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A book for the hard-core Unix sysadmin, by a fellow hard-core sysadmin with decades of experience running small mail servers. …
It’s often easier for us to do something for someone else than it is for ourselves. We love to help. We know what it’s like to struggle.
I feel this in my bones!
I’ve also learned not to put my whole life and personal fulfillment on hold until I reach a certain outcome.
Ooh this is a lesson I think I should learn too!
Content warning lewd
"Apparently, my inner goddess is a slut. Yeah, I read Fifty Orgasms."
Hahaha! That's hilarious. I love that one romance novel is poking fun at another. 😂
I got tested just a few weeks ago[…]. I’m clean.
I’m really enjoying this story, but there’s nothing like a phrase like this, used in the context of STI testing, to make me cringe. I can’t ignore the implication that having an STI is “dirty”, and it is annoyingly jarring! (Also, I’m listening to this as an audiobook, and while it’s generally well-narrated, I had to laugh that the narrator said “anomynity” earlier on. I had to rewind it to be sure I hadn’t misheard!
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence …
Content warning Minor ending spoilers for Allegiant, by Veronica Roth
I listened to the audiobooks of this series because I'd watched the movies, only to find that Allegiant movie is only part 1 of 2, and that part 2 never got made, so I was left wondering how it ended.
Having finished the book, and found (unsurprisingly) that the story is a little different from the movies, and that the ending was… bittersweet, I think it's fair to say that while I would've been frustrated continuing to wonder at the ending, it's certainly not the most satisfying!
This series is quite obviously targeting young adults; much of the language is fairly simple (there are so many different words for "they said", but Roth doesn't take many opportunities to use them), but I didn't mind it. What can I say, I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction.
"The Danes are famously the happiest people in the world, and hygge is a cornerstone …
Hyggelige as they may be, there is one serious drawback to being crazy about candles: the soot. Studies show that lighting just one candle fills the air with microparticles more severely than traffic in a busy street.
Oof, that's a lot of soot! I love the idea of candles, but this feels like a non-starter unless I were to get an air purifier too.
"The Danes are famously the happiest people in the world, and hygge is a cornerstone of their way of life. …
A lot of people aren’t even comfortable with the label ADHD. I hear from parents who hesitate to get their kids diagnosed because they’re afraid of their child being limited by labels. There is an understandable fear there. To those parents, I gently say: your child already has labels. Teachers, peers, and family all apply labels to your child as an attempt to explain behaviors they don’t understand. Labels such as lazy, messy, spacey, and irresponsible are more stigmatizing, more shame inducing, less accurate, and much, much less helpful than any diagnostic term will be.
This is really important to remember. Much better to find a label you are comfortable with that doesn’t have stigma attached, than to let others label you.
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revolutionize the way you approach …
Autism and ADHD often ends up in an interesting dichotomy in my head. Routines are good, but then boring. We need to be stimulated, but not too stimulated. Burnout comes from both sides of the equation. And many systems that are really ADHD defense mechanisms were created by the autistic side of me.
"many systems that are really ADHD defense mechanisms were created by the autistic side of me." Whoa 🤯. This could explain so much!
