Ada

There is some sort of bug in pixelfed. Normally, you don’t see posts unless they have an image, but for some reason, you can see posts that someone else boosts even if it doesn’t have an image. That’s how most non photo political stuff snuck through to my timeline. You can get around it by hiding boosts from people you follow who boost the content you don’t want to see.

I set them to close automatically after 24 hours, because I have having more tabs open than I can track. I explicitly don’t use them as “read later” bookmarks.

Every planetoid from about a third of the mass of the moon upwards is going to be ovoid rather than flat, because of the impact of its own gravity on its shape.

The way I described dex is that it helped me stay on task, but did absolutely nothing to help me start a task

Gifted student, never studied, until it all fell apart in university. Aphantasia, no internal monologue. Multiple rounds with doctors, insisting on prescribing anti anxiety meds, despite not experiencing anxiety. Getting dropped by doctors, and having to repeat the whole process again… Prescribed a pure dex based medication, which helped, but also didn’t…

The only places our stories really diverge is that I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and I still haven’t had any luck getting a medication that works for me…

Lengualytics is a really good tool for comprehensible input in any language. Basically it’s a collection of comprehensible input videos found and submitted by other users, and ranked according to language, dialect and difficulty level.

Tell them they’re so fun, you want to pay them to be your penpal, and you’ll send them a picture of $50

Yep, very familiar :)

I have aphantasia!

I learned (am learning) Spanish later in life and it has actually been quite interesting because of this. I have aphantasia, so no mental images either, and I’ve always described my thinking and thoughts as being about the concepts and ideas of words, with the words something that I can summon if I need to.

And learning Spanish via translation and memorisation was really painful, and honestly, not enjoyable. I eventually stumbled across the comprehensible input method, which doesn’t try and translate your target language to another language. It just builds up from scratch, you learn from simple words and sentences, with strong visual support and repetition etc, getting more complex the more exposure to the language you get. And this method clicked with me. I’m only at B1 or so with Spanish, but I can listen to a native speaker and understand them, but if you asked me what they said, I would have to then convert what I heard to English after the fact.

I’ve often said that it worked because both English and Spanish attach words to the behind the scenes concepts, and I’m mapping to that.

Yep, you got me! That must be exactly what it means!

This analogy started to feel particularly accurate for my own experience when I started learning a second language. I realised that I wasn’t learning what one word meant in another language, but instead, attaching the two words to a deeper idea/concept. It means that I’d often understand what I was hearing, but even when I was listening in my new language, I didn’t automatically have the translation to my native language (English).

And my thoughts/internal experience is like that. I can pull the words out to describe the thing, but the actual thought itself, the concept that I’m using the word to describe is where I would say my thoughts naturally sit

I’d say that’s a pretty reasonable summary. I mean, I can think about the future and the past of course, and I can stress about them both too, but none of that takes the form of a dialogue, nor does it have any sense of participants. There’s just my thoughts, in the moment, about the future and what might happen.

I don’t have one…

Curly hair is great for people that love beauty routines and self care sessions!

It’s not so great for people who don’t

It’s because if I just ignore my hair, it turns to knotty frizz that takes hours to deknot. And I can’t brush my hair unless I’m in the shower washing it. Which means I have to wash it 2 or 3 times a week. And every time I wash it, I can’t dry it with a towel. I have to either use a hair dryer for 20 minutes, or wear a towel on my head for an hour, and then let it air dry for another 30 minutes or so after that.

I don’t do skin care, I don’t do makeup, I don’t do my nails, yet my fucking hair… My skin, face and nails are fine despite me ignoring them. Sure, they might look better with a bit of attention, but they function just fine even when I don’t put any time in to them. But I have to have a routine for my hair, because the only other option is cutting it all off

That’s why I resent my hair.

Opting out and getting dull and scraggly as a result is the type of opting out I want

I’m one of those people with curly hair that hates it. I hate it, because I can’t opt out of dealing with it.

That out of the way, products for curly hair are designed to assist in caring for curly hair.

Products that are designed to straighten hair, or intensify curls will state that explicitly for all the ambiguous wording issues you’ve mentioned

I can only speak to Spanish, as I have Spanish at a B1 level. It would be a challenge for me to get through a full spanish novel. I could do it with a lot of patience, and taking my time to read and understand each sentence, but it would be a mentally draining experience.

However, reading a page or two a day as a method of gaining exposure would probably be quite manageable.

Other people prefer equatorial climates with lots of sun, humidity, and storms that rush in and rush out again.

This is me!

Different heritage, but very much considered black. Australia has a whole racist history that marginalises indigenous Australians explicitly on their blackness…