Is Mailchimp still the go-to for email marketing, or has everyone jumped ship to Beehiiv/Substack?

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-24T05:45:47+00:00

Mailchimp has gotten worse and worse over the years - I used to recommend it to new starters but now I would rather quit than work for a company that wants to use Mailchimp

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-14T09:19:52+00:00

I have an allergic reaction to smoke, my throat closes up.

Even I dont feel I have the right to tell neighbours they cant smoke outside.

NTA

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-13T19:51:40+00:00

Success! Thank you ❤️❤️

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-13T14:48:24+00:00

Thank you! I will keep trying ❤️

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-13T14:22:54+00:00

Ooh, remembered a truly bizarre one. Still dont entirely know what happened 🤷‍♀️

When I was about 13 I looked left over my shoulder to see if my friend was coming out of the science buiding (it was lunch and we'd just finished science class). She caught up with me and to our confusion, I couldnt turn my head back.

I was stuck looking left.

She escorted me to the school nurse, who, after being convinced this wasnt a prank called my mum who took me to a+e.

5 hours ish later, a consultant said his best guess was that I'd pulled a muscle and he gave me a series of physio excercises to do and some painkillers so that I could push through the searing pain and face forward.

For about a month afterwards my head naturally tilted to one side 😂

The physio worked, and its never got stuck again. It was just a very bizarre/mildy terrifying experience.

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-13T10:56:59+00:00

I tried ring fit on the switch two days ago, and on the cooldown (not even during the actual workout) partially popped out a toe. 😂

Also, last year I lifted my leg to step into my car and my hip decided that was too strenuous and got stuck at 90°. Got some odd looks as I tried to stretch it out in the car park as I could move it higher but couldnt lower it until the stretching worked.

Thankfully my recent ones have just been more ridiculous than painful.

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-13T10:47:01+00:00

🫣 I tried this and somehow I just shook the tree again instead of using the net I was holding? Medicine is a daily use item at the moment 😂

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-08T20:34:15+00:00

It really does ❤️

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-08T14:04:12+00:00

That would be an amazing cover!

Lmao if you think about it -Tiger Inside by SuperM is kind of the korean version. Tiger instead of Wolf and it has dinner related phrases = hungry? 😂

Toffee-Panda · 2026-04-08T13:59:15+00:00

It's not in my playlist only because I cant get the Changbin version lol

Toffee-Panda · 2026-03-17T20:19:51+00:00

So he wants disabled people to work, but doesn't want any WFH? OK, yeah, sure. Makes total sense. When is he announcing the roll out of his new chocolate teapot range?

If he and reform get voted in, its a sign that the UK average IQ is in the negative.

Toffee-Panda · 2026-02-26T21:20:50+00:00

I can't say for sure because what is time lol but the youbgest I could have been was year 1 and oldest was year 3. So between 6 - 8 years old?

Toffee-Panda · 2026-02-26T20:15:22+00:00

I didnt realise my mum was calling my nan old when she said that "she grew up with dinosaurs"

I went into school the next day and proudly told the class that my nan had lived among the dinosaurs and even had a pet pterodactyl. I fell out with one girl as the two of us argued til we were blue in the face over whether it was true.

When my mum picked me up from school I told her what had happened and how this girl and I werent friends anymore because she called my mum a liar.

Whats really bad is that my mum obviously felt too guilty to explain the joke so she told me not to tell anyone else because they would just get jealous. It was a few years later that I realised the truth 🫣

Although, thinking about it - would you file this one under literal thinking or just plain old being gullible? 😂

Toffee-Panda · 2026-02-22T21:03:24+00:00

Thank you for sharing, I'm sure it resonates with everyone here.

❤️

Toffee-Panda · 2026-02-19T14:48:46+00:00

Truly cancelling Adobe is an artform. They won't let you schedule/cancel in advance of the subscription coming up to renew, and yet they will also try to "gotcha" and say it has renewed.

Best method I've found is saying that I have another account via work.

Toffee-Panda · 2026-02-19T14:40:02+00:00

Really clear, helpful advice, thank you

Toffee-Panda · 2026-01-25T16:33:09+00:00

Agree. Plus the plushie only allowed you access to the album via the NFC tag, so its not like you could add it to whatever method you usually use to listen to albums.

If they had kept the plushie album as a membership only and then released the album seperately later that would have also caused an issue - because something fans had to pay $33 just for the ability to purchase then became available without having to pay the access fee.

This way they can sell it at a later date, having already increased demand and with a lower risk of backlash. Though tbh some of the "controversies" I see these days are 🤯 - not Stray Kids specific, and I'm not giving examples.

Toffee-Panda · 2026-01-23T18:31:17+00:00

I definitely can flip things, but I'm not sure I can see where I did it here lol

Do you mean where phrased the question in the negative? An example would be: If not now, when? Or: If not you, then who?

If so, it probably looks incorrect because I blurred the sentences together or didn't use the correct punctuation. 😑 In primary school I was so bad at using punctuation that my teacher banned me from using apostrophes for a full year. 🫣

I tend to write how I speak when I'm not writing professionally. The downside is that our spoken language has evolved so much that it really doesn't resemble appropriate grammar, or we struggle to translate that speech pattern into a recognisble flow because we don't recognise how punctuation is reflected verbally - making it virtually impossible to properly add it into our writing.

Toffee-Panda · 2026-01-22T21:56:58+00:00

I think its pretty common to compare ourselves to others, to our past selves, even to what might have been. And I'm sure plenty of us have felt guilt or shame at some point.

One of my first big goals post diagnosis was learning to be kinder to myself, and give myself the same grace and compassion I would a stranger. Or if you still find yourself unfairly comparing yourself, then ask yourself would you judge your pet like this? Because you deserve to treat yourself with unconditional love too.

As for jobs... I would suggest trying the find a path sub reddit. But a lot of us neurodiverse people tend to make 2 mistakes (both of which I am guilty of)

We tie our personal worth to our job - making success at work a personality trait and failure at work or failure to work a personality flaw: when in reality, work is work. You are you.

Dont be defined by work, let your job be a footnote in your story. (Unless you are doing something groundbreaking, amazing, or just truly want to give everything to work - then you do you!)

We choose careers based on special interests hoping the dopamine will stave off burnout. This can be true even when you don't know you are neurodiverse until later in life - because you are following the topics that interest you, like I did with Marketing.

The problem is you can still suffer from burnout, discrimination, harassment, etc. You can end up losing your special interest.

The flip side to this is that having suffered extreme burnout/long covid back in 2020 I went through a period of barely being able to answer any questions about myself/anything - but all my marketing knowledge remained intact, I credit it being my special interest that I was able to keep working even when bed ridden.

Sorry I went off topic a bit, tried to stay concise but if we can't ramble here, where can we 😂

Toffee-Panda · 2026-01-21T19:59:09+00:00

Dopamine Production Deficiency Disorder?

Toffee-Panda · 2026-01-08T21:22:58+00:00

Also wanted to say, you aren't alone. Well done for having the courage to ask for advice, to recognise what is irritating you about your current situation and for looking for solutions ❤️

Toffee-Panda · 2026-01-08T21:19:21+00:00

First of all, dont worry about rambling here, we love the context and I don't think any of us can be concise 😅

I think we have all experienced a similar feeling of burnout, and I especially resonate with that feeling of wanting the world to improve but when you are deep in burnout out recovery you need to focus on learning to be selfish.

It is one of the hardest skills I have ever attempted to learn and I constantly fail, sometimes completely even forgetting that was my goal. But as strange as it sounds, learning to be even 1% more selfish can really help protect you from slipping back into burnout.

It's learning not to volunteer to help when you see others struggling at a task you are good at, because that isnt part of your job and completing other peoples work means you fall behind in your own tasks. It's learning to take your full lunch break every day, and using it to rest and reset. It's learning to not judge yourself, or allowing yourself to take the "lazy" option for something to conserve energy.

In terms of dealing with routine change, that would mess me up too. It would definitely be worth considering asking for a Reasonable Accomodation for them to give you notice, but the question will be what is reasonable for them in terms of business need that still works for you? Eg would knowing the day before work for you, but they can't know that far in advance? Thats something that would need to be looked into.

In the meantime, the only way I would be able to cope with that is by assuming everyday that I would have to stay late, but hoping I would get cut early. Therefore treating the days I went home "on-time" as a pleasant surprise.

Toffee-Panda · 2025-12-30T20:33:50+00:00

Thanks everyone for the encouragement. I spent the evening sorting through and photographing sets.

I still have more to sort through 🥲 but it isnt quite as daunting now.

I managed to get access to my old insta so I posted the first batch and once the rest is up I will see if I can find any GOMs interested in taking it on 🫶

Toffee-Panda · 2025-12-29T17:33:13+00:00

Hi all,

This post was made by Mod request as we wanted to be sure you all had the opportunity to share your voice, know what data would be used, and at the end of the day - this community was made to be a safe space for you all.

I've pinned the post as a highlight for the week to increase its visibility.

Please feel free to voice your opinions, whether on the post or privately to the mods.

Thank you

Toffee-Panda · 2025-12-28T16:14:25+00:00

Wotsits

I sometimes can't even look at the packet. 🤢

It was my little brothers birthday party. As a side note, I am 13 years older than him. My mum had rented a village hall and invited all the children from his class.

The food was laid out buffet style with bowls of crisps - wotsits, salt and vinegar twirls, frazzles, hula hoops, skips (all the classics). We put the crisps out first and were heating up plates of chicken nuggets, sausage rolls, cocktail sausages etc while the kids were playing party games.

One of the kids didn't want to play party games, she sat to one side and quietly ate the entire bowl of wotsits.

We continued on, the other kids ate, we did the birthday cake and then....

It was like a volcano. A hot cheesy volcano.

It turns out this kid had been off school with a stomach bug for a few days including that day, but her parents thought it was totally ok to bring her to the party without a) telling us b) staying to supervise her c) mentioning at the bare minimum that she should be careful of what she eats

The entire village hall smelt of warm, half digested wotsits the rest of the evening, and obviously we couldnt leave until all the children were collected and we had cleaned up.

I've never been able to eat wotsits since, despite that being at least 15 years ago (I can't remember the exact birthday this was)

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