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   Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 23:21:31 JST Phantasm
   TLs full of recent happenings make me sick.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 03:00:27 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @phnt it's probably some more >gnomedevs nonsense, i've seen enough of that drama to last a lifetime, all they do is make my computer worse.
     
     either that or some normie politics, and i'll get a phone call if something that matters happens with that.
     
     in the meantime, i found this image, what do you think of her tail?
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 03:00:28 JST Phantasm

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     @fluffy Good, keep it that way.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 03:00:30 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @phnt no idea what happened, feels good.
     also, cute foxes!
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:51 JST Yomiel

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     @phnt @fluffy
     Why must there be positivity in the news? The world is an ugly place, full of tragedy. It is the job of media to inform, not comfort, the reader.
     
     It is not the news' fault if you get upset at that, or read it at a poor time. If you are a normal, well adjusted person, you will simply take in the information whilst letting it not affect your emotional state.
     
     "Nonetheless this is a great point, because I often see a correlation between news addicts and being pessimistic/finding reasons to be angry/being angry."
     
     It is utterly unrelated, I have seen politics-obsessed people and totally non-politcal engage in this behaviour. I believe it has to do with emotional maturity as opposed to news consumption.
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:53 JST Yomiel

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     @phnt @fluffy
     I don't mean to be antagonistic, but this strikes me as a very superficial interpretation of news and it's consumption.
     
     'Negativity sells'? Perhaps, but I'm not talking about reading tabloids, I'm talking about reading *actual* news sites. Go look at the front page of BBC News, is it 'sensationalism'? You can argue there is the regular western bias, but that's about it. Otherwise, it really is merely reporting events that have happened.
     
     Again, this 'negativity sells' is an accurate description of much of Twitter as well, but it's kind of throwing the baby out with the bath water to say that it's either 'cut reading news out of your life' or to scroll 8 hours a day on Twitter.
     
     And "people want to feel enraged at text on screen for whatever reason beyond my understanding." feels downright dishonest, you know damn well why, being angry is fun. People like to have an enemy, this goes for both sides of the politcal spectrum, and honestly just for anything. How many times have you seen an old movie or show and the guy sitting next you says gleefully "They couldn't make that anymore!"
     
     I agree it's a bad behaviour, and one that should be avoided, as well as something you should always be wary of, but I shan't pretend not to understand why it is the case, it's basic human psychology.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:53 JST Phantasm

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     >Go look at the front page of BBC News, is it 'sensationalism'
     It is a bunch of "news" that I don't care about. Also notice the lack of anything positive. picrel
     
     >it's either 'cut reading news out of your life' or to scroll 8 hours a day on Twitter.
     Or neither. You don't need either in your life. This is a frequent thing I hear from people that read news before sleep, at work, after work,... They "need" to know what happens. But they really don't, it adds nothing to their life besides getting in a bad mood when the front page of almost all news sites is just negativity.
     
     >feels downright dishonest, you know damn well why, being angry is fun...
     No, I don't find being angry fun. I don't like having an enemy. I want to live a life with as small amount of stress as possible, work on things I enjoy and have a family. Nowhere in that is "being angry", or having an "enemy". It's quite the opposite, I expect others except few exceptions to leave me to my own devices and stop meddling with my life. The literal meaning of "live and let live". I don't come to fedi to read some newsbot slop, hear about a shooting or read Trump's senile "Truths" on Glussy-made TruthSocial. I come to fedi to have fun and hopefully make someone else's day better while at it.
     
     Nonetheless this is a great point, because I often see a correlation between news addicts and being pessimistic/finding reasons to be angry/being angry.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:54 JST Phantasm

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     @yomiel @fluffy
     Reading news is consciously adding negative information you have little to no way to influence in your life for zero added value. And very likely one of the biggest reasons why especially zoomies are getting depressed all the time. Their life is pumped full of social media where everybody acts like they are the happiest living on Earth and everything around them has been politicized to bizarre levels.
     
     Reading news to me is like reading gossip. Zero added value and mostly negative noise. Tell me, when was the last time you saw or read something positive in the news? You probably don't remember. Why? Because negativity sells; people want to feel enraged at text on screen for whatever reason beyond my understanding.
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:55 JST Yomiel

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     @fluffy @phnt
     It's only as negative upon you as much as you let it be negative upon you, it's not as if being updated on current events is a mental harm unto itself, so long as you understand your own power in the situation (very little).
     
     If you're talking about guys who argue over politics constantly, or spend all day being dripfed clips of propoganda/agitprop, then I'm inclined to agree.
     
     That being said, I hold in equal contempt people who 'don't care about politics' or people who 'don't vote because it doesn't matter anyway'. I despise pride in ignorance.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:56 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @phnt oh yeah, that stuff you can 100% safely ignore. if you did what i do, and ruthlessly cut it out of your life, you would suffer no losses and have huge gains!
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:35:57 JST Phantasm

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     @fluffy It is the normie x Trump politics kind. The kind that agitated both sides of the eternal dumb arguments crowd.
     
     Tail looks like it was wet recently. Cute and not fluffy/10
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     Slim Jim (j@annihilation.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:41:34 JST Slim Jim

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     @phnt @fluffy I know what foxes smell like but I've never smelled a wet fox. I'm willing to bet wet fox smells absolutely terrible.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:41:35 JST Phantasm

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     @fluffy I cut that stuff from my life 2 years ago and never regretted that decision. For me it only pops up on fedi every few months, hence the OP, and maybe from parts of my family.
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     wertimer (wertimer@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 04:43:00 JST wertimer

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     :niggaclueless: happening? I been at the long day factory all day
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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 05:31:52 JST Pi_rat

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     @phnt @fluffy @yomiel
     I can dont let news ruin my mood, but I also dont go out of my way to indulge much in it. Do look into it bit when there is big happening but mostly even that after few days of happening.
     
     Jefferson quote,
     
     "To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.
     
     **General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on**
     
     . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 05:31:53 JST Phantasm

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     @yomiel @fluffy Also answer my question. When was the last time you read/saw something positive in the news.