I suspect that the latest war that the President of the United States has started has had a profound effect on me. Now, before I get accused of living in a privileged bubble I am well aware that there are many people who, but for this current war, would still be alive. Equally people’s lives have been upended. I am aware of all that. But in my little bubble of irrelevance it has changed me. I have given up much of the internet. Up until recently I used to consume way way too much dome scrolled crap. I blame nobody but myself. Then last night I started to be feed political propaganda ads for causes I didn’t believe in. That was enough. YouTube, like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram no longer get my eyeballs.

Will this last? I honestly don’t know. What I do know is that this morning I feel a lot better than I did yesterday. Scientific empirical research? I think not. Have ‘they‘ won? I don’t know who ‘they‘ are and I don’t care. If the only thing this war has taught us is that life is way too short and wasting those precious seconds consuming the garbage the tech bros are feeding us is a sin. Then at least something good might come out of the billions of dollars being thrown at Iran for no clear reason.

Anyway here is a sketch of gnome I made last night. No doom scrolling was involved. Yippee.