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salix sericea (@Ripple13216)Our US culture of fear and despair:I took someone to the nearest Social Security office and to the county's Social Services office a while ago. A place where you go for retirement and disability benefits and a place where you go for Medicaid & food stamps both have armed guards. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilSociety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/randomthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#randomthoughts</a>

Dave MuthBecause I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. -Elie Wiesel (from his Nobel acceptance lecture <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/lecture/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/lecture/</a>)<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memory</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hope</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Despair</a>

apiechaPainting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema! <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/kunst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kunst</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/contemporaryArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporaryArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/mentalCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalCinema</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/analogArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/rubberStamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rubberStamp</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/reliefPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reliefPrinting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/saveBioDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#saveBioDiversity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/climateActionNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateActionNow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/systemChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemChange</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/endFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endFossilFuels</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/makeArtNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeArtNotWar</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/noAFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noAFD</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRacism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFascism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanDignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanDignity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Нетвойны</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingHeads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingHeads</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingMen</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingLoud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingLoud</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grief</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/sorrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sorrow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fear</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/panic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#panic</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/scribbles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scribbles</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/smearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smearing</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/heart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heart</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/anatomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anatomy</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/feelings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feelings</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/emotions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emotions</a>

Anthony<blockquote>Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat. </blockquote>From “LYING IN POLITICS”: HANNAH ARENDT’S ANTIDOTE TO ANTICIPATORY DESPAIR <a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/</a> I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now. While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats. This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew. Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=hannaharendt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HannahArendt</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a>

carla joyi find that a kind of potent embers are born when i allow despair to flow. These embers can burn off the numbness and sadness that blocks connection.... So, when I truly listen to and be with despair -- instead of judging it-- I am able to find a recovering of wonderment in me, to see the glimmers. Which can ignite my fierce resolve (often coupled with joy,) to return to life, to return to creating new worlds with my kin... to love more. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FeelingThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeelingThinking</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/joy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#joy</a>

WenOh what a morning for democracy - assisted dying bill passes - ‘revising chamber’ confident it can kill it, some revision - painted planes equate to terrorism, no doubt climate protestors next - polis get licence to prosecute anyone not pledging allegiance to the ‘union’ (ok I made that up, or did i?) - just for starter in rhis putrid isleAnd that is just before my second coffee.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/stateOfTheNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stateOfTheNation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ukPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Despair</a>

emeritrixI am wrestling with despair by Marge Piercy (Nov 01, 2017)Every day is worse than the one before a killing of all that was legislated to be kind, helpful, healthy for all living creatures, prisoners of this earth. The meanness of it gets me, the hatred of who have less money and things and thus count less and should be punished or simply pushed into some locked closet of poverty and forgotten except for occasional rhetoric blaming them for the state of that closet. How do these men stand being so cold and full of malice? They have plenty left to flog women for having bodies. How dare women desire, how dare we choose, say no, resist, insist. I can’t give up, no matter how cozy that looks by contrast with all this jabbering, this attempt to organize our anger into some kind of weapon.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a>audio: <a href="https://kboo.fm/media/61754-i-am-wrestling-despair" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kboo.fm/media/61754-i-am-wrestling-despair</a>

earthling<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/photography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@photography</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@palestine</a> People weep as their injured loved ones are brought to Nasser hospital after an Israeli attack on Palestinians waiting at a food distribution pointPhotograph: Anadolu/Getty Images<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grief</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mourning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#men</a>

apiechaAmbiguous impulses for your mental cinema! contemporaryArt <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/mentalCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalCinema</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/analogArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/rubberStamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rubberStamp</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/reliefPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reliefPrinting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/saveBioDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#saveBioDiversity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/climateActionNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateActionNow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/systemChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemChange</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/endFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endFossilFuels</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/makeArtNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeArtNotWar</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/noAFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noAFD</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRacism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFascism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanDignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanDignity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Нетвойны</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/streetArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/stencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stencil</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/graffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#graffiti</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/monkeyWithHeadphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monkeyWithHeadphones</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/monkeyThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monkeyThinking</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/monkeyDreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monkeyDreaming</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/speechBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speechBubble</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/thoughtBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thoughtBubble</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/chimpanzee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chimpanzee</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/bildung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bildung</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#school</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingLoud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingLoud</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingHeads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingHeads</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingMen</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/schulrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#schulrat</a>

apiechaPainting on paper, 30 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema! <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/kunst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kunst</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/contemporaryArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporaryArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/mentalCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalCinema</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/analogArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/rubberStamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rubberStamp</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/reliefPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reliefPrinting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/saveBioDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#saveBioDiversity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/climateActionNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateActionNow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/systemChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemChange</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/endFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endFossilFuels</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/makeArtNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeArtNotWar</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/noAFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noAFD</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRacism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFascism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanDignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanDignity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Нетвойны</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/frogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#frogs</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amphibians</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/flag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flag</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/tinCan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tinCan</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/pickles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pickles</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/fruitfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fruitfulness</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/fertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fertility</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/motherhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motherhood</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/feminity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/idol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#idol</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/beauty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beauty</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingLoud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingLoud</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingHeads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingHeads</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/screamingMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screamingMen</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#masculinity</a>

apiechaPainting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema! <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/kunst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kunst</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/contemporaryArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporaryArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/mentalCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalCinema</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/analogArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/rubberStamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rubberStamp</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/reliefPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reliefPrinting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/saveBioDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#saveBioDiversity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/climateActionNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateActionNow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/systemChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemChange</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/endFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endFossilFuels</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/makeArtNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeArtNotWar</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/noAFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noAFD</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRacism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFascism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanDignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanDignity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Нетвойны</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/banksy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#banksy</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/stencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stencil</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/streetArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/graffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#graffiti</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/childDrawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#childDrawing</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/flowChart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flowChart</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/astronaut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronaut</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/dancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dancing</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/spaceSuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spaceSuit</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/spaceTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spaceTravel</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/outerSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#outerSpace</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/turtles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#turtles</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/littlecreatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#littlecreatures</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/wondering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wondering</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grief</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/sorrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sorrow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#depression</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a>

Longreads"We have recently been talking about poems of joyful accumulation—poems that begin with some small affection, which leads to a sort of snowballing of pleasure, of happy revelation, even if the revelation begins with a slight ache, a memory of someone who is no longer here, or a place that is not what it once was." —Hanif Abdurraqib for The New Yorker <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/in-defense-of-despair" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/in-defense-of-despair</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HanifAbdurraqib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HanifAbdurraqib</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Despair</a>

apiechaPainting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema! <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/kunst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kunst</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/contemporaryArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporaryArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/mentalCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalCinema</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/analogArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogArt</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/rubberStamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rubberStamp</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/reliefPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reliefPrinting</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/saveBioDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#saveBioDiversity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/climateActionNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateActionNow</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/systemChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemChange</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/endFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endFossilFuels</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/makeArtNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeArtNotWar</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/noAFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noAFD</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRacism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/NoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFascism</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/humanDignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanDignity</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Нетвойны</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/walkAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#walkAway</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/turningAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#turningAway</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#despair</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/wondering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wondering</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/frustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#frustration</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/tortoise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tortoise</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/turtles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#turtles</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/emblematy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emblematy</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/tobiasMagass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tobiasMagass</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/renaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#renaissance</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/baroque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#baroque</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/festinaLente" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#festinaLente</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/makeHasteSlowly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeHasteSlowly</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/slowDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slowDown</a> <a href="https://muenster.im/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a>

SpockoPlunge into the depths of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Despair</a>A little something I found from R. Crumb I thought <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Wileymiller" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Wileymiller</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jensorensen</a> would appreciate it. A comic from the PAST, for our times! The good news? Still only 50¢ Laughter, the cheapest medicine. Love you <a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> Scan from Comixjoint.com

SpockoA comic for our times! Plunge into the depths of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Despair</a>The good news? Still only 50¢ Laughter, the cheapest medicine.Scan from Comixjoint.com

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David WakehamExcerpt from a new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> If those who govern, those who claim to care, Choose willful blindness as they watch me fall, Why not complete this torment I must bear? A kinder end than no response at all. The noose of neglect grows tighter day by day— At least speak truth as you all turn away.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Housing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Despair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice</a>

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