Emily Abele

While I was in the garage doing this, one or multiple cat knocked over a lamp and one or multiple cats (I witnessed one) decided to eat some—I did not name this plant—wandering Jew, which is MILDLY TOXIC so instead of finishing this I’m on Fig Watch

It definitely needs help, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to save it entirely, but the plan is to try!

The one leg is…not coming off. Which is a bummer but I’m seeing if I could work around it

Anyway instead of writing I’m working on my writing desk

There is incredibly local-to-me book/publishing drama happening on threads

Oh my life is different now.

Oh god I’ve become the meme. I’m running errands tomorrow and thought ‘I’ll get a coffee, it’s nice to sometimes have a coffee I didn’t make at home’ (I do not often get ‘little treats’ when out, because they’re expensive).

That $6-7 good coffee is a luxury.

Larry, I’m on Ducktales.

We did for sure. I don’t understand the obsession with using Discord for work, especially when Slack is also free.

The best way to mindfully use (generative) AI is to not use it at all, and to use your own brain instead.

Improve yourself inside and out.

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

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In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.

3/4

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

2/4

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

🧵 1/4

Write to or visit your MP asap. Absolutely fuck this.

I firmly believe discord is the worst way to run a production. It’s messy and not made for it, and I hate doing it. Close second is Dropbox+Gchat and nothing else. What the hell was that. Had me uninstalling MY PERSONAL SOFTWARE just to have enough space for a project smh.

I want to work with more indies, I do, but I need the people running those projects to understand that you cannot just say “I’m excited to work with you!!” without discussing expectations, rates, scheduling, etc

I’m not joining your Discord server until you confirm the pay, fam.

There’s a nearly sure-fire way to make sure your artists are available and easy to communicate with, but most people aren’t gonna like it if I say what it is

When in doubt, て form

The war on Kansas begins

Thanks!

It’s one of those things that doesn’t really come up in reviews and then I get blindsided 😂

How fleshy is the sound design because I want to watch it but I also almost threw up during Mad God because it was…so fleshy.

I’m hoping I don’t mess it up 😅 fingers crossed

Soon there will be others. Soon.

Genuinely how I’d like my yard to be. It’s small and would need some pavers so I can get to the established bushes and such, but a yard of wildflowers? Choice.

Nearly inescapable with the amount of forewards he’s done. He lurks.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

Keyboard saga update: I’m building it myself 😅

Honestly the keyboard search is really solidifying the theme of ‘you cosmically cannot have what you want, ever’ in my life.

I’m out of things to compromise on here.

Ignoring the keyboard crisis of my own making, it’s time to run and time a 5k to see how badly I’ll do next Sunday at this race lmao.

Will I finish? Yeah. But will I do better than my usual average? TBD.

Oh yours is so cute!!

Mine’s deceptively chunky, but I do like how little there is to the edges because my skin can be weird about plastic (cool master is aluminum, which is lovely).

A ‘true’ 60% with arrow keys and a right-hand shift…elusive. Mysterious. Perhaps Sasquatch-like.

I am starting to resign myself to the fact that if I want my true 60% layout with arrow keys, I’m gonna have to build this thing myself.