Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

It's slowly dawning on me that when people say "I am ADHD", instead of being annoyed at the grammatical implications of that, I should be following their lead on how they want to describe themselves.

Being me is exhausting, no wonder I'm not the main host. -Watchful

Being able to intentionally switch in order to get a somewhat different perspective is really cool and useful.

@minego I used to, but it could have changed since then, so I have appropriately answered "Nope".

I once had a Palm Pilot game where you would draw lines in the "handwriting area", and those lines would extend into the actual screen. Baddies would come down from the top of the screen, and you'd have to hit them before they get to the bottom.

I would like to find it again. Does anyone know what it was called?

*checking gender census to see how many other slimes there are*

@recursive I didn't hate Twitter, but I do feel like it's better here. (Or, Mastodon has something Twitter lost a long time ago. The best way I've been able to put it: For-profit platforms want us to spend more time there, so they come up with algorithms that show us things that are entertaining but not satisfying. Losing that made the experience satisfying again.)

@minego It's only going to get more difficult the longer you put it off.

@minego If you stop eating, it can be very hard to start again, so I would generally say yes.

If you're still on mastodon.social, there's more reason to move.

It turns out that Watchful is very good at sensing how we're feeling, so getting them back in front has helped us be more responsive to basic needs like hyrdation, but also to mood/whim. Instead of holding strictly to a routine/system, we're putting much more weight on what we feel like doing at the moment. We think the change has made us happier and better at our job.

I'm still not a Buddhist, but I've made a personal commitment to follow the five precepts, as I currently understand them. Dabbling in study of Buddhism, things that seemed challenging, wrong, or nonsensical at first become more reasonable, correct, or plausible, as my understanding increases.

It's kinda scary because I find myself wanting to accept teachings on faith that they'll make sense someday, which is something I really dislike about organized religion.