RedOvechkin1917

  This is a picture of me in Mexico City that Eva took. I actually just got an iphone, but for a long time I didn't use a smartphone. Because ... fuck efficiency, fuck apple, fuck capitalism, fuck the system, etc.  Anyway, here are some random other scattered thoughts I've been having. Challenging some of my own internal narratives about depression. I think I’ve really been feeling like a failure and really depressed over the past year or so because a lot of the things that many folks rely on for feeling good about themselves I don’t really do. I’ve been mostly unemployed, haven’t been exercising much at all, have completely lost interest in cooking myself meals from scratch which I used to really enjoy, and have abandoned a lot of my hobbies. At the same time, I want to challenge that notion that this somehow makes me a failure, because the truth is that I’ve simply abandoned a lot of things that have become no longer worth it for me, and that may be perfectly valid and accur...

 I've been having a really wonderful time in Mexico this past week. I think I've honestly been feeling pretty dead inside in San Francisco, and I just feel so much more alive here in Mexico. I am so excited by Claudia Sheinbaum's victory in the recent national elections -- a recent poll has her carrying an 85% approval rating. She is the first woman president of Mexico, and Jewish and pro-Palestine and anti-imperialist. Her victory is such an amazing triumph and it's totally absurd that it hasn't been covered more in the New York Times and other U.S. media outlets. Then again, Sheinbaum's left-wing politics are a threat to the vested interests of the U.S. capitalist class, so it's no surprise that the billionaire owners of the Times don't really want to cover her. Then again, many Times readers are more and more interested in how to actually elect a left-wing government that doesn't bend eagerly to the will of fascism, so one way or another, folks sh...