To add to this, starting with 'can you not' is automatically framing it to people who are bothered by this as a negative interaction because the starting premise is negative ('don't do the thing').

If you reframe it in the opposite way ('do the thing') with a 'please' to soften it a bit you'll probably have more luck, eg:

'Please can we keep the dogs untangled?' ('We' also helps here because you're assuming some of the responsibility for keeping the dogs untangled rather than it sounding like you're pointing a finger of blame which will get people's backs up pretty quickly)

Not autistic but worked in complaint management for a long time and learned how to more effectively get people on side. Also have ADHD and speak without thinking a lot and it helps to understand why whatever I just blurted out annoyed someone!

Literally the main thing learned during Covid - I fucking love touching my face. It's skin picking for me.

First playthrough did a stealthy netrunner / silenced pistols Cool/Int/Tech Build which was effective enough, but didn't hold my interest all the way to the end of the game as it was just a bit detached from the action.

Current new playthrough is basically just a Mass Effect Vanguard with super high mobility, mantis blades, shotguns and some hacking for crowd control. Reflex/Body/Int build and having WAY more fun because the movement and damage potential is so ludicrous. Was tempted by the Sandevistan but wasn't prepared to give up hacking completely.

ETA: The fun in this build is probably best summarised by this text I sent my friend (who is also replaying) immediately after it happened yesterday:

"LET'S KICK THIS INTO HIGH GEAR!!" screamed the Tyger Claw, as I knee slid past him at 1000 mph and blasted him in the nards with my aggressively yellow shotgun.

This happens with me and my on-the-autism-spectrum friend who also does it. We somehow managed to have a lot of the same traits while being entirely differently neurodivergent.

Our conversations are very ehm... 'dynamic' as we have to constantly loop back to point B that got lost somewhere in the path to point E and also have you considered point M?

Nobody else can follow the train of thought.

I'm using an S while my X is off for repair - it's struggling with some things quite a bit (really doesn't like Borderlands 3) but it's been great with older titles and things that have smart delivery like Sleeping Dogs remaster, Riders Republic, Battlefront 2.

Titles such as Overwatch and Sea of Thieves run fine but look appreciably worse than they did on the X.

It's also working perfectly fine as a media machine.

It's doing enough to keep me entertained but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the X.

Hope that helps!

ETA: Haven't had any problems with the hardware breaking since the 360 era (which was VERY bad) - current problem with the X was caused by a literal lightning strike so overall that is still the case.

That sounds so frustrating! Lots of inconsiderate dog owners out there. I don't know if this is a thing where you are, but we have a thing where a yellow collar or yellow ribbon indicates a dog who needs space. Now that may not actually be true for your dogs but it might encourage some more clued-up dog owners to give you a wider berth. Doesn't solve the overall thing you were asking about but might help a bit with dog related issues.

ETA: 'Please can you help me to...' would work better for this as well.

Cassiopeia - i read somewhere as a kid (no idea where) that from Proxima Centauri, the Sun would appear as an extra zig in the zigzag and was immediately obsessed. It's also really easy to find as a big 'W' in the sky.

If you're into gaming at all, the National Videogame Museum in Nottingham was worth the trip - we went when it was fairly new so I'd imagine it's been expanded a bit since.

This isn't necessarily the case - they have a wild variety of coat colours and markings, ear floppiness is variable. They tend to have slightly wider snoots than their wild cousins.

This probably is still a wild one though.

Source: lived with someone who kept them!

I heartily recommend an unreasonably large mug. Get one big enough and it takes ages to go cold.

I'll second this, nice and smooth and feels familiar.

No idea how hot these takes are but here goes:

Roman Reigns has always been good.

I don't get why everyone loves Andrade so much, at all.

Bray Wyatt left unattended in any promotion would go about as well as Broken Matt did in pandemic-era AEW (saying that as both a Bray and Matt enjoyer).

Completely agree on Keith Lee. Same goes for Ciampa!

You are a gentleperson and a scholar - it doesn't look like what's coming up on GIS but it seems to be a huge genus, so that gives me a place to work from! Thank you!

ETA: Got it - Euphorbia Lactea Cristata, I think!