In an effort to avoid doomscrolling the news I’ve taken to hitting Wikipedia’s randomiser function. If you go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random, or hit the random article link on the app homepage (scroll down past the “on this day” section) it’ll take you to some page you’d likely never have gone to on purpose. Often it won’t be of any interest at all, but keep clicking. Eventually you’ll hit something much more interesting and enriching than whatever the idiot billionaire fascist enablers are up to.

Today I learned about George Helm, a Hawaiian activist who campaigned against the use of the island of Kahoʻolawe as a bombing range by the US navy. He was part of a rising political awareness of islander’s rights in the 1970s and following links on his page has taught me all about the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom leading to it’s eventual annexation by the USA. It’s one of those subjects I knew very little about, and now I know a little more.

I look forward to whatever the Wikipedia randomiser serves up next.