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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I was in an IBEW union a while ago. I was an average employee, but it was like 9 or 10 bucks an hour, so that’s the work they got. I’m not going to bust my ass all day coming home dead, while all I management just walks and talks and sits in meetings all day. They tried to fire me one time and tried to get me to go with them to take a drug test and I said sure who’s car we taking to go do this? Let’s get this over with cuz I still have work to do. They stopped bothering me after that, but I left not long after cuz the pay was shit. But all my coworkers were cool as fuck inner city peeps from NYC.












  • I’ve been consuming the news daily since 2015 with a heavy focus on politics as well as history for additional context. It’s been a rough decade and I can acknowledge that it has always took a toll on my mental health in the past, but the last year it has felt worse.

    Ever since Project 2025 and the November 2024 election, something inside me just changed or snapped or broke maybe. A substantial shift I felt for months, not just mere hours or days. A desire to give up. A need to stop. A hopeless feeling of is anything even worth it anymore?

    This was a state of a few things for me looking back reflectively, I can see the cause and effect within myself with a lot clearer eyes than before.

    I still read the news daily, even at the toll of my mental health because I can’t hide or run or deny what is objectively happening in reality. I can’t let myself ignore people getting kidnapped, deported, shot and killed by “cops”, the dismantlement of rights we’ve had for over a century, I just can’t, nor I won’t blind my eyes to what’s happening.

    I did take a news break for a few months and it did vastly help my mental health, but it slowly took time to feel better. I am better now, but it’s still very far from ideal. I take regular news breaks. I stray away from over-dramatic or sensationalized news bites than end up just being a twitter screenshot with nothing substanclian or proven, just noise. I rely on solid, proven independent journalists and outlet that aren’t all backed by billionaires.

    I’m talking about ProPublica, Mediapart, The Texas Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 404 Media, and plenty of others I’ve got bookmarked as well as a few Podcasts, but those are left leaning for the most part because reality has a liberal basis.

    I will say one thing that’s truly help. Whenever you’re reading the latest headlines, just ask yourself this: is this news or is this noise?