Raven

days of moving a kitty with us across the country. destination, Boston

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

I've been crying and trying to figure out how to say this . We are saying goodbye to Manu-face the kittenest of faces, tomorrow. He has a severe heart murmur. He's been loved his whole grumpy, bitey, life. He's been getting his favorite food, meow mix, and new feather toys to lick, and gentle pets.

How is that hard mode? I haven't watched more than 5 movies that many times and if one of those 5 happens to be rogue one wht isn't that ok?

Today starts a week of goodbyes. The Koopa Troopa, named so by Bryan McCullough was on it's last leg, this was the first car I ever really bought, and Dad helped me pay for it. It makes me sad to leave it, but the carvana experience was flawless

Oh, I don't use social media to get my news at all

Ok but the mayor isn't a minor distraction, it's hopeful powerful news, and we need that to. The bill is actually all I've been hearing about?

I'm happily lined up with gigs through into August, and looking for some beyond that.

If you have a cool project that needs a bunch of production, a love of beautiful type and hierarchies, and 25 years of tabletop and publishing experience, drop me a line.

Glass triangle panel made with strips of yellow and white colored glass

The first of 5 pieces I’ll be selling later this summer.

These are offshoots of a project called “Limerence”. Its pieces large and meant for an industrial space, but I’ve made smaller works (“Limerent Objects”) to fund the full project and to experiment with new techniques. #glassart #fusedglass

It's beautiful

I got one last week to! But I won't be in the state anymore

Manu is 16, time for a sports car and a nice old man nap

Have you read the books they are so good, and they are coming out with fun audio dramas! We are catching up on last of us but murderbot is next

I am not a tech reporter anymore but I think it would be a public service if someone wrote an article explaining that chat bots are not “snitching” on themselves they are just doing what they do which is produce words that sound plausibly true but might not be

What if, and hear me out, what if all this but way different?

This. To be super-clear: There is NO legitimate use for large-language models (so-called "generative AI") trained illegally on other people's work: not for work, not "for fun," not at all. It's theft on top of being an ecological nightmare of resource misuse.

and fucking honestly thats not all of it but thats all im going to write right now cause i haven't gotten any of this off my chest in ages. thanks for reading the ranting

and that cool boston apartment put a charge for more money on our account and isn't returning my calls to explain what it is for and im just going to scream

but at least i managed to get out and take an amazon return in and a carload of stuff to goodwill, and read for a bit at panera before checking the news, which also presses in and I feel like i've lost all control of my life

course thats not cheap either and your playing phone tag with the management company and a bank and you feel like the world is pressing down on you when your mom calls to tell you she's had a mini stroke and is at the ER. + your birthday just passed and its also the anniversy of your fathers death

drop 9,000 on new boston apartment when you don't actually know your move date because you love it and also because you need a place to live if they do move you the first week in june? + the A/C unit in the house we own in Ohio dies and now needs replaced so the renters are COOL COOL +

I am so fucking overwhelmed. Get married, yaaay. Have to suddenly switch insurances because the Air Force auto enrolled you in TriCare without asking? + Out of date on a physical that they want you to have BEFORE they move you in less that two weeks maybe +

Oh no