I saw an ADHD influencer recommend wearing ear plugs in public to block out environmental noise to keep conversation directed at you still audible.

I get distracted in public when my ears pick up conversation around me - especially people who are fighting or gossiping and I find it very entertaining compared to the discussion I’m in - so this is something I’d like to try the next time I have a dinner out at a busy restaurant with others.

Editing to add: I just listened to about a minute of the femtanyl song you linked and I realized that I also get in the zone productive with some types of music in which I can’t understand the lyrics. I listen to a Pandora station built around Sigur Ros because I can’t understand the language lol

I am glad I left Texas when I did. The disgust I have for this entire ilk of people would have me choking on my bile 24 hours a day. My stomach is turning thinking that some people make a living or heaven forbid are prospering off augmenting the suffering of hundreds of thousands.

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I echo what others have said about this sounding like a control issue, but I want to check in with you about some relationship dynamics before jumping too firmly to that conclusion. You phrased your partner’s side as:

He’d like to know what I’m up to when not at work

Is he an introverted person who has a small social circle? Does he have a clingy attachment style in your relationship? Does he have this expectation for a check in when he isn’t traveling? Have you talked with him about your own communication style and/or how your ADHD manifests as time blindness, as you put it?

Just like a big brother to put his butt in the little brother’s face lol

Wow that’s pretty cool! I’m honored to be included!

I liked the episode!

But I was going into it with expectations that it was going to be kind of mid like the first season of Disenchanted. I was very pleasantly surprised that there was like a legitimate plot line, even though it was kind of silly. It seem like the same level of incredulous shenanigans that Futurama has always gotten itself into.

They’re catering to the fact that their core audience is getting older and harder to understand fast-paced speech lolol (said by one of those people who is starting to get old)

In the article, one source stated that their work has become more intense. This isn’t something I anticipated, but it seems the logical conclusion: if you utilize AI for all the easiest parts of your job, then all that remains are the hard parts, which now dominate your workday because you knocked out all the easy things quickly.

Gets me thinking about how I need some of the easy things to be a release valve for my workflow. I need the sense of accomplishment from those easier/smaller tasks to keep up my morale and energy for the larger projects.

What is it about this photo that makes me look at this cat’s face and instantly know it is indeed a bullshitter?

This reminds me of when I started a rewatch of King of the Hill when I was in graduate school for media analysis. It struck me that nearly every conflict in the first few seasons is based on insider/outsider identities. Sometimes Hank and other main characters learn and grow from it, but there are several times in which the Other is shouted down for just not getting it.

• Something with either Bobby or Luann gets the attention of the hippy dippy school counselor (characterized by really west coast or PNW sensibilities) who starts poking around in the home as a stand in for CPS trying to impose more modern approaches to child rearing: the outsider who gets shouted down at the end

• The new neighbor is Laotian and bickers with Hank until they find common ground: the outsider embraced

• Hank throws his back out and workers comp will only pay for yoga classes, to which Hank turns up his nose for being too different. Eventually his pain drives him to giving it a chance and he not only gets better but vehemently defends it afterward: the outsider embraced

• A Native American recurring character named John Redcorn is always received by Dale as just having such a mysterious and ancient mystical presence by virtue of being Native even though Dale and John Redcorn had the same kind of upbringing together: the outsider always held at arm’s length

• ETA: I almost forgot my favorite story line! Hank Hill learns about growers co-ops promoting a natural food movement, which he associates with hippy dippy communism until he starts buying produce there and it’s so fresh and flavorful, Peggy Hill delivers my favorite punchline of all time. Hank becomes a convert and sees this as a return to the land for country folk and starts volunteering at the co-op: the outsider embraced

There are so many ways that this theme of the big city (usually in the form of white characters) or the racial minority (usually representing the larger world) encroaching on their little suburb of Arlen, Texas, is the source of conflict. I don’t think Mike Judge pulled that out of thin air.

Hi! I’m a magazine owner on kbin.social and ran into this same problem. I’m not sure if Lemmy and kbin have the same submission forms but I’m willing to try to help.

If you’re open to it, you can direct message me and maybe we can set up a quick screen share on discord or zoom?

Possibly dumb question, but are you u/PoppinKream???

Thanks for stepping up! I took over modding for a large and potentially contentious subject matter, so I relate to jumping in head first with establishing some rules. I actually first out up a mod post asking for what the community wanted out of the space, then another mod on the team compiled the responses. Our team is now debating with more nuance the presentation of those community rules, but it was very important to me that the rules were co-created by the community and the mods.

Anyway, all that to say welcome and thanks for stepping up.

I see you have a plan for pulling in from Mastadon, which I’m both fairly ignorant of and also not interested in using because Twitter-like formats seem to me to be a place to disseminate information to a wide opt-in audience whereas forum structures (like threads in kbin/Lemmy) seem to be where dialogue and community building can happen.

You sound a lot more experienced about the Fediverse than I feel. Can you speak to any vision you have about getting higher user engagement for this community in the threads (not microblog)? My m/sub feed already doesn’t even show the craft communities I’m subscribed to for whatever reason - I’ve assumed because of trickling thread/photo/link submissions.

There is a single user who is posting dozens of times a day in my magazine (for which I am a moderator). Another mod on my team has raised the alarm about the user, like surely they’re going through a personal crisis to be so terminally online and posting so frequently.

I’m realizing now they might be a bot. The sources of articles are varied, and quality of article is like 30/70 serious/bullshit. The user occasionally comments on the submissions and I’m realizing the comments are generic rabble rousing instead of being complex language or referencing complex details from the articles shared.

Could anyone speak more to how to identify bot accounts? Many thanks!

This looks like you purled that first row with the black yarn instead of knit it.

If you feel brave you can ladder down and use a crochet hook to reknit that singular column of stitches. It is relatively easy to do but very intimidating at first, especially with colorwork like this.

I really like tutorials by Roxanne Richardson, who I believe is a master knitter. Here is how she explains the ladder down method.

Otherwise you already know … Frog it.

This project almost broke my hands because the twisted stitches on such a small gauge has a lot of tension. I also never really grokked the pattern in terms of the cabling, so I had to meticulously track each line of the pattern up until maybe the next to last repeat of the pattern.

If this helps, let me tell you where I first got tripped up in this pattern: this sock is worked like a front panel (shin side) and back panel (calf side), but worked in the round like a 3D printer. So when you first come to the end of the cabling motif, you’ve finished the shin panel; now repeat the same motif to finish the calf panel. When you’ve gone through all the rows of the motif, you’ll have very clear borders separating the front from the back. The cabling does not circle the leg.

Hope that helps!

Not sure if the flash adds anything but here’s a second photo of the pattern.

@badtooth

I’m also wondering if portioning isn’t also at play here with ultra processed foods.

For a snack, I might eat a bag of baked potato chips (pulling this from the above quoted article) or apple slices. I think for many people, it’s natural to eat the whole portion in front of you, even past the feeling of satiated (not to be confused with the feeling of being full). Like, I don’t know many people who throw away a bag of chips with just 2 chips left in it. So even if the flavoring of the chips is no longer even appealing to me (I got just enough saltiness fix), I’m likely to finish the bag because it seems weird to “waste” those last 2 chips. And now, I’ve consumed an extra 15+ calories that I didn’t even enjoy. Compare to an apple for which, even if I’m kind of sick of it but still feel compelled to eat the whole thing, may be an extra +2 calories.

Multiply over multiple snacks per week.

I say this in jest: but as someone who has run the gamut between elaborate home cooking and “fuck it, it’s frozen pizza night” I can’t help but laugh that people who eat unprocessed meals eat more slowly. I’ve often realized I can’t scarf down my delicious home cooked meal in 10 minutes since it took me 90+ minutes to make it! Just wouldn’t be right!