I’m a light sleeper with a loud mind, as well, so this kind of thing has always been a problem for me. The two main things I find helpful may not do the trick for you, but here goes:

First, trying to force myself back to sleep always just ramps my brain up worse and makes it more difficult than it already was to fall back asleep. I stopped trying to force the issue, which has counterintuitively sped up the time it takes me to fall back asleep. I don’t get up or engage my mind with anything significant, but if I’m awake, I’ll put soft music on my earbuds or scroll on my phone set to the dimmest setting. I may not fall back to sleep immediately, but I’ve found that lowering the pressure on myself to fall back asleep makes it happen more readily than when I spend 2 hours and 45 minutes being like “if I fall asleep right now, I can still get another 3 hours. go to sleep. fall asleep. sleep will happen… now!”

Second, I’ve increased my oversell magnesium intake. I know you said no substances, but I feel like this is different. There have been a few studies–popular science type stuff, nothing peer reviewed that I know of–indicating that magnesium improves sleep quality and the ability to return to sleep if woken up. Might be the placebo effect, but I don’t care because I’ve noticed an improvement.

Sorry you have to deal with this flavor of insomnia, too. Super sucks.

When I’m really stressed out, I’ll put on repetitive beep boop music and draw floor plans on graph paper.

Preposterous.

I do touchless, and I don't bother with anything beyond the basic wash option. That tricolor foam stuff looks fun while you're in there, but idk how much good it actually does.

I don't care about my car looking shiny and clean, but I've driven hail cars exclusively for the last 15ish years. I try keeping them rinsed off at all times to avoid anything gnarly festering in paint cracks or whatever. Every third or fourth fill-up, I'll run the car through the cheap $8-10 touchless wash, even (especially) during Minnesota winters.

I think hand-washing is the only way to go if we want our cars clean looking, but who am I trying to impress, you know?

Bullying was kinda bad in my high school, and I dreaded using the bathroom even as a cis straight dude. There was a decent chance I’d have to put up with some bullshit and a non-zero percent chance I could wind up in a fight.

What’s pictured in the article/video would have been many times better, and I might not have developed a permanent aversion to public restrooms.

Next they’ll be telling us there’s a North Carolina 🤣

I hope you fuckers like intellectual discourse about 80s ski movies, cuz @hrimfaxi_work’s comin’!

Is my trash taste welcome?

yw! I’m not sure, did you format it like this:

[!zeitgeist@lemmy.world](/c/zeitgeist@lemmy.world)?

Here’s a link that should bring everyone there:

!zeitgeist@lemmy.world

I’d personally like it better if nothing tAkEs oVEr. I’m comfortable with the internet having more than one website.

I’m uninformed about the interesting stuff from Mozilla, Tumblr, etc. that the author mentioned, but I hope it’s cool and varied.

tyfys

I can’t speak for 5.11 quality today, but I got my Rush 12 in 2010 and it’s still going strong. There were a few years there where I abused the hell out of it, too.

I’m a shoulder bag office lackey now, but the 5.11 remains my weekend bag. Other than the regrettable tacticool style, I have no complaints. The Covrt would probably be decent.

I’m a disability spouse, and this aspect of the whole scenario makes me so angry. It’s not that they’re ignorant and dismissive of people’s accessibility concerns, it’s the manner in which they’re ignorant and dismissive of people’s accessibility concerns.

I’ll spin up a humansarespaceorcs if nobody else does or if one doesn’t already exist that I can’t find. Y’all gotta promise to post tho!

I found one: !haso@sh.itjust.works