#morningthoughts — Public Fediverse posts

You know what’s a great adjective? “Grimy.” #morningthoughts

The “sunk cost” fallacy applies to physical space taken up by unfinished projects, too

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I think a large amount of transphobia is rooted in deep homophobia and toxic masculinity and can be boiled down to “what if I find this person attractive and it turns out they have the wrong genitals, what does that make me”

Not _all_ transphobia is about that, to be sure, but I think it’s a primary factor.

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Is my predilection for collecting old computers and game systems merely a vain attempt to recapture the perceived simplicity of an earlier time? Forever lost to the arrow of entropy, if indeed it ever truly existed at all, rather than being a construct of faulty memories and tinted nostalgia.

#morningthoughts #retrocomputing #RetroGaming

Weather is a mixed bag of clouds, lots of humidity and some sun. It’s Admission Day holiday today in Hawai'i today. Sometimes it’s wild to remember that my father graduated high school a full two years before we became a state. #luckywelivehawaii #morningthoughts

For people who deal with chronic low self-esteem, the true threat of LLMs is the constant nagging fear that they _are_ better at you at doing the stuff you do, and you are now truly and utterly obsolete (whether or not that’s actually true)

Which is why it is extremely important that we separate our self-worth from our productivity, and find value in ourselves beyond raw output

#morningthoughts #neurodivergent #AuDHD #adhd

When you realize that life has no intrinsic meaning, you can either become a nihilist, or go down the extremely cliché but valid path of trying to make a meaning for yourself
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Good morning everyone! ☀️
Light emits heat, while darkness emits evil.

#MorningThoughts #Philosophy #LightAndDarkness #DailyInspiration

Thinking this morning about the relationship in my brain between “sex and/or porn” and “escape from reality”, and realizing that I have subconsciously conflated the two since, well, puberty

I think it’s a big reason why I simply could not comprehend asexual people for the longest time

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You know what’s a great word? “Inscrutable.”
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Good morning! It's Tuesday, toot the truth and only the truth shall set you free. Have an amazing day!

#TuesdayMotivation #Truth #Mastodon #MorningThoughts #DailyInspiration

I seek out perspectives that differ from my own because I realize that growing up white, cis, mostly-straight and male, in a suburban community, going to a Catholic school for eight years, probably gave me just a _bit_ skewed of a perspective. Not that this necessarily happened (entirely) on purpose or maliciously; many of my teachers and role models probably didn’t know better themselves.

I try to shut up and _listen_, even when it’s uncomfortable. (And it can get _damned_ uncomfortable sometimes.) I can empathize to an extent, having experienced difficulties with being undiagnosed #AuDHD, but I recognize there are orders of magnitude of differences between my lived experience and those of marginalized groups.

Anyways, as an example, I recommend creators like Pillboy on YT (https://youtube.com/@studiopillboy). His witty, insightful videos are fantastic.

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In a life where I’ve always felt like I sailed through the basics of most fields of interest, and then hit a brick wall, while everyone around me took a slow and steady path from the start, ramping up more slowly, but skipping the wall altogether… here comes this thing that lets me scale the wall with ease. Except it isn’t actually me scaling the wall. It’s me directing something else as _it_ scales the wall for me, and then keeps going.

But I still get dopamine from it: not from accomplishment, but from feelings of power and control. And it arrives faster than it would if I struggled and tried and failed and learned myself. It is _addictive_. Maybe just to me, maybe to some #adhd / #AuDHD brains in general, but it is.

And now we have nearly every employer out there demanding that we use this addictive tool or end up unemployed.

It isn’t like the dot-com bubble. It’s so, so much worse.

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I don’t want everything to be done for me.
I _do_ want everything to be done for me.
Both of these things are true at the same time.
This was true before the latest techbro craze.
It is true now.

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Predictions for the next century of civilization as the climate warms:

* More living underground to take advantage of cooler air; possible tunnel networks in places where the geography allows for it
* Far more night-owls working during the night and sleeping (underground) during the day
* Mass migration away from coasts and towards large freshwater bodies (Great Lakes are about to get _extremely_ valuable)
* Land in northern Canada displaces existing farmland as arable land zone shifts northward; Canada overtakes US as global power as the former becomes largely desert while the latter becomes the new breadbasket of the planet

#morningthoughts #climatechange

This world needs business owners who legitimately care about their customers and their mission more than about maximizing profits. Who are more concerned with long-term stability, legacy, and reputation over short-term growth and resource extraction.

It is my understanding that these sorts of business leaders actually did exist once. I don’t know if that’s true; history is written by the victors, after all. But I do know that some brands once stood for something, and some companies actually cared about the wellbeing of their workers, at least to an extent.

We’ve seen such a race to the bottom over the past forty years that it’s hard to imagine such a world. I don’t know if such a thing is possible again. (Or if it was ever truly as prevalent as it seems it was, looking back.) But there has to be a way for us to bring trust and reputation back as a consumer guideline. There just has to be.

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#MorningThoughts. How many of us are using lip-reading as part of our hearing what other people are saying?

I learned during COVID with the masking that I was picking up a lot of conversation from lip reading rather than only hearing.

How about you?

#typewriter #typedPage #typeThoughts #morningThoughts

#typed #typewriter #typedThoughts #morningThoughts #SearsCitation #SCMgalaxie #typing #writing

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.

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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”
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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.

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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.)

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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

#MorningThoughts: If healing is a sign of civilization, as anthropologist Margaret Mead said, what is taking away healthcare a sign of? #HealthcareNotWarfare

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

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

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

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