A federal judge blocked most of a law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that strictly limited transgender health care for adults and banned it completely for children.
Please listen to me very carefully right now: Learn to take and celebrate small short wins, to build momentum and morale, or you and everyone you need to fight beside you will be burned out, demoralized, and demotivated before the next big opportunity comes along.
If you want to succumb to despair, have at it, but i am trying with literally all of my might to fight against encroaching depression and am asking you to please get the fuck out of my mentions and stay away from me if all you're going to try to do is give *it* help.
It is truly astounding the number of people who will show up in mentions on here to argue endlessly but fail to take the point of "rage, rage against the dying of the light".
And like, don't get me wrong: I absolutely get it. There are days when nothing short news of several sudden & prominent heart attacks & the declaration to expand and packed the supreme court with progressive justices can drag me out of my despair.
But I don't take that into OTHER PEOPLE'S MENTIONS
A tweet from 10ish years ago has always stuck with me:
"Facebook is where people I know IRL make me feel worse about he world, and Twitter is where people I don't know IRL make me feel better about the world."
And wheewww. More of THAT please.
Keep fighting. ✊
Here for support, as someone who has fought (not always actively) depression. It's a sneaky, insinuating beast, that tries to convince you it is inetivable. But look, Thanos got that wrong, too.
The tendency to think that if someone is in favor of one thing, that they must, of necessity, be blind to the value of other things seems to be the default assumption on social media.
Reading this skeet on its own before knowing the context was a nice self-confidence/seretonin boost, but then opening the full thread and seeing it's specifically about DeSantis's BS getting blocked made it even better.
This exactly. The idea that everything is permanently, irretrievably screwed up is strongly linked with the belief that we have no control, that there's a secret cabal ruling us. Neither is true, and both serve primarily to excuse apathy. Wins make us hungry for more wins.
Yes! Thank you for this reminder. Sometimes I think people get into a feedback loop of not wanting to be complacent or naive, and so celebrating a small win or a partial victory feels like you’re a sucker. But you’re not. Wins make the larger fight feel worth it!
Parting words with a good friend tonight, we were calling across the hood of my car and the sidewalk with, "Small wins! Achievable goals!" because that's where we're at now
Please listen to me very carefully right now: Learn to take and celebrate small short wins, to build momentum and morale, or you and everyone you need to fight beside you will be burned out, demoralized, and demotivated before the next big opportunity comes along.
It's like Emma Goldman said: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." We take our moments of Joy where we can find them and keep fighting. Thanks for that reminder, Damien.
This reminds me that I once gave a talk, in 2009 I think, that was counter-programming for that year's Singularity Summit. The title of my talk:
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your Singularity."
YES.
And, to take breaks
I'm fully in the caregiver/MH management/pain management burnout quicksand. Prevention looks like boundaries and assiduous self-care, I'm seeing. Hindsight and all
