ADHD? No, you misunderstand.
I have *a* DHD.
It's a very important distinction.
new years resolution 2025: do something they can't control or understand
See, "be ungovernable" takes on many forms.
I worked at a company that didn't have asphalt where we worked out in the loading dock area - just a lot of rock and gravel. This area also went out further to what we called the "north lot" where we had steel pipe. One day I was bored and had a black Sharpie and picked up a smooth, palm-sized rock and wrote a number (don't remember what now). I'd do this during slow times or on break. Some single digit, some in the millions and in-between.
Didn't think anything of it. But people started to notice. Someone would stop and pick up a rock and say, "What the hell?"
One day at an employer/employee meeting, one of the supervisors walked in with one of the owners, and they had a bucket full of numbered rocks. "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! IF YOU GUYS HAVE TIME TO DO THIS THEN WE NEED TO GIVE YOU MORE WORK! WHOEVER IS DOING THIS, WE'LL FIND OUT AND YOUR ASS IS FIRED!"
No one knew it was me. I quit doing it because I didn't want guys getting more work due to my fun. Worked there about 10 years, and became a foreman. I got fed up with the owners giving workers more work but no raises, and eventually quit.
The owner begged me to stay because I knew a lot of things and always got jobs done ahead of schedule, but I told him these guys deserved more pay. He said, "These dudes only work hard because you are a good foreman. They used to be lazy asses that walked around numbering rocks, remember?"
I looked him in the eye and asked him if he thought I was a lazy ass. "Well, no! That's why I want you to stay!"
I said, "Ted, there was only one lazy ass writing on those rocks and it was me. Those guys out there have always worked hard and deserve to be treated better. You are a rich man and are that way because your crews do good work and deliver but you're too damned selfish to part with a few more bucks to pay them what they are worth. Goodbye." His jaw was on the floor.
A few weeks later, one of my buddies from the company bumped into me and asked me what I'd said to the owner. I said 'Not much. Why?'
"Dude, he gave us all a big raise and gives us more break times. He even apologized to us at a meeting for how he'd been kinda shitty to us at times."
I was like, 'Well, cool. Glad to hear things are better.'
Sometimes you make a difference when you rebel.
i often think back to the time in 2012 i was staying at my great-aunts empty house (it sounds fancy but it was actually a piece of shit) (while my mom secured an apartment and a job in our dream town)
i had access to internet once a week or less, when my aunt visited and brought her mobile hotspot
i think about it a lot because it was one of the last times i didn't have internet constantly and you know what?
i got SO. MUCH. DONE.
i baked all the time. i wrote a knitting pattern. i made a cute 10th doctor doll and tardis bag. i organized my whole computer. i read books. i watched dvd movies from netflix. i took a lot of walks. i wrote stories. i talked on the phone. i worked out problems and created new things without having google to turn to.
the internet is a great tool but i also think it can stifle creativity and shorten your attention span and i wish it was easier to take breaks from it. but its also a different time, so...
me as a writer
just putting it out there, but-
you don't need "a whole story around it" for it to be a work of art
I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do, and I am glad about software that lets me control it and opt in and out, and I dictated this rant on insta so I am resharing the images here and will attempt to turn this into a useful text post on my blog in future, when my hand is working better 🤘👍
Here's the website for the app I'm getting so much good use out of: https://opencamera.org.uk/
And here's a big dump of photos from it!
and here's an example of exactly how much this means to me -- I've been really feeling like I'm terrible at photographing my own work, especially watercolour, and i can't seem to really capture what makes a painting special in person.
here's some examples of my attempts to photograph this sketchbook painting using the native camera app on my phone:
it's grainy, blotchy, the colours feel off, the contrast is too much... it really doesn't capture what's on paper in front of me!
so then i try with the processing turned off in Open Camera:
it's fucking night and day!
A clearer comparison for you:
jesus fucking christ what a game changer!
cc: @petermorwood (per previous discussions)
All k9 dogs are abused hands down if you post any pro k9 stuff on my dash you’re unfollowed I don’t care if we’ve been mutuals for years, you can claim to be anti-cop or a leftist or whatever but if you post k9 dogs with like “a good doggo! A good boy!” fuck off, if I lose followers over this then good riddance
It’s ALSO worth saying that police dogs serve a significant role in worsening police brutality. A dog trained to attack a human will maim them. A cop looses a police dog on someone, and that person is expected to peacefully cooperate while a dog is trying to tear their limbs off. It is very easy for those massive wounds to get infected. It is an absurd amount of violence. And beyond the initial attack, the fact that a “poor sweet innocent doggo” did this is used to excuse that brutality in court. Especially if the victim, panicking in the moment, lashed out at the dog. As this website has demonstrated many times, majority-white juries have more sympathies for injured dogs than the people of color who are most often victims of police brutality. So they’re not just systemic animal abuse, they’re also a tool for increased police brutality and to excuse
So I am currently knitting the Magical Flying Husband a tube scarf. I like tube scarves, they are thick and warm and soft and flexible. And this one's coming out fairly prettily, too! But I have never made one before, and I am thinking, well, I made this one pretty wide--a solid eight inches across, because I want him to be able to wrap it across his head if necessary and those four-inch-wide trendy tube scarves can't even cover your ears right. So I think, I will Ask the Internet what their opinion is on the perfect length for a tube scarf, and I will make any necessary adjustments from there in light of the width.
And the first result is a useful forum post, and the second result is a useful-ish Reddit post, and the third response is a little spreadsheet, and the fourth response...
the fourth response is this
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALTI would argue that this is not a scarf
Also I am concerned by the possibility that the smiling human head is there to entice actual mammals closer to the Tube
I maintain that you’re all feral about getting Hunger Pangs into your local libraries.
Libby/overdrive just informed me of 44 digital sales in December alone. Thank you 💖
It turns out that, rather than space orcs, humans are more like space cats. We believe ourselves to be the best species in the galaxy when we actually are taken care of by more advanced aliens while doing little more than be adorable and destroy local wildlife when left to our own devices.
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