Mastodawn

@anarchiv hello I just saw this. How are you doing? I know a response is long overdue to your last email. I'm sorry I disappeared. I hope you're well! 💖

@sushi oh, so it was you who owed me an answer, I felt under pressure lol. thanks for giving a life sign :)

also I should tell you that in your absence, there has been some beef surrounding koyu and a lot of instances have muted or defederated from it as a result, so your timeline might not be as rich as prior to that

just write to me when you've got the time and feel like it 💚

@anarchiv yeah it's all different now. So weird. Feels so alien. I'd join another instance but I'll never be fucking regular with it so 🤷‍♀️
Please please please come on insta, if you feel upto it. It's the only social media platform I'm active on at the moment.

@sushi hmmm I'll consider doing that just for keeping in touch with you.

btw there's a "move account" function in your profile, it reduces the amount of effort needed to move to a different instance to a minimum.

@anarchiv oh cool I'll figure this out and I'll check with you with regards to which instance to move to. I remember i did make another one but I can't for the life of me remember anything about it at the moment.

@sushi it's on this instance, todon. your username is sushi90 ;)

@anarchiv haha yeah I just found it. We're okay so far but who knows what the fuck goes wrong when. I mean I'm not surprised AT ALL with how bad things are virus wise, I expected this mismanagement, it's the perfect excuse for population control. What worries me is how relationship is souring with China. Wait, I mean it already is sour now i guess. They're attacking India's Northern border, India is banning Chinese apps, now who knows what happens next. I just hope we don't get nuked. I mean honestly survival is a joke now. It's like the only aim now is to survive, literally.

@sushi oof. I remember reading about India's war with China over the Northern border about a hundred years ago but if shit goes down this time it'd be a million times worse and I get how helpless you must feel in the face of that. All I can do is hope and pray I guess. If there's any other way I can support you personally from half a world away, let me know.

@anarchiv thank you, you are kind. The best you can do is take care of you and yours, hopefully we'll be fine and will survive. I think sometimes we forget that the world has ALWAYS been a violent place. I don't know if its just me but I have been feeling like more and more people are waking up to the realities of how fucked the world really is during the crisis. All we can do is pray and take things one day at a time. I am so done with being stressed and depressed, so I've honestly been chilling to the max in the last three months since the lockdown began here. They're opening things up now, just when we're on the drink of a peak. LOL @ MODI. Dumbest fucker I have ever come across running a nation. God bless him.

@sushi I agree with your assessment that more and more people appear to be waking up to these realities. We can only do our part and hope we're right, you know, the age-old curse - "may you live in interesting times"...

@anarchiv what's going on with you work/uni wise

@sushi I work at the pub, well this week I'm going to have my second shift since the lockdown. I dropped out of uni for the time being but I made a three-year plan to fix the most pressing problems in my life and maybe enroll again by the time I'm 30.

Are you still working in film or is the industry shut down at the moment? Or did you quit? I can't remember. I'm guessing there's not much going on in terms of event photography and other commissions.

Sushi

@anarchiv also, take it from someone who's even completed post grad, unless you plan to be in the academic field, uni will do you no good. Overrated and a waste of time and money.

@sushi still, there are two Master degrees in my home state I'm after. Society, Sustainability and the Environment in Kiel, or Transformation Studies in Flensburg (right at the Danish border). Chances are I'll go back within the next three years because I believe my chances for employment to be better back home.