It's frustrating that after all last year's headlines about "the collapse of nature" w/r/t insect population declines, there's been zero public visibility for the vast amount of connected research which - as ever - is less bleak but way more complicated:
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It drives me fucking spare. This isn't yahoo research funded by oil barons. It's decent scientists, who are _of course_ concerned about anthropogenic change, but don't get listened to unless they blurt out shit for tossers to retweet with "the end is nigh" gifs
Yet again, beloved social media reduces everything to the darkest, simplest narratives, because hope is complicated and nuanced, and doesn't give people any drama to play with. This fucking electric dungeon rewards people who thrive on despair, I hate it with my life.
Every time I lose sleep over an apocalyptic op-ed, my partner (who is saving my life one day at a time), digs out the research it's based on, and it always paints a picture several shades greyer - but several shades lighter - than the emotive bellowing that caught the press.
Tweeting this is the first time I've even looked at twitter in a week, and just a few days away have fundamentally changed my view of the world. I'm not blinkered from the news, but I'm no longer subjecting myself to weaponised melancholy, and I feel vastly more capable.
Twitter is a pandaemonium built by sociopaths, and we stand willingly in the lake of fire, amplifying every whimper of pain from our neighbours until the whole place vibrates with agony and rage. And every decibel is just another fucking dollar sign, up in the celestial vault.
Forgive the purple prose, but I am absolutely livid with seeing people's minds crumble under this... thing... designed to engineer their perceived reality into something monstrous. This "hellsite" indeed.
Don't fucking feed it.
Oh and while I'm here: the last white rhino didn't die, it was just the last in one population. Whale numbers are by and large soaring. And skip the ecofascist stoner chat about the virus being some gaian immune system. Look after yourself, I don't want you to go mad x
