One reason I'm slowly leaving the Bird site is that it's a terrible site as far as mental health goes: full of amplified voices of the worst, most abusive, toxic bigots out there... & there's a lot of awfulness in the world right now.
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I'm in the US & am watching it slide into authoritarianism, bit by bit, with the GOP slowly taking over & being very successful at it. I am not optimistic by nature, & so it's hard to watch: I expect the worst, always.
Today's tiny good thing: my work group is actively & openly having a discussion about tackling institutional racism.
I expect the worst, & feel helpless that I can't stop it, & have no idea what to do when full-blown authoritarianism gets here.
So sometimes I find little sparks of goodness, to get through a dark time.