Em @emjr.xyz · 27/09/2026It took a lot of scrolling to find where I'd reposted this one (turns out it was in 2017): 1255
Em @emjr.xyz · 22/09/2026I used to joke that my coffee intake said I had ADHD but my tendency to hyperfocus at the drop of a hat said if I had any less ADHD I'd be in a coma. Then someone described ADHD as a deficit in the ability to *control* attention instead of a deficit of attention and it suddenly made sense. 140
Em @emjr.xyz · 20/09/2026Use a stick blender to chop and mix garlic with olive oil then freeze it in an ice cube tray. It not only makes the garlic last longer, it also means the oil's built in when you fry it. 101
Em @emjr.xyz · 20/09/2026I like the ginger tip! I always seem to end up with shrivelled remnants in the bottom of my fridge, so I avoid buying it due to some sort of pre-guilt. 110
Reposted by EmTess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 2193163
Em @emjr.xyz · 07/09/2026I do that sort of thing often, except I somehow add crumbs and dirty dishes to the kitchen bench, then still end up with no hoodie. 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 19/08/2026Excellent plan. He hadn't realised how potentially suspicious his glasses looked until I pointed it out to him. To him they're just the same glasses as always. 021
Em @emjr.xyz · 19/08/2026Damn it! Now I'm going to have to make something at least the size of a hand towel. See you all in a year or two. 020
Em @emjr.xyz · 18/08/2026I found my experimental piece, which shows that I should clear the junk off the table behind the couch more often. I can't imagine making something the size of a hand towel, let alone a bedspread. 4190
Em @emjr.xyz · 18/08/2026I tried tatting last year because I was curious about how much work would have been involved. After spending a week or two learning the basics it took me a several days to make something the size of my palm. 270
Em @emjr.xyz · 18/08/2026My partner has worn wide-rimmed glasses very similar in shape to these for at least the last 20 years. He's going to try a different style when he gets his next pair. 120
Em @emjr.xyz · 16/08/2026My grandmother tatted a queen-size bedspread, basically just to prove she could. She had no use for it once finished, so she gave to to the almost complete stranger across the road as a wedding gift. 2140
Em @emjr.xyz · 15/08/2026Did you also spend the time before The Time To Do The Thing unable to do anything because you were too busy waiting for The Time To Do The Thing? 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 15/08/2026I guessed the twist for "Name the 6 fastest humans", then another team member was able to list all of the ISS crew members by name. 010
Em @emjr.xyz · 12/08/2026That doesn't help if you're arrested or shot before you have the chance to copy it from the dashcam to a memory stick. 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 11/08/2026That sounds more like Mad Engineering than Mad Science. Where are your Mad observations about your testable Mad hypothesis? 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 11/08/2026The last time I needed a security clearance I tried to include more than the standard number of committed, long-term partners, but the form just wasn't set up to record polyam relationships. On the phone they said just to leave it blank because I wasn't actually living with either of them. 031
Em @emjr.xyz · 10/08/2026I read a collection of his short essays when I was a teen. I remember being on the edge of my seat waiting to find out if whoever he was writing about would discover vitamin C or not. 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 07/08/2026Yes. I had 10 years of annual "can I get my tubes tied now please?" notes in my medical file before I was given a referral, and even then a hypothetical future partner was given as much say in the matter as I was. 041
Em @emjr.xyz · 05/08/2026I bought a stand-alone copy of Office and cancelled my 365 subscription. They started offering the no-copilot subscription about 2 weeks later, but this way I haven't had to whack-a-mole it since. 130
Em @emjr.xyz · 04/08/2026One, in particular, turned up at least half a season before I was expecting him, and I involuntarily squealed out loud when he came on screen. It was all a bit undignified. 030
Em @emjr.xyz · 04/08/2026My partner had never seen it, so I recently got to watch it with a first-timer. It had been long enough between rewatches that I'd forgotten when some things took place, so I think I spoiled a few "important person or one-off nobody?" character introductions for him. 140
Em @emjr.xyz · 28/07/2026The coffee thing, but also dexamphetamines make me snoozy, as does pseudoephedrine. The week I tried melatonin tablets was the worst insomnia I've ever experienced. 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 28/07/2026I have 3 of those, and now that you mention it, they're all much larger than they used to be. 110
Em @emjr.xyz · 28/07/2026This was me with bookcases, except I didn't give them away until I moved to a smaller house. 111
Em @emjr.xyz · 27/07/2026A medium-sized cat walking across a boob on her way to the other side of the bed can exert as much downwards force through one paw as a small bus does through a wheel. 110
Em @emjr.xyz · 18/07/2026I miss a manual transmission less than I expected when I got an EV. There's no wait for the car to notice it should change gear as in an auto, and I can mostly* use the regenerative braking hand controls to fill the same function as downshifting to engine brake. *unless the battery is already full. 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 08/07/2026One of the cafes listed on their website is 2 doors from our WA office, but when I looked up their hours Google says it's permanently closed. I've been working off-site for so long that I don't know if that's true or not, so I'll take the long way home after work tomorrow and see what I find. 000
Em @emjr.xyz · 21/06/2026I bought too much random stuff on a work trip, so I went to the market for a small suitcase. Unfortunately I got that first, so by the time I finished wandering around the rest of the market it was full. 000
Reposted by Emgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 19/06/2026i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water 13452291294
Reposted by EmTashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Ehh fuck ityoutube.comTom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync BattleYouTube video by Comedy Central Asia 9369184
Em @emjr.xyz · 12/06/2026I basically write in 10pt Arial. My note-taking got worse after I started taking ADHD meds. It used to be semi-automatic; I'd get to the end of the class or meeting, and it would all just be there on the page. Now my attention doesn't split that way anymore. 020
Em @emjr.xyz · 12/06/2026I'd joked about having ADHD for years based on my coffee intake, because how could hyperfocusing to the point of forgetting to eat until 3am be a sign of an attention *deficit*? If i paid any more attention I'd forget to blink. Then someone online described it as an attention *control* deficit. 010
Em @emjr.xyz · 12/06/2026Non-questionnaire diagnosic tools are very useful if you've spent 45 years building coping skills to hide ADHD. I was heading for a Bad at Adulting diagnosis until I took a TOVA (20 min of hitting a button when the shapes are right while an IR camera records my face). 120
Em @emjr.xyz · 11/06/2026There were numbers in place of their homophones, e.g. "The editor should have known every1 would find it 2 annoying 2 read like this and said 'no', with prejudice". I made it no more than a few pages. 050
Em @emjr.xyz · 28/05/2026My solution is to put the pill bottle on top of the water filter jug after I take it, but that still leaves me several seconds to forget where I am in the process. 020
Em @emjr.xyz · 27/05/2026A "catch up" streaming service for a free-to-air TV channel, advertised as allowing me to watch a program from the start after the broadcast has already begun, but which cuts the stream off when the broadcast ends, meaning I don't get to see the last x minutes. 170
Em @emjr.xyz · 27/05/2026My local council still has pay & display ticket machines along the cafe strip, but you can pay via an app instead. It charges an extra 10%. 060
Em @emjr.xyz · 08/05/2026In highschool we watched all but a few minutes of The Thrill Of It All (1963), then wrote how we thought it would end. It's about a woman becoming a spokesmodel. Her husband doesn't like her celebrity and gives her an ultimatum: him or her new life. None of us got the "happy ending" choice correct. 000
Reposted by Emshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time 163127064090
