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I'm tired of Smart Emails and Smart Phones and various pieces of technology trying to adapt and learn. cool idea but fucking garbage execution

this is being spurred by having to figure out why someone at work isn't receiving submissions from the website contact form for the umpteenth time. because outlook has decided to start chucking shit into the spam folder and/or the quarantine again. and I know they aren't the worst with computers so I'm pretty confident they followed my instructions for adding the contact form address to the safe senders list the last time this happened. so why is it ignoring that?? is it because the subject line is different for this particular form? is it because it was sent to a different address which is then forwarded to them???? even though all of the addresses are our own domain??? why, outlook???

and I just have this sneaking suspicion that we've missed various submissions when I snoop through a different form and see people following up because they didn't get a response to their original submission

because outlook has decided to try and Learn! and it's fucking everything up! it's doing more harm than good! and it doesn't even catch all the stupid bad shit! my email wound up on like 10 new newsletters that I never signed up for in one day. so like just stop trying at that point. you're still giving me the shit emails AND you're eating the emails I actually need people to see. you are doing the worst of both worlds.

i would literally rather just get every single thing and decide, for myself, to block senders and unsubscribe to things.

and like, I could say maybe they aren't the best with computers so maybe this is a them issue. They aren't the worst, but they aren't the best either. now I'm not the best either, but out of everyone who works there I can confidently say I am the second best there. so when ***I*** have had to tell outlook NOT to block the same fucking sender multiple times before it finally seems to get its shit together, something is wrong. outlook is fucking garbage. I need them to just turn off all ~smart functionality~ and let it just be a fucking email client.

but also, my phone. why has my phone decided that it simply will not tell me I have notifications sometimes, until I look at my phone? then suddenly it's like oh, btw here's 15 new notifications since you're paying attention now. No! you're supposed to give them to me WHEN YOU GET THEM! that's the whole point! if I want to enforce some kind of quiet time I will set up some Do Not Disturb schedule or something! or I will tell it to only give me notifications every 30 minutes! DO NOT MAKE THAT DECISION FOR ME.

it's driving me insane. not to sound like I'm a million years old but I miss when "smart phone" meant "wow this phone also plays mp3s, has some games, and lets me check my email." not "my phone works on its own unknowable schedule because it tried to learn and did bad, and makes decisions without my consent"

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Camp Damascus: A Summary

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Me: I need to connect with people, build community, talk more, be there for the people who have somehow consented to be acquaintances and friends

Also me: *turns into a goblin if my phone vibrates with one too many Discord notifications while I’m just trying to check something off my to-do list*

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I use a waterproof bluetooth speaker! It has a wide suction cup and I have it stuck opposite to where the shower head is. I’m not sure of the brand/price as it was a raffle prize. But! Sometimes I forget to charge it, and those times I put my phone in a large plastic cup on the counter, speaker end down and the cup on its side with the open end pointing toward the shower. It amplifies the sound pretty well!

Regular showering tip from an AuDHD person in the midst of sad sack depression: music definitely helps, but the kind of music matters. It doesn’t help to put my playlist of 400+ personally meaningful songs—curated over the span of 10 years—on random. I’ll be in there for an eon, probably crying my eyes out. BUT, a playlist of 6 short ska punk songs is fun, gives me energy and I can time all the different tasks (like washing and conditioning hair, washing face, washing body) by the songs, which helps when I can’t perceive the passage of time. Sometimes I even get out before they’re all done! (Ska/punk/indie pop is my preference, obviously you can choose something you like best, but short runtimes help.)

Keeping hygiene routines can feel impossible when you’re sad and it’s already difficult to get in the shower because of sensory issues. If it’s hard for you to bathe, it’s okay. You’re still valid and worthy and beautiful. 🩵

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Okay, look, Discord. I need you and my phone OS to fucking cooperate. Please give me the option to turn off vibration for notifications. PLEASE. I do want to be an active participant in the Discords I’m on, therefore I don’t want to miss notifications, but if I’m trying to do something on my phone—like text, or look something up, or check my email—I can be interrupted by the vibration in my hands fifteen times in a row in the span of three minutes and I don’t know what it is about today, or just lately, but that’s the kind of sensory shit I just can’t abide. I’m not kidding, it hurts. I already have my phone silenced 24/7 and when I have my phone on the table I have it sat on a neoprene coaster to muffle the vibrations from notifications, so I do what I can to mitigate the audio interruption, but the tactile shit just sends me into another plane of existence where I want to claw my own skin off. I know this is a me problem but holy shit, technology, please help me help myself here. Why can’t I customize which apps vibrate and which don’t? 😭😭😭

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The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

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☀️ sunshine is here! ☀️ preorders for our new summer loungewear set + our super cute new suspender skirt are now LIVE! ☀️ march 20-april 6 ☀️ sizes S-6X ☀️ pockets deep enough to fit a 24 ounce water bottle ☀️ made with certified ethical labor

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AOL reporting the NEWS THAT MATTERS

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Origins of Astonishment (circa, 1997). Digital-medium

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It’s important in weird, depressing times to have something to look forward to, and that’s why I’ve preordered Lucky Day. Knowing that this is in my future will definitely keep me going until August ♥️

BUCKAROOS ARENT READY FOR THIS ONE. LUCKY DAY is out august 12th and the best thing you can do to support authors you enjoy is to take a moment and give them a preorder.

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Oh no. MAGA is mad that the NYT shared the names of DOGE staffers. Don’t share this! Would be a shame

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Ahhhh so cute!! Those colors are so happy 🥰☀️

kicking my feet and squealing bc i just got my first pics of the sunshine cozy summer set!!!!! i love it so much 😭

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Oooo it looks like skating rink carpet 😍

new version of the 🦠 microorganism 🦠 pattern…. what should we put it on

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Being nice to someone you don’t like is not manipulation btw it’s being civil

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