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Holy shitballs, the last three days have been the longest years of my life. It's hard not to get caught up in the constant rage, pain and disappointment. For my own sanity, I deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I most likely will also delete Threads - most of who I follow there is on BlueSky - but I really liked the community vibe there.  BlueSky, the way I have it curated now, is a lot of what feels like doomscrolling. That being said, those are all Meta and I'd like to get out from under that. My Italian school is on FB so I can't get completely away from that and also, there are some people with whom I keep in touch that are on no other platform; this is a conundrum as it would take a lot more effort to to keep up with them.  Am I ready to do that, let it go, or check the platform on a more structured schedule.

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I know a lot of you are struggling as well.  Whatever you decide to do to find the balance between informed and sane, I get it. I'm hopeful I'll be able to tolerate more and be more involved, but right now - boy howdy do I want to hide. I can't stand seeing his face or hearing his voice. I can't go to the smaller rec center I like because they have TVs and I just can't. No MSM either; not since Nov 5.  Here's who I'm following - Aaron Parnas, Bryan Tyler Cohen, Katie Phang, Joyce White Vance, Seth Abramson, Aaron Rupar, Stonekettle Station, Ellizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, Democracy Docket, MeidasTouch Network and the newly formed The Contrarian (Jen Rubin formerly from WashPo and Norm Eisen,  developed 1st impeachment of FOTUS and senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings Institute as well as an expert on law, ethics, and anti-corruption.).

Ok, I need to go study Italian and burn off some rage pumping some iron. The iron is small, but the rage is big, so lots of sets today.

Stay hopeful my friends.

PS - I do fun stuff too, like make cookies or pack my bag for our upcoming trip to see what fits and what needs to go.  Yes, I consider it fun, yes, I know I'm in the minority.  We'll have to talk about my stupid brain some other time.