Saw pictures of the fireworks show and for no reason at all, remembering watching Batman as a kid and thinking "LOL how does the villain take a whole city hostage??"

I finished!! Even weaved in all the ends!

I discovered I am able to rent Kdramas from my library yesterday so I got a classic.

I used to go to conventions and buy a LOT of art. This means a lot of my pieces are fandom specific and I've been slowly and steadily trying to replace them with more original art pieces from artists I like, though I did just find one in my closet that was Ghost Trick and was like "this can stay."

Been quite a week. Friday - 007 First Light release party, celebrating the company's best reviewed and fastest selling game ever Monday - Get a text from co-worker there's talk of redundancies Tuesday - Called in by HR and let go

I am finishing off the button band on this cardigan and Sissel is both model and helper.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

Looool my cat Sissel is stalking the robot vacuum/mop.

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

I love libraries. They are so great. The idea I got to enjoy this thing and then return it so it gets to be enjoyed by another is so pure.

Even if this stuff dies in court, it's bad the DOJ is allowed to harass people like this. This is happening a lot.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Morgana not only took the chair today, she also claimed my in progress knitting project.

You think cats sometimes just stare intently at nothing just to punk us and freak us out, she posted hopefully.

I was just thinking yesterday "I should get Samurai Champloo on DVD for my library" and I just found the blu-ray on my shelf. I seriously have no idea what I own and so many of my discs are anime, which is wild because I wouldn't even say I watch that much. I have pretty good taste so far though.

Today was a bad day for consciousness.

I am not made for Capitalism. Every relationship I have feels cheapened and dehumanized by the exchange of money. Everything becomes a hollow experience because it is meted out by an arbitrary quantification of worth. It makes me feel as if the only true emotion or relational value is exploitation

Daily morning panic attacks feel like a thing I shouldn't just get used to, but that is the reality of everything going on.

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

I think “social media is harmful” is maybe a more broadly acceptable way of saying “Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are very evil” but the latter is a much more accurate description of the problem

My cats have apparently never known luxuries like this chair. They both absolutely sink into it and have the deepest sleep I've ever seen.

Shout out to my new reading chair that encouraged me to take a couple hours this morning to read and cuddle with my cats before opening social media to catch up on current events and ruin my day.

Cat paws are soft squishy things but also the SHARPEST THINGS EVER as they step on your stomach with a weight far beyond what their entire body possesses.

I have reached an agreement with at least one of the cats (Sissel) that I get to sit in the chair if she can sit on me. That is already the deal with all the other chairs in this place, but I am still glad she was nice enough to offer it to me.

Part of my ritual here is to click on the trending topic and block people posting genAI images in there. I'm just going to clear that stuff out before I naturally encounter them in the wild.

not hanging out with short people in public anymore I look like your shinigami

Looool I was sitting there knitting and got up for like 2 seconds to go check something on my computer and... like I would kick her out now! Look at those eyes!! 😭

Reading in the article they were relying on AI inspection systems and staring into the camera like I'm on The Office.

I bought a chair for my bedroom because I wanted a place to sit to read a book/knit in there that wasn't my computer chair or my bed and since I placed it, there hasn't been a moment a cat hasn't been in it. I have been relegated to my computer chair again. I should have seen this coming.

This has also made it such a crapshoot to look for animal reference now online. There are so many AI videos on YouTube and that combined with how shitty the YouTube search is now where it always seems to pull up the same 5 videos means its almost unusable for this purpose.

Spending my weekend like I usually do, ignoring my obligations until the guilt and stress from time running out eventually crushes me and I am forced to take care of them to make it stop.

*Me hanging out in the rest of the apartment* My cats: ZzZzzz ≽(-˕ - ≼マ *Me going to the bathroom* My cats: OMG ARE YOU OKAY???? I am LONELY OUT HERE. You doing cool stuff in there??? When are you coming out???? I require you IMMEDIATELY!! ฅ ≽^-o-^≼ ฅ

I have so many more TV show DVDs than movies. Even when I think back on new things I've watched in the past few years, it's way more TV series than movie. I can't even recall that many recent movies unless they made a huge splash like Kpop Demon Hunters.

I detest when sleeves are too short so whenever I'm knitting something long sleeve, I sometimes make them too long because I have trouble accounting for blocking. And that is absolutely going to be the case here, I knit to the recommended length and it felt way too short so now I'm off the chart.

Every time I hear anything about BookTok, things are on fire over there, what is even going on??? Maybe it's bookclub energy meeting the algorithm which feeds extremism and going haywire??

the five discourses 1. Nobody has ever thought of this 2. Why aren’t people thinking about this 3. Why aren’t people thinking about this the correct way 4. Why are people still thinking of this 5. People who think are idiots

I laid down on the bed next to one of my cats to cuddle her and woke up an hour later. ₍^. .^₎Ⳋ _(:ι」∠)_

It is pretty surreal that genAI writing is pushed so hard when anyone who has been on the internet for any amount of time knows half of discourse is arguments about the nuances of word choices.

Being a gamedev currently means you have been trapped in "Fight or Flight" mode for at least the past few years if not longer. Your body senses you are in danger, but you can't really do either so just get to boil alive in it.

Hi there, nice to see you. Professional craftsperson here to say: THE VALUE IS ABSOLUTELY IN CREATING A PERFECT FLOWER POT YOU WEIRD GARGOYLE (1/?)

Yeah buddy, me too.

this is his gofundme btw. would encourage everyone else who can to chuck this fella a couple quid www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...

I am perpetually in the state of "thinking about replaying Ace Attorney again." Even while I'm already replaying an Ace Attorney game, I am thinking about replaying another game in the series.

Party of waiting for things to get worse so people vote for them are angry at candidates who would like to work on trying to improve things.

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at [email protected], thanks!

After a great couple of months at AGBO it looks like my contract with the company is coming to an end this Friday. So if anyone needs a Senior/mid Environment Artist with 8 years experience feel free to bother me whenever as i look for my next adventure! #gamedev www.artstation.com/klllj0y

Guess who put her face right into my chicken salad sandwich while I was in a meeting?

I think a lot of us struggle with some anxiety getting of older and I will say, every time I feel some sort of twinge in my body, my brain is immediately like "THAT MIGHT BE BROKEN FOREVER, JU LI" which is very unhelpful.

Sleeping Dogs is full of great little touches, like how you’ll knock out the front windshield if your car doors are blocked

It is a freaking heat wave and my furry heaters still want to cuddle and I love them but together we are a million degrees, please no 😭