@danialexis May all the saints, angels, and little fey half-bird-half-elf people bless you. This is good advice.

I posted a GIF with a message here a few minutes ago, and Counter.Social automatically put up a VERY reasonable case for supporting them. So I am now, on Patreon.

Well done with the messaging, CoSo!

@danialexis Which feels VERY supportive! But also a touch confusing. (Is working "texting my ex"? Is...not working, doing that?)

I love a supportive bathroom stranger tho...

@iamwill1w9 [looks, bewildered, out into space]

How do we...DO things??

You know, as long as we're talking, I may as well tell you all that this was the HARDEST holiday I think I've ever, ever-ever had. (Because death in the family this year, my brother.)

Like, "acute depression" bad. (And also - apparently I can't help myself - I must say that I'm no danger to myself or others. It just sucks horribly, is all.)

I absolutely recognize it's a privileged position to be in.

I also recognize how HUGE of a blessing-and-a-curse this is for my ADHD brain.

I'm just saying. Because saying feelings is validating as all heckity.

Hi there, and welcome to this week's episode of:

"I own a business and the only one who will make it move forward is me, but I DO set my own hours and tasks, but I DO have this week marked "off" on my schedule, but..."

J&B made an amazing, touching, beautiful pro-#trans ad. And they're doing more.

TW: This will likely make you cry but in good ways.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVCsfCU/

Time to tighten down on masking again:

"The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron"

XBB [aka Gryphon] is getting a lot of buzz because it spreads fast—and seems to be able to evade immunity that people have built up from having a previous COVID-19 infection or getting the vaccine, says William Schaffner, M.D....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-fast-spreading-new-covid-19-subvariant-xbb-is-part-of-a-new-class-of-omicron/

I am losing the war against distractability.

I'm very grateful to Last Week Jen for figuring out the super important objectives and tasks, and putting those in Asana (a Kanban board thingy).

Thank you, Past Jen. I'd be lost without you.

What's this "current overall coso network sentiment" meter on my dashboard, and why is it full negative? @CoSoTips

Always read your NDAs before signing, kids.

And don't ever accept "That's just boilerplate. We don't enforce that." If it's written into a formal document that requires signing, it counts legally.

"We don't enforce that!"
"Great! It shouldn't be a problem to change it then!"

#ADHD workaround: In addition to lots of timers/alarms on the phone, using body doubling (see flown.com), and so on...

....when I'm trying to focus, I use a 'stack' list. These are all the things I want to run off and do, but I'm trying to focus on Task A.

I'm working on 1 task for the last 90 minutes. My stack of things-I-want-or-need-to-do is 21 items long.

These are things I'd lose sight of, and some of them are important. (Some are just impulses. Some are important to me. It's a mix.)

@merrillaldrich *waves*

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