“Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else. There may be details that are different, but a human being is a human being."

Source: Interview: Maya Angelou with The New York Public Library, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-how-libraries-c_b_775980

Author and poet Maya Angelou on how libraries changed her life:

"All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open..."

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I'm so angry.

We go to doctors, to psychologists, to therapists. We ask questions. We google things. We talk to friends. We look for causes.

And it’s happenstance when we find an answer…..it’s unacceptable.

https://weowls.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/holyshithormones-affect-adhd/

Do you know of a calendar system (like Google calendar) that lets you customize appointment/category colors SPECIFICALLY, by hex color?

Nothing Microsoft, please. Asking legit for a friend.

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!

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.)