Look into the grafitti tagged NYC trains of the 70s — grafitti used to be one of the 5 elements of hiphop and was a way for the people to express themselves (see The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five). I'm not saying that what you're seeing now is the same thing, but grafitti can serve a purpose
you can adopt a letter individually, I'm not sure how a fundraiser would work in that regard, unless we trust a comrade to fulfill letter requests with gifts. However as a chapo outside the US, I would like to kick some money towards this
you can't even buy fresh produce at a bodega :haram: (european corner shops have fruit, veg, eggs, bread etc)
For me I've worked out that I don't respond well to rules, but I do respond well to real deadlines and stuff that I care about doing. The only CS projects that I have put serious time into have been stuff where I have a higher goal (create html CV to get job, create coronavirus graphs to understand if it's Bad) and the only time I'm good at school work is if the deadline is soon enough — and fake deadlines don't do anything for me. I think doing some meta thinking about when you have successfully been able to work (if you can't think then try different strategies) and go from there.
For social media addiction stuff, I've found putting my phone out of eye sight and reach; and having a browser with 'fun' on a different virtual desktop helps keep me on task. If I can see the thing it reminds me that social media exists and maybe I should check it just in case. My brain seems to think quickly checking sometihng that is open is fine, but expending effort to check the thing is not fine, even if it's not that much effort
Isn't the broken window fallacy famous for being a bad studynevermind I'm thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory