When I was in the US I had a little beverage called thai tea a few times and I'm a big fan. Unfortunately i live in the provincial German south now and I haven't found any here. I made black tea with anis and cardamom and cloves last night, put it in the fridge overnight and mixed in some milk this morning and took it to class. It's pretty good but it's not the same.
I notice very clearly how scrolling and things like, say, instagram reels before bed makes me feel agitated and squirrelly because of all the input, but the idea of being away from my phone also fills me with anxiety. This is because I'm addicted to my phone but also because I worry my mind will go to bad places if I don't have some entertainment like an audiobook or asmr or a banal 'video essay' to put me to sleep. I've always been a big youtube user but the introduction of youtube shorts has made my life so much worse. It makes me so angry that there's no way to turn it off or hide the 'shorts' from my dash, we're just forced to endure the constant preying on our attention spans. I may have to seriously consider just deleting the app off my phone.
The woman scanning my wares at the drug store was making such strange eye contact with me.... Was there something funny about my purchase?? Or did you wanna make out?
Someone literally just entered the group chat and was like "it would be good if we could organize something like what's happening at American universities" we are operating under different circumstances and don't have a big enough coalition for that yet and again CAN YOU COME TO A MEETING FIRST before sketching out your vision for the global intifada in the group chat???? i hate social media
People who haven't even been active or organizing at all and just found out about our Palestine group are now contacting us and asking if we're planning to do any sit-ins or encampments. Why don't you show up to a fucking meeting first. Honestly