Okay. Time to start again.

Thinking this morning about patterns of thought I fall into. Hyperbole. Bizarre/rapid-fire humor. Attention-seeking. Hypomania/depression. And, yes, various kinks. They all have one connecting thread: rapid, efficient generation of endorphins.

This is a post about ADHD.
#adhd #adhdlife

When you “assume” you make an “ass” out of “ume,” a species of fruit-bearing tree in the genus Prunus

I’ve been gone for a while, what did I miss?

Oh wait, I can’t tell, because Bluesky jumps to the top of my feed every time it refreshes!

I don’t know how y’all use this site when their UX is so horrible. Mastodon and Twitter — TWITTER — follow better HCI practices. That’s just sad.

#ux #uxfail

And for those wondering what "Batman's Aff His Nut" sounds like in a proper Glaswegian accent, here's Robert Florence, who penned it, reciting it over a Batman teaser...

And this, by Robert Florence, will never not be my favourite poem about Batman…

My wife has recently gotten *really* into makeup, and I still get Jeffree Star (racist), Patrick Starrr (human), and Patrick Star (starfish) confused regularly

Fine, no CW then.
I finished the indie adult kinetic novel “Opportunity” today. And before you accuse me of being “horny on main”, I have to say the writing, art, and diverse queer and racial representation was *phenomenal*. It is surprisingly wholesome and touching in parts.

Wait, wtf, Bluesky content warnings are only allowed if you have attached media? Are you kidding me right now?

Good lord, Mastodon is *miles* ahead in terms of user experience.

I only learned after their shutdown that Cohost had the option of separately seeing how many unread posts were waiting from each of the people you were following, a la LiveJournal. If I had known that existed, I’d have been there *all the time*. That is IMO the best #ux for a social network.

For the love of god, #Bluesky, implement a “last-read post” bookmark for people’s feeds. Please. Twitter remembers where you last stopped reading, Mastodon does, but you refresh to the top of the feed every time, so I always miss *tons* of posts. This is some serious #uxfail here.

So I’ve had trouble getting into Bluesky for technical reasons. The lack of a native iPad app is a huge detriment, the web interface is lacking, and while a third-party app like Skeets is good, it’s clunky compared to Ivory for Mastodon.

Watching classic Doctor Who is like:

“Oh, this one is really good”
“This one is so-so”
“This one is… disturbingly racist”

If I ever told my kid to “shut the hell up” about anything I don’t think I’d be able to look at myself in the mirror for a week.

Vance thinks this makes him sound manly. But there’s nothing masculine about being casually cruel to a person whose wellbeing you’re charged with protecting.