Wow. Your mastodon account has a pure RSS output built in. https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/109288881064018003

#ClownCarDeathMatch

and this isn’t doomscrolling, particularly - it’s just scrolling. So maybe it’s time to save the brain and reduce input and output to biogeography only? It might be.

The brain - mine at least - is just not meant to experience so many different and intense emotions in such quick succession. A few weeks or months away show you this dopamine buffet and its consequences - it becomes an affective version of Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex.

In three sequential clicks, it gave me this absolutely raw article from @robdelaney on child loss https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-heaviest-pain-in-the-world-rob-delaney-on-his-sons-death-x3f79klxb then the evil government banality of “a return to austerity” and then finally a tweet contain...

Everyone knows ML boosts clicks, and the consequent outrage it amplifies and divides with. But even without, a few thousand sources of content becomes a high-pressure hose of experience, and I just don’t think I’m (and by proxy, anyone) is designed to deal with the consequences.

“Events, dear boy, events.”