Jody Fox

"There is this crazy thing that Generation X did"...🤣

Mind Blown ... Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si… via @YouTube

@femaleuncle @ItsCaspius That is an amphetamine.

@ItsCaspius I’m on Ritalin

I keep talking about it but getting on adhd medication as an adult has been an insane experience because I legitimately did not know that other people just like. Lived like this. Like not having loud mental chatter and friction with everything ever??? Blows my mind.

@KeruboSk This is a Barnem statement ...

People with ADHD experience something called demand avoidance. The more someone asks you to do something, the harder it becomes to do it. Even if you WANT to do it. It’s not defiance. It’s not laziness. Your brain perceives the demand as pressure, and pressure triggers a freeze response. Someone nagging you to do the dishes? Now you physically can’t, even though you were about to do them. It’s not you being difficult. It’s your nervous system protecting you from what it sees as a threat.

@RockChartrand 20 years in the NHS taught me this is 100% true ... Zero accountability for failure amongst the middle management class. Plus they all close rank and cover for each other lest the finger of blame gets pointed at them next.

One of the most persistent myths is that public services fail because they’re “underfunded.” In reality, many are saturated with funding but starved of accountability. When spending rises and outcomes stagnate or worsen, the problem isn’t a shortage of money. It’s how that money is insulated from consequences. Bureaucracies don’t operate on profit and loss. They operate on budgets and incentives. Failure doesn’t shrink them. It often justifies expansion. So the cycle repeats: poor results → demand more funding → more waste → worse results. Then the explanation is recycled: “we just need more.” If a system can continuously grow despite declining performance, the constraint isn’t funding. It’s the absence of discipline and basic competence.

So satisfying 😁

Getting my Knuckles done : )

Should you buy Fenders Cheapest Squier Telecaster for £149 ? youtu.be/DlZjzyXo-r4?si… via @YouTube

When I was young and stupid, I asked my WOS teacher (Polish civics class): “If alcohol is so harmful, why doesn’t the government just raise taxes on it really high? People would drink less, and the state would collect more money.” My teacher answered: “Because if the price gets too high, people don’t stop drinking, they just find workarounds. They buy from the gray or black market instead. That means the government loses tax revenue, and far worse: unregulated bootleg alcohol isn’t checked for quality or safety, so you get more poisonings from methanol and other contaminants.” That single conversation taught me more about unintended consequences and human incentives than 90 % of today’s politicians seem to understand when they push for mandatory ID verification and social media bans. People respond to incentives. Raise the barriers high enough and demand doesn’t vanish... it simply shifts underground, often into places that are harder to monitor, less safe. The policy looks good on paper, but the real-world result is usually the opposite of what was intended. (It is already happening in Australia btw) Different issue, same fundamental pattern If you really care about the kids you should stop the digital ID and age verification, and I say this even tho I'm against kids being on social media

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