I have a small holding company with my partner (mostly to consolidate film investments), but I'm not going to pay for quickbooks for such a low transaction company. So, I'm using plaintextaccounting.org with ledger-cli and git.

Happy to say, I'm back to teaching next session! newmoonmovementarts.com

I've been pretty laissez faire with my homelab setup (secrets in plain text, etc), but now that I'm adding a second server to it, I want to start doing things right. That means migrating to komo.do and sops+age encryption for all of my secrets.

I guess I'm also writing on substack now open.substack.com/pub/thescatt...

I wrote about why I consider myself a druid: technodruid.org/blog/why-dru...

I decided it’s time to start a blog for my learning journey. https://technodruid.org/ one small layout bug on mobile but it’ll be fixed today.

An important lesson when producing a film: make sure everyone on your team knows that a film is still a business, and general business procedures still matter. A general ledger still matters. Receipts and expense reports still matter.

My life has become nothing but spreadsheets… how did I become CFO of two different companies in one week?

Why I cancelled my Spotify account earlier this year. I regret ever even having an account.

I’ve built and rebuilt the core of the game im working on in 2 different engines so far. Considering trying it in unity, but so far bevy seems to be winning in the direction I want to go. I need to try it on-device before I decide to move forward with it.

Salesforce bought informatica. I wonder if they are going to fuck it up the way they fucked up Tableau…. My gut says yes.

I guess I'm a line producer now... I was only supposed to be the DP on this project...

I watched the new "The Running Man" today. It was alright. I would say not Edger Wright's strongest film, but a solid film which captured the dystopian future (current?) in a gritty and believable way while still keeping the over-the-top camp of the original.

I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.

I finally started to put together a linktree of all of my "things" online: me.graysonarts.com

I've been reading Ideaflow ( https://amzn.to/4oBF1Tn ) all about creativity in business, and added my distillation of the book into my notes garden https://garden.graysonarts.com/0-inbox/ideaflow/ I'd love to know, what are your idea generation habits?

Processing some photos and testing out DxO Photolab to see if it's going to replace photoshop for me. I'm liking it so far. What do you think?

It’s a huge mistake, a strategic error & will be disastrous for the DEMS in the mid-terms if they cave on the ACA.

If it feels too good to be true, it probably is.

Two really great educational opportunities in #seattle for #filmsky https://www.instagram.com/p/DQnYXdCiqWD

I still need help deciding the focus of my youtube channel. You can rank choice vote the ideas. Currently, we are tied. rankmypoll.app/election/f36...

oh oops, look like I had broken the ability to vote when I added social preview to the share link (which now seems broken, damn it) Anyway, help me decide what my youtube channel should be about: rankmypoll.app/election/f36...

Can someone help me understand why Weapons got such good reviews? It was... okay... but overall, it left alot to be desired

I've tried all kinds of tools to help me organize youtube video projects, but none of them quite give me what I want, and I could endlessly tweak them to try to get them to work the way I want them to, or... I CAN WRITE MY OWN

Today’s found footage film was “Host”. It was made during the pandemic so that framing device was a zoom seance which was used effectively to build tension. Plot was mid to non-existent, but the acting was mostly good.

Watched "Incantation" (2022) by Kevin Ko last night. It had some good parts, but it was very slow. I'm finding that with most of the found footage films. The mythology in this one was muddled, and they stole their framing device from Ringu

Stress eating? In this economy?!

We watched "Willow Creek" last night. Since it aligns strongly with the film I'm directing, I thought it would be good reference. It turned to be a reference of what not to do. 15 minutes on a single camera angle of the two leads in a tent, listening to "what was that" sounds outside. Not compelling

Hey #filmsky what’s your favorite found footage films? I’m doing a deep dive of watching in prep for the film I’m directing in January. Here are the ones I’m currently planning to watch.

Just learning about the CIA’s simple sabotage book from the 40s. Available on project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

My goal for today was to write the first 4 pages of my new screenplay. It’s a road trip comedy about a gay boy and his straight alpha male best friend traveling from New Orleans to Seattle. Not at all inspired by how I got to Seattle. Nope not at all

Help me decide how to reboot my youtube channel: l.grayson.llc/youtube-vote

Let's be honest, I just registered rankmypoll.app to use for my IRV/Ranked Choice Polling system that I just wrote. So.. I'll have to create the branding for that now...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Accidentally posted to the wrong account but I don’t want to type it all out again.

When you are going through a life change, a health scare, or anything else, keep a record of it. In writing, in voice memos, as video, whatever speaks to you. The record will be important for you as you progress through it.

#resolution time is coming up. I’m going to reopen my #accountability circle for #gay #men If anyone is interested in joining, let me know. More details by EOW. Bonus points if #seattle based

I built myself a morning drill sergeant. I've cached from Elevenlabs voices saying the things that I need it to say, and it plays strategically on different sonos speaks in my condo. I love home assistant.

100% Same experience. I grew up in the deep, deep south. Like Swamp People are from my hometown, that's how deep south.

NOT OK!! We must fight this one. First let’s get the word out about it.

Did I just turn home assistant into a morning and bedtime routine reminder rather than working in my treatment? Yes, yes I did

Outline to Treatment today, though I'm having alot of resistance working on the treatment. #scriptsky

Outlined my next script today. Treatment over the next two days. I'm so glad I have time to be part of my writing group again.

Since I've been recovering from my procedure, I spent some time reorganizing my obsidian vault tagging system: garden.graysonarts.com/meta/docs/co...

An ER visit was not in the plans for today 😞

Article in Asian Weekly about my partner's film: nwasianweekly.com/2025/10/loca... #filmsky @roadmapwriters.com #scriptsky

It’s really sad that, out of the box, @openframeworks.bsky.social does not compile on macOS. I spent all afternoon trying to get it to work just to be able to sketch out an idea that I had in a walk today.

One of the problems with having #adhd and wanting to start a youtube channel is: On what topic? 1. #Nutrition and #Fitness for #Creatives (think writers and film crew, how to eat well on set) 2. #Artistic Mindset for #Engineers (think learning to create art in public) Which one?

Excuse the low light pictures but there is something fantastic about designing a bin for a tool for organizing and having everything fit like a glove. Slowly organizing my gear. This took 5 hours to print because I forgot to reduce the infill.