Thread by @coreluminous

@lottieflying Given the asymmetries of Power between ordinary people and Institutions of Power, Wealth and their news Mefia who all work together to limit the 'public discourse' it's easy to not see the majority of decent people who ARE taking care as best the circumstances afford them.

@lottieflying That is a strategic aim, to dim our view of each other, as a way to exhaust, irritate, dismay, confuse and otherwise defect grass roots unity and political organisation.
Gaslighting us all the time...
The Powerful understand that if and when we break that spell, it's game over.

@lottieflying You, I and many, many people nationally and globally are breaking that spell. Yet even as that happens, more avoidable harm is caused, and we cannot but feel the pain, feel the frustration when we know we know how to avoid those harms.

The persistence to do this is your gift.

@lottieflying I like to do this exercise.

I imagine a circle of the most inspired, persistent and clear activists, holding hands, facing outwards and I am in that circle, and I can feel that behind me is a circle of really, really good people, always at work, even when I forget.

@lottieflying The circle includes ancestors, it includes the spirits of future activists, because our work is part of a historical work, confronting violent hierarchies, abusers of leveraged power, acting in ways that impede their violence, undo their power. Progress is slow, yet determined.

@lottieflying msn.com/en-gb/news/ukn…

"Nearly 40 per cent of respondents said that they wanted another lockdown due to concerns around rising Covid infections and NHS capacity as the country enters flu season."

@lottieflying and so some days it is much harder to bear, and this is part of what it is, as it is...

We cannot afford to switch off that sensitivity, because it is a core part of why we do what do - because we care, in the most humane way imaginable.. vulnerable and strong at the same time.

@lottieflying I wear a mask when shopping.

I am a sound engineer, musician, performer and have not played in venues since September 2020. I do morning shows and a weekly 2 hour show on Wednesday evening on Facebook and I have written a stream of covid era songs, parodies to tell the truth.

@lottieflying Somedays it's been really difficult, with financial restrictions, missing my live work and the social element of that, and being really furious.


A playlist of my covid songs.

I am lucky - I have my craft to help me get through this, and a small audience

@lottieflying I've had Covid once, in March 2020, and it lasted for 5 weeks, with significant sequelae for 5 months, and then the Vaccine helped resolve most of those symptoms, I spent the summer running, writing, gardening. I live in social housing and it's a bit precarious. it's tough.

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