About a year ago, I burned out on political contributions, regardless of the virtues of the candidates. The Act Blue ecosystem just came to seem so predatory and toxic I wanted nothing to do with it. I'm getting close to that point with subscription services, the substacks, the streamers, the software. Some of it I still can't do without, but I feel revulsion every time I see these charges and I'm beginning to accept some sacrifice to tell them to fuck off.