Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)

@datn that and the switch to "free service" instead of "thing you buy". Doesn't help my mood that I haven't even been able to get my copy of Designer 2 running on a new device because a bug is making it permanently stuck on the splash screen advertising the new version

I'm late to learn about this but man this news about Affinity is such a bummer

@lynnesbian voted for "something else" because I always try to reword or pick a different emoticon when this comes up

you can really feel whether a place treats its people alright or not and a key component seems to be "does the owner hang out/work there"

few better experiences in life than being a regular at a place where the staff are cheerful and friendly tbh

I love how Marathon pulls griefing inside the magic circle. Hard to feel bad about the cruelty when it's just another gig worker doing their job on the other end. Kayfabe but we're all heels.

taking one of these low-poly models apart and trying to make my own copy from scratch is extremely educational. finally learning how to compose the basic verbs in blender to make more complex shapes.

@jplebreton oooh yeah. I was gonna do Fern first but I realized how much more boring her model would be lol

more practice in blender

@GrahamDowns @NaClKnight "Why can't people with different opinions, different life experiences, and different outlooks just get along?" This is the the kind of thing a child asks their mother, not serious discourse. If you don't know the answer to this question, I'm not going to be able to answer it for you in a post.

@ianrogers yeah class traitorship is very common among high-earners and is a serious problem that need addressing

@charlesdelavalleepoussin like fr dude why do you think I give any shits about what you, a stranger, ~feel~ about surgeons. why is that where your head goes here? get over yourself.

wow that is the most viral a post of mine has ever been I think. props to mastodon: the bad replies really only started to filter in at like 150 boosts, which is much slower than usual.

@PsyChuan yeah, me too!!

@charlesdelavalleepoussin I'm not asking you to empathize, I'm asking you to -strategize-.

@unruly lmao yeah that works

@lanodan "rent-seekers" is a somewhat less poisoned word in the discourse

@jplebreton read this and cackled and went to boost it and then realized I already had

@charlesdelavalleepoussin per this article https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/i-make-good-money-why-do-i-still

"41% of households earning $300K to $500K are living paycheck to paycheck."

@charlesdelavalleepoussin an important thing here is that, in many of these high-earning industries, you will be pushed out of your career by complex social factors if you don't demonstrate that you "fit" the culture, and demonstrating that fit is -expensive-. It's an induced demand phenomenon: spend grows to meet available income and you'll be treated as a pity case (and denied promotions/opportunities) if you're leaving below those expected means.