Your problem is with social media algorithms, not activists. When you're really in relationships and communities, your feed fills up with lots of actions both online and offline. When you're not, it just shows you what bothers you the most.

And yes, lonely, severely isolated, abandoned, traumatized, or sick people come to social media to vent. That's how a lot of people use social media. So maybe ask yourself why it bothers you so much when people CC you, compared to venting about any other social issue.

I know a doctor on TikTok whose platform is centered around his son, who died in a drunk driving accident. Most of what I've seen from him is about his son's death, asking people not to drink and drive. I don't see actions, probably because I'm not an anti-drunk driving activist.

I don't see his content trying to educate others as "not encouraging mobilization" or "lots of information but no action." He's trying to get people to stop drunk driving. We're trying to get people to stop infecting each other with a deadly and disabling disease.

I don't take his content personally because I don't drink and drive. Now imagine what the speech would be like for him, a man who tragically lost his son, if everyone drank and drove. And supported others to do so as well. That's what's happening with disease mitigations right now.

It's almost as if social media is about sharing information and emotions. Something people can decide to take action on or not. Wearing a mask is an action. Hear the sound of "It's not a problem when they do it, it's only a problem when I do it."
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You can't "boost" your immune system to fight off the common cold or the flu. The supplements you see, like vitamin C, zinc, or elderberry, don't actually help with the common cold. In fact, elderberry has been found to be detrimental to your recovery when you get a cold. There's no such thing as "boosting your immune system," because if you did, you'd have what we call in the medical field an autoimmune disease.

Your immune system is a highly regulated machine that works inside your body; it controls how you respond, how much you respond, when you respond, and when it comes to infection. And don't forget that the supplement industry has lobbied the federal government so that they don't have to provide evidence for their claims. So if they say it "supports immune function," that literally means it has an ingredient that has some evidence that it might help, and those studies they mention don't even have to be in humans. So, if you do get sick with a cold or the flu, make sure to wear a mask and do whatever makes you feel comfortable. You don't need to take supplements to "boost your immune system" - it's not going to help or do anything.
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You can’t be in community with people and refuse to have conversations with them when a problem arises. I know there are people who need to hear this, so let me be the messenger of this bad news: you can't complain about people if you haven’t expressed the difficulties you’re having with them. And don’t get me wrong, no one’s mind-reading. Believe me when I say that if you’re not addressing that problem directly with the person, we don’t want to hear about it. You can’t bring it to us if you’re not willing to communicate directly about the issue. Keep it in the right place, in the back of the situation, okay?

People engage with community in very different ways, and community is central to what I do as a social worker. That’s the whole idea. I recognize that people have different approaches and reasons for wanting to form community, and that’s completely okay. But again, you can't be in community if you have poor communication. Because, as you can see, communication is essential to community. It’s literally in the word, sweetheart. Please be really honest.

It’s manipulative to use this language to avoid truly being in community with others. If the goal is to have community, connect with people, and make space for others, if you really don’t have the energy for it, there are ways to show that and set boundaries about how you present yourself. You can carry the weight of your own problems, and if you find yourself in a community with people who are unable to do that, then you’re in the wrong community.

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There is a strange feeling and one that I am even afraid of and it is the thought that I am going to kill myself without wanting to. It is something difficult to explain and maybe it seems that it has no correlation, but sometimes it feels more autonomous to be able to decide your own death when you realize how interdependent you are with people.

Dependency does not seem negative to me, in fact, it seems to me one of the most obvious ways that we need mutual support and that we need each other. And given these times of eugenics and ableism, although it would be necessary to see when these have not been times like these, realizing that there is a large part of your life that does not depend on you feels heartbreaking. Especially when you have been chronically ill and your body and mind have had to grab onto life and cling to it.

Detachment from life is paradoxical. What happens to me with real life is that I want to live it and all the reasons that are given to me for not doing so are eugenic and ableist and capitalist. But at the same time, to not enter into a spiral where the pain is more
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our joy is not resistance. our rest is not resistance. resistance is standing in the way of the death machine to protect life. resistance is showing up.

Yes, but rest is not revolutionary, it's just something you need to do to perform revolutionary actions.

We need to stop promoting the idea that everything we do is revolutionary. Love is not revolutionary. Rest is not revolutionary. Vacationing is not revolutionary. Raising your children is not revolutionary.
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“I don't want to burden/ inconvenience anyone with my problems, I can solve things by myself.”

Transcending the individualistic self-optimizing logic of capitalism requires us to challenge the systems and norms that embed in us the notion that we are isolated social units of production responsible only for ourselves. To foster community, we need to become the kind of people to whom support can be reasonably sought, while at the same time expecting our community neighbors not to turn away from any action on our behalf that does not maximally benefit them. Only under such conditions can we cultivate an ecosystem of resourcesinstitutions that will adequately ensure our survival until liberation.
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Suicidal ideation is the attempt of a dysregulated body-mind to self-regulate while existing in a profoundly dysregulated world.

Many of us were not taught to regulate our emotions and calm our nervous system because, unfortunately, our parents did not know how to do so either. Thus, we can resort to thinking peace through death as a means of self-regulation.

The more we are bombarded with stimuli that trigger our fight or flight response, the more we fantasize about death as a way to imagine a state of peace. Unfortunately, even if we know how to calm our nervous system, our highly stimulating environment makes it very difficult.

Under these oppressive systems, we are constantly pressured to function at an unreasonably fast pace simply to survive, while being overwhelmed by information about the horrors of the world. Understandably, this leads to feelings of hopelessness. So, if you find yourself seeking solace in suicidal thoughts, know that it's not your fault. You are doing the best you can while enduring incredibly difficult circumstances.

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