Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

a thing I wish someone had told me when I was younger is that if you feel like you don’t really have emotions, or like your emotions are extremely muted or understated, or like you don’t understand what emotions are supposed to be, you are exhibiting a symptom of cptsd or chronic depression (possibly motivated by untenable material conditions) and you should look for help with that. that goes for men just as much as anyone. if this started around puberty you might also have gender dysphoria.

@wmd
Maybe not exactly the same. But we are organising a big community event with several hundred people for the fourth year in a row now, which means hundreds of hours of unpaid, often dull work.
A really good "trick" is to induce something new and fascinating from time to time. Something that you really want, a cool new feature, or implement an idea that big parts of the community wish for, so you get good feedback. Getting nice feelings from your work is most of the magic.

The season of me being annoyed by my fairy lights taking 3 AA’s and my battery charger only being able to charge either 2 or 4 batteries at a time but not 3 or 6 is almost over

For your own mental health, if an app has a "streak", you should break it at least once a week as a habit.

The longer they get the more unnecessary stress it'll give you.

They use it to drive numbers and cash flow, it's absolutely not a good thing and doesn't benefit you at all.

#PSA

Drugs prescribed for ADHD, high blood pressure & underactive thyroid all impair our ability to regulate body temperature & cope with heat. Others (including St John’s Wort, not mentioned here) make us more sensitive to sun.

Keep cool & cover up, friends. @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-06/how-medication-impacts-heat-and-sun-sensitivity/103216122?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

antisemitism on fedi is endlessly frustrating for me as a Jewish fedi admin but it is extremely hard for me to find even a sliver of care for white passing, cis Jews who turn around and are transmisic, misogynistic, and racist when they (validly!) complain about antisemitism on here.

honey, I feel as unwelcome with you as I do with them.

this is why I detest the whole “tribe” thing sometimes. idk.

it’s so condescending to me when I’m having a conflict with a cis Jew over something like transmisia or misogyny and they see it as a “it’s just a fight within the tribe/family” type thing.

To cis Jews: goyische trans people are as much my “family” as you.

It’s complicated and nuanced, but I just get so angry seeing people who I can actually fully understand what they’re going thru re: antisemitism on fedi but then they are like completely trash when it comes to treating women, fems, and/or trans people with respect. It makes me just not even care what they’re going through, to a fault tbh.

#cyberpunk

#cyberpunk

Jealous of how cats can just like, flomp over and instantly snooze. Like no big deal. Boom. Nap time.

You know, for the difficulty level I’m playing life on, enemies should really be dropping better loot.

Friday positivity! 😷💖

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid19 #covid @novid

tbf if someone from mastodon recognised me I don't think it'd go like this. they'd shyly introduce themselves like "hi I'm Amy at shadowgecko.lizards.space but my username is currently '(massive stack of) French Toast In A Trench Coat'" and we'd stand there for 15 minutes cycling through all the avatars they've had over the past 6 months until I understood who they were