#apathy — Public Fediverse posts
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A massive demonstration took place in Erfurt, a medium-sized city in #Germany, against the far-right party #AfD. About 50,000 people took part.
It’s really strange that Americans, whose population is more than 4x that of Germany’s, can’t pull something like this off. #apathy
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Here's that hand-wringing I was talking about.
These quoted (big-D) idiots are painting themselves w/ a late-stage-capitalism brush, making them blend in with the conservatives (R) they truly are.
Claiming that Democratic Socialists are not Democrats - go read a poll, fool! The policies (especially Sewer-) Socialists put forward are wildly popular even across the aisle.
#fascist #USA #clear #choice #contrast #voter #apathy #progressive #populist #policies #affordability
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/mamdani-house-democrats-primary-elections -
Here's that hand-wringing I was talking about.
These quoted (big-D) idiots are painting themselves w/ a late-stage-capitalism brush, making them blend in with the conservatives (R) they truly are.
Claiming that Democratic Socialists are not Democrats - go read a poll, fool! The policies (especially Sewer-) Socialists put forward are wildly popular even across the aisle.
#fascist #USA #clear #choice #contrast #voter #apathy #progressive #populist #policies #affordability
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/mamdani-house-democrats-primary-elections -
Here's that hand-wringing I was talking about.
These quoted (big-D) idiots are painting themselves w/ a late-stage-capitalism brush, making them blend in with the conservatives (R) they truly are.
Claiming that Democratic Socialists are not Democrats - go read a poll, fool! The policies (especially Sewer-) Socialists put forward are wildly popular even across the aisle.
#fascist #USA #clear #choice #contrast #voter #apathy #progressive #populist #policies #affordability
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/mamdani-house-democrats-primary-elections -
Here's that hand-wringing I was talking about.
These quoted (big-D) idiots are painting themselves w/ a late-stage-capitalism brush, making them blend in with the conservatives (R) they truly are.
Claiming that Democratic Socialists are not Democrats - go read a poll, fool! The policies (especially Sewer-) Socialists put forward are wildly popular even across the aisle.
#fascist #USA #clear #choice #contrast #voter #apathy #progressive #populist #policies #affordability
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/mamdani-house-democrats-primary-elections -
On The Curious Incident of the Festival That Prevented Sleep
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope is in the middle of a heatwave where the afternoon temperatures reach 33°c or higher, but where night time temperatures are just 20°c or even less. Local governments are saying “Avoid strenuous activities in the sun” and “make sure to keep cool”. They also offer going to churches or museums because they’re nice and cool.
On the flip-side music festivals such as Crapibana (intentional spelling) choose to have loud banging music from around 1900 last night right up until 0300 this morning. Now, in the best of times this is a nuisance but during a canicule this should be treated as criminal.
It should be treated as criminal because for several nights, people in warm apartments and warm houses are unable to open windows to get fresh air and recover during the heat wave. They have to choose between sweltering heat, or noise pollution.
It strikes me as absurd that music festivals have such a reputation for heal the world mentality, environmentalism and more when the reality is horrifying. Imagine parking thousands of cars on fields for days at a time, where crops are grown. Imagine the carbon pollution that makes its way into the food chain.
The second pollution is from people littering all night long, several days in a row. Teams of people have to clean up after the litter bugs. It’s horrifying to see how dirty festival fields are, especially when you consider the “We want the world not to be polluted” refrain they keep chanting.
The final problem, and this is the most serious, and the one that gets to me, is that the notion that a festival with less than 30,000 people can make noise for five nights in a row without repercussions, especially during a heat wave.
Friday morning I woke at 04:30 to run at 6am to take advantage of the morning freshness. The next night there was a very high wind, and stormy conditions so the noise pollution from the music festival was silenced. Last night the apathetic sociopaths made noise from 1900 or so until 3am. I had planned to wake by 5 or 6 this morning but I was exhausted to the point that I slept in all the way to 9am.
The point is that music festivals are seen as boosting the local economy, and helping local businesses. In my vécu the opposite is true.
The same country that bans ULM for being too noisy, that tells people they can’t mow their lawns on a Sunday, that has strict rules about indoor plumbing and noise thinks nothing of a festival making noise all night long.
This meshes nicely with my Whatsapp conversation from a few weeks ago. A social network that promotes events through Whatsapp, especially events for alcoholics, locks the chat between recurrent events, and discourages sober online conversation, whilst encouraging giant piss-ups to use an English term.
The Crapibana is part of the same problem. Friday I went for a 6am run, despite not getting a full night of sleep. Stormy weather made it possible for me to sleep before yesterday’s 73km ride, but the restorative sleep that I would normally have, was impossible due to the Crapibana event making noise from around 1900-0300 am. In theory I was meant to wake at 5 to drive for another bike ride, and to be social.
I was so exhausted from getting zero sleep that I ended up sleeping in until 9am. This is rare. This occurs once every few years. The restorative sleep that would have made me feel fresh, that would have encouraged me to go out and do things that required spending money was mothballed, because of my very deep exhaustion.
That sleep deprivation also has a deeper social cost. How many of us, around the region of the festival are now stuck with either not doing any sports, or doing them right at the hottest time of the year.
5am would have been perfect for a morning run this morning, with air at 18°c. Now it is 26°c and we’re in heat stress and heat stroke running territory, all because 30,000 people needed loud music and alcohol for virtual fun.
“But wait, alcohol and concerts are real” to which I respond, if you’re drinking, your fun is as virtual as if you were sitting in front of a computer having a whatsapp chat. 😉 Imagine if social media had arrived before alcohol. Imagine if we saw alcohol as virtual reality, and social media as reality.
And now for a call for change. When a music festival takes place during a heatwave, at 2200 it should go into silent disco, to allow sports people to sleep, recover and be fresh for their hikes, walks, runs and bike rides.
Why should the alcoholic portion of society dictate their desires onto the rest of society? I’ve been to events that go into silent disco mode at 2200. Including the IFSC World Cup in Villars-sur-Ollon and the World VR7XR forum in Crans-Montana, several years ago.
During a heatwave measures should help people get enough sleep at night. This morning I saw that French festivals are banning alcohol during the heatwave from festivals.
In the end, I’m asking for empathy from music festivals. I am asking for common sense and decency. Sleep is important, and silence, for sleep is key.
#alcohol #apathy #disrespect #greed #heat #noise #Sleep -
On The Curious Incident of the Festival That Prevented Sleep
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope is in the middle of a heatwave where the afternoon temperatures reach 33°c or higher, but where night time temperatures are just 20°c or even less. Local governments are saying “Avoid strenuous activities in the sun” and “make sure to keep cool”. They also offer going to churches or museums because they’re nice and cool.
On the flip-side music festivals such as Crapibana (intentional spelling) choose to have loud banging music from around 1900 last night right up until 0300 this morning. Now, in the best of times this is a nuisance but during a canicule this should be treated as criminal.
It should be treated as criminal because for several nights, people in warm apartments and warm houses are unable to open windows to get fresh air and recover during the heat wave. They have to choose between sweltering heat, or noise pollution.
It strikes me as absurd that music festivals have such a reputation for heal the world mentality, environmentalism and more when the reality is horrifying. Imagine parking thousands of cars on fields for days at a time, where crops are grown. Imagine the carbon pollution that makes its way into the food chain.
The second pollution is from people littering all night long, several days in a row. Teams of people have to clean up after the litter bugs. It’s horrifying to see how dirty festival fields are, especially when you consider the “We want the world not to be polluted” refrain they keep chanting.
The final problem, and this is the most serious, and the one that gets to me, is that the notion that a festival with less than 30,000 people can make noise for five nights in a row without repercussions, especially during a heat wave.
Friday morning I woke at 04:30 to run at 6am to take advantage of the morning freshness. The next night there was a very high wind, and stormy conditions so the noise pollution from the music festival was silenced. Last night the apathetic sociopaths made noise from 1900 or so until 3am. I had planned to wake by 5 or 6 this morning but I was exhausted to the point that I slept in all the way to 9am.
The point is that music festivals are seen as boosting the local economy, and helping local businesses. In my vécu the opposite is true.
The same country that bans ULM for being too noisy, that tells people they can’t mow their lawns on a Sunday, that has strict rules about indoor plumbing and noise thinks nothing of a festival making noise all night long.
This meshes nicely with my Whatsapp conversation from a few weeks ago. A social network that promotes events through Whatsapp, especially events for alcoholics, locks the chat between recurrent events, and discourages sober online conversation, whilst encouraging giant piss-ups to use an English term.
The Crapibana is part of the same problem. Friday I went for a 6am run, despite not getting a full night of sleep. Stormy weather made it possible for me to sleep before yesterday’s 73km ride, but the restorative sleep that I would normally have, was impossible due to the Crapibana event making noise from around 1900-0300 am. In theory I was meant to wake at 5 to drive for another bike ride, and to be social.
I was so exhausted from getting zero sleep that I ended up sleeping in until 9am. This is rare. This occurs once every few years. The restorative sleep that would have made me feel fresh, that would have encouraged me to go out and do things that required spending money was mothballed, because of my very deep exhaustion.
That sleep deprivation also has a deeper social cost. How many of us, around the region of the festival are now stuck with either not doing any sports, or doing them right at the hottest time of the year.
5am would have been perfect for a morning run this morning, with air at 18°c. Now it is 26°c and we’re in heat stress and heat stroke running territory, all because 30,000 people needed loud music and alcohol for virtual fun.
“But wait, alcohol and concerts are real” to which I respond, if you’re drinking, your fun is as virtual as if you were sitting in front of a computer having a whatsapp chat. 😉 Imagine if social media had arrived before alcohol. Imagine if we saw alcohol as virtual reality, and social media as reality.
And now for a call for change. When a music festival takes place during a heatwave, at 2200 it should go into silent disco, to allow sports people to sleep, recover and be fresh for their hikes, walks, runs and bike rides.
Why should the alcoholic portion of society dictate their desires onto the rest of society? I’ve been to events that go into silent disco mode at 2200. Including the IFSC World Cup in Villars-sur-Ollon and the World VR7XR forum in Crans-Montana, several years ago.
During a heatwave measures should help people get enough sleep at night. This morning I saw that French festivals are banning alcohol during the heatwave from festivals.
In the end, I’m asking for empathy from music festivals. I am asking for common sense and decency. Sleep is important, and silence, for sleep is key.
#alcohol #apathy #disrespect #greed #heat #noise #Sleep -
Let’s Have Some Fun in The Sun
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/lets-have-some-fun-in-the-sun"You can’t live your life, let alone enjoy it for that matter, if you are constantly thinking about the #ClimateApocalypse.” This is how the average human on the street today justifies their #apathy, whenever as a food scientist and plant biologist I sound the alarm about why food will disappear and what their children will experience in the near future: war, starvation, and death. This is the same type of human who would consider the #Gaza #genocide a total “mood killer”, and #fascism the type of “shit” that just happened to take place outside the toilet. Nothing they can do about it other than watch their step, in case they accidentally walk straight into their own fresh turd.
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Let’s Have Some Fun in The Sun
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/lets-have-some-fun-in-the-sun"You can’t live your life, let alone enjoy it for that matter, if you are constantly thinking about the #ClimateApocalypse.” This is how the average human on the street today justifies their #apathy, whenever as a food scientist and plant biologist I sound the alarm about why food will disappear and what their children will experience in the near future: war, starvation, and death. This is the same type of human who would consider the #Gaza #genocide a total “mood killer”, and #fascism the type of “shit” that just happened to take place outside the toilet. Nothing they can do about it other than watch their step, in case they accidentally walk straight into their own fresh turd.
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Let’s Have Some Fun in The Sun
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/lets-have-some-fun-in-the-sun"You can’t live your life, let alone enjoy it for that matter, if you are constantly thinking about the #ClimateApocalypse.” This is how the average human on the street today justifies their #apathy, whenever as a food scientist and plant biologist I sound the alarm about why food will disappear and what their children will experience in the near future: war, starvation, and death. This is the same type of human who would consider the #Gaza #genocide a total “mood killer”, and #fascism the type of “shit” that just happened to take place outside the toilet. Nothing they can do about it other than watch their step, in case they accidentally walk straight into their own fresh turd.
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Let’s Have Some Fun in The Sun
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/lets-have-some-fun-in-the-sun"You can’t live your life, let alone enjoy it for that matter, if you are constantly thinking about the #ClimateApocalypse.” This is how the average human on the street today justifies their #apathy, whenever as a food scientist and plant biologist I sound the alarm about why food will disappear and what their children will experience in the near future: war, starvation, and death. This is the same type of human who would consider the #Gaza #genocide a total “mood killer”, and #fascism the type of “shit” that just happened to take place outside the toilet. Nothing they can do about it other than watch their step, in case they accidentally walk straight into their own fresh turd.
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Let’s Have Some Fun in The Sun
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/lets-have-some-fun-in-the-sun"You can’t live your life, let alone enjoy it for that matter, if you are constantly thinking about the #ClimateApocalypse.” This is how the average human on the street today justifies their #apathy, whenever as a food scientist and plant biologist I sound the alarm about why food will disappear and what their children will experience in the near future: war, starvation, and death. This is the same type of human who would consider the #Gaza #genocide a total “mood killer”, and #fascism the type of “shit” that just happened to take place outside the toilet. Nothing they can do about it other than watch their step, in case they accidentally walk straight into their own fresh turd.
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"B-but I didn't even vote!?!? Why is this affecting ME???"
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2056506/b-but-i-didn-t-even-vote-why-is-this-affecting-me
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"B-but I didn't even vote!?!? Why is this affecting ME???"
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2056506/b-but-i-didn-t-even-vote-why-is-this-affecting-me
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"B-but I didn't even vote!?!? Why is this affecting ME???"
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2056506/b-but-i-didn-t-even-vote-why-is-this-affecting-me
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Stevie Wonder
You haven’t done nothin’This song still resonates and is amazing.
https://youtu.be/0SEGHvLElxc
(Edited to put official version) and paraphrase this comment on his page saying that Stevie wrote this in response to Nixon, Watergate & Vietnam, it became a huge hit, & 2 days later Nixon resigned.#apathy #ignorance #justice #humanrights #music #Steviewonder #funk
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Stevie Wonder
You haven’t done nothin’This song still resonates and is amazing.
https://youtu.be/0SEGHvLElxc
(Edited to put official version) and paraphrase this comment on his page saying that Stevie wrote this in response to Nixon, Watergate & Vietnam, it became a huge hit, & 2 days later Nixon resigned.#apathy #ignorance #justice #humanrights #music #Steviewonder #funk
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Stevie Wonder
You haven’t done nothin’This song still resonates and is amazing.
https://youtu.be/0SEGHvLElxc
(Edited to put official version) and paraphrase this comment on his page saying that Stevie wrote this in response to Nixon, Watergate & Vietnam, it became a huge hit, & 2 days later Nixon resigned.#apathy #ignorance #justice #humanrights #music #Steviewonder #funk
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Stevie Wonder
You haven’t done nothin’This song still resonates and is amazing.
https://youtu.be/0SEGHvLElxc
(Edited to put official version) and paraphrase this comment on his page saying that Stevie wrote this in response to Nixon, Watergate & Vietnam, it became a huge hit, & 2 days later Nixon resigned.#apathy #ignorance #justice #humanrights #music #Steviewonder #funk
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Stevie Wonder
You haven’t done nothin’This song still resonates and is amazing.
https://youtu.be/0SEGHvLElxc
(Edited to put official version) and paraphrase this comment on his page saying that Stevie wrote this in response to Nixon, Watergate & Vietnam, it became a huge hit, & 2 days later Nixon resigned.#apathy #ignorance #justice #humanrights #music #Steviewonder #funk
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https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."
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https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."
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https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."
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https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."
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https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."
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Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
On Scroll Aversion & Avoidance
I have been intentionally inactive on specific social media platforms for the past few years. I can’t remember exactly the date I signed off, but I can remember how I began to breathe easier. I still enjoy the ample extra room in my mindsphere (not sure this is an official word, but the space between my ears where thinking and everything else mostly originates). I used to be one who justified my social media use…but I am going to tell you something you might need to hear. Peace is a river not found in an algorithm, or on any platform at all.
At first I missed it, I did…but after a year or so, social media became as a distant landscape. One I know longer desire to return to, nor navigate this side of eternity, but only cautiously, and extremely minimally. Let me tell you why, and this might be a ramble more than an essay, so grab something yummy to sip and perhaps, go pull on your patience pants and slip away from the propensity to skim read. I’ll wait.
The reason I want to bring this into the light is because I have been off two of the biggest time...no scratch that-two of the biggest LIFE wasters, and time sucks created by mankind: Instagram, and Facebook for long enough to have a distanced perspective, a sense of objectivity. I find it interesting that when social media use is brought up, it’s the same thing as bringing up diet and exercise…which only reveals how insidious the power to captivate is in these mediums. Though I am only naming two, there are multitudes as you know. We have a plethora of poisons to pick from these days. Please supplement in your thinking for this ride whichever drives you…repeatedly back, or should I say draws you?
When I worked for 30 or so years in the field of fitness, as a personal trainer, and exercise instructor, never would one hear such incredible inaccurate versions of individual’s behavior regarding food and exercise than when the trainer was present. The same excuses were heard, and the same justification for choices were prevalent. As a trainer you learn to home in on where the inconsistencies lie to help the client overcome and adjust to hopefully work towards being healthier however they define it.
People are so good at deceiving themselves.
I only go on (social media of choice), because I have to to keep up with my friends.
I only cheat on my diet the weekends.
I have to do it or else I can’t share my (add whatever it is you need to share for whatever reason you believe).
I ONLY eat healthy foods.
I just use (whatever platform you use) to share the gospel and uplifting content.
I never miss a day at the gym. I never skip cardio. I never snack between meals. I always, I never, I only. Oh, what a tangled web of words.
I only use social media for business, to keep up with the so and so, I follow this great whatever person, the news- so I can pray…etc.
With the social media – I get it. I get all of it. I lived it. But the fact is unless you are incredibly self-disciplined, and also supernaturally empowered, there are forces working to manipulate you to make you do things in ways you cannot begin to comprehend. Do not be deceived.
The reality is every social media platform that exists exists to profit. The end. Of course this is just good business. But the insidious, under the surface delivery, and deliberate evil algorithms are something you can choose to avoid. But it will cost you. You will lose something.
A verse: For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life? Matthew 6:16 (CSB).
From where I am standing on the other side of the river, I see a lot of people chasing after the world on social media. They need to know all the things. Everywhere. All the time. Oh, they have such good reasons. The reasons are varied and many. But distracted souls aren’t always tuned in with God the way they think they are. And consumerism is a subtle deceptive wolf that comes in sheep’s clothing, wearing a suitably humble grin. It’s dangerous and not pretty. Content creation is where we are at in this brave new world…but I can’t help but wonder with all these lesser gods, what the One True Living God thinks. The ultimate Content Creator. Who created everything. Meanwhile all of his people, oh ever wayward we are…peering endlessly at our multi-shaped screens in all their glorious forms.
And I see Jesus, far off, watching, having none of this self-worship. Idolatry we see in Israel, and blind to its beautiful algorithm are we.
Did Eve recognize the snake before it struck her with his venomous lies?
Intoxicated we have become with the wine of this world. We keep drinking and drinking and thinking there are not consequences. We think we can handle our little idols. We think we have control. All the while, time is slipping away. The dash grows smaller for us to be present to the mist of life entrusted to us.
I have wondered, where is God in this. OH- I know, I can hear the staunch Christians justifying, always rationalizing. But I can tell you this…I don’t miss what I don’t know. There is beauty, freedom and peace in choosing to come away from all of it, and sitting instead, undistractedly, at last, and again and again with the One who offers eternity, and life abundant, not gross distortion and illusion. We are becoming blind to what is truly beautiful in our desire to know more, be more, see more, do more, have more.
God wants HIs people to be free and they are less so now than ever before. We look back and call Israel blind! Oh, friend, get that phone shaped log out of your eye. We are slaves to whatever masters us, whatever consumes our attention. Whatever we lust after and refuse to sacrifice to the savior’s hand. Oh, Lord forgive us our pride. Our blindness, our insensitivity. Our willingness to be complicit in such a great apostacy, and unable to even confess it to one another.
OK, so where does this leave us? You are thinking I’ve gone all judgy on you, but can you deny that you do not feel a twinge of anything stirring up truth within?
The biggest reason of all I stopped indulging in social media activity is because I believed and still do, that it makes hearing God harder for me. He becomes static in my ears, less clear. I am not willing to settle for static. I have a God, in Jesus Christ, who is willing to come near, by His Spirit. I am not willing to tell Him- one second, Lord- I’m making this excellent post on Instagram to glorify you. I am not willing to pause God to gain the whole world of knowledge available at my fingertips and lose out on the presence of my Lord. Not on your life.
I’d rather sit at His feet and look at the birds.
Selah.
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Thank you for reading this rant. I haven’t got it all figured out. But I am staring straight into the beautiful gaze of my Lord. My eyes are fixed on Him. May He keep them. May He keep you too, my friend.
Enthusiastically, Dawn
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Respect is earned. Apathy is for free.
We really should stop using respect when we in fact mean apathy.
Has an opinion. Yea great. I don't give a fuck.
"I'm a monosexual streight white dude." Fine doesn't bother me.
Is 80 years old. Good for them, whatever.Worked decades on making the world a little better. That's fucking great.
See that's the difference. Low effort, doesn't impact me = apathy.
High effort, maybe doesn't impact me directly but is a net plus for the world = respect. -
Respect is earned. Apathy is for free.
We really should stop using respect when we in fact mean apathy.
Has an opinion. Yea great. I don't give a fuck.
"I'm a monosexual streight white dude." Fine doesn't bother me.
Is 80 years old. Good for them, whatever.Worked decades on making the world a little better. That's fucking great.
See that's the difference. Low effort, doesn't impact me = apathy.
High effort, maybe doesn't impact me directly but is a net plus for the world = respect. -
Respect is earned. Apathy is for free.
We really should stop using respect when we in fact mean apathy.
Has an opinion. Yea great. I don't give a fuck.
"I'm a monosexual streight white dude." Fine doesn't bother me.
Is 80 years old. Good for them, whatever.Worked decades on making the world a little better. That's fucking great.
See that's the difference. Low effort, doesn't impact me = apathy.
High effort, maybe doesn't impact me directly but is a net plus for the world = respect. -
Way ahead of you, #NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-protest-ai-phones-social-media.html My take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/
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Way ahead of you, #NYT
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Way ahead of you, #NYT
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Way ahead of you, #NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-protest-ai-phones-social-media.html My take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/
& here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #genz #protests #apathy #tech #ai #cognition #nokings #trump #fascism #donaldtrump #chatbots #learning #academia -
Way ahead of you, #NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-protest-ai-phones-social-media.html My take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/
& here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #genz #protests #apathy #tech #ai #cognition #nokings #trump #fascism #donaldtrump #chatbots #learning #academia -
Where was #GenZ at the latest #NoKings #protest? My #YouTube #video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7E8JNSSI8&t=6s For further thoughts, see my article here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #politics #protests #trump #youth #apathy #pastry #donuts #smartphone
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Where was #GenZ at the latest #NoKings #protest? My #YouTube #video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7E8JNSSI8&t=6s For further thoughts, see my article here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #politics #protests #trump #youth #apathy #pastry #donuts #smartphone
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Where was #GenZ at the latest #NoKings #protest? My #YouTube #video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7E8JNSSI8&t=6s For further thoughts, see my article here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #politics #protests #trump #youth #apathy #pastry #donuts #smartphone
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Where was #GenZ at the latest #NoKings #protest? My #YouTube #video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7E8JNSSI8&t=6s For further thoughts, see my article here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #politics #protests #trump #youth #apathy #pastry #donuts #smartphone
