#morningthoughts — Public Fediverse posts

I’m thinking a lot about the “firehose” this morning: my compulsion to find sources of stimulation. I can’t speak for all #adhd / #AuDHD folks, of course, but for me, “running out of internet” can be a very real annoyance. Hitting the top of all the feeds I browse, then feeling the discomfort of _boredom_, where the minutes drag on like days.

But the opposite, an unending firehose, leads to tunnelvision and hyperfocus. Responsibilities start getting neglected. I detach from other people. I get irritable if I’m interrupted.

Since work often involves periods of boredom, I alleviate this by doing relatively mundane Minecraft stuff on my modded home server in the background: enough to stimulate me a _bit_, but not enough to get sucked in, so I can switch back to work quickly.

None of it is really fulfilling, but it gets me through the day while staying reasonably productive.

#morningthoughts

Very few things in this world are binary. Computers use it as an abstraction precisely because the world is analog and nuanced, and that’s far more difficult to deal with. #morningthoughts

A podcast about shade UX practices called “Dark Patter”
#morningthoughts

Life is the fight against entropy.

It doesn’t matter that entropy will win in the end. What’s important is that we keep pushing it back, while we are here.

#morningthoughts

So we cleaned and packed up our office last Friday in preparation for moving to a new coworking space much closer to downtown. I am very excited about this, as it’ll make my commute much nicer when I do go in.

Anyways, a bunch of our monitors are going to be donated or e-wasted, and coworkers are like “those monitors are crap anyway”. And I’m like, they’re fairly large 1920x1080 monitors; not exactly high-end, but hardly crap. I scour thrift stores to find monitors far worse than that.

But sadly, I could not take any for myself. My commute to the office involves taking the train followed by the L; I’d’ve had to go home and then drive my Scion into the city to load up.

(What really irks me, though, is they were also disposing of some cheap but nice adjustable desks. I really could’ve used one of those!)

#morningthoughts #ewaste

Turned my alarm off this morning.
That was a mistake, as when I woke up it was 9:45.

I used to love sleeping in when I was younger. These days I think “I have wasted the very limited number of hours in my life that are *mine* to use as I please”.

And I mean, using them to sleep is perfectly valid. But I didn’t need to sleep ten hours. I think that happened because my ADHD brain, for lack of a better description, “hyperfocuses on sleep”. It gets locked into sleep just as it would anything else that feels good and requires effort to switch away from.

I have to try to accept these feelings without judgement, while also not succumbing to self-blame and anger for sleeping in. (Honestly, avoiding getting mad at my ADHD is something I work on *constantly*, because the anger just exacerbates things and increases my propensity to withdraw and hide from my responsibilities.)

#morningthoughts

People everywhere using generative AI to do their jobs is what you get when millions of people are forced to work jobs they don’t actually enjoy or care about in order to pay the bills and continue living. #morningthoughts

Every bit of cringe was put out there by someone genuinely trying to express themself. Don’t poke fun at anything coming from a good and honest place. #morningthoughts

Is selling #butter in sticks just one of these American things, or is selling butter in blocks a German thing I am unaware of 🤔 #morningthoughts 🧈

Sixteen years ago today was my first appointment with my endocrinologist. So, I've been a type 1 for sixteen years now. (+- a few days for the official word, and +- 6 months for onset of symptoms).
Without modern medicine, I'd be at least fourteen years in the grave.
#morningthoughts #diabetes

Why do we have to stand to be corrected?

e.g., "I stand corrected!" when somebody accepts a correction.

Why can't we sit corrected, lean corrected, lie down corrected, or lie in bed -- oh so very cosy, warm, snuggly, snugglable, and eepy -- corrected?

#MorningThoughts #HalfAsleepThoughts #EepyThoughts

Apparently a huge chunk of the almost 6 hours sleep we got last night was light sleep.

Must be why we're a bit more light sensitive this morning 🤭

#MorningThoughts #HalfAsleepThoughts #SleepPosting

Gayd Wednesgay meowning fedizens :FediverseSymbol:

For any fellow 'Scapers (RS3), don't forget to reset your totems on Anachronia.

#MorningThoughts #GayMeowning #GoodMorningFediverse #RuneScape

RE: https://cultofshiv.wtf/@SleepyCatten/116073446256557982

For the last 6 years I've been occasionally returning to this gem with the same theme:

🎶 maybe it's COVID? 🎶
🎶 maybe it's cannabis? 🎶

Which usually gives me enough of a chuckle to briefly light the darkness.

#MorningThoughts #HalfAsleepThoughts #MedicatedThoughts

To the tune of the stupid "maybe it's Maybelline" adverts:

Maybe she's born with it
Maybe it's lots of meds

Alternatively:

Maybe pregabalin

#MorningThoughts #HalfAsleepThoughts #MedicatedThoughts

Re last repost: it occurs to me that rich and powerful men import, recruit, steal or purchase their victims where they can, and mostly move freely thru the world, while all the other maladapted, unevolved, toxic, abusive, less financially resourced men who feel small and powerless, incarcerate and turn their own children, families, students, employees, classes and community members into victims. Imagine feeling either so small or so big that you feel it's your right to sexually assault, exploit, and/or permanently damage/kill another human being... you can't vote or abort your way out of a society that was literally built on the backs and wombs of other human beings. Since no authority is coming to save us, the bootlicking, pedo-loving class that they are, I guess we need to prune and poison the classist, capitalist, racist, sexist, patriarchal roots of USA's tree, instead of the just pinch off the occasional sacrificial twig.
I'm not a "send them all to jail" person, bc it doesn't fix the problems in our society, and only benefits the same system that put them there. Incarceration of "criminals" doesn't seem to be working. As if you can't buy your way out of jail 🙄 and as if jail isn't just another profitable system of slavery and does absolutely ZERO for survivors of abuse. The way to a better world is to stop the abuse at every moment it occurs. Look around and seek out those that seem isolated into 1:1 or nuclear family cults. Strengthen your network. WE are the ones that will keep us safe, not the regime, not men in general, WE THE PEOPLE, who care about others that are not only ourselves. We the people that do not want to victimize or be victimized. We the people that want to pursue happiness, but NOT at the expense and lives of others. We the people that want liberty and justice FOR ALL.
Anyway, it's not just the wealthy who have the problem of abusing others, it's anyone who can get away with it. Let's fix that part, without giving the "justice system" fuel for their own "legal" slave class at taxpayer's expense.
#justice #socialjustice #cptsd #abuse #MutualAid #wekeepusafe #thoughts #uspol #morningthoughts

Apparently we did dream last night.

Our tracker suggests we were in REM for over an hour out of a total of about 5 and a half hours.

However, we no longer remember our dreams these days.

We went through a period of time where we could remember them vividly. We were even occasionally able to lucid dream.

Those days are long since past.

Perhaps it's for the best.

#MorningThoughts #SleepyCattenLore #sleeping #dreaming

Toasted fruit loaf, where fruit contains fructose, is clearly fructoast.

#MorningThoughts #ErrantThoughtsOfAnUnhingedMind

I'm wondering how many "blind spots" I have in the city I have lived in all my life. I've just read an article about a really big historical building which I have never been in nor even seen or knew about.
I looked at the map and I've been around it many many times, but always a block or two away, so I've never seen it because of other buildings in the line of sight. And it's even funnier because there's a whole subway station named after it, but the building itself is not directly at it and I always thought that it's just a historical name based on something that used to be there, not that it's actually still there.

#til #morningthoughts

If bees in a hive are acting mischievous¹, does that mean that they're mis-bee-hiving? 🐝🤭

#MorningThoughts #IrreverentHumour #MisBeeHiving #NotTheBees!!!

¹ We are using the standard version of the word, rather than the alternate, nonstandard form

Possibly hot take: The Giving Tree is a book with an absolutely terrible message that encourages people to totally neglect their own wants and needs, destroying themselves in order to serve everyone else.

#morningthoughts

We wonder if guys who don't like taking painkillers for toxic masculinity reasons (rather than valid other ones) could be persuaded to take a basic NSAID if it were branded Guybuprofen? 🤔

#MorningThoughts

People who live in stone houses should not throw glass. In general, throwing things inside of houses is a very bad idea. #morningThoughts #houses #saying #aphorism

You know you're not sufficiently-awake yet when you misread "cooking spray" as "choking spray" 😅

#MorningThoughts

Half-Baked Idea:

Giving players the option to reskin ability names for their D&D player character.

e.g., renaming Wisdom to Empathy for a PC whose "wisdom" manifests as empathy for those around them

No mechanical changes: just a personalised reskin for flavour and to increase engagement / connection to PCs.

This thought brought to you by the desire we had (years before Sam Riegel created FCG and the Empathy domain Cleric) to one day create a class/subclass akin to the Celestial powers from Champions Online.

#HalfBakedIdea #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD5E #MorningThoughts

Songs that have played in our head so far this morning (in chronological order):

• Catatonia - Don't Need The Sunshine
• Alanis Morissette - Everything
• Parry Gripp - Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom
• Radiohead - Creep (Acoustic)

It's a strange place, our head, sometimes 😅

#MorningThoughts #MorningSongs

On a recent Sad Boyz podcast about Gen-Z getting older and coming to terms with that, I commented that I am basically "hyper-unc" and then I learned that "unc" has essentially been appropriated from AAVE and now I hope I wasn't being insensitive or rude #morningthoughts

Wonder how many folks have been tempted to make a mobile (M) device specific variant of BSD or FreeBSD, knowing full well that others would misread BSDM as a similar initialism with a very different meaning 🤭

#MorningThoughts

First song that popped into our mind this morning was A Design For Life by the Manic Street Preachers.

Perfectly-reasonable song to think of first thing on a dreary, bleak Monday morning 😅

To quote from SmallishBeans' recent Hermitcraft videos:

Everything is normal
Everything is fine

Full song lyrics here for any who want / need them 🎶

To this day, we still misparse a tonne of the song, despite knowing the lyrics, especially whenever "for" is sung across 2 syllables (!!!), which sounds like "for her".

#MorningThoughts #ADesignForLife

For many years, we thought that "meme" was pronounced like the French word "même".

#MorningThoughts #SleepyCattenLore

In the past, we jokingly sang (badly) along to -- or otherwise referenced in conversation -- the following:

🎵 What does the fox say? 🎵

We now have a foxgirl headmate (Hannah).

We guess part of us already knew what a fox says, or otherwise really, really wanted to know 🤭

She says a lot of things, often. Love that about her 🥰

#MorningThoughts #plurality #plural #PluralThoughts #headmate

In the past, we jokingly sang (badly) along to -- or otherwise referenced in conversation -- the following:

🎵 What does the fox say? 🎵

We now have a foxgirl headmate (Hannah).

We guess part of us already knew what a fox says, or otherwise really, really wanted to know 🤭

She says a lot of things, often. Love that about her 🥰

#MorningThoughts #plurality #plural #PluralThoughts #headmate

In the past, we jokingly sang (badly) along to -- or otherwise referenced in conversation -- the following:

🎵 What does the fox say? 🎵

We now have a foxgirl headmate (Hannah).

We guess part of us already knew what a fox says, or otherwise really, really wanted to know 🤭

She says a lot of things, often. Love that about her 🥰

#MorningThoughts #plurality #plural #PluralThoughts #headmate

In the past, we jokingly sang (badly) along to -- or otherwise referenced in conversation -- the following:

🎵 What does the fox say? 🎵

We now have a foxgirl headmate (Hannah).

We guess part of us already knew what a fox says, or otherwise really, really wanted to know 🤭

She says a lot of things, often. Love that about her 🥰

#MorningThoughts #plurality #plural #PluralThoughts #headmate

In the past, we jokingly sang (badly) along to -- or otherwise referenced in conversation -- the following:

🎵 What does the fox say? 🎵

We now have a foxgirl headmate (Hannah).

We guess part of us already knew what a fox says, or otherwise really, really wanted to know 🤭

She says a lot of things, often. Love that about her 🥰

#MorningThoughts #plurality #plural #PluralThoughts #headmate

Yesterday, my daughter said that the whine of the 46-inch Behemoth CRT was “so loud”.

If you are not aware, CRTs running at standard definition NTSC refresh rates generate a distinctive hum at 15.734kHz due to vibrations in the deflection coils and flyback transformer. Most adults lose the ability to hear frequencies that high as they age, but younger folks can usually hear it. I know I certainly did.

What’s funny is that sound was ubiquitous throughout my childhood, to the extent that I (and most other kids of my generation) tuned it out. In a way it was a sort of superpower, being able to tell if a television was on nearby. And coincidentally, the world shifted to LCDs right around the time I got old enough for my ability to hear that frequency to fade.

Of course nowadays I have mild tinnitus taking the place of that familiar whine. I tune that out too. 😅

#morningthoughts #RetroGaming #crtgaming

Used to be very stressed when driving in the morning to work and stuck in the traffic jam...
Nowdays I drove my wife to work every morning (40-50 min. in one way) and I'm unexpectedly calm.... I know, we are in time and we will arrive 30 min. earlier every day, and then I still have so much time to get home or to the office before I have to work...
So I'm chilling in the traffic jam, listening great music, and just enjoying life.

Of course the new car helps, I can take all the route electric.

#morningthoughts #driving #trafficjam #rav4

Whenever someone (usually neurospicy, plural, trans+ fem, and therian) writes about Rust, we find ourselves unclear whether they mean:

• Rust (programming language)
• Rust (video game)

:AutismInfinitySymbol: :ADHD_Butterfly: :PluralPrideRingsSymbol: :TransFemHeart: :TherianThetaDeltaSymbol:

Not just that, but considering some of y'all live somewhere auf Deutschland, it's technically possible that you're posting about Rust whilst playing Rust from Rust in Baden-Württemberg!!!

#MorningThoughts #Rust #disambiguation #CitationRequired

#MorningThoughts

• Rare Smurf hypothesis
• Panspermatogenesis
• The GTA wasted overlay, but the text reads snoozed and it shows somebody reaching out to snooze their phone alarm
• Misreading pregabalin as pregnaballsin

#WhyAreWeLikeThis?! #WeHaventEvenTakenOurLisdexYetWeveJustBeenAwakeForLike90Mins #ErrantThoughts #snooze

You can't have velocity without a French bike in a large English town 🇫🇷🚲

#MorningThoughts #IrreverentMusings #AwfulPun

*Idea"

Hyperfocus, but it can be engaged or disengaged at will like an impulse or warp drive in Star Trek.

Also, the speed is adjustable and max speed varies individually per the ship (person / system).

#MorningThoughts #StealThisIdea

*Idea"

Hyperfocus, but it can be engaged or disengaged at will like an impulse or warp drive in Star Trek.

Also, the speed is adjustable and max speed varies individually per the ship (person / system).

#MorningThoughts #StealThisIdea

*Idea"

Hyperfocus, but it can be engaged or disengaged at will like an impulse or warp drive in Star Trek.

Also, the speed is adjustable and max speed varies individually per the ship (person / system).

#MorningThoughts #StealThisIdea

*Idea"

Hyperfocus, but it can be engaged or disengaged at will like an impulse or warp drive in Star Trek.

Also, the speed is adjustable and max speed varies individually per the ship (person / system).

#MorningThoughts #StealThisIdea

*Idea"

Hyperfocus, but it can be engaged or disengaged at will like an impulse or warp drive in Star Trek.

Also, the speed is adjustable and max speed varies individually per the ship (person / system).

#MorningThoughts #StealThisIdea

cispect
adjective

someone who says that they're cis, but gives off unhatched trans+ egg vibes.

See also: trans prime directive

#MorningThoughts #IrreverentHumour #DoNotActuallyUseThisAsARealWordLOL

Word concept:
bunnyification / lapinification

Meaning:
Make something more bunny

Example:
GNU would become BNU (Bunny's Not Unix)

Notes:
Couldn't use lapinisation / lapinization or lapinise / lapinize, as those are existing words with entirely different meanings 😅

#StealThisIdea #GNU #BNU #bunnyification #lapinification #bunny #MorningThoughts

Word concept:
bunnyification / lapinification

Meaning:
Make something more bunny

Example:
GNU would become BNU (Bunny's Not Unix)

Notes:
Couldn't use lapinisation / lapinization or lapinise / lapinize, as those are existing words with entirely different meanings 😅

#StealThisIdea #GNU #BNU #bunnyification #lapinification #bunny #MorningThoughts

Word concept:
bunnyification / lapinification

Meaning:
Make something more bunny

Example:
GNU would become BNU (Bunny's Not Unix)

Notes:
Couldn't use lapinisation / lapinization or lapinise / lapinize, as those are existing words with entirely different meanings 😅

#StealThisIdea #GNU #BNU #bunnyification #lapinification #bunny #MorningThoughts

Word concept:
bunnyification / lapinification

Meaning:
Make something more bunny

Example:
GNU would become BNU (Bunny's Not Unix)

Notes:
Couldn't use lapinisation / lapinization or lapinise / lapinize, as those are existing words with entirely different meanings 😅

#StealThisIdea #GNU #BNU #bunnyification #lapinification #bunny #MorningThoughts