New Gallup poll reveals depth of Americans' gloom about the future In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost ...

Q: How optimistic am I?
A: I believe my best days are behind me. 😔
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Good day to you.
The thought at the front of my brain-queue today is 'how does one live life without all this AI, what is usable, what is eradicable, what are the pitfalls...' but honestly, I probably would not understand, if an informed person explained it to me. The #gloomanddoom of technology.

L-R top row: Myself, Chris, Holly On the steps: Aimee, unkown street urchin Aimee was my girlfriend at the time, Chris was a 250 lb. drag queen and Aimee's best friend from Utah, us 3 had an apt together. Holly was a friend who lived in The Quarter and we all used to go out the the wards at night and break into abandoned houses to ascertain if they were squatable. We'd stay a night or 2 and if we didn't get robbed by crackheads, chased by locals with guns or literally boarded in (once we had to kick through a re-boarded up window in order to escape) we would go to the quarter with a map and find our friends who needed a place to stay and reveal the location.

To those who celebrate, I wish you a dark and depressing #WorldGothDay
Me and my NOLA crew graveyard lurkin' circa '94'.
I wore that Current 93 t-shirt until it rotted.
Deets in the caption.
#Goth #BlackGoth #Deathrock #GloomAndDoom #NewOrleans #cemetary #graveyard #activism #squatters #nomads

I can't shake the feeling that, not only are we on our own, I'm skeptical to say the least, that we have the power to change anything. #GloomAndDoom 😔

The sun didn’t come up not one time today!!! I can’t live like this #gloomanddoom

Oh dear, I should stop zapping between channels. It's dystopia night: Prometheus and Children of Men. #gloomanddoom