I must confess, I didn't really get into them until after they'd split up, though I knew Plea From A Cat Named Virtute from one of the Punk-O-Rama collections. There's a part of me that's sad that I never got the chance to see them live, but I don't know as to how often they came to the UK anyway - if at all.
But yes, I don't think John's lyrics would have meant much to me when I was younger. At my age now though, I firmly believe that he's one of the greatest poets of his generation.
I don't know if it counts as a live album as such, because as far as I'm aware it was never released, but The Weakerthans - Live At The Burton Cummings Theatre is a wonderful show. I ripped the audio from it to put on my iPod, so technically it is a live album to me...
those with ADHD often struggle with making little mistakes, and often have to try even harder to avoid those types of mistakes
Regarding this; one of my biggest problems at work is the friction between knowing what I need to do, and doing it well. A large part of my job is to deliver training to the folks on the workshop floor. So in my head, if I don't deliver adequate training, mistakes could be made. I work in the railway industry, so those mistakes could cost lives. The end result is it takes me weeks to put together fairly lightweight courses because I want to make sure they're correct, and I'm hesitant to actually deliver them.
Realistically though, the training is more of a refresher, so delivered to people who pretty much already know what I'm telling them, but we're duty bound as a company to ensure that health and safety knowledge is kept fresh.
When I was 10 I sharted in the shower when I was on a family holiday. I did what anyone would do; pushed it down the drain hole and never mentioned it to anyone until now.
I mostly used to shitpost my days away, sharing jokes and memes, pausing every now and then to shout at politicians.
It wasn't terribly healthy.
So now I use Mastodon, where I spend my days shitposting and sharing memes, but I block most journalists and any politicians that have made their way over there. And that's healthier.
I'm actually quite lucky in the sense that my mind works at 100 mph when it comes to thinking up the words I want to say. It's like playing a really stressful video game sometimes, where I'm not entirely sure what words I need until I get to them, but they're almost always there when I get there.
Meanwhile, when it comes to doing productive work, I just sit and stare at my computer screen...
I was diagnosed in 2019, at the age of 39. So I have a lot of work to do to unravel all the 'coping' mechanisms I've taught myself over the years. But what's been most eye-opening is my shift in perception of what ADHD is from something that naughty boys at school are told they have, to this thing that afflicts my brain which causes me to forget everything all the damn time.
And the best part is when I complain about this, and some well-meaning person will say "Have you tried using X.app?" and I'll go to download X.app ONLY TO FIND I ALREADY FUCKING HAVE IT, THAT I USED IT THREE TIMES THEN FORGOT IT EXISTED.
It’s hard to unwrap the hate and bigotry from conservative ideology nowadays.
This is the trouble I have with conservative thinking now. Even here in the UK, where our Conservatives aren't as bad as the Republicans in the US (yet), I'm at a place where I can no longer offer the benefit of the doubt to rightwing policies, because now they only seem to exist to make life hard for marginalised people. I can't point at a single member of our government who supports what they're doing because it's what they genuinely believe to be the right thing to do. They're all interested in how it can enrich them, and they'll worry about the morality later.
I mean, say what you like about Margaret Thatcher (and believe me, I do), at least she seemed to actually believe in the policies she pushed through. She had an ideology, and was given room to try it out. And it worked. For her and her rich buddies.
But these days it just seems to be hatred and fear for the sake of riling up the proles because it keeps them in power. The power is the goal, not the governance.
I mooched over to Twitter yesterday to gawp at the car crash, and saw a number of people begging for Bluesky invites. And all I could think is that Mastodon is right there already, working essentially the same way…
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I must confess, I didn't really get into them until after they'd split up, though I knew Plea From A Cat Named Virtute from one of the Punk-O-Rama collections. There's a part of me that's sad that I never got the chance to see them live, but I don't know as to how often they came to the UK anyway - if at all.
But yes, I don't think John's lyrics would have meant much to me when I was younger. At my age now though, I firmly believe that he's one of the greatest poets of his generation.