I’ve had conversations with one of my friends during some of my lowest points, and I remember him saying once: “I wonder how many mental illnesses could be cured by just giving people enough money to live comfortably.” There is some great truth there.

Hang in there, if not just for yourself, then for loved ones and for all the people that share your frustrations and struggles, there always is the possibility of change, there are years in which weeks happen and weeks in which years happen, and behind every strike lurks the possibility of revolution - as soon as opportunity arises, your frustration and helplessness can be directed towards change.

That’s at least one thing that keeps me sane.

I am blessed to have two friendships that I have been able to maintain even through times of depression and paranoia, mostly because they are stubborn and forgiving enough to stay with me and reach out, even when my delusions of having to isolate from everyone because I am too horrible and bad to deserve friendships kick in. It’s a privilege I know isn’t guaranteed in life and I am so damn lucky that the mess I have comes with them.

If you are going through tough times and don’t have anyone at the ready, I know it can be hard, don’t give up. There’s the professional stuff like therapists, emergency hotlines, self-help groups and, yes, sometimes even strangers on the internet can be enough to give you a necessary mirror to at least lessen any delusional self-hatred and hopelesness that can creep up. Reaching out can be hard and seem impossible, but it is possible, and it is worth it - you are worth it.

I would have done so, but unfortunately, I couldn’t read your advice

Linking to lemonparty and saying “seized by reddit” strikes me as the playbook of an old 4chan troll/raid, trying to instigate more drama between two places they both hate at once.

At this point it can definitely provide my fix of stupid memes and news articles/discussion. Now to see if it will grow enough to also fill the “community for any niche interest” and “experts randomly showing up in discussions providing valuable insight” parts.

For basically daily consumption, definitely Paradoy Grand Strategy games for me, EU4, Vic3, CK3, HoI4, one of those almost always manages to work out.

As a game that I can endlessly revisit with short pauses in between, Disco Elysium, never fails to resonate with me.

Vatnik is basically a term for russian fascist boomers with soviet aesthetics, or more broadly, pro-russian people that fully embraced their propaganda.

Do you know the difference between this community and !ukraine@lemmy.ml ?

It seems to be the bigger, more active community.

I also heard some rumours about the one on lemmy.ml being “vatnik infiltrated”, but I have no idea if there is anything to those claims.

!Ukraine@sopuli.xyz is probably a good place to post, it seems where most of the news on the war aggregates here, but I am not a mod or the instance admin, so take it as hearsay for now.

As to how, I don’t use Mastodon myself so I am unsure, but I think I heard/read people on here talking about tagging Mastodon posts in a way they appear in certain lemmy communities, even as comments to threads (that would make it possible to gather them in dedicated threads instead of filling the community with posts, too). Sadly, I can’t provide how to do that, but maybe someone from Mastodon can help with the how-to there.

you can see the future, but only at your current location relative to the center of the galaxy, so you always just see the vacuum of space.