CIRCLE WITH A DOT

I've been listening to economist @RichardJMurphy a lot recently, coming from a place of barely understanding how money works at all (having never had much of it). I didn't know the government didn't work like a household in terms of spending. I didn't know that a politics of care was actually realistically possible. I didn't know how wealthy the wealthy are, or that it's just political decisions that are keeping us trapped in a huge cycle of exploitation. I just accepted the dehumanising narrative we're all told about the need for austerity. But what Richard says is making everything make so much more sense. We ordinary folks have been so badly tricked, for such a long time. I just *did not know*. People need to know this stuff. If what he says can somehow be put into practice, people won't have to be worried about surviving anymore, and won't be so easily manipulated into clinging to the political and cultural idols that say, "blame immigrants", "blame the disabled"... etc.

@BowieSpace For real, though!
Today I did the thing where I got grumpy because hungry but couldn't go get food for ages because hyperfocused and then when I got the food I couldn't eat it and then in order to eat it I had to find a YouTube video just distracting enough to draw my eyes away from the other thing I was focusing on but not so distracting that it would send me off into a different hyperfocus spiral. And... now you've helped me realise I need the bathroom, so thank you for that!

@PatternChaser I'm not great at staying informed, so only just trying to catch up and understand what's been happening in Iran that might have made Trump (and Keir Starmer here in the UK) think it was in any way justifiable. Overwhelmed by it and struggling to process.

@nomenloony @ZackPolanski @thegreenparty@threads.net I joined just last weekend. It's the first party I've ever joined. Hoping for hope...

@saxifraga Thanks, Sax

P.S. So happy about Gorton and Denton

Hi, the Mastodons. I don't know how this works yet or how active I'll be here, but I thought I'd introduce myself.

I'm a UK-based female AuDHD adult, choosing to remain mostly anonymous. I'm really just curious about how the Fediverse works - I can be ambivalent about social media but I thought this sounded refreshing in contrast to the big, powerful platforms which feel scarier to me by the minute. I've also been getting to grips with Linux recently, and am thinking about other ways within my limited means and courage to try to be involved with more of the small things that are about moving away from exploitation and towards caring for each other.

Take care out there

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