I think it odd that Texas, a wealthy state, would attack the digital safety and privacy of its residents instead of addressing how power can cut out for days at a time or water boil advisories for its populations.
Anything but meeting the barest expectations of a “first” world country.
What my professor once told me before briefly, and his words come back to haunt me from time to time. Maybe they’ll help you.
Back to the basics. Sleep.
If you can’t get enough in one go, get your nap in.
Eat.
Prepare like you’re going on a long range road trip. Water, trend less meat and more veggies to avoid sugar ups and downs, and replace snacks with fruits (explore and go for like starfruit or dragonfruit or avocado - not just a pile of grapes).
If your lifestyle is contributing to a lot of needless stress, you need to cut that out before your brain can work right.
Cut the noise.
Avoid other people’s psyops - be it drugs, they sleep for an hour a day, someone starts their assignments the night before. One person’s bullshit is another person’s kryptonite. Just take care of your body and your mind. Your studies fall into place once you can get a routine.
PS
Do work out.
Prisoner 60s. Pushups, squats, pull ups. What’s the point of studying if you can’t even stand, sit, or squat right? These are free, do them throughout the day.
I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.
I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.