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Matt Mack@matthras.bsky.social |
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Neurospicy hard-of-hearing mathematician, cellist, anime+manga+VTuber fan with a giant backlog of games and books to get through. Chronically online: matthras@aus.social, matthras@x.com, matthras.com
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My only gripe with making won tons is having the freezer space for them to freeze individually so that they don't stick together when I throw them all into a freezer bag
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TIL accessibility standards for buildings was released in 2010. Disability Discrimination Act was 1992. Yeesh.
www.industry.gov.au/...
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I thought it was crazy at first when I first had to submit an abstract for a conference that the time gap was so /large/ in between submission & the actual talk because I knew it'd be impossible for me to properly maintain my attention on it for the whole period. 😵💫 Realised it was OK to forget 😅
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Feeling a bit silly for mixing brown rice with my sushi rice but good god the carb bloating is so bad for me with just sushi rice. Basically feels like it inflates my stomach with gas and makes it confusing for me to figure out when I'm actually hungry enough for my next meal.
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Probably going to be super moody this week for reasons I don't think I can talk about publicly. Bleh. Deep breaths, taking it slow, post positive content, encourage others, keep myself distracted, quiet meditative moments to reflect. And maybe lots of napping.
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Wanting to see Inside Out 2 (and maybe Deadpool & Wolverine) but cinemas STILL haven't gotten their shit together to offer convenient & more available captioned sessions. 🙄 Just one of many reasons (+ subscription hell) that I've stuck to anime+streamers, I guess. 🏴☠️
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Not only did he notice and recognise my body language due to knowing somebody similar, but he also asked the question in a casual way like in any normal conversation with a genuine sense of curiosity and demonstrating awareness. And I wish I had more conversations like those.
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Nice moment yesterday: Sat down at lunch next to an old guy, turned towards him to make conversation, and his first question was "So how long have you been wearing the hearing aid?" You guys, I'd never felt so validated in that moment.
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Finished playing at friend's dad's funeral. Many heavy emotions, enough mistakes for me to have a small tantrum in the car afterwards, but I tried, and enough people expressed their appreciation in a way that I genuinely felt validated (which is hard for me these days). Sigh.
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Playing (my cello) with recorded accompaniments is so hard for me. idk how people do random karaokes and sing along with the backing and seemingly stay in time with it. Figuring out why will be interesting, but first guess is lack of familiarity with the piano part.
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Formally due to licensing restrictions she can't formally have archived ones of non-approved music (usually non-Japanese) on her channel, but searching her name + "unarchived karaoke" should bring out re-uploads by others.
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Something I've been enjoying recently: A new VTuber recently debuted who is undoubtedly a classically trained singer and prominent voice actor (and is British!), and her karaokes have been a delight to listen to
Here's a link to one of her archived ones: www.youtube.com/watc...
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Much of today's news (and commentary) is forcing me to stay off social media today, making me too moody. Posting to hopefully encourage/remind someone else to do so as well. Lots of cello practising getting done, though!
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Oiled one of my cutting boards yesterday. Thinking about all the random moments/experiences that led me to consider doing it: applying finishing oil on wood model kit, a couple of Instagram reels talking about it, noticing that said cutting board looked a little too dry.
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I've happened across a bunch on Threads, but understandable if you're not keen on another social media platform.
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Oh, oh, @andyperfors.bsky.social , after the end of one, a (high school) student walked up to me and thanked me for disclosing having neurodivergent traits, mentioned she has ADHD 😁
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Successful workshops given yesterday. Now to churn through more admin and practice cello furiously because a friend's father passed away and the funeral is this Saturday and she asked me if I could play. 😤
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Apparently I had annual leave banked up, but I always assumed I just didn't have any because I'd only worked casual/contract jobs before my current fixed term role. Sigh.
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I'm going stir-crazy because my dumb creative brain has decided "Hey you're giving a workshop tomorrow and you HAVE to photoshop/draw as many custom images as possible to make it SO unique!!" so enjoy a selected bunch I made today without context while I go take a shower.
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Current First World Problem: Because I know a little bit of photoshop and can do some amateur drawing, any presentation slides I make these days I have to fight the urge to want to come up with designing new/unique themes/pictures for the presentation. Need fewer time sinks 😭
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Plan for today is to attempt to conquer one of my mental hangups: making/kneading dough by hand. Planning to make flatbread today since I've got fancy olive oil + dukkah, but hoping to eventually extend this to pasta + rice noodles.
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I'm half anticipating you to hold up a coin some many months later 😛
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1. Handwashing my Instant Pot's bowl, because I'd mentally chained on additional stuff I wanted to cook that needed it. 2. Clearing out browser tabs and putting into Bookmarks, because there are some loose ends I need to tidy up but finding the right tab was starting to prove annoying.
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This past week proved frustrating for me since I had to once again debug my brain's thoughts and figure out what tasks I needed to do so that I could mentally move along with what I wanted to do. Thankfully I'm over that hump now. They were:
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Volunteered for a study today (to improve hearing aid recommendations) and was reminded of how I struggle with certain survey questions due to their genericness, or due to overthinking the context 😅 Very grateful to the researcher for having the patience to clarify them 🙏
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So in general, to me, they don't feel like they're worth the effort. Anyway, going to try and shelve these thoughts until I find people I can comfortably discuss this with.
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Having a bit of an existential mental crisis regarding academic talks. But a lot of self-guilt is not being able to engage with most of them for a myriad of reasons: accessibility, relevance of topic, speaker capability, talk design, and so on.
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With the whole of rising cost of living thing it's been fun to do some mental maths/estimation whenever I do any kind of shopping (grocery, supermarket, pharmacy) 🥰 Recently I also started looking at ingredient composition and factoring that in too e.g. peanut butter
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There's something about writing lesson plans and slides that my brain seems to deeply loathe and churns very loudly on, and I haven't been able to put to words as to why. Is it the condensation/summarising of information? Maybe it's opposite to my thinking? Insight welcome 🤔
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Just occurred to me that usually I like to play roguelike deckbuilders as kinda a 'zone out' game while having a stream going on in the background, and maybe I could replace that with actually reading the giant pile of accumulating physical books 🤔
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Current first-world problem: I'm actually out of roguelike deckbuilder games in my Steam backlog. Last one I played was "Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles" and I really enjoyed it. But it is an order of magnitude more complex than Slay the Spire, not that it was an issue for me.
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Boo, sore throat + cold /flails wildly Yet somehow my brain's like "Let's be super productive today given how much of a useless lump I was yesterday!" Seriously I could NOT focus on any kind of work yesterday asdfjkasd;flk Thank goodness for WFH/slow work period.
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Bad Thing Today: Went out to lunch with family, but many small things going wrong led to me being annoyed/overstimulated and needing an afternoon nap, which I took.
Good Thing: I found the crochet tutorial I was looking for in my browser bookmarks: www.theknittingcircl...
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It's Saturday 3pm and today I've finished my final backlogged tax return and spent like 90 minutes chopping up veggies to make 5 batches of mirepoix to freeze. Clap for me, dammit 😤 As exhausted as I am feeling now, future Matt will be thankful 🫡
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Once again my brain is wide awake on a Friday evening. I guess I'll go finish my final backlogged tax return after spending all day categorising all my transactions (with lots of procrastination and randomly falling into a 2 hour nap afterwards). Good god that was boring. 🙄
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Severely itching to emotion/trauma-dump some education stories in private and in person (at least talking it out live) with a fellow tertiary maths educator 🫠 Anyway, back to doing my backlogged tax returns. I've at least got something going in the slow cooker.
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Turns out one really can't skimp out on a quality education via a bootcamp even though I do acknowledge unis/colleges have their own problems in tandem.
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I remember following Lambda School in it's early stages because working at a university I was curious to see what they'd do differently. Then things went quiet and I saw some of the lashback happening, and that was it.
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2/3 backlogged tax returns done and sent off to accountant. One more to go 😤 You'd think it'd be so simple, but when you do odd contract jobs, dabbled in shares/ETFs, randomly donate to things, have work expenses, they all add up 😵💫
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Sums up my sentiments perfectly, really 🙃
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"Darn it, the Stockholm syndrome missed this guy!"
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Figured out how to conveniently make sushi rolls my way: - Cook rice separately, freeze in small tupperware where 1 box of rice is enough for 1 sushi roll. - Prep ready-to-go filling & nori. Then I can microwave rice to make 1 sushi roll to go in < 5 minutes on demand.
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What I'm finding in my own internal mental process is that it's /really/ easy to get distracted by what's on the list such that it's harder to think about what's missing unless one of the two above conditions are met. Hence my asking the above question 🤔 2/2
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I'm wondering how to think about when someone gives you a list of things and you're trying to think of what's missing. Two avenues I can think of so far "There's something I want/experienced that isn't in the list." "I already have knowledge/experience of the full scope." 🧵1/2
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Anyway I've found that the best way to deal with this kind of thing is to try and keep myself distracted for an extended period of time so that my brain can stew on the emotions in the back of my head. So now I have a ragu simmering on the stove. 😋
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Feeling moody, because I don't know enough about something in a non-maths area, and that's to be expected, really. Huge contrast to anything in maths where I seem to at least have an internal confidence that I'll figure it out eventually. Shoo, emotions, shoo!
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The more general problem is that I don't know my upper bound of "things I like to have" so I don't know how my stuff should be organised (and thus have a lot of clutter), because there's always the chance of getting something new that doesn't fit into existing storage 😵💫
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Wondering how others manage their space when they're not sure how many variants of something they'd have e.g. spices & flavourings. Like I could have a spice rack, but at some point I might have more spices than it could fit b/c of new recipes. 🤔
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Just realized that because the stuff I draw/Photoshop is pretty amateur, it's very unlikely that I'll be accused of using AI to generate my "art" so maybe I shouldn't bother to improve my skills on that front /s 🙃
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There's also a little bit of the 'tism that makes it harder for me to express myself in a similar manner, so am grateful to Grant for saying the things that I might otherwise have to pull a few silent tantrums over trying to get out of my brain 🫡🫡🫡
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