3 years ago today, Pearl first visited with us as catsitters.

It was a setup! We adopted her less than a week later.

March 26, 2022

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Day 20,504

Getting a fresh dryer tomorrow, as replacing the heating element in the nearly 20 year old one would cost nearly as much as the new one we have picked out including delivery, install and hauling away the old steel carcass.

A sketch of a hooded figure holding a magic wand and gesturing at a hairy humanoid who is being lifted into the air by a spell, along with assorted scattered items.

#art #doodle #illustration #wizard #telekinesis #magic #digitalmarkers #monochrome

Other languages have phrases like “rightie tightie, leftie loosie” to remember which way to turn screws/lids/etc , too.

In Spanish, the phrase is: “La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera.” or: “The right oppresses, the left liberates.”

(Now I kind of want to put this on a t shirt)

Quoting a friend on my friendly neighborhood discord-

‘I hate how every trashy or tragic event gets turned into a TV show these days and usually within weeks.  No, I don’t want to watch your hastily cobbled together exploitative “Last Days of Gene Hackman” bullshit.’

There is a very real legal argument to make about whether training AI with established works constitutes Fair Use under the law. That’s for the courts and Congress to decide.

But Meta pirated millions of books without paying. And that, my friends, is not up for debate. That’s several million crimes