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Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

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This week's #digitalart is one of my favorite lessons so far and I'm very happy with the cat's smiling face 😺. No special functionality here, just using a wide variety of brushes and well-picked colors to draw #Procreate #art #artwithflo

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Bought an Xbox Series X when it was discounted to $350. Then when it was on sale, bought the proprietary storage expansion card - the ONLY external storage device you can play games from. Been with Xbox since 360 (can always find deals), but so many bizarre hardware (and naming) decisions since then

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This week's #digitalart was really fun and a good example on how shadows and highlights really make drawings "pop" #art #procreate #artwithflo

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Wild Muscovy duck decided to make her nest in a vacant planter pot in the backyard and then couldn't get her ducklings to follow since the wall was too high for them to jump. I eventually had to pour out the ducklings while she hissed at me #wildlife #photography #animal #birds #texas #nature

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Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

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One day I'll get the timing exactly right for not overcooking brownies but I'm getting better. Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Premium Brownie Mix (sub milk instead of water & 1 extra egg) is yum. My mom made the completely serious observation of, "This tastes better than the cornbread you made."

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Started playing Balatro and slowly got hooked as I kept losing the first week, but gradually got better and unlocked more stuff, and finally managed to strategize my Jokers perfectly in a really lucky run and won. Really fun game to play for shorter time commitments

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A world without Caesars t-shirt arrived from Bluesky! Quality is great although the smallest size is still huge - but I think that's to keep with the trolling of the original ridiculous oversized shirts worn by Zuck

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The whole Last Week Tonight Tariffs segment is worth watching, but this is a nice clip using beloved nostalgic Nintendo as an example, of how spending billions to build a factory in the US is pointless if the rest of your supply chain is still in Asia

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Watching Green Day's live Coachella stream while they're performing songs from American Idiot and reading many live chat comments like, "Can you guys stop talking about politics and just enjoy the music." 🤦‍♀️

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This week's #digitalart inspired by the excellent #MonumentValley video games. This was surprisingly difficult to draw. Procreate isn't vector-based, but you can draw straight lines and use a drawing guide. But when the lines don't match up exactly, they look very obvious #art #artwithflo #procreate

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Finally starting to edit/post all the pictures from my fancy camera! If you ever hike with me, you'll have to do things like wait 10 mins while I chase an eastern collared lizard in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. Notice the side-eye 🦎 #wildlife #photography #animal #lizard #herptile #texas #nature

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Back to writing postcards for campaigns again after taking a mental health break after the November election

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"Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog.... The letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach."

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First time making cornbread and using the #TraderJoes mix and it was surprisingly decent! Online tips for making it less dry next time include either adding sour cream to the batter or slathering it with butter once it's out of the oven

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Can confirm it's been rough being a millennial but I was still hoping things would get better for the next generation

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This retrowave landscape was really fun to draw and a nice nostalgia kick #digitalart #artwithflo #procreate

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Finally filed taxes this year and first time wondering what the hell these are paying for now

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At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 32 days ago • 314 comments

Missed the peak of the #bluebonnets by about a week, but still a nice showing regardless #wildflowers #texas

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Drawing away the stress in Procreate: week two #digitalart #artwithflo

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Just to reiterate how these terrible tariffs will affect EVERYTHING

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking back to the halcyon days when I thought the 2008 financial crisis and COVID would be the worst economies we'd have to live through

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I love how chill Nintendo console announcements are. No teraflops mentioned but here's a playable smiling cow having a blast doing a mid-air somersault on a boombox motorcycle in Mario Kart World #switch2 #nintendo

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

First time making mochi cake (soft chewy rice) from the #TraderJoes box mix and really liked it! Not to mention the amusement of seeing it come out of the oven looking like a giant piece of toast. Looking forward to experimenting with other recipes and flavors

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Finished my 1st #Veilguard run & unabashedly love this game. Yes I have complaints, but after spending 100+ hours doing every possible quest & triggering all the conversations/dialogues I could, this still brought a level of joy that few games outside BioWare can do for me in RPGs #dragonage #datv

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Digital drawing's been one of those hobbies I've wanted to start but never bothered to put in the commitment. Reddit recommended artwithflo.com which has amazing free beginner-friendly tutorials using Procreate. Making it a goal to do one a week to finally start learning #artwithflo #digitalart

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www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 42 days ago • 47 comments

"Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: 'As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However... that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation...'" FAFO:

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Pointing out how far we've come w/video game characters holding things. In #MassEffect3 items float in hands / don't exist, but in #Veilguard not only are characters drinking accurately with the motions but the cups are different sizes/shapes! Even Lucanis doesn't have a regular mug #DragonAge #datv

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Still mind-blown by all this "I haven’t seen this kind of unserious behavior before, and [Hegseth] ...seems unserious and is trying to deflect from the fact that he participated in a conversation on an unclassified commercial messaging app that he probably shouldn’t have participated in" - Goldberg

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Group texting top-secret war plans in detail to unverified users. What could go wrong? "I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m."

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Enjoying the best weather month in Houston with peach blossoms and azaleas in the yard

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One reason I'm REALLY into the story is realizing that current events make #Veilguard ultimate escapism for me - a game about a group of people from different backgrounds/conflicts who join together to fight tyranny and corruption with courage, compassion, and love. What a world to be in #DragonAge

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Bought. We'll never get back the chaotic, quirky, fun, free internet that existed before social media but I'll support a platform that doesn't force some algorithm on you (yet...🤞)

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Me running around #Veilguard triggering the system that automatically makes Rook and your squadmates make eye contact with each other, provided they are within a certain distance range. LOVE the physics of this game #DragonAge

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Made small talk with a stranger about how the job market is meaningless AI blah, and he raved about Grok and said it knew all the stuff he asked because he asked his engineer friend. I said, "But you need someone who knows the subject, yes?" And he paused and said, "...That's true." I do what I can

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"OpenAI suggested... that the US should end these court fights by shifting its copyright strategy to promote the AI industry's 'freedom to learn.'" AKA: "Let us steal these copyrighted materials and then charge users money for our services without compensating the creators because FREEDOM." 🙄

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Meta is trying VERY hard not to get people to read "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, & Lost Idealism", a tell-all memoir by former Facebook/Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams. You can buy from independent bookstores such as Powell's: www.powells.com/book/careles...

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