DJDarren @ DJDarren @beehaw.org

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Remember, decent people Never buy The Sun.

Personally, as it appears that nothing illegal has occurred, I'd be perfectly happy to see him return to reading the news. He has a calming demeanour and is very good at what he does.

Now, whether he'd want to sit in front of the camera again is another thing.

Jesus Christ, this has been a fucking shambles. And all because Murdoch wants to bring down the BBC.

The sooner The Sun disappears, the better off this country will be.

Me, last month: "I think I'll wait until release day and not bother with the beta this year"

Also Me, today: "Oh ok, just a little bit of Public Beta..."

I’m impressed with John for not calling J&J a bunch of scheming, money grabbing cunts, to be honest. I couldn’t have been so restrained.

Cheers!

If you're happy to reveal such information, what's your local station, because I'd like to hear it.

As a Brit, your college stations always fascinated me. We have student radio here, but it's a completely different vibe. From what I've heard of your stations, they sound almost professional, with good presenters spinning the tracks they want to play, whereas our student radio is mostly just people learning how to talk into a mic, reading news bulletins poorly, and playing whichever tracks happen to already be on the playout system.

And I speak as someone who was involved in my university's radio station when I was there, studying for a radio production degree..

All of the BBC stations used to be on TuneIn, but they got pulled a couple of years ago, which pissed me off.

Honestly, I like Apple Music well enough, and have been subbed for as long as it's existed, but the discovery is atrocious.

Mostly I find new music through listening to the radio (very old skool of me...), and following the #NowPlaying tag over on Mastodon. And on here as well, actually.

Got a phone call from my Dad while I was working aboard Queen Mary 2 asking if I was alright. Confused me, because yeah, of course I was. He said something about an earthquake, so I put the news on the TV.

Turns out there'd been an earthquake which had caused the tsunami in Japan. We were off the coast of Japan. The wave went right under us, and I had no idea.

Mad.

2016 for a week in Corfu on my honeymoon.

Unless you’re counting a week off here and there to just chill at home, in which case, April.

If ebooks are acceptable to you, then Standard Ebooks is the shit. Proper classics, formatted in a nice way, ready to drop onto whatever reading device you have.

It's not irrational when almost every piece of media we see is somehow designed to make us want The New Things. Companies spend a lot of money working out how to convince us that we're dissatisfied with what we have.

Also, it's kind of sensible to upgrade after three years, when the device you have is still feasibly worth something on the second hand market.

I'm not really part of the LGBTQ+ community, just a (mostly) straight guy who's subbed here so I can experience other viewpoints and help grow my own understanding, so take what I say as you will, but ultimately it boils down to:

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter to you, the casual observer, what other consenting adults are doing. Seriously, it's not your story, so why bother trying to insert yourself into it? Say you see a couple of guys holding hands in the street; how long are you going to hold onto that memory of them? Realistically, they'll walk by and within ten minutes you'll have forgotten they exist, so why let yourself notice them in the first place? Or more to the point, why assign any kind of morality to them?

As a society, I think we could be far better at letting people just live their lives without assigning our own thoughts and emotions onto them. We don't have their lived experience, so we shouldn't get upset when they don't conform to our internal rulebook.

But that can be hard to do when we as a species are wired to make quick assessments. Those quick assessments have helped us to evolve to where we currently are, it helped our ancestors rapidly figure out who could be trusted, whether an animal was likely to try and eat us, whether our food could poison us. But none of that makes any sense when it comes to looking at a consenting couple living their lives in public, and immediately placing them in an 'undesirable' box.

All you can do is what you've done here; engage with people from different backgrounds, and try to learn to understand that, regardless of who they have sex with (or not), or whether their outward look conforms to whatever genitals you suspect they have, they're just people trying to live their lives and be left alone.

There is some good advice in this thread, but if you do have ADHD, then the advice is only as good as your ability to carry it out, and saying "just do the thing" will only end up demoralising you.

From my perspective (42, diagnosed with ADHD four years ago), it's been damn near impossible for me to noticeably improve myself. It's only when I reflect on my progress that I begin to notice positive changes.

Ultimately, it's about training your perspective on a task. Are you failing to do things, or are you choosing to prioritise other tasks instead. Do those other tasks have positive outcomes (however tenuous they may be)? If this is the case, then you could work on choosing to prioritise the tasks that are expected of you.

In terms of my working day, my job is an issue for me, as it doesn't really have a set form, and is almost entirely self-led. If I don't do what's expected of me, no one really notices, and that's actually a problem for me, because left to my own devices I'll gladly spend all day fucking about online, then feel like shit because I've not been productive*. So I've learned to tackle this by physically writing myself a To Do list first thing in the morning, that I then input into a daily timetable spreadsheet. Then I use an app called Cold Turkey to block access to websites of my choosing for a period of time. Only then am I able to focus on the tasks at hand.

In time, your brain will (hopefully) begin to mould itself around a different way of being, and while it will not likely become second nature to you, it will become easier to recognise when your distraction has taken control.

*of course, almost all of the problems we face are as a result of being forced to exist in a capitalist society, where we're all trained to assign our personal worth to the worth of the work we produce. If we neurodivergents were able to live outside that paradigm, we'd be fine.

Trouble is, many of the techniques here are easy. But if you have ADHD, sticking to them is damn near impossible.

Because the megacorps who make the phones like money and that's how they get it.

From an individual perspective, unless you can afford it and like having the new phones, there's basically no point in upgrading every year.