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You might have seen this youtube popping up in your recommendeds over the past couple of months -- it did in mine, and I filed it away mentally as something to watch later (I think I actually put it in a tab somewhere, but I currently have 833 tabs open (on this computer, more on my phone and a few on my steamdeck) ((in fairness to me they are semi-organised, so finding the specific tab with that youtube in it would only require searching through the 396 tabs in the youtube/video/media window))). And then a couple days ago youtube recommended it again, and I thought why not, and watched it -- it is interesting, doesn't contain much information that is new to me in particular, but from there I went on to watch some more of his videos

He's an autistic man whose special interest is cleaning, so on top of running a cleaning business he also cleans the houses of people whose homes have gotten catastrophically bad due to mental illness, physical disability, etc, for free but in exchange for being allowed to record and upload the process. The majority of his videos are high-speed timelapse videos of the cleaning process with voiceover commentary, and what's striking is how empathetic and understanding he is of how people's houses end up in the state they do, to require his help. He talks a lot about his autism, his wife's ADHD, and in particular hoarding disorder, and just generally how little things that you don't handle turn into big things that you can't handle.

There is occasional advice on how to clean, but he says himself in one video: I'm not trying to teach people how to clean, I'm trying to teach them empathy. To see people struggling and think 'how can I help them?' instead of 'what a lazy idiot'

He does have some ... exaggeratedly violent jokes, where the punchline is 'this is an absurd thing to suggest I've done' but could absolutely trigger someone who has experience with people who would absolutely do those things (eg [angry-man voice] "So I told him to take that trash out now!! And he started crying and I said don't cry just take the trash out!! And then I spin-kicked him"). So if anyone is interested, be mindful of that. But it's satisfying to watch the mess disappear, and he has actual actionable advice for people who struggle with, for example, executive dysfunction, and it's just generally and genuinely nice to hear someone treat these problems with understanding and sensitivity

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mek wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 7:30 pm

I also finally remembered to ask about her claws -- she stopped shedding her thumb claw sheaths a while back and I've been worried it's bothering her. I trim those myself when they're getting too long but if there was a way to like, help her shed them then I'd prefer that. But the vet says that just happens with older cats and you just keep them trimmed, so. They did a full nail trim on her for me, so she will stop catching her claws on things for a while.

So not long ago she actually shed one of those claws, and I trimmed the other for her because it was getting long again, and then a few days ago she shed that one, too! So now all her claws are normal and won't grow into her paws

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Sometimes something hurts, but you gotta do it anyway. Sometimes something hurts and you gotta fuckin' not do that thing.

Sometimes something hurts and that's the point of it.

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Just learned a truly unfortunate word to pronounce in Japanese: "ktsushta" (靴下), "sock" ("shoe-below")

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I finished Annihilation a couple nights ago so now I'm watching the movie, and it's immediately wildly different from the book

The casting for the psychologist is perfect, though

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I was very curious to see how they were going to adapt it and I'm a little disappointed that the answer is they didn't

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God, Oscar Isaac in this is just, really really bad. I think he was given awful direction

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It doesn't help that the movie is doing the Serious Movie thing that was in vogue for a while (might still be, I don't watch many movies these days) where everyone is whispering all the god damn time

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Yeah this is straight up a completely different story

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