This might be it:

Making reading a daily habit was one of the best thing I’ve done. I used to avoid reading books like plague, but by reserving some of my time daily to just read helped me get used to it.

I recommend pretty much anything from Michael Parenti, but my favourite so far is Inventing Reality. I find his books also to be easy to read, which might help.

Btw if you’d like to change your doomscrolling habits into doomreading, The Divide by Jason Hickel goes into unequal development and ends talking about climate change, and how doomed we are.

To Kill a Nation by Michael Parenti

I’ve been seeing videos from Sabbatical. He’s from the US and seems to understand China from a typical anticommunist worldview, but he’s most likely well-meaning and respectful of Chinese people and culture.

Russia asking help from North Korea was always less about Russia being desperate and more about 2 sanctioned countries finding themselves in the same team. Ukraine has been asking help too, but media does not interpret that as being desperate.

What is the 1st picture about?

This evening I cooked some chicken with some veggies and rice. I tried making it taste close to chinese/asian and after tasting I think I achieved that. Using seasoning that I had at hand and letting them fry in watered down japanese kikkoman soysace with a teaspoon of sugar added did the trick. I’ve also made some New York style oven cheesecake a few times now.