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I'm well. Went to a pro-Palestine rally yesterday, have a flash-protest today (meaning off of social media to prevent pig presence), have one tomorrow, and am going to the national march on Nov. 4th that I posted a few days ago.

The protest today is at a "defense" manufacturing company which is producing weapons and vehicles being used in Israel at this moment. A few parties I'm involved with are organizing it.

There seems to be a lot more support for Palestine than I imagined. We got lots of supportive honks yesterday. There were a few zionist apologist counter-protestors but they were vastly outnumbered. It's pretty cool to see.

I'm getting very involved in everything organizing and I love it. On a personal level, I'm doing well too. Sober for 75 days, feeling great. Just got back from a nephrologist and it looks like my kidneys are healing from the meth use. Schooling is going decent and I'm finding a lot of good connections through party activities. Things are looking up.

Only complaint is the relative alienation I have in my community. It's a crackerburb. I have to drive a good 30 minutes before I get to anyone who thinks like us. Other than that, I'm chilling.

Glad to hear things aren't horrible for you. Keep it up with the party stuff, that's really encouraging to hear. 14% is insane, genuinely. Doesn't sound like a lot but for a European/Western nation that's brilliant.

Not to be too much of downer but honestly I'm doing pretty bad and have been for years. I was starting to get better with therapy but ofc the state health coverage I was essentially born with expired right as I started making significant progress. Seeing all the garbage being pushed about Palestine doesn't help much either lol.

Not good. Feeling like shit especially given our financial situation

I had a nice week :D

Imagine having so many goals for yourself only to know that climate change is inevitably going to fuck up the world in the years to come.

That's how I feel.

I'm doing a little better lately. I finally found a family doctor and have a mental health appointment scheduled next month. I'm hoping to get treatment for ADHD, anxiety, and depression. I'm interested to see what's on the other side after living ADHD and anxiety all my life, and depression for the adult portion of it.

I also recently switched teams at work and so far the work has been more interesting and the environment less stressful. It's still early days, but things are looking good so far. My new manager also seems to not be a sociopath, so there's that too.

As far as Israel-Palestine, the mainstream narratives have been disappointing to say the least. I suppose that's to be expected though. In contrast to his Ukraine-Russia perspective, HasanAbi's coverage has been excellent and uncompromising. I think there's more of a willingness among the general public to see Israel as an oppressor whereas Ukraine has just been propoganized to hell.

I've been using this as an opportunity to radicalize some friends. There's a ton of historical MSM content that supports the Palestinian struggle. Bernie's recent statement is a good example of social democracy being the moderate wing of fascism.

Tired and barely able to get off my phone, but I went to a pro Palestine protest a couple days ago and it was nice.

Bored, empty, and angry.

Holy shit that 14% is awesome, fuck yeah!!!

All things considered I'm pretty decent.

Eh occasionally I'll be scrolling the Internet and feel something on my face only to realize I've been silently crying for a couple of minutes now.

wait, they are talking about just going full "dictatorship style" and excluding a party with 14% of the votes of the result?

Also, I'm pretty fine right now. I'm working on a research project at my university, for which I've received an scholarship grant (about 120USD per month for a year, which is about 0.5x the minimum wage)

Other stuff to say: Here in Brazil the Palestina conflict is being pretty controversial. The evangelicals are fully supporting Israel, "leftists" are split on the subject, and the government (as in traditional Brazilian foreign policy) is trying to keep itself neutral.

More stuff to say: The government here is discussing a possible humanitarian visa for armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and palestinians, which would help them escape their conflicts to Brazil. I do not know if I should support this or not (especially the palestinan part) because this would just accelerate their displacement and would in the end help the israeli forces in their effort to ethnically cleanse palestine. Still, I do think that people who want to leave should be able to leave.

Pretty good, but wanted to say I really appreciate this place and your work here. Just casually talking here is a breath of fresh air, so thank you.

Trying to balance my emotional engagement with this and also finding things that actually fill my battery. It's really hard to enjoy things right now because it feels like escapism. But I'm learning more and more about myself; that if I'm not nurturing my joy as well, my usefulness to anybody really suffers.

got started on meds last week and so far they haven't been working. the thought of doing college again is stress inducing and i've never gotten over it.

i started dieting maybe a week ago and already seeing some small, incremental results. writing is still difficult because i need to shut down my ego more or less

Had to rush my dog to an emergency vet yesterday, she was bleeding a LOT and it looks like the cost of sutures and follow on care is going to wipe out my savings. I'll be able to rebuild it, and obviously I'm glad my girl is okay, but shit fucking sucks nonetheless.

I fucking drank some water and now I have a sore throat. It was bottled ater too, so I don't know if that means the whole company is bad or what. I felt it immediately too.

Update: I appear to have a cold. It wasn't the water lol

I'm doing pretty good, apart from the fact that I got into a heated argument with my father the other day

I'm more tired and busy than I've ever been with party work + normal life, but it's all very worth it. I don't know what else to do after all. I've been trying to ensure I do take care of my other responsibilities as well though. It's just been straight march after march after march after forum after march, but who am I to complain when people over the world are fighting for their Liberation, and paying the ultimate price?

I've been able to get a close friend of mine into more party events, and so it's good to have people to discuss Socialism with IRL outside of organizing. I recently discovered someone I knew in Highschool is a zionist 🤮🤢, and was posting nonstop zionist garbage. The tragic thing is that they were the child of a South American immigrant, smh. I don't know what the line is between working with someone where they are VS being actively hostile to them.

I had an unfortunate experience with someone I was seeing casually for a bit, and that's been quite a learning experience. I luckily have a supportive support system I think, so we'll see how things pan out.

Glad to hear you're doing okay, and the party work you're up to sounds very exciting :). I'm debating if I want to start posting pictures of events and stuff that I go to on here, but I'm mulling it over...

I've got the vid. It's fuckings sucks, can't sleep, can't relax, throat kills, head hurts. Should have worn a fucking mask at the work gathering. Dumb.

Haven't been the same since my org dissolved