It came through Chittenden Locks into Lake Union this week - all 390 billionaire-orgiastic feet of it - the very same day Meta announced it was laying off 1,400 people.

This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...

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I experimented with making breakfast empanadas this morning; a little chopped bacon, fresh chives from the garden, scrambled eggs, garlic, herbed parboiled potatoes with a little cheese; close them up and a little maple syrup wash over the crust (since I ran out of eggs for the egg wash). big success. everyone loved.

Happy Pride Month everyone

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Source: the missus (also pictured)

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same same, fishies. same same.

Suspend the nepo-baby factor, and just hit play.

Hi mltshp!
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.

What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.

So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.

So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!

The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)

If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.

An undressing in South Bend, IN
Much much more of thos sort of thing please

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Flora made a card from based on a photo of us. I think she's added a lot of feeling to it that accurately describes us

She’s still with us, but Macy only has about a week, MAYbe two left on this earth. My wife and I have been weepy and doing our best not to have a breakdown multiple times a day as it’s gone from “she’s 16 and her kidneys are failing and she doesn’t hear or see so well and her spinal bridging is starting to cause neurological symptoms so she isn’t going to live a LOT longer, to “sometimes she can’t get up on her own and sometimes we have to hold her up to poop and we can’t leave the house without her because she’ll tip over and panic so the end may be sooner than we hoped,” to “it’s time to schedule the end,” as the last few days the pain meds and kidney meds are clearly less effective and even walking is a struggle for her and she only sleeps a couple hours at a time.

So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.

Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️

👋
See y’all around the web: https://macmanx.omg.lol/
❤️

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Big Aussie Units Series #75

Humpty Dumpty in pre crack (although you could argue...) mode
Carnarvon, Western Auistralia

Have not visited


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Leica M10 x Voigtlander Heliar 50/3.5

I’ve been missing beef since it started getting so expensive, but I got three nice little stuffed peppers out of some leftover rice and a single Trader Joe’s hamburger patty last night. Felt like a win!

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It's real, unfortunately:
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Audrey Hepburn on the set of Roman Holiday, 1953
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^ Pictured above: Billionaire Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel went to Coachella with his supermodel wife, and then two days later laid off over 1,000 employees. I was one of them. So was my entire team of about 40 people.

We were the Bitmoji team at Snapchat, and except for a few people in LA, our team was completely eliminated. Acquired by Snapchat, Bitmoji remained, at least in spirit, a somewhat semi-autonomous republic within the larger company. But eventually the Bitmoji founders departed or were ousted, along with some long-time artists, and the corporate tech tentacles slowly creeped in to smother what was once a quirky creative team. I joined part way through the process, so I got to taste that fun/creative culture, but also witness its decline.

Honestly, we were all there by accident - artists, animators, and illustrators hiding in the corner of a Tech Company, quietly shocked at the generous salaries and benefits (and free lunches) we received, a contrast to the poor-paying studios and freelance illustration gigs that had come before.

The 5 years I spent there were amazing and horrible. Amazing because (1) Big Tech Salary, and (2) I got to work with some of the most fun, creative and intelligent people. No dead wood on this team. It was also horrible, because ultimately I was just making digital crap to keep users' eyes glued to an app and its advertisers. The pressure to perform and scale production was really high. I lost sleep and gained weight, and got to suffer from anxiety for the first time.

And now suddenly it's done. We're all out. Ostensibly "because AI", despite the fact that we barely used any AI in our creative pipelines, and only for non-creative tasks. I didn't lose my job because of AI, I lost it because of the *idea* that AI could do it all. And of course because Snap's stagnating stock price needed a boost.

It's honestly a relief. I've spent the last month relaxing and decompressing; I had accumulated a month's worth of unused vacation anyway. I'll eventually try to figure out what's next, but for now I have a generous severance to give me some breathing room. I'm free now, as are my fellow artists. I'm happy they can go use their creative gifts for things that are hopefully more meaningful to our society and culture.

thanks for reading my brain dump mltshp friends. That concludes my ted talk.

Not far from our house.

Tues/Wed is my weekend and I come back to Waltham. One of the best parts about being home is going for walks by the river. Last night was stunning.

check out these sweet fledgling northern saw-whet owls who for some reason were up way past their bedtime. (photo credit Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

#round #borb #fluffkins #cuddlemurderers