Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.

what do you do when you're actively trying to escape roughly 1/6th of your current circumstances?

Earlier, I forgot the word "room service", so I tried to explain ot to him: "like working from home, but for food"

rain in Trabzon, and when books for 3 year olds are beyond you #langsky finjathisisit.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/t...

currently travelling in a rather random part of Turkey (yea yea, it's Türkiye now) finjathisisit.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/t...

Der Buchladen auf der Langen Reihe in Hamburg bleibt bestehen! Hurra! Bis Samstag werden die Bestände abverkauft, um Platz für neues zu schaffen, und selbstverständlich habe ich vom "alles 50%" Gebrauch gemacht.

still quite windy outside

given how catastrophic the consequences of this war will be, it feels incredibly weird how normal everyone (me too!) behaves

decided to forgo a swim today

This is Hank. He is incredibly invested in this plumbing project that does not require him in the slightest. 13/10 (TT: compound_interest_)

My ideas for dealing with the fallout from the Iran War for the Arab countries all involve blackmailing, hostage taking, and killing innocent Americans. I think we're all glad that I never did follow through on my dream to become a diplomat.

presentation about AI in the IT department I'm working in. As a Data Scientist and Machine Learning person, I feel like crying.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

given how many horses I'd own if I could just ask the city to provide a place for them, that's probably a sensible approach

this may be my 10th visit to the island since 2022, and I finally found a place that will sell me "arroz con pollo" without trying to upsell me some fancy shit like sauce or olives or cheese or a "real meal" A #safefoods win for #autistic me.

WHY would an airline send a "your flight changed from 11:55 a.m. to 01:25 a.m. (same day) for your following flight to still leave at 15:35, lol" when they have 3 (THREE!) other flights between 8am and 11am that gets us to the hub airport in time to catch the connecting flight.

I think there's a ~10% chance that one of the participants in the Iran war uses at least one nuclear bomb - "real" one or dirty bomb.

I am ... empty.

anyone have recommendations for podcasts with/by autistic and ADHD people? or general ND? I got Neurodivergent Moments and Autistic Women Oversharing and BudPod, but got through all episodes already and need a bit an #AuDHD community boost to feel less alone

that's about the same answer I'd give if someone posed that question to me (depending on the time of day)

there's gonna be military action in Cuba soon, US ships will leave ME, Israel will continue in Lebanon and occasionally bomb Iran when Netanyahu needs a distraction and/or for fun, the Gulf countries will be left to lick their wounds. Iran-sponsored terror attacks in the USA will increase.

I’m gonna start using this excuse. I was designed for sunny conditions and cannot be deployed outside of summer

warum eigentlich nicht?

like in any business: "the people who know the subject best think it's a really stupid idea and won't work." two to twenty layers of hierarchy turn this into: "the field force is really against this, but whatbdo they know - we have to do better comms, and if they don't listen, more enforcement!"

I clicked on the Andreessen clip, watched about 60 seconds of it, and I shall now log off and read an actual physical book for the rest of the day.

I despise the feeling of a concrete floor, like on a terrace or a balcony

I hate that I'm ALWAYS cold when I wake up, no matter the room temperature.

kind of a bit proud that today I was in a city I know medium-well (been a few times before, have a general sense of a few major points of interests) and didn't take out my phone to check the maps to find or even just check my location.

"what's the 'So What?' here?

went swimming in the Atlantic for the first time this year. it was, of course, glorious!

belated realization that my dad was right when in the early 00's he started to hate on the "infinite growth" narrative of the stock markets. everything having to grow more than last quarter; growing but growing less than you'd told the investors/analysts was a failure...

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

let's see which EM governments will fall in the summer or autumn because of bread prices rising too much... my money is on Egypt.

Lemmings (1991)

Kenne jetzt einen exzellenten Orthopäden in Hamburg - hat mir verordnet, dass ich mehr Eis essen muss, um ausreichende Calcium-Versorgung für meine Knochen sicher zu stellen.

Andorra, San Marino, and the Vatican suddenly discovering their interest in becoming a flag of convenience?

when do we start with the torches and pitchforks and the eating of billionaires? ...asking for a friend.

every morning, I now check the news with the sense that someone may have launched nukes while I was asleep, and how it sucks that it probably wouldn't be a reason not to go to work.

god I hate fucking ClaudeCode, or maybe I only hate what can be created with it

how does @dannykapunkt.bsky.social always say? "stupid little walk for my stupid little mental health"?

to text my female friends with "happy international women's day" feels wrong... but what does one say instead?

ni una más

how do other #AuDHD (or "pure" ADHD) folks stick to routines? I need to do some physio exercises regularly, ideally every day, and I suck at sticking with something that requires a setup (yoga mat, wear not-office-clothes) and is in itself pretty boring... I need ideas!

excellent: 6 upcoming trips in the next 4 months. the longest stretch I'll be in Hamburg is 30 days between end of May and end of June.

That fucking dog went on the run in Wimbledon - and was caught by someone in CROYDON about 45mins later. (and there are few calls more terrible than "the dog's run away" when you actually are in a different country)

Putin and Netanyahu - brothers from different mothers.

Pedro Sanchez is not perfect, but my god, wouldn't it be lovely to have a government leader who doesn't hate immigrants and is willing to tell the Americans to fuck off?

this whole thing of "influencers in dubai discover the concept of the middle east" is, frankly, absolutely delicious.