There are some Lemmy clients where you can block specific keywords, communities and instances.

What can you do to mitigate that fear? You obviously know there’s some irrationality to it, but that doesn’t mean that it would be invalid to try and dampen some of those concerns ^^

How about getting a little fire extinguisher for your kitchen? I’m confident with cooking, but I still always have one on hand just in case!

You can also try and experiment with what exactly your boundaries are. Are you comfortable making something like a soup/stew? Does it bother you to bake something? That might be more than enough for the start, and once you get comfortable with that you might even naturally want to level up to scarier stuff.

When it comes to fears, the only way to lose is not to try. Because every instance of avoiding something you’re afraid of reinforces that fear by making you think that you successfully avoided a scary situation. Even if absolutely nothing would have happened otherwise.

Good luck!

25 / F / Germany

I feel like there’s a really good amount of Europeans around, but I might just imagine that because I browse new at the times when Europeans would be awake haha

That’s so stupid, I would demand that ransom in baguettes, ham and butter instead

It will be easy once you find the right person to date.

Very few people are properly compatible with each other, and sure, good small talk skills and general “dating” abilities will keep you dating someone for longer - but why prolong the suffering if it didn’t already click naturally?

Yeah, you gotta look at a few whitekitten posts from time to time, just to keep yourself grounded

…can I take more than one?

During many Olympics, Usain Bolt sustained himself on nothing but 100 Chicken McNuggets a day, because they have a really optimal Carb to Protein ratio and are very consistent (whereas strange new food in foreign countries might be risky).

So, you’re just eating like one of the world’s best athletes.

I’d say consider playing around with the React-App template on glitch.com! I’m biased because I do React for my main job, but it is pretty easy to use and if you grab a library like MaterialUI you get some really pretty looking components without having to do any HTML/CSS yourself

the way yoga instructors speak, for some reason. I don’t hate Yoga itself, just that fake calm voice makes me pretty mad. I could relax much better if the instructor just shouted like a drill sergeant all the time

She was so ahead of her time, I wouldn’t be surprised to zoom in and see a vape pen in her hand

He’s allowed a bit of murder, as a treat

Does it work for you on Boost? I’ve blocked some communities and keywords with Boost, but sometimes they still do show up for me in New

I need this for maximum coziness in bed

damn, the recoil on that will have you speaking several Octaves higher

I might be wrong on this, but isn’t that a mouse?? The face shape seems more like a mouse than a rat to me

Could someone with rodent knowledge chime in?

Not admitting to any sort of experience here, but if any aspiring artists come across this:

Get yourself a manager. Even if you’re not that popular yet, just have a friend handle the communication, commission slot scheduling and payment processing for you. Because no matter how much passion you go into the job with, eventually you will fall into playing online therapist for a guy with a name like “VirusDog24” whose wife is pretty unhappy with the amount of money he keeps spending on commissions and who keeps asking for way too many alt versions. But you kinda have to keep him happy because he does pay so well and comes back all the time due to some weird parasocial attachment.

No matter how good the pay is, stuff like that can really pull the fun out of a hobby, hypothetically.

That’s the fun part, I don’t!

(okay maybe a little bit of Jira)

True that haha

In practice, I live by “never write any code that’s important enough for anyone to insist on testing it” 😎