Thread by @unclegib

Will be posting some helpful #affirmations this morning to help you start your week! Here's the first one: I am in control of my facial expressions at all times.

My selfie does not hurt. #affirmation

I am good at making small talk. #affirmation

I am not estranged from my family. #affirmation

I have meaningful relationships in three-dimensional space. #affirmation

I do not talk to myself. #affirmation

We're all in this together #affirmation

My sense of self is not a set of mimetic techno-behaviors and borrowed pop culture influences. #affirmation

I am not a walking trauma legacy interacting with other sets of trauma legacies. #affirmation

I feel good about the universe and my position therein. #affirmation

I am not afraid of getting too far from my home. #affirmation

My body is not succumbing to entropy. #affirmation

I am not a corpse-puppet shopping for meaning in all the wrong places. #affirmation

I do not overshare on social media. #affirmation

Other people are probably real. #affirmation

I will not allow my emotions to be manipulated by the nostalgia industry. #affirmation

I will not make the next celebrity death all about me. #affirmation

I am pursuing only my own self-interests whilst constantly adjusting to the strategies of others who are also only pursuing their own self-interests. #affirmation

My pre-pandemic memories are real. #affirmation

I am blessed to be a small part of the largest field study in techno-behaviorism ever conducted. #affirmation

You not liking my tweets is not an act of violence. #affirmations

The pandemic has made me a better person. #affirmations

My understanding of the world is adequate. #affirmation

My worldview is not defined and reinforced by heavily-curated media. #affirmation

My imperfections make me humam. #affirmation

My contributions to the confessional economy of social media are relatable and meaningful. #affirmations

I am capable of expressing my soul's connection to eternity #affirmation

I am not afraid to make eye contact with my neighbors #affirmation

1/2 I am not having meaningless interactions with strangers/friends I haven't seen in years via a corporate platform that's colonized all social space & is exploiting my fear of isolation to extort personal information for use in future weaponized social media ops & psych warfare

2/2 #affirmation

I am more than my online expressions of forced authenticity #affirmation

I will not indulge in the nostalgia industry's constant reconstruction of the past in the false hope of grounding myself in the cannibalistic, self-referential hall of mirrors that is late-capitalist media culture. #affirmation

I will not project my ego onto the latest hero's journey epic weaponized in service of American imperialism just so I have something to talk about in zoom calls. #affirmation