[CW: Depressive rant about systemic death]

I just want to fix this shithole planet but I can't and it's eating me up inside.

How many people are fucking dying alone in their homes from something preventable because they can't afford a doctor? How many are dying cold in the streets because capitalists would rather eat the poor than help them.

Am I doing enough? Am I next?

I just want to let you know that while your owl antics are funny and iconic, it's your huge heart and the tenderness you inspire in return that make you so beloved here

I love you comrade

yer doin great bud

Cherish anything that you can find or create that isn't fucked, and take the rest one step at a time. Virtual hug to you comrade.

I am told I give fantastic hugs and I really wish I could be there to crush you with a big warm bear hug

Sending virtual hugs

I get it

Just wish I could give you one in person

You'll always be our favorite bird. 🫂💛

we'll get through it together comrade

Heard.

I take solace in knowing that, even if I can only help just a little, it has to be enough. That's just how it works—I cannot give more of myself if it doesn't leave anything left behind. Because then I'd be dead, and I couldn't help anybody else.

I like to garden in my free time, and I've slowly converted all the abandoned flower beds in our townhouse block into gardens. Corn, beans, squash, carrots, onions and chives, (way too fucking many) raspberries, and a cross-section of fresh herbs in every bed to naturally ward off most pests (and be yim-yum). Free food! I think I harvest maybe 10 to 20% of it myself, and I turn it into chili. I tell the neighbors they can have some for free, and their friends can have some too, if they ask. It opens up conversations, and I know it's made a difference in some folks' lives.

One comrade cannot fix the whole planet. If you can't do a lot, a little is okay. You don't need to be personally executing landlords—giving your neighbor some soup helps, too.

you're 1 person among billions and your posts are great

You're good people. As far as everything bring fucked and getting more fucked-er. Yes. That is the case. But yknow, we've got a job to do, gonna give the floor to one of my favorite Maia, gandalf his dam self

'So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.'

I'd recommend reading Lord of the Rings to anyone who's just seen the movies cause the spectrum between despair hopelessness and hope is prominent and hopelessness is 0. Negative hope is despair, zero hope means you still haven't gone down despite. Don't sink below zero.

sorry you're having a rough day. i wish we could be friends. I would get you a (cw: dairy) milkshake and we could complain about stuff togheter

I know it is parasocial to call you a friend. However, I will hug you my friend.

🫂

Christ me too here u go

I wanted to respond to you in one of your recent posts about the covid restrictions with a play I encountered during covid lockdown called Rhinoceros, full play here. The absurdity of covid really has weighed on my mind for a long time, and it is only the knowing that pain takes different shades and colors but it is still just that, pain. And we've endured it together as a community, as people. And we will survive it and continue forward. I hope you can take some solace that this feelings of shock and horror have happened before and will happen again, but as long as we got each other, we can make it through.

I'd give you a hug if you were in my neck of the woods.

whats up buddy