Alternatives to Doom Scrolling

Tough Times Call for Corny Solutions

I am spending way too much time "Doom-Scrolling" as they call it. And so are you. Free minutes are taken up looking at terrible news. For the sake of our mood and mental health we need to quit ruminating, pick one or two action activities and act and while we are doing something look at lighter fare online.

What entertains me is a daily dose of canines, costume history and color, color, color: A list of sites to make you smile when you click.

Most of these are Facebook sites and I know some of you won't use it but do remember it's a tool. Use it to your benefit. I wish there were more blogs with more text & info but alas blogs are passe.  There's a lot on Instagram but little text there.

TEXTILE HISTORY

Fashion Institute of Technology

https://www.facebook.com/FITfashionhistory/

Our 6KnowItAlls Page on Quilt History
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6knowitalls

https://costumesociety.org.uk/blog

HUMOR

Frequently Posted Jokes from 

The Unitarian Universalist Hysterical Society
https://www.facebook.com/groups/uuhystericalsociety

Great Long-Gone Cartoons

Far Side by Gary Larson
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1661863323971577

Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Waterson
https://www.facebook.com/CalvinAndHobbes

ANTIQUE PHOTOS

Antique Photography (1850-1930)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/802261293856504

Shorpy
https://www.facebook.com/shorpy

Arthur Rothstein

Photographers of the Farm Security Administration (WPA)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551575812402

CURRENT QUILTS & FABRIC
Pick a favorite designer. Look at the daily PR.

Edyta Sitar

https://www.facebook.com/LaundryBasketQuilts

Lou Taft

Kaffe Fassett Collective

https://www.facebook.com/groups/60352772359

The William Morris Society
https://www.facebook.com/TheWilliamMorrisSociety

HISTORY

Spared & Shared
https://www.facebook.com/Griff.CWLetters
Found letters from the Civil War Era

Civil War Women/In the Swan's Shadow

https://www.facebook.com/civilwarwomen


PETS

Cats

Larry the Cat for PM

A good excuse to post miscellaneous cat pictures:  
https://www.facebook.com/groups/197534374496197/

Funny Dogs

https://www.facebook.com/groups/300408794477260/
Cute dogs
https://www.facebook.com/cutenessdogs

We Rate Dogs

https://www.facebook.com/WeRateDogs 


ART & ART MUSEUMS

Contemporary Art Daily

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/

Art Viewer

https://artviewer.org/

What's happening whether you like it or not.

 

The Louvre
https://www.facebook.com/museedulouvre

Victoria & Albert in London
https://www.facebook.com/victoriaandalbertmuseum

Any other ideas? We'd like to hear about them in the comments.