Abigail

I might end up spending a lot on private health for an operation in the not too distant future. I can't justify ADHD diagnosis as well. I'm working on the assumption I have ADHD and trying to make my own accomodations for it. One of the few advantages of being my own boss. 😆

It's amazing how sure of his own opinion that he actually came out with it to a client. 🙄

I live on warm dilutey juice in this weather, maybe a herbal tea if I'm feeling fancy.

When I rule the earth I'll ban the use of jack hammers after 8pm and anyone found to be flouting this rule will be kept awake for 24 hours by the sound of nails down a chalk board.

a woman in a denim jacket says dude seriously why ALT: a woman in a denim jacket says dude seriously why

When you're having a regular conversation with a fellow dog walker and they start on about the people who come here on the boats.

So many things about it this makes me sad and angry.

A friend warned me they had paused adult ADHD diagnosis in Belfast and I'm looking at 10 years now for diagnosis.

I don't want to be on anti anxiety medication. I deserve to be on the medication that will actually help me.

Every month. Like clockwork I get a migraine.

First off is feeling pukey for a few hours and then the pain starts. This month I've at least realised why I feel randomly pukey so have been able to cancel my class before I start talking gibberish to students when the pain hits.

You should do an experiment. In a few days just simply post I like dogs and see what happens. 😁

I personally would prefer a President who believes in aliens to a President who thinks paracetamol causes autism.

A huge pile of rock, chalk and soil that has fallen from the sized cliff side to resemble a frowning, aquiline-nosed, bearded man

A huge pile of rock, chalk and soil that has fallen from the sized cliff side to resemble a frowning, aquiline-nosed, bearded man

While sudden cliff falls at Birling Gap (near my home town of Eastbourne) are no joke, I really love how much it looks like we’ve roused a grumpy, sleepy sea-wizard.

A worried looking tricolour rough collie. She wants you to know something but no one is sure what.

This seems to have turned into a thread of people showing you their dogs and Molly is worried she might be left out.

Paragraph from the Morning Call newsletter, which says: When I recently saw Jonathan Haidt, whose 2024 book The Anxious Generation has defined this debate, he spoke of a “global moment of change”. Confronted by evidence of a mental health crisis, Australia had announced its intention to ban social media for under-16s and, Haidt predicted, other countries would inevitably follow. So they have. “Today, our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone: a space of addiction, abuse, pornography, manipulation, violence,” declared Spain’s Socialist party prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, this month as he announced an Australia-style ban. “We will no longer accept that.”

Have we considered regulating companies which build "a space of addiction, abuse, pornography, manipulation, violence", to try to rein in the addiction, abuse, manipulation and violence, rather than just saying "that's all totally fine, but only if you're an adult"?

This is not just an issue for under 16s. People don't magically stop being susceptible to addictive algorithms when they hit 16. This is a problem for all age groups.

Shocking content gets 'engagement' so that's what gets pushed to keep people on the platform to keep eyes on the adverts.

The actual issues with most social media are the algorithms that push content to keep people 'engaged' and on the platform.

The big platforms have morphed from a way to keep in touch and be social with others into advertising companies.

I have been thinking a lot about the social media for under 16s and I have thoughts.

Banning under 16s is easy for the social media companies. It loses relatively income as that age group don't have much spending power. It doesn't cost them much and distracts people from the actual issues.

It's *so* poorly defined. Functionally there is no difference between tiktok and YouTube shorts.

It's not the concept of social media that is the problem, it's the algorithms and incentivising 'engagement' that's the problem.

I feel like *everyone* in Belfast might have been at the museum today. I haven't seen it that busy in forever!

Someone should start up a baby food sharing scheme.

A museum display case. Inside is a puppet of a snake with a human head. The information on the exhibit explains that it is a puppet of Peter Mandelson from the TV show Spitting Image and that Peter Mandelson was secretary of state for Northern Ireland in 1999.

Had to laugh at the Peter Mandelson Spitting Image puppet at the Ulster Museum.

If only there were some clues that he is who he is.

My dissertation was on anxiety in primates. 🙄

Studying psychology and how it changes over time in humans and other species can help us understand unconscious shitty behaviour to help us rationalise our thoughts and stop said shitty behaviour.

That's what people should be talking about.

One of the things that really pisses me off about racists using pseudo science to try to justify their shitty world view is it tarnishes a lot of good science.

I did my undergraduate dissertation in the Evolutionary Psych department of Liverpool Uni and I had someone claim I'm therefore racist.

You should go back to sleep. 🫂

I'm entirely unsurprised by those reviews. 100% expect them to push back if there was any problem.

What I’m wearing to the bsky Valentine’s ball

Try sucking up to the hooman by saying the water has her flavour and you love her flavour.

Actually, on second thought, maybe don't say that. 😆

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Thanks! I was going to ask if anyone knew of a decent place with not crap salespeople. Everywhere I used to know has closed down years ago!

Even if they did ask me to describe the guy, I'm quite sure they would say to their boss that I was just "one of those customers".

I also don't have the energy to give them detailed feedback either if I'm being honest.

Not all cheesecake. But maybe I'd be better off if it had. 😆

FFS. I managed an online community who had this one regular who posted a "joke" every day. The number of these jokes that involved domestic violence was shocking. When we moderated it he went off on one about just a joke and free speech. 🙄