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Hey all, I'm trying really hard to get better at playing the piano, but it has always been difficult for me. I end up relying way too much on my ear and muscle memory, which gets me fairly far, but then I get lost in my own thoughts and have no idea where I am / how to recover if I make a mistake. It feels like the better I get at playing something, the more susceptible I am to completely biffing it because I got there by relying on my crutches instead of actually processing it the way (I think?) it's supposed to be learned, if that makes sense. I can read music and all that, but between the attention span and the hand eye coordination issues, I start to glaze over the actual notes on the page. Any good pianists with ADHD? Any tips? I know slow and steady is the main thing, but the glazing over makes that so hard to manage. Maybe I just need to accept that this will always be difficult for me, but I would love to hear others' perspectives. (Also this community seems pretty dead, so if there are any more active non-meme ADHD communities that Beehaw federates with, please point me in the right direction!)

Sorry for the vague reaching out, but I would imagine there are others who feel the same way I do.

I like socialism. I really do. I want that to be where we're headed. But any time someone says to just "read the literature," it seems so fucking out of touch with how we're supposed to deal with the here and now.

I would like to make a real plan with people that involves not being delusional about what the majority of people in my country (the United States) are willing to do.

There's this idea that everyone actually wants socialism; they're just too afraid to say it - and that may be true. But we're a long way off (at least here) from getting that communication close to being effective, and I think until we do, no direct action is really going to get anywhere in the long term.

So how do we find people, reach people, and actually make a plan that isn't a giant fucking circle jerk? Maybe there is no answer, and we have to just keep on keeping on. But I'd love to have some hope right now, if anyone has any to offer.

(I will preface this with saying that I'm rather high right now. But I do think the general sentiment will hold up in the morning.)

The older I get, the more I value interactions by the amount of kindness involved in them.

I've always valued kindness. Growing up, I was lucky to have good role models, so it was easy.

Unfortunately, I think many of us learn from a young age that there are many situations in which kindness is not particularly valued by others. So we don't really get rid of it, but we downplay it. It's very strange when you actually think about it.

Anyway, it's nice to be in a space where that sort of thing is actively curated. We're all free to choose to interact with people who are not kind whenever we want. I imagine that many of us intentionally do so, and that can be very worthwhile in its own way. But it's nice to be able to just be(e) and not worry about all that meanness.

I've been going on about kindness, and the rule is be(e) nice. I do think there's a slight difference, but I'm quickly losing the vocabulary to describe it. I think niceness is perhaps easier to achieve when interacting with people one doesn't know?

I didn't realize how much I needed this. Here you go in case you do too. <3

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. (I was originally going to post in !rotterdam@feddit.nl but it looks pretty inactive.) I'll be in Rotterdam in July and am hoping to buy a single day ticket to the North Sea Jazz Festival. The website says they go on sale 1 February. My guess would be that the sale will begin at 10am CET since that's when the 3-day tickets went on sale in November, but the website doesn't actually specify what time the single day tickets will go on sale.

Does anyone know from past experience what time the single day tickets go on sale and also how quickly they sell out? I'd rather not have to wake up at 4am my time on a Saturday unless it's actually necessary. 😅

I remember when I first figured out I was bisexual. It was pretty cut and dry

oh wait no it wasn't; that's just how I like to remember it.

I'm getting similar messy vibes around nonbinaryness now and then. Everyone is kinda nonbinary, right?

Listened to this one when coming down from a shroom trip, and I keep coming back to it.

I recently got to visit Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and do a couple of incredible hikes. Here's the second.

I recently got to visit Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and do a couple of incredible hikes. Here's the first.

Hey, just wondering if this place is still trying to chug along or if there is a more active hiking community out there. This is the best I could find when I did a search. Happy to contribute to the best of my ability if this is what we've got!