Trenton Hoshiko | FilmmakerFyi you as a regular person do not need to be looking at pics/vids of dead kids. If you can *imagine the idea* of a dead kid and it makes you feel bad/sick, then no extra viewing will help our world, but it can hurt you - a lot - and that threatens how you *can* show up in tangible ways to make life better for us all.
Quinn Norton@Trenton_Hoshiko as someone who has looked at horrible things professionally at times in my life, i'd like to echo and reinforce this. When I am looking at, writing about, analyzing suffering, violence, death etc I've already mentally prepared myself and i have methods of mode shifting. It's something I'm either doing or not doing. It's not casual, it's not data foraging. And I have exit activities.
✨buff dog himbo✨@quinn @Trenton_Hoshiko i need all y'all to know that this is super helpful & an important reminder, even for people like me who already know all of this. This world super sucks & the present moment is horrifying. But it is so hard to wrench yourself away when access to all the information in the world is ***RIGHT THERE*** at every second.
Honestly at this point it is damn near meditative to exercise the self control necessary to not keep falling into this trap. We all need reminders.
@itsmeholland @Trenton_Hoshiko Tetris, petting cats, and gardening man. Can't doomscroll while you're doing any of those