Turning off the news

[XanaDUer2]

I am in the slough of despond. I'm getting headaches, and I feel a sense of dread coming for me. My partner is asleep in the other room, and I almost miss him chattering.

The news is OFF. I feel like nothing good will ever happen for me again. I fear for us all.

I'm not giving up on DU. But I may need to stay out of GD for awhile. Trying to figure out how to de-trump my life.

I'll admit I'm having very dark thoughts. Not sure how we'll survive what I fear is coming. Hoping trumps incompetence lessens his deadliness.

Grateful for all of you

[Freddie]

1. No news on TV, radio or online

Except here.

[Walleye]

2. I'm just watching old black-and-white movies, or murder mysteries

[XanaDUer2]

3. I'm watching Midsomer Murders

Its hard not watching the news, but I'm refusing to turn it on. I cannot bear to see or hear about that man anymore.

Hoping to keep my ssdi and Medicare. And sanity

[Walleye]

5. I have a one-year-old grand niece, I am browsing through Amazon for her Christmas present. It's kind of fun.

[XanaDUer2]

6. Lovely!

[FirstLight]

4. I don't think I've been able to watch anything...

And I usually stick to YouTube, Midas touch, and other progressive people. I just can't listen to any of it. I'm over it.

I understand the grief and believe me I think I sat with it for about 36 hours just crying and being in bed. But I woke up the other day with the righteous anger that is turned into a fire in my belly. I may not go join the cause of resistance, but my resistance is living my best life until somebody stops me. I refuse to stop going to school, pursuing my dreams, and living my life as I choose. Fuck them .....the best resistance (or revenge) is living a good life, right?

[hunter]

7. I turned off all television news and opinion in 2001.

I support my local public radio station, but not for the news.

As a reader of news I can simply skip the bullshit. I don't subscribe to news sources that publish a lot of bullshit. I also block any advertising that moves or makes sound.

One of the things that helps keeps me sane here on DU is having "Trump" on my trash by keyword list. If that guy drops dead tomorrow I won't see it here on any post title that mentions him by name.

[XanaDUer2]

8. I'm going to trash Trump, orange, mango, cheeto

Etc so i don't have to see posts about him here all day. My mental health is shaky right now and I can't have him in my head all waking hours.

HOPING Dem Govs and attorneys et al, knowing how he operates now, will unite to block every fucking thing he and his minions want to unleash on the world

[jfz9580m]

9. I have decided to restrict non-work phone use

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To a specific hour and a half daily. 45 mins after getting up and 45 mins before going to bed.

I discovered Nicholas Carr’s work in 2020 and respect his takes on technology:

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~mboyle/COGS11/COGS11-website/pdf-files/Phones-hijack-mind-WSJ.pdf

https://www.roughtype.com/


I was nursing my mom at the time I found Carr’s work. She left us a year later. Now I am finally ready to move on and now that there is absolutely nothing positive to follow in a world where Musk, Ramaswamy and Trump are breaking things daily, I can safely tune out the world. Or else the phone becomes an instrument not just of distraction and time wastage but also of terror.

I’ll still pop on to DU twice daily to commiserate with all the other lefties here, but that is it.

All the best to you xanaDUer2 .

Next day edit: it’s still a work in progress building structure into my life. In my defense, I had two wisdom teeth extracted and it is hurting so I got to break my self set rules one last time!