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@Em0nM4stodon the blooms of the flowers and the fresh berries and stone fruit ๐
@Em0nM4stodon Everything changes. It's just a matter of time. And every action ripples through the bigger picture we are all part of, for better or worse.
"All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change" - Octavia E. Butler.
Never give up hope.
@Em0nM4stodon Everything seems to happen in cycles. Things go down, they come back up. Things change, sometimes they are worse, then later they get better. The thing that gives me hope is that they will come back up and get better. Historically this pattern takes years, however we are just about due for that shift.
That is what gives me hope.
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My daughter. She is 7
I'm going through a stupid divorce.
Her mom (German) has untreated mental health issues.
I (American/Swedish) have moved to Portugal, for reasons.
My daughter is in the Netherlands, and the chance of me having custody, seems slim.
My daughter was here with me for two weeks, she touches the hearts of everyone she meets, they remember me and her when she is not here.
Watching her gives me hope
@Em0nM4stodon Nature. The fact that we are all stardust. Friendly, helpful people, local community building. A shift to renewables. More independency from the US. Nature. And the fact that all the old men who want to destroy the world, are *very* mortal. A global movement to tax billionaires. The idea, what a wonderful world we could have by financing peace, health, and life - not death cults and war. Nature. Talking to insects, not LLMs.
@Em0nM4stodon todayโs empires are tomorrows ashes
@Em0nM4stodon I can see change happening with every seed potato and pack of food seeds given away
@Em0nM4stodon cool art made by humans and everyone making cool and varied art from different types of brains, bodies and from many different origins, and sharing with each other.
@Em0nM4stodon spending what time is my family and doing cool projects with cool people.
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Personally? The community we're growing of folk building #agency in these times. Making things somewhat better than they would otherwise be, and finding solidarity and succour in that.
It's not going to save the world, but it sure means a lot to me:
https://survivingthefuture.darkoptimism.org/
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People. Heroic ppL. ๐
@Em0nM4stodon The large and accelerating switch to renewable energy (will be seen as Trump's greatest achievement). The defeat of Orban. The resilence of Ukraine and of the EU. European and other democracies decoupling from American capitalism (see House of El YouTube channel). The growing demands for proportional representation in the UK and US (aka ranked choice voting). China lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty in my lifetime. Open source software winning: Linux, Mastodon, Ghost etc.
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i live for new Widow's Bay episodes!!
What gives me hope? Being in my local community, seeing people being welcoming to strangers, kind to their neighbours, offering what's needed without being asked.
The realisation that when we allow and encourage people to live with connection to those around them, human nature is overwhelmingly kind.
Starting to sort out the mess we're in becomes much more plausible when we start rebuilding our local communities.
@Em0nM4stodon i am still alive, have people that i love and all this tech leaders is a fad. outside the bubble the world is still beautiful... but not always. it was never supposed to be easy, or fair... life is still a mistery to enjoy... while we breathe.
@Em0nM4stodon the booing of AI by grads ๐บ
@Em0nM4stodon the fact that hopefully most of the current regime leaders will be dead soon. The hope that good people will make a stand against these fascists and technocrats soon.
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Toots like yours.
Because there will be more good toots underneath.
@Em0nM4stodon almost nothing, especially seeing the people at power. Seeing all the activism against everything wrong in the world makes me hopeful, but that hope is often crushed by how they are treated by people at power in different parts of the world.
@Em0nM4stodon fruit vendors. dirty streets where people greet each other. rain. makeshift cargo bikes.
The long view actually gives me a lot of hope. I see what's going on in the US today as the last gasp of the old confederacy. What gives me hope is an understanding of the penduluming nature of leadership in a first-past-the-post electoral system. We just gotta get through the last of the shit and we can start working collectively to solve the polycrisis.
What gives me hope is the future. Yeah, it's a US-centric perspective, but even being run by a bunch of useless fucksticks we're still crashing the world on three fronts--hormuz, the ai economic bubble, and kessler syndrome. We look like clowns, but we're still very, very powerful clowns. Put good leadership back in charge and the US can contribute a lot to righting this spaceship earth.
The fact that nothing claimed as "inevitable" by fascists actually is.
That it's actually hard work for them to make it seem that way, and takes a lot of money every day to uphold this deception.
Seeing people realize this again and again, and fight.
That gives me hope.
@Em0nM4stodon Seeing the good people in this world despite attempts at coercion.
Knowing that the majority of people on this planet recognize what is happening to them and do not want what is being shoved down their throats. There will be a reckoning.
@Em0nM4stodon The heat death of the universe.
