society’s infantilization of decorated objects is honestly one of the greatest recent crimes against humans’ innate desire for beauty
Crocheters, could you help please?
I have a pattern that reads “make sure you are working your skips in this round” on some rounds. On the rounds before these there are a few sk ch sp/sk next st but what could it mean by working skips? So far I’ve just been skipping stitches as stated.
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Where do I copy-paste these to? “My filters”? “My Rules”?
‘my filters’! if you look closely you’ll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters
“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
i hate you shein. i hate you wish. i hate you temu. i hate you aliexpress. i hate you fast fashion. i hate you consumerism. i hate you planned obsolescence. i hate you plastics.
Ah yes, I saw something yesterday about the difference between ego and feelings being hurt and I didn’t get it. But now I get it.
Basically, in trying to be a helpful line manager I have ended up inconviniencing two coworkers and one of them has sent an email that felt like admonishment to 3 apprentices, when 2 of them (1 of whom is not actually my report) had no involvement or idea I was trying to help. Anyway I’ve replied all to the email basically saying “yeah sos this was my fault” because they shouldn’t be being told off for something that isn’t their fault AND they also know nothing about. And I feel like shit because I’m supposed to be line manager to 2 of these apprentices, and I’ve just had to admit fault and failure in front of 5 people, 2 of whom I’ve never met in real life and the other 3 I don’t even know that well, and did I mention I’m supposed to be a line manager?
The whole situation that this was about was ultimately not resolved, by pure accident… Just got a call from the apprentices needing urgent help. Had to call around, no one on our project answered but it’s ultimately been sorted. But I know tomorrow at work, there are going to be repurcissions. This was the result of 2 genuine mistakes, one on my part but I Hate Making Mistakes so my ego will be taking a beating.
Ah yes, I saw something yesterday about the difference between ego and feelings being hurt and I didn’t get it. But now I get it.
Basically, in trying to be a helpful line manager I have ended up inconviniencing two coworkers and one of them has sent an email that felt like admonishment to 3 apprentices, when 2 of them (1 of whom is not actually my report) had no involvement or idea I was trying to help. Anyway I’ve replied all to the email basically saying “yeah sos this was my fault” because they shouldn’t be being told off for something that isn’t their fault AND they also know nothing about. And I feel like shit because I’m supposed to be line manager to 2 of these apprentices, and I’ve just had to admit fault and failure in front of 5 people, 2 of whom I’ve never met in real life and the other 3 I don’t even know that well, and did I mention I’m supposed to be a line manager?
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Finished! I guess you can’t really block acrylic without heat? Next time I might run the iron over the edges so they keep their shape, they rolled back immediately after I took the pins out. Still like how this blanket turned out though.
I also whipped up a crocheted hat first thing yesterday morning to gift as well. Proud that I went from nothing to a whole hat, with ends woven in in literally 2 hours.
The recipient loved them and told me they will be perfect for baby when the weather cools down.
Organisation and task planning apps I find useful as an ADHDer
People often wonder how I’m so organised. The truth is, it’s necessity and coping mechanism. This post is a recommendation of a few tools to help you all to improve your time management, so long as you can find just a little self will.
Apps will be listed first, and I’m closing this post with a longer explanation to try and sell you on the benefits and ease of doing this. I tried my best to include a variety for different preferences:
Remember the Milk
Available as a website and as an app
Good for people who like looking at lists
You create ‘lists’ (category of task such as home, school etc.), which you can also add tags and locations to
All of your lists combine into daily and weekly checklists
Imports to google calendar in the free version
Unfortunately a lot of options are paywalled, including app notifications. If you have an android, you can work around this with your normal phone calendar.
Trello
Good for more visual based people
Mostly a website, but available as an app
Better for long term tasks and projects
Would recommend for people more used to organisation as it can take a while to set up. However if you dedicate some time, you can get some great custom options.
A lot of functionality in the free version.
Habatica
Probably my favourite
Has a web and app version - where the app is actually quite easy to look at!
It is basically just a gameified version of your daily schedule. You get rewarded for checking off your tasks with RPG points, and you can buy items with coins and stuff.
Gives you a whole sense of progression and is great for dopamine.
A feature I love is the ability to set task difficulty, which gives you higher reward for harder tasks.
More of a daily habits type of thing, and not so great for one-off events.
All the functionality is free, the subscription is mostly cosmetic stuff.
Do it Now RPG
Similar in concept to habatica
What I really like specific to this app is the ability to assign tasks to specific character values. That means your character progression is actually quite realistic
Has an actual calendar which is a plus, however it is locked behind paywall. However it’s about £11 for a whole year, so it’s one of the cheaper options
Time Planner: Schedule and Tasks
Allows you to view tasks in these cool bubbles
You can also view them in list view and calendar view
Lots of customisation and easy to make categories
Most of the functionality is present in the free version including push notifications
Cute colour scheme!
Has a really good tutorial, which is kind of unique to these apps (which can be overwhelming)
Sectograph
Basically lays out your tasks visually on a clockface
Works best in combination with your existing calendar app
Has a home screen widget!!! You can have this be the thing you see whenever you unlock your phone!!!
Some features such as colour customisation locked behind the paywall, but it’s a life time purchase of like £4 so it might be worth it.
Sweepy
A cleaning app specifically but I find it useful enough to mention here.
One thing I like is that it comes with existing task lists (editable). All you have to do is add the rooms in your house.
Basically requires very little set up and reminds you to clean at good intervals.
Benefits of doing this!
So immediately, you might think that this is super daunting. And no yeah, it is and I’m not perfect with these apps at all. But the thing is, with executive dysfunction being so crippling a lot of the time, any tool that helps is so valuable.
I find that writing down what I have to do not only makes it easer to remember, but also gives me more internal pressure to actually do it.
ADHDers generally enjoy problem solving and tasks that involve min/maxing. Just try and think about it like that during the set up stage. The set up is by far the hardest part. Good life advice in general honestly: gameify everything.
If none of these appeal to you, you can still do a lot on your phone’s calendar app. Actually, back when I was doing my school exams, I made study schedules on excel spreadsheet that worked pretty well. There are so many options out there!
I need people to understand…that if you believe in paying people a livable hourly wage…most hand-knitted clothing should cost hundreds of dollars
“My grandma could make that!” YOUR GRANDMA LOVES YOU ENOUGH TO SPEND A MONTH MAKING YOU A SWEATER FOR CHRISTMAS, I HAVE NO SUCH AFFECTION
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Block party! I have no idea what I’m doing haha, and hopefully it dries before tomorrow because then I can gift it in person.
This is my first time attempting blocking, I really wanted the points of the chevrons to be defined so I swiped my childhood play mats from my mother and used every pin I own. It’s a bit lumpy and bumpy in the middle and you can see where I’ve messed up on the pattern on the vertical lines but I think it actually looks okay. It’s grown on me considering blue is my least favourite colour group and I put it down for over a year because I didn’t like it (maybe I like it now because it’s finished! 😂)
How do I explain to this alleged engineer that sometimes you have to do some deducing and investigating by yourself. Just have a thorough look. And play about with something. The worst you can do it mess something up that ctrl+z or a call to the IT department won’t fix. So much of what I know re tech is what I’ve taught myself. I taught myself so many of the excel functions I use, learned the basics of total station from the setting out engineer and pretty much taught myself the rest of what I know, a YouTube vid or blog post go a long way. I taught myself to use autocad to the point where the setting out engineer would call me an ask me how to do things. I googled so much, I would sit in meetings and take notes or minutes almost clueless, then vigorously look online and clarify the whole thing through that and asking questions for the stuff I could not find.
I would read documents thoroughly, look for standards, browse the company homepage and integrated management systems for guidance docs. This kid will not have the info he needs in a few seconds and then ask me instead of reading literally the next cell in a table that fully explains everything. I’ll tell him a doc is stored in the shared drive and hell claim it’s not only to discover he hasn’t scrolled down? How are you going to be an engineer if you can’t figure out basic basic things?
Black, bi, enby | late 20s | recreational complainer | allegedly very dramatic | hurricane of a person |
original knitting under tag #harleymonster knits
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