Crafty Friday

Sep. 13th, 2025 04:45 am
tyger: Head and shoulder of Yuuko, some sort of scaly dragony fish thing in the background (Yuuko - dragonfish)
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So Mama and I sat together and crafted all afternoon, pmuch. It was really nice! Just that low-key keeping each other accountable thing. Really helpful!

I'm almost done sewing the switch case together! I've just gotta go over a few bits of the lining, to make sure it won't fray, and then add press studs and some decorative buttons. :3

A LOT of tiny little stitches, and it's not really the right shape to put it in the machine, so it's taking a WHILE, hahaha. Still, I might not be great at hand sewing, but I'm much better than I was, so it's not too bad! :D

Also, in excellent news, old work FINALLY got the paperwork they needed to fill in back to me. FINALLY. Took them two business weeks and I had to send a follow up email, for a goddamn two page form that's mostly just extremely basic identification information, but I have it! Have sent it in, too, so hopefully I'll hear back from the government SOON. Probably not next week though given. This entire fucking process. =_=

Other than that... nothing huge really. Minecraft, and then I got stuck in a fic which is why I'm. Still awake. >>;;; Oh well, at least it's the weekend, I don't have as many self-given tasks to do tomorrow!

Gallery Day, apparently

Sep. 12th, 2025 01:33 am
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Met up with A for lunch! :D We ended up going to two galleries - A had some stuff to drop off for a friend at the first one (more stuffed animals hahahahhaha), and then we were close to the second so we poked our noses in there, too. Some super cool stuff!!! :D

Other than that... I got snacks! I kinda ate all the ones I had, so... yes. Snacks important. That's pretty much all I did today, though, kinda just passed the fuck out when I got home, as usual, and just a bit of minecraft this evening.

Oh, wait, no, I got another call from a recruiter! This one I think I did pretty okay with, so fingers crossed I'll at least get an interview! >: >: >: (Gonna have to brush up on React stuff, though, heh. Which I should probably do anyway, React is... very popular. Sigh.)

Wednesday? Yes.

Sep. 11th, 2025 02:01 am
tyger: Isa, Lea, and Ven sketches from the Ultimania (Isa\Lea/Ven - battle of the pointy hair!)
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Nothing too interesting today, unsurprisingly. Did all the pet cleanup tasks I had planned, and also did a bunch of putting stuff back up on top of the bookshelves, now that I'm not gonna be able to put the shelves up there.

Room feels a LOT better now, not gonna lie. So much less visual clutter! Though like. The total number of items in a stupid place - ie, the floor, usually - hasn't gone down by much, it's just that the ones stored up there are generally BIG ones.

Didn't get any handicrafts done, though, bleh. Brain just crapped out on me, more than anything, very annoying. I DID however get a LOT of loose fur off Tortilla, which is nice! It's not quite spring shedding season yet, but it's definitely close and every bit helps!

Gonna meet A for lunch tomorrow, so I should uh. Go to bed. I'm tired, anyway, which I'm mostly blaming on my parents being home - I don't seem to be sleeping as well, which I think is due to ambient noise levels. I've woken up early a few times while they've been making coffee, etc. etc. And napping during the day is harder, because Mama. Oh well!

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Not that a huge amount happened, really. Finally blocked the switch case! Did some cleaning & tidying up. That's about all.

Today I went for a walk with Mama, and then I took my keyboard apart and cleaned the hell out of it. It. Um. It took a LOT longer than I expected - like, three hours or something - but I got SO much gunk out, omfg. It's not perfect, but it's so much better. :D

Haven't done any mending or knitting/crochet, which I really want to do, but it'll come! Soon! I hope. Tomorrow I've got to do the gross animal upkeep cleaning, which is fine, if annoying. Maybe after that.

I'm trying to not turn the desktop on until after tea, in an attempt to railroad my brain into getting some shit done rather than just read all day. Too early to tell how it'll go over time, but at least it's not been a dismal failure from the outset! :3

Lazy Sunday~

Sep. 8th, 2025 03:09 am
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Not a whole lot today really... Got my shinies in pokemon, finally! (The vulpix were easy, got two of them in the first outbreak before it even got to max likelihood! Numel, on the other hand... didn't even find ONE until the fourth outbreak orz orz orz) Did some washing. Finished repairing that shawl!

Also Minecraft, which has started crashing a bunch which is Very Annoy, ugh. Pretty sure it's due to the mod I updated, so I guess I'll go roll that back. :/ Annoying, though, it's got a bugfix I specifically wanted... Alas! Will probably be fine on a new world, it's just got a config file reformat in there which I'm not surprised fucks shit up. Annoyed. But not surprised.

And now to bed with me, yes!

Saturday!

Sep. 7th, 2025 03:24 am
tyger: A small ginger cat in a wicker bag (Sushi - bag)
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The weather was AWESOME today, I ended up spending idk an hour, hour and a half weeding in the front yard. (The onion grass is blooming, it is the ideal time to attack it! >E >E >E) Extremely nice to be out in the sun, yessss.

I also darned two holes in a shawl, only for Mama to notice one we'd both missed several times as I was folding it to put away orz orz orz. It's mohair, so it's kinda a pain to darn, since the wool catches to much, and since it's a super loose knit it's SUPER obvious it's fixed, but! Also it is big and drapey so you can't really see the repaired bits when you wear it. (According to Mama, but they're not that big so I believe her!)

Anyway I'll finish that off tomorrow, and then put it at the BACK of the drawer, since it got its holes via Sushi clawing at it when even a tiny tiny bit was visible, sigh. Sushi really likes mohair, apparently??? I can't blame him it is super fluffy, but at the same time, Sushi do you have to show your love by destroying things??? (Of course he does, he is the biteiest of boys. Such a tiny jerk...)

Why is sleeping at night so hard??

Sep. 6th, 2025 02:54 am
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ANOTHER bad night! Couldn't sleep because brain just would not shut the fuck up, siiiiiigh. Hate it. Brains are so dumb.

But! I used my new dragonite as a pillow and that was super great! :D So I'm happy about that, yessss.

Nothing too interesting today, honestly. Darned some socks?? Went for a short walk with Mama? Nothing huge.

And now back to bed! Hopefully I'll be able to sleep easily tonight...

I am a sleepy yes

Sep. 5th, 2025 01:57 am
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Unsurprisingly, today I was very tired!

The fact that it was cold enough my ankle started bitching didn't help, either. :/

Anyway, A was good! :D Tiny exhibit was fun! Also I now have a massive roumb dragonite it's the best. (Mama is SUPER MAD, sigh.)

Um. Something something I keep drifting off trying to finish this post so uh I think I'll just. Go bed now. Yes.

Goddamnit brain

Sep. 4th, 2025 04:46 am
tyger: An egg, with sparkles. (Chooks - egg!)
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So tomorrow I'mma meet A and we're gonna go poke a tiny art exhibition and etc.

So of course I'm still up at fucking almost 5am. I need to leave the house in about five hours!!! Omfg brain WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. /o\

Anyway other than THAT... one of the chooks laid an egg again! :D They're clearly feeling much safer! This pleases me~!!!

I also cleaned out both the coop and the run and put in a bunch of straw for them in the run, so they should enjoy that. :3 :3 :3 Mama stayed out the back with me while I did that, just in case of foxes. Likelihood is pretty low, but, well. Makes me feel better if nothing else!

Nothing much other than that, though. Except I'm still fucking awake-! (I maybe played a LOT of minecraft this evening. In my defense I've been rearranging my storage and figured out a way to integrate botany pots into it and that is brain eating levels of fascinating because I am a super nerd, sigh.)

PHYSICS

Sep. 3rd, 2025 02:41 am
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So today I finally got my shit together and did the stud finding thing, and I was at the point where I was trying to get the shelf up onto the top of the bookshelves just to check if the places I'd marked would work (ie, not in the middle of the shelf). Aaaaand... it was too heavy for me to manage something that long on my own, so I had to get Mama to help, and... well. Physics is hard. )

So that's super annoying and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Other than that... nothing too interesting. Did get those shinies in pokemon, which is good! Haven't fought the new boss yet, but hopefully will be pretty straightforward... And one of the new set of mass outbreaks I've already got the shinies for, so I only need to catch four shinies total this time! :D Also ONE OF THEM IS VULPIX, which is SO EXCITING eeeeee :D :D :D :D :D

Ugh, paperwork.

Sep. 2nd, 2025 01:24 am
tyger: Vanitas fanart, looking really grumpy. (Vanitas - grumpyface)
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Sooo made the stupid call, have to get info on their special form from ex-work, so who even KNOWS when that'll get back to me. :/ :/ :/ So annoying!

Other than that, nothing amazing today really. I am Officially Late with the pokemon event, too, gotta get those last two shinies before I download the new update whoops >>;;;; Gonna have to focus on that tomorrow, rather than minecraft!

Something something bed now, I feel like there was something else but I forget orz orz orz

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

Blegh

Sep. 1st, 2025 12:58 am
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I woke up properly - in that I didn't immediately want to go back to sleep - at about 3pm today, heh. So I think I'm more or less better now? But that was a LOT of sleeping orz orz orz. And walking around the block with Mama was. Exhausting. Bleh. Still, at least it was over pretty quickly, honestly! Just annoying while it was happening.

REALLY did not do much else today, though. Played some Minecraft after tea, but that's about it, hahaha. Tomorrow is a weekday though so I'mma have to make another fucking phonecall uuuuuugh, I'm gonna be on hold for like an hour again I just know it. =_= Still, if I call when I wake up, they'll at least _answer the goddamn phone. Eventually.

Anyway still pretty early for me but I'm sleepy already so I'mma bed, yes. >: Sleeeeeeeep.

Sick

Aug. 30th, 2025 11:09 pm
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Yeah, today I have been sick. Got up and was up for like three hours! Watching the stream Azy was doing! Aaaand then I had to go to bed because I felt like crap and didn't quite throw up but I was close, you know?

Surfaced for long enough to have a drink in the middle of the afternoon, and then was out of it until dinnertime. Even now I've only been up another like. Four and a half hours, and it's really mostly been this long because I was waiting for my hair to dry properly before going back to bed. (Showering is good for you though so didn't object when Mama insisted.)

Anyway my bones hurt and I'm so tired so back to bed for me! Ugh, so annoying, ruining all my plans, fucking body...

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