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From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.

Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.

Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.

Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily

Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don’t obscure the view!

If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.

Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom

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I have always had a soft spot for the sheer derpiness of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. Something about their ridiculous, goofy faces and proportions just speaks to me on a spiritual level.

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Frederic Wierum, fredward95 on instagram, Fred the Dinosaurman on youtube. May 18th 2023. Zookeeper with Allosaurus.

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I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

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Ahhhh, lookit him! It’s so nice seeing him in color, even “inaccurate” as it is. You’re really making me want to do one of those Draw This Again challenges with him. Thank you so much Not being able to find the crab was puzzling, as my reference photos were pretty distinct. And no wonder, it looks like not only is that an uncommon name, but the taxonomy has jumped around a couple of times since then too. And not just species but genus, it’s now Goniosupradens erythrodactylus

30 Day Phyla Challenge- Day 24: Arthropoda

Dancing crab man. Was going to color it because he’s based on the Hawaiian Rainbow Swimming Crab and they’re super gorgeous animals but I can’t focus worth beans and this was hard enough.

Day 1: Porifera- Chondrocladia sponge. Day 2: Placozoa- Treptophax adhaerens. Day 3: Ctenophora- Cestum veneris. Day 4: Cnidaria- Orange Sea Pen and Charnia. Day 5: Dicyemida- Unspecified Osmosis Jones crossover. Day 6: Chaetognatha- Unspecified Arrow Worm. Day 7: Platyhelminthes- Two Pseudoceros flatworms. Day 8: Cycliophora- Symbion pandora playing Monster Hunter. Day 9: Gastrotricha- Cleaner pets for merfolk. Day 10: Rotifers- More cleaner pets for merfolk. Day 11: Gnathostomulids- Dragon. Day 12: Entoprocta- Another dragon. Day 13: Bryozoa- Caberea zelandica merfolk. Day 14: Brachiopoda- Lingula sp. merfolk. Day 15: Nemertea- Baseodiscus hemprichi. Day 16: Phoronida- Tubeworm. Day 17: Annelid- Riftia pachyptila Day 18: Mollusca- Micromelo undata. Day 19: Priapulida- Ottolia Day 20: Loricifera- Pliciloricus enigmatus. Day 21: Kinorhyncha- Mud dragon merfolk pets. Day 22: Nematoda- Unspecified sp caught by Arthrobotrys Day 23: Nemotomorpha- Horsehair Worm knotted bow  Day 24: Arthropoda- Hawaiian Rainbow Swimming Crab.     <-You are here

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life hack from art school: instead of saying you cant draw something or that you dont like something about your art, just say the element “wasn’t working”

had to change a pose because it was too difficult to draw? it “didn’t work” compositionally!

feel like something is off about the background? it doesn’t suck, it’s just not working for the piece!

art is all about finding ways to convey an idea or emotion in a VERY subjective way, so thinking about it in terms of “working/not working for this piece” instead of “good/bad” is very helpful for me personally. it’s a small step you can take towards having a healthy outlook on your work!

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Not to be all One Weird Trick This Ex-Tumblr Employee Discovered About Garlic, but I saw someone commented on my paprika post that garlic and onions make them sick.

My wife has an allium intolerance. If she eats garlic, shallots, scallions, chives, or raw onions she gets an upset stomach, etc. Cooked onions are fine, though. For the longest time I just had to omit those ingredients from the food I cooked for her.

One day we were at a bar and we ordered some food and asked for no garlic in one of the dishes. The bartender put in the order and asked if garlic makes us sick, and my wife said yes, and explained the allium thing. The bartender said his wife has the exact same thing, and he found out that freezing garlic first seemed to alleviate her symptoms.

So I went and tried it. I was cooking a polenta and put some frozen garlic in it. My wife came home and I asked, "Are you sure you want to try this? It's pretty garlicky." and she tried it and said "This doesn't taste like garlic at all." And I knew that it definitely did. I could smell and taste the distinct flavor of garlic, but to her there was a complete absence of any garlic flavor that she knew of. It makes me wonder if freezing garlic breaks down a compound that I don't even notice because I've never had issues with garlic.

Anyways, I freeze my garlic and shallots now, and my wife can eat those without issue. Sure it's not the same as fresh, but we can both enjoy it this way.

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Hey, so there's a post of yours that's six years old, a picture you didn't have the focus to colour; mind if I take a swing at it? From the "30 day phyla challenge", "arthropoda".

Oh wow, I just got this. Sorry if this has been sitting a while Thank you for asking and yes! Knock yourself out! Just link me to it when you're done please, I want to seeeee

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For a while I was thinking about how despite being the type species of the order Asparagales, Asparagus is weird and doesn’t really look much like other Asparagales, which tend to have liloid strap-shaped or triangular leaves while Asparagus looks superficially fern-like and and feathery.

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Later I ended up figuring out that the resemblance is in their new shoots! If look at a Haworthia or Agave’s flower spikes they look very asparagus-like in the early stages and are flanked with scale leaves. An Agave’s basically looks like a massive version of the asparagus shoots you would see in the stores.

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Looking even further, apparently asparagus foliage isn’t leaves, which is why I was confused initially (monocots are more likely to have parallel leaf veins than branched veins) and are just modified stems that have taken the place of leaves for photosynthesis known as phylloclades. Other plants with phylloclades, or cladodes includes various cactuses like prickly pears or holiday cactuses, and Kalanchoës like the Mother of Thousands.

There isn’t a greater point to this post. I just wanted to talk about Asparagus and plant biology.

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no one:

asexuals before realizing they’re ace: isn’t it weird how we call people “hot” when we just mean, like, pretty? it makes it sound like you actually feel hot when you see them. which isn’t a thing. anyway

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"Why do you even use Grammarly? Aren't you a professional?"

I've discussed this before, but like Pro-Writing-Aid, Grammarly is a tool I like to keep in my writing toolbox for various reasons. Grammarly is not great for fiction writing, but it's good to keep on hand for business emails. Which, unfortunately, I have a disgusting amount of these days. I'm a wordy person; Grammarly cuts my emails in half. That is a good thing.

Sometimes it inserts itself into my fiction writing, and I get a good laugh out of the suggestions it makes. Like "complex cock" or "hammering erection." Other times it will actually catch a run-on sentence or where I've missed a comma here or there that I would have otherwise missed.

Pro-Writing-Aid is better for fiction writing and has a better understanding of context (in as much as a piece of software can), but even then, I mostly use it to catch run-on sentences and a few other things I struggle with as a writer with ADHD.

I do not rely on either program to write, nor do I write to appease either piece of software. Which is a mistake I see many first-time and inexperienced writers making. You are not supposed to rely on these programs for writing; you're supposed to use them to back up your own knowledge. They will never replace editors or a human with a good grasp of grammar and sentence structure, but they can be helpful in a pinch. And when you write as much as I do some weeks, having something point out where you've used a comma instead of a semi-colon, or you've confused a homonym, which are things that happen to even us professional writers, it can be useful to have on hand.

It's a tool. And just like any other tool, you need to know when it's appropriate to use it. You wouldn't attempt to do brain surgery with a chainsaw, or at least, I hope you wouldn't. But hey, what you do in your mad scientist lair is up to you. I'll be over here, occasionally breaking out a hammer when I need it.

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"This crystal is good for such-and-such organ!" oh yeah name 3 of that organ's functions

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it is past time we jettisoned the useless false dichotomy of introversion vs. extroversion and just accepted that everybody has a minimum amount of social interaction, failing which, they get really weird. and everybody has a maximum amount of social interaction, exceeding which, they get really weird. these levels are different for everyone, for a variety of reasons, and have no moral dimension. and that is all.