Month: June 2024

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From Blobby…

Honestly, I have no idea what to make of reproductive rights with yesterday's SCOTUS ruling and the Senates take down of IVF.

SCOTUS rejected a challenge—one—to keep mifepristone on the market. I will admit, I was surprised at the unanimous vote. Not just for this – but for any measure on this specific court.
Isn't it horrible when they do something right and you immediately suspect another shoe is going to drop? I just don't trust this.
Then senate on the other hand…
Those motherfuckers blocked a bill guaranteeing IVF services across the country.

"Why should we vote for a bill that fixes a non-existent problem? There's not a problem. There's no restrictions on IVF, nor should there be," Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.

Yeah – this twat. Clearly he's not reading the news on Alabama. Nor is he to be believed, the way SCOTUS candidates lied about Roe being established law. It IS a problem – it's just hidden under a rock until a potential change in administration.
Yes, it totally violates HIPAA, but I want the names of every Senate and House members wives, daughters, aunts, mothers, cousins who have gotten IVF – and publish that fucking list.
I am so.very.tired. of the hypocrisy.
I can't have kids. I don't even want them – never have. Honestly, I'm not sure if I care that other people have them ever. Still, it's their decision, not the governments.
I feel the dichotomy in these two rulings is really setting up the GOP for a "yahhhhh, we're all for your reproductive rights", while they have their fingers crossed behind their backs.
This is all a lie. Somehow.
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Fuck You, Adobe

I've been an Adobe customer since…jeez…I don't even know. 2004? 2005?

Photoshop has been my go-to editing software, and Bridge (as rocky as that relationship has been over the years) has been my image organizing tool since before I was even a Mac user. But no more. I stumbled across this video the other day and it set my blood boiling:

I was unaware of this bit of assholery on Adobe's part, and like many others, just randomly clicked the "Accept" button after being presented with that splash screen without actually reading the terms and conditions. (I mean, who does?) After discussing this situation with Ben (we shared an Adobe subscription) and weighing our options, we decided to join the revolt and tell Adobe to go fuck itself once and for all.

Unfortunately…we had switched from the Full Creative Cloud Suite to just the Photoshop Plan a little over a month ago (just out of my get-out-of-jail-free period), and they were going to charge me $99 to cancel. I didn't have the funds to drop on that right away, but vowed that I would do it on the next paycheck.

Well, Ben located this today:

Guess what? It works! 🎉

I now use Pixelmator Pro (a one time purchase of $50 through the App Store, not $19.95/month as it was for Adobe Photoshop) for image editing/creation and XnView (free/donation) for image cataloging/organization. Pixelmator Pro has been a bit of a learning curve, but learning is always good, right? It doesn't have all the features of Photoshop (notably AI generation which I was using for creating backgrounds of smaller images on bigger canvases as well as ridding pictures of meddlesome text), but it's damn close. And as I wrote in that post from a few years ago, I've finally gotten XnView configured and customized totally to my liking and it doesn't randomly crash for no reason like every version of Bridge since it was first introduced.

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I Could Live There

Originally built in 1961 with a design by local architect Robert Ainsworth, this neighborhood fire station was decommissioned and converted into this unique live/work space in 2007. A one-of-a-kind home in a serene Sierra Madre setting.

744 Alta Vista Drive, Sierra Madre CA
1,399sf • 2,201sf lot • $1,095,000

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🤣 🤣 🤣

I take some—albeit little—solace in believing that in at least one of the multiverses that are thought to surround and exist simultaneously with our own, Madam President Hillary Rodham Clinton is finishing up her second term and the United States is a very different place from the festering hellscape we currently find ourselves in.

BELIEVE THE FUCKING WOMEN.

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What can I say? This one is for work/commute use. Unlike my other two players, thanks to "G-Protection" it doesn't skip when you look at it funny.