C.<p>innocence (n.) : a state of permanent optimism, such as believing that when UPS says a package will be delivered between 8am and noon, it will actually be delivered that day, or that when a company announces a change "to serve you better", that they actually intend to try to serve you better.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/innocence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innocence</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/naive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naive</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/optimist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimist</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pessimist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimist</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cynical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cynical</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cynic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cynic</span></a></p>
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@xs4me2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>xs4me2</span></a></span></p><p>i remind myself of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spain</span></a> under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/franco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>franco</span></a> and look at spain today</p><p>doesn't mean spain is utopia today</p><p>doesn't mean "it's going to be ok, relax"</p><p>it means getting better is real</p><p>but:</p><p>1. we have a lot fucking work to do</p><p>2. there is a lot of fucking suffering ahead of us</p><p>3. do not accept <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> nor <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a></p><p>as long as we *fight* we can right this rotten ship</p><p>biggest ally of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a>:</p><p>lazy indifference</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americans</span></a>:</p><p>get off your fucking asses and fight</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federate.social/@mattblaze" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mattblaze</span></a></span> </p><p>Observing from the outside, it's been driving me nuts, too. The USA has constitutional law, statute law, regulations, procedures, norms against so much of what your new administration has been doing for the last two weeks.</p><p>And ... no one's doing anything about it. You may as well not have any prohibitions on any of it at all -- if you don't enforce the laws, they're not laws. If a tree falls in the forest, etc, etc.</p><p>Musk's monkeying with the money machinery is just the latest example - clearly exceeding any legal authority he might have, and ... crickets. The Democrats aren't even making a peep about most of this stuff.</p><p>Between the "stupid evil" nature of the threat and the existing systems, I thought that it would at least slow them down some, but it's like no one's even trying. I'm no longer confident that any significant remnant of the US experiment will exist in four years.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/observer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>observer</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏<p>For when you can't quite muster optimism.</p><p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quoteoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quoteoftheday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latin</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Virgil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Virgil</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/optimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimistic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife</span></a></p>
Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-10-most-pessimistic-movies-of-all-time/2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-10-</span><span class="invisible">most-pessimistic-movies-of-all-time/2/</span></a></p>
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝<p>Radical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> , an introductory thread</p><p>tl/dr I think that it is good thing to recognize the limits on what we can know about the future at this time, while accepting the likelihood of some kind of major change. This often translates to "pessimism." I don't mean either doomerism or accelerationism.</p><p>1/n</p>
penwing (they/them)<p>It's hard to find joy in the election finally being called when the winner is going to be Kier Starmer's Tory Tribute Act... </p><p>Soon unveiling their election logo, a union flag background with hand scrawled red rose-if-you-squint and stem somewhere in a corner...</p><p>And the new "Optimistic much?" slogan...</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GE2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GE2024</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a></p>
PaulaToThePeople<p>Can we please stop using the word <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hope</span></a> when talking about the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>? <br>Hope, especially when used by the media, plays into the hands of those, who claim that innovations, the free market and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> will fix it for us and nobody really has to do anything - not us, not politicians and not the fossil capitalists.</p><p>Instead of headlines that read "Scientists say we can still have hope..." I want to read "Scientists say we have the means...".</p><p>Chance, possibility, option, alternative, even opportunity are better words to use.</p><p>Lets not give up, neither because we are hopeful, nor because we are hopeless. Let's act. It's in our hands!*</p><p>*That phrase might just be the best replacement for the word hope.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p>The origin of the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThreeBodyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeBodyProblem</span></a> ...</p><p>(It's <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HootinTootinTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HootinTootinTuesday</span></a> again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humour</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FunnyMeme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FunnyMeme</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Pessimist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optimism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Train" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Train</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Optimist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optimist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Realism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TrainConductor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrainConductor</span></a></p>
Katya Ivanova<p>OK, trying the mandatory <a href="https://c.im/tags/newbie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newbie</span></a> thing: An <a href="https://c.im/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>.</p><p>I'm a <a href="https://c.im/tags/sociologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociologist</span></a> at <a href="https://c.im/tags/TilburgUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TilburgUniversity</span></a> in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> & study how contemporary adults 'do' <a href="https://c.im/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> which yes, is a very broad area of interest... An example of one project I'm busy with right now: examining <a href="https://c.im/tags/childfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childfree</span></a> motivations & whether <a href="https://c.im/tags/fertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fertility</span></a> transitions are related to societal <a href="https://c.im/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> / <a href="https://c.im/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a> of the future. <a href="https://c.im/tags/socmasto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socmasto</span></a></p>
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