Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

People with aphantasia are the real Third Eye Blind.

I think I finally fixed my sleeping habits. I never realized until now how much my bad sleep had been hurting my mood and my focus.

We now have "failsafe" alarms for the times when we absolutely have to go to bed or get up or else it'll ruin our day. They make no sound and are a simple notification on our laptop. They are enforced by Watchful taking front and doing the thing.

We think this will prove more reliable than anything else we've ever tried.

Hey, listen, we're not one to apply labels you didn't opt into yourself, and we're not one to gatekeep. You can be a system if you want. No one else gets to tell you whether you are or you aren't. But dangit, y'all make it really hard for us not to question whether singlets are even real.

You ever get excited because you just changed up your routine and you want to see how it plays out? No? Just us?

Hey, I'm seeing a lot of politics/advocacy posts that don't have content warnings. I'd like to boost those, but I don't want to do it without a CW.

We made up a pronoun set for "exclusive we" (any use of "we" that does not include the reader/listener), it's wex/xus/xur/xurs/xurselves. It can be used by systems or singlets, in any situation to make clear the listener is not included.

We suppose a corresponding "inclusive we" set should be made to make it clear the listener is included, so for that we propose: wein/nus/nur/nurs/nurselves.

I have finally had this explained to me forcefully enough for it to get through, I think: some people *need* reach, mastodon is intentionally designed against getting reach, and I actively prefer it that way. There's a clear difference in what we're looking for that means artists aren't as likely to want to set up shop here.

I'll pretty much follow anyone wherever though, as long as it doesn't require me to have an account on an actively terrible service, and I can use a web browser.

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.