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- shellie20
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Just eight years ago, I was over $100,000 in the hole after caring for two terminally ill family members. After they died, my finances were left in ruins my career stunted. I thought I would never recover from that. At times, I was so desperate, I really didn’t think I could actually make it another day physically and mentally. Hopelessness started to get louder in the background, I’ve nearly given up too many times to count.
After those two back-back tragedies and an even more chaotic breakup, I emerged into complete chaos. COVID, union strikes in the industry I work in, and tech that has completely turned Production on its head. I don’t know how but I found new love through all of that, and had a little more hope in the tank.
Nonetheless, my stomach‘s been in knots for years now, waiting for the hammer to drop with layoffs or restructuring. In the latest round, I’ve survived again, which I’m truly grateful for. But the year is upon years of unease and unstable job market has pushed me to the point of extreme saving. I was just desperate to climb out of that hole just in case I lost my job and couldn’t find another fast enough.
I didn't want to go down without a fight. I knew all the little things would stack up if I just took on one challenge at a time. I was on a mission, focused — I do my own hair, nails, stopped spending so much on alcohol, eating less food in general and definitely eating out less, I drive a super old car (almost embarrassing) no frills, no treats, it was extremely restrictive living for maybe a little too long.
Today reached a new benchmark today with Only $1900 of credit debt that I'll put to need next week. I don’t have a mortgage or a car loan and no student debt. For the first time in my life, I feel like I can breathe.
Now I need to learn how to relax, maybe go on a vacation, and allow myself to enjoy life because it's been about surviving instead of actually living.
It sounds cliché, but things do get better.
- Keep that lifestyle up. There’s nothing quite so calming as having a good financial cushion.monNom
- Cushion. That's the next goal. But digging my way out of debt was a great first step.shellie
- You ever see typos on here and think, I never should have typed that on my phone? That's basically me every time on this site now.shellie
- Keep your spirits up. I've been in that mood for over two decades. Sometimes it's really tiring, but you must never give up!OBBTKN
- Amazing. Definitely take some time off for yourself!Squiddy
- Fuck yeah! This awesome Shellie!thumb_screws
- respect.renderedred
- Fantastic on all accounts; (fiscal) health is wealth!!!ideaist
- DAYUM that's crazy, sorry to hear!
When you hit zero, treat yourself to something nice, then blow past zero to have a cushionProjectile
- Nairn3
Idle Thoughts
What if we were simply gifted intelligence and a voice to sing and bring joy to nature herself?
We've weaved a bit from this.
- Then we need have rotten fruit thrown at us, booed off stage, and never booked again.Continuity
- Eh, we'd just start living off rotten fruit and boos and become more terrible, then lesser terrible people would pay more for the show.garbage
- likely the definition of a shaman per se .. icaro = magic song.... weaved so far from this that the planet is so fucked we probably get all grilled..neverscared
- Isn't this the premise to The Little Mermaid?palimpsest
- Continuity5
- holy fuck. Now that's a foreskin.Ianbolton
- Scarabin posted this a few times back in the day.Continuity
- NSFW thanksrobthelad
- The year ’s at the spring,
...
The snail ’s on the thorn;
God ’s in His heaven—
All ’s right with the world!palimpsest - Lolz; THIS image woke me up AND perhaps NOT in a great way...ideaist
- *.bmpNairn
- QBN Foreskinutopian
- DuneGabriel
- ^ lol!Continuity
- set?garbage
- ^ffflol, oh my.Nairn
- LOL front page foreskinAkagiyama
- Nairn3
Signs your getting old?
The most melancholic thing about ageing is, I think, seeing people much younger than you growing old too.
I've just seen a video taken by someone I knew over fifteen years ago - a beautifully-talented musician who sings in English and French - and .. well, now she's fifteen years older. She felt like she was practically a kid when I knew her, and now she's approaching her forties and is ...well, not that far removed from this old git here with the earned creases and lines described by time.
A stark reminder of my own ageing that I wasn't expecting when I randomly clicked on her facebook storything to see what she's up to.
- Yeah, I hate this. I have younger siblings and the other day was like damn my little sister looks old.cannonball1978
- uncomfortably existentially paralysed while locking eyes with someone who looks exactly like one of your good friends 25 years ago is getting old tookingsteven
- PonyBoy5
blog
I've been whining and crying like a little bitch about winter, begging for spring / summer... It's 'sort of' here (everything is blooming but it's still in the 40's / 50's F). On top of that I just ripped a deer tick out of my belly... little fucker left his sticker in there... my wife has already got the prescription for doxycycline on it's way. :/
- My wife JUST got "ticked" on the weekend; lolz.
What a time to be alive, eh!?ideaist - You miss the Phoenix hellish sun, isn't it?OBBTKN
- Usually if you get it out fast enough you won't have to worry about anything. Did the pink ring already start to form? M or Female tick?canoe
- I'm somewhat ignorant about ticks other than I know by it's size it was a deer tick—small pink ring has formed but it's not too bad—and yes I miss Phoenix. <3PonyBoy
- As a former denizen of the dirty south, I'll just put some tick facts into the void:garbage
- Do not rip them off in a panic. They've already got you, and you need to use precision tweezers. They'll be there when you get home.garbage
- There's an old school method of lighting a match, blowing it out and putting it on the tick. Never, ever do that.garbage
- The tick will release out of pain, but it will also vomit inside you or whatever dog you're trying to help.garbage
- And um.. stay Lyme Ponyboy.garbage
- My wife JUST got "ticked" on the weekend; lolz.
- PhanLo9
- :)))palimpsest
- LolYakuZoku
- flol @ paliContinuity
- Straight to HULUutopian
- Franc Jamesorobthelad
- exador11
What are you listening to?
ok, I'll admit I'm insanely obsessed with this one...
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it's like a weird toxic mix of english boarding schools, fight club, bullying and christ knows what else... might be the best music video I've seen in years... the choreography at the end is so next level i don't have words to describe it...
- and although the music isn't what i normally listen to (i'm more a Pink Floyd guy) i can't get this song out of my head...exador1
- Christ that is AWFULGardener
- < The video is great, particularly the last 3rd. The choreography is incredibly effective.Morning_star
- suxneverscared
- Bro I came her to post this just for the choreography, then was like "eh it probably won't sail here." I'm in agreement though.garbage
- cool story broneverscared
- i dont get the hypemilfhunter
- this months Angine de PoitrineGardener
- @garbage lol, thanks dude :) yeah, i should have known it wouldn't fly here lol...exador1
- and that's cool too... I'm 54, and my taste in music usually leans more to things like 'PF, Sabbath, Rush, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros etc..exador1
- but for whatever reason, I thought the direction, choreography, music etc of this vid was just amazing... the director is Romain Gavras...exador1
- same guy that directed 'bad girls' for MIA..which i also was mildly obsessed with when it came out :)exador1
- I thought we didn't yuk people's yums in this thread, but hey. I actually quite like this - I've had it on a few times in the bg, sans video and it works for meNairn
- I think the video greatly enhances the song. The song by itself is good, but paired with the visuals makes it much better. OH MY GOSH vibes from Jamie XXstoplying
- Aye, stoplying!
I was also thinking the likes of King Krule.Nairn - @stoppy then it probably shouldn't shock you that Roman Gravras directed both of those videos.garbage
- autoflavour8
"foreskin"
Schindlers Foreskin
- too soon?autoflavour
- nah, that snip has sailedMrT
- i see what you did thereautoflavour
- Thank goodness, that’s all I haveMrT
- Cut it out, you two.Continuity
- slappy1
Artificial Intelligence
Being that these tools change so rapidly, it would be useful if people could share what they are using and how they are building it into their work processes.
We are using Claude cowork to setup projects for each client and drop in all their brand guides, positioning, tone of voice docs and generate a brand-kit.md file for Claude to reference when doing research or writing copy.
Weavy (Figma Weave now?) to do node based image generations with LLM nodes to take the brief and write the iteration instructions etc. Mainly for brand mockups etc so you you pump out 10 placements at a time.
We also use Nano Banana Pro (via Krea.ai) to extend photoshoots, where we create the main suite of images and then use the banana to roll out additional views as required.
Its easy to waste a lot if time playing with new tools, but if they don't make your work better or faster than they end up being more of a hinderance.
- GPT image 2.0 just buried Nano Banana.
It's going too fast, impossible to keep up with these tools.ApeRobot - the fuck is an .md file? how does a brand kit in Claud help with client work? I’m not being snarky. I run an in house production studio and I’m curiousmonospaced
- How do you use it for brand mockups exactly?monospaced
- in my case, i feed all the brand guidelines and all my design files into Figma Make, then, when i get a new project, I'm able to whip up a fairly decentexador1
- prototype that uses all our brand colours, fonts, components etc ... which helps when presenting to some of the stake holders here.exador1
- @mono an .md file is just a text file with some standardised formatting so help create a hierarchy for LLMs to better understand the structure.slappy
- We use it to apply logos, colours, layouts to common mockups like hats, t-shirts, bus shelters, rock posters, laptops, phones, hoarding what ever.slappy
- The node based approach means the logo doesn't get changed by the image generator, colours remain consistent. https://weave.figma.…slappy
- .md is Markdown, an HTML shorthand created by John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame. Widely-used in tech circles, easy-to-learn if you're web-savvy.evilpeacock
- I’m so left behindmonospaced
- mono: Dive Club podcastuan
- GPT image 2.0 just buried Nano Banana.
- _niko5
RIP of the day
John Garrett old-school goalie.
I loved these old mask designs, so much more graphic vs todays's airbrushed bullshit.
- Ah the sweet memories. Those face masks, the weight of those pads, Cooper gear...stoplying
- They had more mask real estate to paint before wire cages.BK
- sick mask designmilfhunter
- Ianbolton3
making beats
Finally uploaded a new track
https://soundcloud.com/ianpaulbo…- Fun!skinny_puppy
- It’s fun creating them. Maybe I need to promote it more. Keep trying to work out how I’d play any of it live too.Ianbolton
- palimpsest2
Romania calling
Pour one out for the homie!
- Oh hell no, I'm not clicking that!Continuity
- Trust me!palimpsest
- Oh, no, no.
More "A iu ca iu a iu ca iu"?
Nope!Continuity - This is more on the funky shoegaze tip.
Trust. Me.palimpsest - And pour one out for the homie.palimpsest
- https://giphy.com/gi…YakuZoku
- Rodian G.A. is thee GOATkingsteven
- pseud4
Dune
Hope it's ok to bring this thread back to the top, as I just came across it. Any true Dune fans here? Not the movie specifically but of the books and the universe. It's probably one of the most influential books of my life to be honest. Its themes and matters are so relevant today (AI, sustainability, power, dickhead leaders, etc.) and I sometimes wonder whether the world today is shaped by these books and others. Herbert must have been considered an incredible visionary back then. Like the idea of Liet-Kynes, the imperial planetologist, that's incredible. I wonder why such role doesn't exist today, as we sure need it?
- To the top, build the hype – The third will be the movie of the year atleast for meArchitectofFate
- Nope.
Just DUNC fans here.Continuity - I only read the first two books, and it was so long ago and I was so young I’m not sure I got the “most” out of them. But still, I feel like a fan :)monospaced
- Haven't read the books. I'm part of the DUNC group. 1 was alright, 2 holds on its own, much like TDK. Not holding my breath for the third.palimpsest
- First book only, but happy to nerd out. I wouldn't complain if we had a Butlerian Jihad. No more tiktok Broccoli Heads.garbage
- I read the Wikipedia summary of some of the books after seeing the two movies it and it seems the weirdest shit ever.yuekit
- Long story short, Frank was an old-school conservative who had interesting sci-fi ideas and was a decent writer.garbage
- His hack son took over the franchise after he died, and has been shoveling out bullshit under the Dune name for about a quarter century.garbage
- Yeah the books that his son co-wrote are definitely weird. I was super interested in reading about the Butlerian Jihad hoping I'd get a better idea of wherepseud
- technology is headed but it was (spoiler alert) just a space opera. I might get back to it eventually. But the first three books are very smart, and thepseud
- following three aren't too bad either, just not as good. Papa Herbert ran out of juice towards the end.pseud
- If you've not seen them already, these can be quite attention-soaking: https://www.youtube.…Nairn
- Continuity9
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I've never typed the word "foreskin" out so much in my life.
Only on QBN.™- You're on a *roll*.palimpsest
- One Foreskin After AnotherFax_Benson
- *wrong threadFax_Benson
- ^ lolContinuity
- I'm gonna make him an foreskin you can't refuseutopian
- We had a Fortnite skin party for my son when he was like 8-9. He had 100, BUT we changed it to the one 104 skin party so we could get it on a cake.
Lolz.ideaist - @pali, I think you need to pull back from those sorts of jokes.Continuity
- I absolutely have. Text arguments with an ex that was determined to "re-circumcise" me. Said no to sleeping with a metal ball and rubber band..garbage
- ..she ended up settling for tantric tugjobs while I slept? Can't complain.garbage
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- stewart22
Show some recent work
I have designed another fun paper model, produced in a print run of 2,000 copies. This model can be assembled without the use of scissors or glue thanks to the cuts and creases. Very time consuming production though.
- Your work is inspiring. I was thinking how fun it would be to do the same with architecture, or with hybrid paper materials that can almost snap.monospaced
- I love the work of David Umemoto, somehow abstract architectural paper models.stewart
- So nice. I bet that's fun & satisfying work. Job well done.falcadia
- Slick as usual stewgarbage
- Qualty workOBBTKN
- Dude! Always greatGnash
- Stew-pendous!stoplying
- Take your stuff and get out of here, stoplying.
Also, lovely work as always, stew!Continuity - mien merkmilfhunter
- utopian5
- @10:36
Although birds might not urinate, like mammals, they do produce urine.
Everyone is wrong on this one.palimpsest
- @10:36
- Krassy8
"foreskin"
My Big Fat Greek Foreskin
- cannonball19784
"foreskin"
Neverending Foreskin
