Goofball's Refuge

i had a dream last night that the entire world used a currency (?) called angrypennies which as the name implies are obtained by experiencing anger. the stronger and more intense your anger was, the more angrypennies you'd gain. an all-consuming rage would earn you more than a slight irritation, etc. so people were always searching for ways to fuel their anger and purposefully keeping themselves angry all the time because they wanted to earn angrypennies. unclear if angrypennies could be exchanged for goods and services, or if they were just a collectible.

Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.

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Honestly, probably the best social tip I could ever give you guys is literally just ask. Need to make a doctor's appointment but don't know how? Call the doctor's office and ask. Don't know the meaning of what someone said? Ask them. Don't understand the instructions you were given? Ask them to repeat or clarify. This has literally never failed me, no one's gotten angry, no one's refused to answer.

This is a decent framework. My only advice is that if you don't actually know what you did wrong, or how it made the other person feel, let yourself show some vulnerability by asking what you did wrong and how it's feeling for them while admitting you're trying to take responsibility.

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

crucially this is not an 'if you can lean you can clean' thing! I am doing these tasks to keep my hands busy. keeping my hands busy frees up brain space to actually make a rational decision about what I should spend my energy on, because it scratches the restless screaming itch in my skin to DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW (normal relatable content teehee we've all got bees in our bones right?)

I don't have a clear guide for How To Do This, but a huge part of the end goal and something one could try working on idk is mentally turning the chore into "a thing I do while I'm really doing other stuff." this may work best if you already have a few activities in that category - I like to knit while I watch TV, sew while I'm chatting with people, etc - but the key component is that the dishes are not The Activity. the dishes are what your hands are doing while your brain is occupied with The Activity. you get in the habit of expending like .5% of a thought on the dishes, which includes not thinking any thoughts like "ugh ugh I hate doing the dishes." you have better things you could do with that brainpower!