andrewducker | (Reply)

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It's definitely more the video aspect. I can get cognitive distance from text more easily.

(And still, I don't go on Twitter in the evenings, because that does cause me to feel upset)

I just did a quick look at my last 20 entries (the first page, going back 2 weeks, to the 13th).

There are 3 links specifically talking about the Tories. 2 more talking about trans stuff more generally (for which I almost entirely blame the Tories). So say 5 in total.

Also, 6 about how rubbish Labour are.

That's out of 67 links total. So I'm about 10% "The Conservatives are the worst", 10% "Labour are also not good", about another 10% other politics. And the rest of it isn't politics at all, as far as I can see.

I try to manage a mixture of "keeping informed" with "not immersing myself in things that are just upsetting and which I can do nothing about". So I already know I'm not in favour of anything going on in Gaza right now, and I don't click through on that.

The things that catch my eye are either unusual (The Tories had their campaign manager resign mid-campaign??? Are there no depths to their incompetence???), don't seem to getting much attention, or personal (Like the trans links. It's hard to ignore when it's your friends who are being targetted for awfulness, so it's just being talked about generally if I'm online at all.)