Huh. It seems obvious now you explain it, but I never thought about it that way (as a short sighted, average height woman). Thanks for clarifying.

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I use a wheelchair part time, and it’s unbelievable how much starting using one can help when you’re partially ambulatory. I find it funny how able bodied people use phrases like “wheelchair bound”, which perpetuates this idea of wheelchairs being like prisons, but at least for me and a few people I know, finally getting a wheelchair was hugely freeing.

Password Manager. I use Bitwarden, which is open source and free.

It’s probably the single most significant quality of life upgrade I’ve had since I started on ADHD meds 5 years ago. I wish I had started using one sooner.

I agree, the rhetoric feels pretty iffy.

The framing of “you are an alcoholic, and that’s what you will always be, even long after you no longer have a drinking problem” always sat poorly with me. I generally have a super addictive personality, so whilst I’ve never had substance use issues that have required me quitting something entirely, but I do have to always be mindful because moderation just isn’t something that comes naturally to me. I’ve seen a lot of people like me who have issues with alcohol or other drugs who cycle round onto a new substance to abuse, and I think that the hard binary that sobriety culture presents exacerbates that.

Congrats on your progress. What you describe about the little disruptions (like not walking the dog) really resonates with me. Sometimes giving the arrangement of one’s life a little jiggle can be invaluable for solving inertia

Thanks for the update, OP.

Bonus tip:

A distinction that I often find useful is that “simple” is not the same sad “easy”. Biggest example of this for me was when I needed to go no contact with a family member; despite knowing that it was what I needed to do, it took me a while to muster the strength to do what was necessary — it was simple, but not easy.

Another manifestation of “why didn’t I do this sooner” is when a solution is easy to implement, but it took a while to figure out what to do — this applies in complex situations, or ones where I have made past attempts that have failed, and I need to work smarter, not harder.

Both of these problem shapes benefit from the motivational interviewing technique described above. I think whenever we’re thinking about ways to improve ourselves, it can be easy to slip into a pattern of being unkind to yourself. Some things take time and that’s okay, because it needs to be — you can’t bullying yourself into change.

Oh dang, looks like Ventoy would be super useful for me, especially as it looks like it supports windows ISOs

A good friend recently had a child; she’s the first person in my immediate circle who has had so far. I’m really looking forward to conversations like this when her son is old enough to have conversations

Pretty sure Gen Z

I’m on the cusp of genZ and Millennial, but I feel much more Millennial. I speculate that this is because of how I related to technology growing up.

I’d be interested to hear from anyone who is like me, on the cusp, but feels gen Z rather than Millennial, and why

Neat site!

Regex feels distinctly eldritch to me. Like, a lot of computing knowledge feels like magic, but regex feels like the kind of magic you get by consorting with dark forces

Do you enjoy it?

There are 650 seats in total. 326 seats are therefore needed for a parliamentary majority. Labour are predicted to get around 410 seats, which would give them a majority of 84 seats (a huge majority). The 170 figure is how many seats they have gained this election. i.e. in 2019, they got 240, I think (410 - 170)

I agree, this is important to emphasise. I don’t want to ever slip into the mindset of dehumanising Trump in the same way that him and his allies dehumanise people like me, because I think that drive to so thoroughly otherize political opponents is a key driver of fascistic thinking. Having empathy for people like Trump (and those that follow him) doesn’t excuse their actions or beliefs, but I think it’s important

I pronounce kilo more with an ee sound, like keylo, so I read it as skeelometre, which sounds really funny, like I’m doing a bad impression of an eastern European accent

What happened to Colin the Caterpillar?

Oooh, I like it (Link for anyone else who’s curious)

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