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It's the other way around tbh. ADHD kids often struggle with reading (dyslexia etc), so they're more likely to be drawn to HILO books. There's a wide range of vocabulary & themes, broken up with pictures so it's less intimidating, & wrapped in the kind of absurdity most kids love. AKA ADHD catnip.

You're almost certainly right, but sometimes it's nice to pretend those things don't exist and that an actual human is just very bad at their job and/or just filling out contacts to get paid (no shade on the second, been there done that for useless employers before).

One of the very few nice things about screwing over my RSI and having to go back to the tiny dumbbells, is that I no longer self-immolate with rage every time I go to the squat rack and then have to search every other machine for the correct pair of plates. I get our gym's a bit short but COME ON.

Nostalgia is such a bitch like that. Hits me every time I go back to my home town and the old X isn't where it used to be, or they've repainted Y building, or...

This is completely unsolicited and you might have come across it already, but "The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher" has both dragons, a modern day setting, and an elderly Chosen One protag who didn't expect it. Though her refusal of the call is more perfunctory than sincere.

I admire both the hustle and the absolute lack of reading comprehension on the part of whoever decided sending that DM was a good idea.

*purports to contact them for free, I forgot to say. I've done no research beyond their website but they say they're a digital charity that relies on donations to be able to fund this.

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I'm cheap and have time on my hands so I'm willing to slog through this, but I'm also looking pretty hard at yourdigitalrights.org which purports to contact them for you and follow up if they don't comply. Unfortunately they don't list my country in their FAQs.

Less than two hours in to cleaning up old accounts, and it's truly astonishing how few websites have a "delete my account" button somewhere in the user settings. Gotta contact support and tell them to do it. No wonder so many people say fuck it and pay Incogni or Delete Me to do this for them.

I will say that I've had shit luck with fans at all price points, so I've basically started only buying cheap ones & treating them as disposable. We run fans almost constantly in summer, both to bring cool air in from outside and to circulate the air con more efficiently.

I've used both - a Vornado last year and a Kmart one this year. They're fairy similar tbh, the Vornado had a more powerful motor but not enough to justify the price. It also died barely a month out of warranty.

For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne

Regent in charge of keeping a decimated kingdom in one piece, rebuilding after the demonic onslaught, and making sure the rightful queen is still alive to hand over the throne to in ±18 years? In this economy? With my ADHD?

At least my spouse will be hot, and absolutely devoted to me, I guess...

I would caveat this otherwise excellent advice with: it's generally only applicable with the writer's newest works. Something a character did five books ago has likely been offloaded from the brain cells to make room for the more recent characters and their shenanigans. That's series bibles exist.

Considering how terrible 99% of new cars are, I don't blame them. I certainly don't want anything made after 2015 that's going to demand subscriptions for basic car functions and/or track my every movement.

Beautiful! Do you hang them or leave them on tables or...? I've never been able to decide on the best way to display them.

It's MUCH less stress than a standard test, and the more people who ask for it, hopefully the more places will start offering it. Self-collection is as accurate as the doctor doing it, which is why they started trialling it at my clinic in the first place.

This is really cool. And it's (at least to my knowledge) before we started trialling self-collection for pap smears, which seems to be leading to more people being screened now it's an option.

Caveat: it may only be in South Australia, but it's worth asking about if you need a smear. -->

Solidarity. I have Regrets every time my evening yarn plans involve dark colours and I can't find the book light or the head lamp (which doesn't put the light where I need it anyway).

That sounds amazing tbh. I might have to steal the evening viewing plan for our house.

A brindle dog sitting on top of neatly laid out panels of quilting cottons. He's looking very noble while he gets chest scritches.

No pyjama pants today. Only pats.

Wearing Dresses Changed the Way I Think About Gender Sebastiaan Vermeulen felt boxed in by men's fashion, so he started making his own category-defying clothes.

Cis men discovering the power of the sewing machine and then radically experimenting with their wardrobe is one of my favourite genres.

"Before I knew it I was making myself a second shirt, and then it hit me: I could make whatever I want."

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Yeah it's a miracle that we got the Wolverine we did in Deadpool 3. I can't imagine what Disney would try with bitter old man Logan who's had the world shit on him for a few decades running.

Congratulations/sorry about your mum. My stash was almost entirely from about four great-aunt and grandmothers' stashes until a few years ago. I'm the only grandkid that sews and knits so I was the first port of call after my own mum went through them for her stash.

I would love to see Daken on screen, but ain't no way Disney would do it right.

Textile people can go horrendously expensive with their stuff if they're into that sort of thing, too. Like it's really not hard to find expensive hobbies. It's almost like capitalism caters to a wide range of budgets in their offerings 🤔

Government: get off social media and go outside
Also the government: no! Not like that!

Yeah, that's totally fair. I think it makes way more sense to have to keep them at a gun club if that's the license you've got. Sign it out when you're travelling for a competition etc.

Not saying that there's no room for improvement, mind - target shooting is kind of a weird sport when you think about it, and practically no one in an urban area needs long arms.