Must have eaten shit…

For medication, an alarm on my phone. For writing the tasks, it became an habit when I realized it would flush anxiety from my system to write what I just thought about doing and stop thinking about it. For remembering I need to do tasks, I put my whiteboard on a very obvious and accessible place and keep a pocket notebook and a pen in my pocket.

But mostly, it became an habit like reading emails or opening Lemmy, to just look at them and assess the time requirement to do them. When I am a few hours before a deadline, the pressure to do the task becomes clear and I hyperfocus on it until it’s done. Maybe not the most efficient way to work, but it worked for me!

It looks good, thanks!

Over the years, I adopted a few tools to help me manage what feels like “open drawers” in my head :

1. When a task I need to do spontaneously pop in my head and it’s not urgent, I write it on my whiteboard on my wall. If I’m not home, I quickly put it in my notes app. Then, and it’s the crucial trick, I forget about it. That way, I can focus on the task(s) at hand and just organize my future tasks later, instead of juggling with them all at once.
   This helped me compartimentalize a lot and I found myself being able to feel free during the day here and there and on most nights, instead of being a sack of anxiety 24/7.

2. When I consolidate my tasks, I use a card system like Trello. (I don’t recommend Trello specifically, it seems to have enshittified.) I keep it mostly pen-and-paper, but I’m sure there are some FOSS tools you can find that do just that.
   A card system was a revelation for me, being able to do a quick assessment of when a task is due and put it in the right column was a game changer. I’m the type to do everything at the last minute, so putting up little deadlines everywhere helped me do more.

3. This could not be helpful for you, but I take ADHD medication. The first one I tried for a few months, but it made me even more anxious. I then stopped taking anything, but decided after a year to try another molecule. This time, I found my dosage and it definitely worked.
   Before that, even with my calendar, tools, alarms and support system, there were weeks to months where I felt lost in thought, apathetic and disorganized. Now I can post a lengthy answer to a topic close to my heart without feeling like I’m not doing enough with my day.

Side tips :

• If I can break down a big task into smaller ones, I do that. That way, they never feel insurmontable. Plus, every few minutes I can cross something off my list and feel a motivation boost.
• If I just did something that wasn’t even on my list, I write it on the list and I immediately cross it off it. It tricks me into feeling like I did a lot, and it works even though I’m aware it’s a trick.

Good luck on the journey, I wish you the best!

I know you’re joking, but the spending went up when people stopped taking it, so the findings are pretty interesting, albeit not very surprising.

Child pornography (CP), also known as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and by more informal terms such as kiddie porn, is erotic material that involves or depicts persons under the designated age of majority.
[…]
Laws regarding child pornography generally include sexual images involving prepubescents, pubescent, or post-pubescent minors and computer-generated images that appear to involve them.
(Emphasis mine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography

She seems to be a very nice person, but to me, she had the weakest performances of almost anyone on the show. Could be a me problem, but the scenes with her always just broke my suspension of disbelief. The only thing worse was seeing Ed Sheeran…

Lol! This is gonna feel random, but what is your mother’s maiden name?

What was the name of your first pet?

And uh… where’s your bank? Lol I’m so random.

Future proofing the meme for the invasion of the US

So you’re telling me that if someone breaks your phone during a video recording or stop and delete the recording, they can just find this video on their cloud service? I genuinely didn’t know.

Does nothing for a phone that gets snatched mid-recording though

It’s a phishing email, the goal is just for the recipient to click on the harmful link, so this tactic could very well work.

Vance that says that the agent is sensitive about being rammed, like it would justify any bit of this. “Of course the rabid dog bit them to death, it’s rabid!”

I think it’s because we are used to software updating itself, not having to run the executable manually. I know it’s exactly the face I made when I first updated it lol

“Slavery is okay, as long as the slaves are treated well.”

Well if you ask me, I only use Chrome on my iPhone connected to Starlink to order from Amazon with my credit card, I’m basically a ghost.

I think what you’re feeling is very valid, and it’s good you feel it. A veterinarian once told me that cats typically prefer to have people around them disappear than being moved somewhere else. If it’s accurate, I would not stress too much about the cats at least. Also, if they travel in a pack, they have each other.

Don’t forget that wherever you’re going, you’re gonna do good for other living beings that will like you and you don’t even know it yet.

And enjoy the life of others! (see: username)

Same could be said of almost all platforms now, even the fediverse. You need to shape it how you want it. You can browse YT by your subscriptions only. I don’t see cat videos or Nazi propaganda.

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but it felt really small world to me.

I saw Anthony Bourdain on TV review a Bánh Mì restaurant in Vietnam and told myself I would eat there someday. Went to Vietnam, pretty much the first time I traveled ever. Went to the Banh Mí place. It was at night, there was a very long queue to get in, I waited in line and ordered. At the counter and on the walls, multiple snippets of newspapers and pictures of Bourdain with the staff and chefs. I sat down with my food, and as I started eating, I received a notification on my cellphone from my local news network at the other side of the world : Bourdain just killed himself.

It felt very surreal. I was looking at all these pictures with the feeling I knew something all these people didn’t yet.