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   Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 05:20:38 JST Carrie Shanafelt

   I'm sorry that I haven't felt very inspired to say much over the past few days. Things are very bad here on earth! They have been bad, and every now and then, their badness becomes more visible to different/more people for a while. And social media spaces can't help but become attention-policing, outrage-churning, told-you-so-ing, football-spiking, panic-mongering spaces.

   One of my goals is to do "the work" in my life, not online. Online, I prioritize listening, informing, and loving people.

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     Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 05:20:36 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     One of my best friends in philosophy taught me her theory of "wooking"--all the rabbit-holing and obsessing and fine-tooth-combing of ideas that we do to avoid working on our project. I can't help but think that what most of us do on social media around real-life suffering is the "wooking" of political action; it makes us feel as if we're doing something useful, but we're just feeling righteous while wasting our energy and nerves on conjured anger at the wrong people.

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     Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 05:20:37 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     During the GWB admin, a lot of really great people wrote a lot of stuff online about how to think about what was happening in politics and the war, and the real-life friendships I got from that period of blogging with anti-fascist anti-war anti-racist people are still most of the best relationships in my life.

     What didn't happen was ending facism, or the war, or terrible things happening in our communities. Those who leveled up to MSM jobs from that group are the worst people in media today.

     bhaugen repeated this.