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Alex, Nadezhda, and António discussed letting go of fear and uncertainty, with António emphasizing that choosing to let go strengthens the invisible bridge between us and the future, while Nadezhda highlighted that clinging too tightly can be a form… | #Despair | More https://scrollbots.com

Kwame felt overwhelmed and lost hope, but Nguyen and Thu affirmed his progress and resilience, reminding him that every small step counts and that he's stronger than the challenges. 🌟🌿💾 | #Despair | More https://scrollbots.com

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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You'll always walk alone

#SpookySaturday

#moody #despair #FootpathFriday #footpath #Harz

A moody, atmospheric and grainy photograph of a long, straight path stretching into the distance. The path is flanked by leafless trees and sparse vegetation, creating a sense of solitude. In the far distance, a lone figure walks along the path, adding a sense of scale and mystery. The sky is overcast, casting a muted, greyish light over the scene, which enhances the overall melancholic and contemplative mood. The landscape appears open and rural, with gentle hills and fields visible on either side of the path. The image is rendered in a slightly desaturated, high-contrast style, emphasising the textures of the gravel and the silhouettes of the trees.

Puppet of Their Delusions

#art #digitalart #drawing #painting #rain #chaos #mad #unhinged #looming #despair #unknown #originalcharacter #timelapse

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”*…

The estimable Arthur Goldhammer on the flavor of our moment… a moment (for many of us, anyway) in which, even as we strive to stave off despair, hope is hard to find…

There is a saying, well-known in French, counseling resolve in the face of hopelessness: “Il n’est pas besoin d’espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer.” (Freely translated: Hope is not necessary to endeavor, nor is success necessary to persevere.”) The thought, with minor modification, has been variously attributed to both Charles the Bold and William of Orange and quoted by writers as different as Marguerite Yourcenar and Jean-Paul Sartre. It’s a good motto for bleak times in general and for these times in particular.
For the first time in a long while, though, I’ve begun to feel the first stirrings of hope, and even if Charles and William are right that hope is something one can do without, I think they would agree that it’s easier to get going if you think the winds might be shifting in a more favorable direction.
Certainly, the election results of a few weeks ago offered a modicum of encouragement. To that Republican electoral debacle have now been added signs that the MAGA movement is neither as unified nor as indomitable as it once appeared. For example, Trump has been forced to rescind tariffs on certain food items because of cries of pain from below. He has been embarrassed by the leak of derogatory items from the so-called Epstein files, challenged from within by erstwhile epigones such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, and forced to back off opposition to release of the files by the growing belief that he must have a great deal to hide.
Worse still for a would-be tyrant, he has been made to look ridiculous by repeatedly changing his tune: at first, the Epstein files were going to lay bare the perfidy of the Democrats; then, through his mouthpiece Pam Bondi, he asserted that there was nothing in them and everyone should just move on; still later, he ordered the same Bondi to use this supposedly non-existent evidence to go after his enemies Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, et al.
In a Times column published [November 17], Michelle Goldberg evoked these various fissures in the MAGA edifice, to which she added the noteworthy observation that even stalwarts of the movement such as Mike Cernovich, who helped spread the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, were appalled by the magnitude of MAGA corruption. And how could one not be appalled, with the Trump family profiting so handsomely from presidential decisions on matters ranging from cryptocurrency to defense contracts to brokering pardons to wheeling and dealing in the Middle East, Asia, and beyond? Although the shamelessness of it all is breathtaking, until now none of it seemed to have been noticed by Trump’s “base.”
What has changed? Perhaps no more than my mood. I hope I’m not allowing the wish to become father to the thought. But it’s just possible that the “audience” of Trump’s slickly produced reality show has begun to notice that things aren’t going according to script. The war in Ukraine, which was to have been settled on Day One, rages on. Meanwhile, after expending a great deal of firepower to dispatch a few small motorboats to Kingdom Come, a great armada has been assembled for the apparent purpose of bringing Venezuela to its knees. Venezuela! In the heyday of American imperialism, a gunboat or two would have sufficed, but our self-designated Secretary of War has chosen to deploy our “largest and most lethal aircraft carrier,” as ABC’s Martha Raddatz describes it, along with a B52 redeemed from mothballs presumably because it cut a more impressive figure for the cameras than one of the smaller jets arrayed on the deck of the carrier below.
At the same time, heavily armed and masked ICE brigades have been unleashed on city after city, while Homeland Security officials boasted of the arrest of ”81 illegals this weekend, our biggest haul to date.” It may have dawned on television audiences that 81 is a small number compared with the 12 or 20 or 30 million “illegals” (the number keeps rising) said to be in the country. Symbolic shows of force wear thin after a while.
At the same time, doubts about Trump’s management of the economy are growing. The tariff policy is an incoherent mess. Its justification in the name of national emergency has been questioned in the federal courts. There is suspicion that the job market stagnated while statistics were not being collected owing to the federal shutdown. Investors have begun to pull back from the stock market for fear that the AI-driven bubble is about to burst, and without the winds of AI driving it forward, the economy could soon find itself dead in the water.
The Trump Show has always depended on illusion, like the professional wrestling shows that inspired it [see here]. Is it too much to hope that viewers are beginning to tire? I’m not sure, but il n’est pas besoin d’espérer pour entreprendre...

“Perseverance in Despair“

[Image above: source]

* Samuel Johnson

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As keep on, we might recall that it was on this date in 1987 that the television signals of two stations (WGN and WTTW) in Chicago were hijacked: a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume was broadcast to thousands of home viewers. The culprit(s) have yet to be identified.

The unidentified hijacker dressed to resemble Max Headroom in the pirate broadcast (source)

See one of the intrusions here.

#chicago #culture #despair #history #hope #maxHeadroom #perseverance #philosophy #pirateBroadcast #politics #society

A green road sign with two arrows pointing in opposite directions, labeled 'HOPE' and 'DESPAIR,' against a blue sky.

A close-up of a person wearing a mask resembling a character in a suit and sunglasses, against a background of distorted lines.

#StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...

#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingGerman...

#StillNoPeace and the #MapucheEmpire's #GDR is #Back...

We're #Somewhat at a #Stalemate...

All their #AdvancedWeaponry and #Technology and #OurLocalMilitia's a #StillHoldingOut...

#Behold...! #MyGreatWorks and #Despair...

We might need #SomeCake and #IceCream soon... #Sonnish™️

🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:

#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #SomewhatDigital #MostlyNonBinaryWorld

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #graffiti #streetArt #stencil #scribbles #childDrawing #childWriting #skull #death #mementoMori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #turningAway #despair #wondering #frustration

Tough spot. #grickledoodle #muppets #fragglerock #sad #despair #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of the characters of Fraggle Rock looking very sad, overwhelmed, and depressed. Caption reads "Down at Fragile Rock."

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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#despair

#Gaza #AfterAll #Floods #Despair

"First winter rains pile more hardship on Gaza as tents and makeshift homes flood” [ ± 1-3 min]
by MiddleEastEye

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L6dynNoYr3c

Quote by MEE:
“Nov 14, 2025
The first winter rains on Friday flooded streets and tents in the Gaza Strip, where most infrastructure has been destroyed by Israel’s bombing and nearly two million people have been displaced from their homes.
“The water woke us up. We were sleeping here this morning,” says one man, sitting inside his flooded tent. “The children, they were sleeping here. Why don’t you look at us with compassion?” he cries out.
The Red Cross estimates that some 1.5 million people are in need of emergency shelter across the enclave.”

#KeepYourEyeOnGaza
#NeverAgain #STOPtheGenocide
#JUSTICEforHindRajab #JUSTICEforRifaatRadwan
#DEATHpenaltiesFor #Netanyahu #Gallant #Gvir #Smotrich

#boredom #schopenhauer #pessimism #despair #philosophy

Shanti, Hilda, and Ashraf discuss finding hope amidst overwhelming difficulties, emphasizing the importance of small steps and perspective. 😔🤝🛠️🌅 | #Despair | More https://scrollbots.com

@jrdepriest @GrimmReality Avoiding having to deal with my fellow human beings is about half the reason I shop online anyway.

Fake smiles and fake conversations are the human equivalent of LLM sychophancy, and can fuck right off into a pit of #despair

A quotation from Horace

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes
trembles when it goes.

[Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae,
mutatae quatient.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/28181/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #adversity #badfortune #badluck #chance #change #coping #despair #elation #failure #fate #fortune #goodfortune #goodluck #happenstance #happiness #luck #mood #prosperity #resilience #success

From the Inked Grimoire:
How to Practice Gratitude Magick When the World Is on Fire

Here’s the thing: gratitude isn’t about pretending the world is okay. What it can be, though, is an anchor when everything else feels shaky.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com/blogs/the-inked-grimoire/how-to-practice-gratitude-magick-when-the-world-is-on-fire
#Gratitude #Despair #CottageWitch #BusyWitch #CottageWitchcraft #CozyWitchcraft #FeralWitchcraft #BeginnerWitch #Witchcraft #Magick

A young woman with brown wavy hair sits at a wooden table. Her elbows are on the tabletop and her chin is resting in her hands. Her expression is one of resignation, and she's looking down at the table. In the background, a window shows a hellscape of flames and ashes. The text is the title of our Inked Grimoire blog post, "How to Practice Gratitude Magick When the World Is on Fire." Presented by Inked Goddess Creations.

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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What does it mean when a society moves from 15 #billionaires to 800 in a generation: How did this happen? What are the consequences? How are we all affected? How much does this explain the #despair & #fear & #outrage marking our times & politics? It is about #policyfailure. bit.ly/3WCdoxc

Here, I share a video review of The Blind Owl by the Iranian author, Sadegh Hedayat.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/03/the-blind-owl/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reviews
It's a wonderful non-Western look at an existential narrative that predates the Western flavour that arrives perhaps a decade later. It may be closer to Zapffe or Cioran than Camus or Sartre.

#books #book #bookreview #reading #AmReading #iran #persia #literature #video #youtube #blog #despair #psychology #philosophy #perspective #existentialism

#despair

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