Damiano

🇮🇹 All my tweets are written under duress.

[Loquitur Ponte Sublicio @loquitur_ponte]

This is all good, reasonable, prudent advice. It is probably what you should do. But i will say, in full disclosure, that it is somewhat different than what i have done and a different path exists.

First on terms.i know ADHD is overdiagnosed. I know many have negative reactions to it as a disability claim (im anti extra testing time to be clear!) and some doubt its a medically identifiable thing at all. That's all fine. I'm going to use the term but if you want to hear it as meaning something like "the far tail of personality traits commonly associated with the false label ADHD" or something like that, that's compatible with my points. Feel free to hear that if helpful.

At its most fundamental, the problem is that you are very bad at governing what your brain thinks is important. Things that have long term impact on your future may be important but if they arent gun to head urgent or organically pleasant to be doing, it is an extraordinary challenge to make yourself do them. This is in a sense a very low conscientiousness though it has some semblance of very high disagreeability, though often not paired with disagreeableness in other vectors. The consequences of deprioritizing non urgent things often builds an avoidant response as it feels like "important but not urgent" things are fine when you arent looking at them but when you come to fix them the problems come out. This is of course not quite what's happening but emotions are a poor judge of fact.

If you're smart you often come off feeling a little disabled in the very simple sense that there are whole sets of tasks you wont (can debate cant but in practice wont) do well. Do your homework every day hah. Put a week of work into the essay due in a week, fat chance. And so on.

Most solutions, and they're good solutions, rely on a few vectors. First, chemically improving focus regulation which is to say making it a little easier to decide to treat something as important. Second, creating detailed organizational systems. Fight ADHD with neuroticism by using the negative emotions of failing the organizational system's demands as a sort of bootstrapped urgency. Third, reduce distraction. Get the shiny interesting things that pop up and feel "urgent but not important" out of sight because you dont sort important well and will get drawn to them, and also because you blur urgent and interesting in a way that leaves you prone to dumping time on flashy wastes. And again this is all good advice, it is advice to basically mitigate ADHD and act in a way that is less ADHD. It's success case is a long thriving career and life where people are surprised you have ADHD.

But the alternative is to just embrace it, build a life that's optimized to just run on the urgent half of the Eisenhower quadrant, avoid, outsource or ration everything important but non urgent, and lean into it so extremely that a decade into your career your colleagues will notice an ADHD at work seminar and several will be like "obviously this is relevant to you" despite you never mentioning it to them. That's option B.

So what does option B look like?

[LOSERPOTATO @DaiYi_Art]

#SteelBallRun #JoJosBizarreAdventure
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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1837, a nine-year-old girl in Portland, Maine, was struck in the head by a rock thrown by a classmate.

She spent three weeks unconscious. Her skull was permanently damaged.

She emerged from it with seizures, visual disturbances, difficulty concentrating, and an inability to hold a pen steadily for years. She could not complete her formal education. She suffered neurological episodes for the rest of her life.

She interpreted these episodes as divine visions.

The visions, helpfully, were very specific. God was not merely offering general spiritual encouragement. God had views about diet.

Specifically: meat was corrupting the faithful. It was inflaming their animal passions. It was producing lust, aggression, and physical debasement, and it was making the congregation difficult to keep properly pious.

Ellen G. White published these revelations. She preached them. She built institutions around them. She co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church and became the single most influential figure in the history of organised Western vegetarianism.

Her writings shaped an entire denomination's theology, which shaped an entire set of research institutions, which shaped the dietary guidelines that are currently framed on the wall of every NHS waiting room in the country.

The woman whose neurological damage gave her hallucinations she attributed to God is, through a very direct and thoroughly documented line of institutional causation, the reason your doctor suggested you eat less red meat.

She also, for the record, ate meat herself. Privately. Her own household records confirm this. Multiple contemporaries documented it. Her personal physician noted it. The church has never fully resolved the discrepancy.

The visions, it turns out, were not binding at dinner.

I am not mocking a woman who suffered a serious childhood injury. That would be unkind and it is not the point.

The point is that the origin of modern mainstream nutritional dogma is not a randomised controlled trial. It is not a century of dispassionate scientific enquiry.

It is a vision, from a head injury, in 1837, that told a woman meat was sinful, and that woman's followers built laboratories and professional associations and dietary guidelines, and here we are.

Start there. Then work forward.

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

for the first 20s I thought this was Fire Punch anime announcement

[Catsuka @catsuka]

From the trailer of "SCP:Gallionic", an indie animated short film by SOEM Studios.
Based on SCP Foundation, a wiki-based collaborative writing project, launched in 2008.
Kickstarter >> https://t.co/0J9viFkyrI

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

social media has recreated 70/80s WWE from first principles. there are all sorts of bizarre characters, faces, heels, kayfabe, physical and chemical enhancements that will very likely turn out to be incredibly damaging over the years.

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

the easiest "us" you could send this weekend

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

Correcting? Why were they wrong to begin with?

[Maximus Decimus Wolfenstein II a.k.a THE ROMAN @SandMan99588]

“All the Writers Went Home—Except Him.” — Why Henry Cavill Is Still Correcting 300 Lines of Lore at 4 AM for the Amazon Series. While the writers clocked out, Henry Cavill stayed behind — at 4 AM, red pen in hand, guarding Warhammer 40,000 like sacred text. Correcting lore, armor colors, even pronunciations, he’s not just starring in Amazon’s series — he’s defending grimdark purity from dilution. This isn’t method acting. It’s a siege. Click to see why fans are stunned. 🔗: https://t.co/iBMy0lwWvB

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@DiscussingFilm questions are being answered like never before

[𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖘𝖚𝖌𝖆𝖗 🦇 @lilseoltang]

no i will not watch the Lord of the Rings Extened Editions on the first date with you that is a sacred act shared between lovers.

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

on that Gantz shi

[Magnetic Norse @MagneticNorse]

Everybody thinks rednecks are so dumb until you see what they come up with when they get a little money.

[METAL GEAR TODO DIA ATÉ NAMORAR @MetalGearnamora]

Dia #132 #133 #134 #135 #136

[Justin Decloux @DeclouxJ]

Very happy to see that action this brutal and creative is still being done in (checks notes) an Italian Film!!??

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@SandyofCthulhu

[ゆるふわ昆虫図鑑 @64zukan]

タップ見せてくるカエル。

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@Moriarty1925

[EVANGELION STORE(エヴァンゲリオンストア) @eva_store]

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[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@SThingsMeme I don't mind getting bamboozled like this but at least cut it after the first chorus ffs

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@goth_videos putting the song title in the video? that's not very girlboss, gaslight, gatekeep of you

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@RealestMemes_ the most romantic “me and who”

[Damiano @RomanCinephile]

@urLeahxd it's a highway straight to Valhalla