Lauren Hall-Stigerts

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"Battlefield" maker Electronic Arts inks $55 billion go-private deal with PIF, Silver Lake Videogame publisher Electronic Arts said on Monday it has agreed to be taken private by a consortium in a $55 billion deal, marking one of the biggest acquisitions in the sector.

Great. Yet another American entertainment property I need to boycott now that Saudi Arabia (and Jared Kushner!) bought it up.

They ruined pro golf for me. Now they’re ruining the video game industry.

Invest in indie companies: play indie games.

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lol! You should come over my house and take some tea with you. It’s a wonderful “problem” to have but it’s still a “problem”. 🤪

A look inside white thick-glazed teacup with red-brown crazing.

BTW, that new “cake batter” glazed teacup is so fantastic. It doesn’t hold as much tea as you think it would because the glaze is SO THICC. 😁

A close-up of a handmade ceramic teacup with a crackle glaze and reddish-brown accents, filled with amber-colored tea. In the background, slightly out of focus, sits a glass fairness pitcher with tea and a rustic clay gaiwan on a wooden tea tray.

The Northwest Tea Festival was wonderful! I saw so many friends I lost touch with over the last several years. I bought too much tea and teaware but no regrets. Folks seemed to enjoy my two tea bar sessions.

I’ll post some more about it later. I’m recovering today with Old Ways Tea Osmanthus Black.

I don’t know about the rest of the highways listed but the one that was closed in my city there had major structural changes with an overpass that stretched across all lanes. I’d imagine at some point you’d just need to shut down that segment for a bit.

autumn raw Puer being made by hand. the tea is cooked in a wood-fired cast iron wok by hand for about half an hour. the next step is hand rolling and then this commission of ours will be ready in a day after being dried in the sun

Awww yisss!

I’ll be at the tea bar at 2pm on Sunday! 🍵

Again, there’s nothing wrong with using A.I. to assist in the writing process. But so many are allowing their unique voices to get lost in the process. It makes me sad as someone who relies on writer voice as one way to connect with others over the internet.

I’m so tired of reading stuff that’s unedited A.I. output. It puts distance between me as the reader and the writer / the company it’s representing.

It reads as “I don’t care and I’ll let this machine talk for me.”

(Continued)

Listen, I’m not against using A.I. to assist in the writing process.

But please please please, I beg of writers to do the work so their copy doesn’t read like A.I. wrote it.

Please have a heavier hand in the editorial process and make it your / your company’s own voice.

(Continued)

It’s Northwest Tea Festival weekend! 🥳

I’m hosting the tea bar today at 11am (come learn about the six types of Chinese tea!) and tomorrow at 2pm (come taste at least three different Longjing varietals with me!):

nwteafestival.org/tea-bar

(My session descriptions don’t reflect what I’m brewing.)

Photo of a black shirt with collegiate font that says “TEAM SPIRIT” with laurels and a round pink emblem. In the emblem are the words “Boo University” and a fuzzy white adorable ghost.

I just want to know where I can get my kid’s ADORABLE shirt in an adult size. 😍👻💕

Love that neck beard action on J.D. 😂

four frame comic. first frame, a guy with a freedom shirt says : our dearly departed little angel charlie kirk was a champion of free speech and equality. he loved everyone and everyone loved him! stephie says : I did read some pretty damning things from him. second frame, guy says : that's because ugly meany leftists have been quoting him out of context! If you would listen to him you would understand. Stephie says : fine, fine. Third frame, she is sitting on a couch with headphones, silent. Fourth frame she says : wow that's even worse.

Dearly departed little angel

Stand with trans people. Protect them. Don't just watch them get harassed. Call it out, defend, and don't accept the hate as the new normal.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Hell yeah! Nice work defending the First Amendment. 🫡

Vladimir Putin sent armed guards in 2000 to shut down the puppet show Kukly for mocking him. Russia never got free media back.

Donald Trump used his FCC to pressure ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel.

If a president can silence comedians, our freedoms may never return.

Anyone who approves this hates America, democracy, and the First Amendment. They can move to Hungary, North Korea, Russia, or China if they love autocracies so much.

There… are… FOUR… LIGHTS!

He’s even wearing camo pants for the occasion. 😳

This anti-First Amendment action shouldn’t go unchallenged, no matter what we think the Supreme Court would do. We shouldn’t roll over in the face of fascism. Our country depends on our willingness to fight for democracy.

Maybe mail them an envelope of cat poop instead. 😂

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