We don’t need demons as some vague placeholder for an unfathomable evil.

People has historically already outdone the worst acts in fiction.

What have you done to my boy Quartus? 😂

Nice. I’m going to order a pair of kraken mats soon, grassy field style. One sized for 4’x4’ and one for 6’x4’.

I can’t help but envy you collection a bit 🥲

Which one are you getting?

Oooh, Legal Eagle is suing Honey!

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam YouTube video by MegaLag

I just learned of Honey today.

If the below is true, and I believe it is, then you should delete it.

It's fraud.

When I got into Dungeon World, my views on GM’ing were completely turned upside down.

I started not prepping at all, instead asking the players questions about the party until it was clear what they were up to, and then we just took it from there.

The kid is right and smart beyond his years.

I have a friend of a friend that I occasionally talk to over discord. We are they obviously not close, but I like him. He’s nice and fun to be around.

I just learned he’s been unemployed more or less since 2022, and that’s just awful.

Market economics tend to be less efficient when competition is low, and there’s a lot of defacto monopolies that can take a large hit if the long term prospect is lower salaries.

Applying for a job today. My life feels weird without a job.

In a well-functioning system, everyone is replaceable, because that means that the system is stable.

In a just / good system, your salary would reflect the value you create for society.

Basically, the wealth pyramid would be inverted.

The societal trend on wages is… deeply counterproductive.

Pay negatively correlates with the societal importance of your job, but correlates positively with how much money, you can earn for someone else, unless you are too easily replaceable.

Just saw crypto explained as “MLM for men” and I’m still chuckling.

What the heck, that thing is HUGE! 😳

Totally fair. I smell “essential worker”.

You’re working today? Jan 1st is a national holiday here in Denmark.

I’m not writing this to gather pity or attention. My main goal is to share my learning and understanding of my own life on the off chance someone else could benefit from it.

I may still not actually have ASD, but my brain surely ain’t normal.

They were never dishonest or uncaring. They just couldn’t speak effectively to me, and my borderline pedantically precise use of words, especially terminology, made it incredibly difficult for others to understand me.

Ambiguity is a key strength of natural language. Just not for me.

I fear my slightly non-standard brain has thwarted my attempts at fixing problems and mistakes in professional contexts.

I have always been disappointed that others weren’t as open, direct and honest as I am, but now I realize I may have just completely misunderstood people.

I’m genuinely an open and honest person. I want to do the right thing.

But I take people at their word, and people rarely mean what they *say*, which apparently is not a problem for most other people, but I suspect it is partially the cause of many of my interpersonal conflicts over the years.

I guess the most important learning for me is that people a way less closed or deceitful.

I’m just bad at picking up social signals.

I kind of knew that already, but now I’m just going to accept it as how I am.

Ever since the diagnosis, I have learned a lot about how my inner life and lived experience differs in both big and small ways from most everyone else.

And now, after taking a screening test, I’m likely to have a mild case of ASD.

I’m not sure what to do with that info.

For the majority of my life, I have had a lot of challenges that I expected everyone else also faced. Then about 4 years ago, I was diagnosed with ADHD.

I consider it one of my greatest personal accomplishments that I got a masters degree with undiagnosed ADHD. That is afaik extremely rare.

My wife (psychologist) dropped the bomb on me a month ago, telling me that she long suspected that I had high functioning autism.

I was initially surprised, but it honestly makes a lot of sense and explains so much about my life.

It doesn’t change anything, but I think about it a lot.

Thread 🧵

Anyone have any advice on how to “do cool shit for a living”?

It sounds way more fun than having a regular day job.

Most of the software I’m interested in making either has no business case, or it is rooted in my desire to dismantle some of the weird dogmatism I keep encountering on the job.

In both cases, likely no one would ever pay me to make it, and this makes me sad.

What model is the bottom middle one? It looks completely fantastic, and the pearlescent effect is 🫦

Searching for a new job feels weird now.

Given my seniority and the industry I work in, I haven’t actually searched for work in about five years, due to recruiters reaching out all the time.

But now when I’m actually looking? Silence.

😂

My son enjoys new years eve.

Hope you all do as well!