and none of them can take their wealth into the grave with them, it’s all so petty and stupid.
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Thank you for your thoughts on all this Rita 🤗 💖
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‘The world doesn’t give a shit about you, or me, or anyone else’
I actually find this comforting to both realize and to accept.
Get off the I demand justice and fairness…and accept the world doesn’t give shit.
G
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Yeah it is very liberating, I agree. The idea that nobody cares is not a tragedy it frees you to just live your life and not care about their judgements. I wish people cared more for other people though it would be a kinder world but yeah I know exactly what you mean
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