I recently watched an interview with Bernie Sanders, on a German podcast from about a year ago. He said that when he was born, african-americans didn’t have suffrage. He was 24 when they got voting rights. Had somebody asked him back then “Do you think that a black man will be president in the US in your lifetime?” he had said “No, absolutely not”. Now he tells young people about that and they’re like “what the heck are you talking about?” because to them that concept is so foreign and long ago, they can’t actually imagine what that must’ve been like anymore. I’m one of those young people, and I’m pretty thankful that people like him fought for a future they never thought to be able to see.

I think that the future will not be what we expect it to be. Could be better. Could be worse. Probably though it’s gonna be something completely wild with some good and some bad in it. I mean even today, despite all the shittiness in the world, there are some small good things happening every now and then. And I realized that I even may have influenced some of them ever so slightly. How crazy is that! So what keeps me going is trying to make that dent and make those pockets of good in the world just a tiny bit bigger. Someone will be grateful for it.

Es gibt kein Entkommen!

I guess the problem is that it treats all lemmy content as boosts. Because I’m able to exclude boosts and/or replies from my home feed in general, or boosts of specific accounts only. And Mastodon profiles have tabs for posts only and posts with replies, so I can differentiate.

Vampires Dawn. I haven’t checked out the second and third part yet, but I still think about the first from time to time. I had it in a magazine CD 20 years ago.