Today I visited American Science and Surplus, which can best be described as “neurodivergence as a shop”. They sell stuff ranging from chemistry glassware to electronics odds and ends, camping gear to novelty toys. You need ball bearings? Vintage analogue meters? Gaffer’s tape? They got it.
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 12:00:04 JST Gregly -
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 02:06:13 JST Gregly The thing is, it IS possible to find that middle ground and manage things… to an extent. You’ll probably never be as “put together”as a neurotypical person, and it will be much harder for you than for them, and they very well might not understand why. But you can get by, and some people manage to thrive despite the difficulty.
I know it feels so hard. I know you just want to sleep, or hide. But don’t give up. You’re worth it. #adhd #neurodivergent #neurodiversity
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 02:05:41 JST Gregly It is astonishing how quickly stuff can pile up: junk, dishes, laundry, trash… debt… as people with ADHD we are told not to sweat the small stuff, but if we do that we forget about the small stuff, and then it becomes big stuff. And if we *do* focus on the small stuff, it’s easy for it to feel overwhelming and never-ending and anxiety-inducing, making us paranoid and miserable.
Finding a middle ground is so, so hard to do.
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 12:33:28 JST Gregly @Urban_Hermit @pseudonym And yet, somehow, if I send a letter to a creditor saying “by reading this letter, you hereby renounce all debts, past, present, and future, owed by the sender to you, irrevocably, in perpetuity,” somehow that doesn’t count!
It’s almost like there’s one set of rules for giant corporations, and another for the rest of us. How odd. 🤔
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 00:38:18 JST Gregly @ryanhoulihan I’m afraid the best I can do is boost this — we had major layoffs at the start of this year, and are operating on a razor-thin budget until things improve. I really hope things look up for you soon!
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 18:16:49 JST Gregly @lauren @dangillmor OTA plus TiVos was honestly so wonderful compared to what the streaming landscape has become.
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 02:04:20 JST Gregly Apple’s “support” of right-to-repair is the textbook definition of “malicious compliance”
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 04:52:36 JST Gregly @misty I’ve had the opposite problem recently; I’ve been porting our entire codebase over from Ruby 2.7 to Ruby 3.1, running into tests that are failing, figuring out why it’s failing, and then being baffled as to how the test has *ever* passed because it doesn’t look like it should have.
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Gregly (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 04:14:29 JST Gregly It just occurred to me that the #InternetArchive is basically the only thing holding back the persistent bit rot that’s destroying the history of the net… so naturally enormous corporations are attempting to destroy them.
Also, one goal of the push towards ubiquitous cloud computing and the War Against General Computing is to watch every single thing we do, and destroy our ability to copy and spread whatever we feel like, instead of what the corporations decide we are “permitted” to partake in.