With the escalation in Gaza and West Bank on top of the incident I’m going to limit how much I spend on telegram, lemmy, etc. because I can get massively hyperfocussed on this shit. Feels a lot like when the Ukraine Russia war heated up and I was stuck to my phone 8 hours a day.
I’m lucky enough to have started my meds recently which are absolutely eviscerating my anxiety, but others aren’t so lucky.
Maybe delete a couple of apps and limit your exposure for a couple of days so even if you DO doomscroll it’s less paralysing.
The new world struggles to be born ❤️
Agreed. I don’t think its about necessarily ignoring or permanently unplugging, but for example using RSS feeds to get news in a more structured manner, or temporarily uninstalling apps and reinstalling later to catch up on things.
Like, I’m super interested in this stuff too, but also I don’t need to know the up to the minute headlines on what is happening on the front lines of Ukraine, or the minute by minute preparations of Iranian ballistic missile bases. But having those apps on my phone during these specific times makes it likely that I’ll be refreshing constantly.
In the end it’s not about un-informing ourselves but accepting that a small delay in that information will do our souls some benefit.
I guess RSS is good, forces me to engage weird text and not everyone’s observations
What are some good feeds to subscribe to for anti-imperialist and/or Marxist takes on the news?
Start with https://popularresistance.org/. They are a news aggregator of anti-imperialist and progressive articles from other anti-imperialist and progressive websites. When you find a good article, go to the original website and subscribe to their RSS feed. You’ll rapidly build up your RSS feed.
I just checked after the first time in months and the only one I’m subscribed to is red sails haha. So I guess that one