📝 May 2026 Blogroll: Share your blog posts!

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thank you! and yep it is extremely non-responsive lol. I’m going to have to experiment with others ways of planning in the future!

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Rhetorical criticism essay, posted yesterday:

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This is an excellent essay! From my experience, taking a watered-down moderate version of what I believe (such as animal rights, politics, praxis, etc.) in order to make it palatable to others has been both strategy and surrender for me. And that’s because I want to be more palatable and agreeable myself, and there it is aesthetic.

But on the flip side, I also am trying to be conscientious and considerate, I try to meet people where they are and know the futility of trying to articulate what I believe full-stop to somebody that is very far removed from my own perspectives and experiences.

But your post is more about people who are unwittingly erring on the side of moderation for the sake of vibes, as you say. And that is particularly insidious, to equate “both sides” of any issue as equal, to be a waffling fence-sitter, etc.

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I work at a game studio.

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This week in tiaras we’re taking a look at Queen Sonja’s Modern Gold Tiara - a modern tiara that has been likened to sci fi jewelry (and can you believe that people who say that don’t mean it as a compliment???).

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If you have a WordPress website hosted with Siteground, you may want to check this out.

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I did a lil’ tutorial about running a home server, mine is a cafĂ© too! Hehe >:D https://brennan.cafe

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Just quickly dropping by to show you my silly little game I made for a jam:

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Thank you. Certainly there can be strategic or contextual reasons to measure one’s words carefully, and that’s not what I’m objecting to. My concern is specifically about the idealization of a moderate aesthetic as a goal unto itself.

I don’t know if my post can persuade anyone to abandon that if they’re already committed to it, but my hope is that I might at least help someone else to spot it and unravel it the next time they encounter it again.

Btw, I shared your self hosting guide to the Indie Web community on PF.

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Thank you for writing the guide! I have added your guide to 32-Bit Cafe’s resource list. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Was unsure if posting this would be a good or bad idea, but here ya go.

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I have several thoughts on this piece. First, thank you for sharing, it’s okay to have doubts even after diagnosis, and your feelings are valid.

I think an important aspect to this is why the diagnoses exist in the first place. We’re pattern recognizing machines, we’ve recognized and defined certain neurotypes, and now people get labelled. This has benefits and drawbacks. Like access to some medications for those who want it, and the stigmatization that comes from being neurodivergent.

I think what we’ve socially defined as neurotypical isn’t that typical at all, and the idea these are being over prescribed doesn’t really bother me. I’m a fan of neurodiversity and am critical of how our society pushes certain values like productivity to the point that some people medicate or mask to better align with the demands of our neuronormative society.

Ideally we’d have a society that doesn’t turn our neurodiversity into disabilities. But even if we did, people, as pattern recognizing machines, would still likely create and iterate on definitions of neurotypes. But remember they’re patterns we decided to define - we made them up! Including the criteria doctors use to diagnose them, and they’re heavily biased by our society and it’s values. This also means they’re no more or less wrong if they start to define larger groups.

But again, sometimes they are useful. If not for medication, then at least for community, and exchanging of advice for those with experiences like yours. If a group gets too large and that utility diminishes, we can always make up new delineations, like we have already with terms like AuDHD or the different supports needs people might need. Point being that language constantly evolves and no definition is right, wrong, or objective.

“All models are wrong, but some are useful” (and what’s useful is everchanging)

To give you more direct advice: the adhd label is sometimes useful to some people. Irrespective of diagnosis, I think you and anyone can use and identify with that label if you find it useful.

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I was diagnosed over 20 years ago, and I feel similarly still. I don’t take medication and for me, lifestyle changes have been enough for me to manage it.

For around ten years I assumed it was a misdiagnosis, as I had another misdiagnosis from the same psychiatrist which made it easy to brush off. (I also had a “screw the system” attitude to most institutions, including medical ones).

It took getting sober and a hard self-evaluation and the role my brain chemistry has in addictive behaviors to re-accept it. That’s probably another blog in and of itself. But it’s still not something I identify a lot around, and more than being a morning person. It doesn’t interfere with my day-to-day life due to a lot of structures, systems, and habits to help with my executive functioning. For most ADHD folks, that’s not enough.

My relative is a psychiatrist and the “do you want a diagnosis” conversations happen in the US, too. I think a diagnosis helps some people with self-acceptance, and for others it has a more neutral or less-helpful effect. The US medical system is extremely expensive and cumbersome, so by the time you’ve fought tooth and nail for a testing appointment you’re less likely to be just curious about yourself and more likely to want that diagnosis. And from the physician end - there is a customer-is-always-right mentality healthcare systems want to push to give the patients what they want to keep them happy enough paying these bills. Psychiatrists sometimes overdiagnose conditions for patients who want them in the way family medicine doctors still prescribe antibiotics for someone on the fifth day of a cold. That doesn’t help someone like me accept my mild form of ADHD any better.

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I’m a fan of neurodiversity and am critical of how our society pushes certain values like productivity to the point that some people medicate or mask to better align with the demands of our neuronormative society.

I feel this too. I quite like my ADHD brain the way it is, and I think that it has positives as well for me and not all negatives.

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On the last day of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, I wrote a love letter to making things for people. Hope you’ll enjoy!

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a checkin with chatgpt about its ascii art abilities (still bad) and some commentary on its unpleasant personality which is significantly worse than it was last time i asked it for ascii art;

& links to 16ish computer games i have played recently (all but two of them are free!);

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