It's valid. We're all just trying to live life under this ominous cloud but occasionally we take a breath of air and look at the sheer scale of problems, and what else can we do but scream for a minute at the madness?
At least there's a lot of other people also going 'yup that was me yesterday'

This is beautiful!!

Ahhh, memories of working at the cut counter and then racing up front to checkout to help with lines so fabric customers think Joann's is staffed by clones.

It's usually called a bolt of fabric. There should be a dedicated cut counter? At least there was at Joann's and there was always supposed to be at least one person there. Michael's must be extra load-bearing for the craft community now.

I just finished reading Hello Sunshine this morning! It is so good, beautiful art and great characters and I'm still full of feelings about them. I just came across this post on tumblr, too, and thought it fit well with the points in your author's note. Good luck with the convention!

This AI is offered at extremely subsidized prices. People don't realize they are not paying the actual price, that limit caps will come, and it's not so good for how much that will cost.

I don't think it's actually here to stay? At least not in this saturation. AI companies are currently operating at a massive loss. At some point they either have to jack up prices or implode. They're banking on companies being too embedded to leave once the real price tag arrives

Any bird feeder is a squirrel feeder with extra challenges for mental enrichment

I think they also change prices based on views. Plus I once bought a "only 1 left in stock" item only to look back at it and see it was absolutely still in stock and being sold. They are SHADY

I miss Cracked. ;-;

Stuff also used to be made from things people could reuse. Fabric, wood, metal scrap. But cities and suburbs are designed to be more hostile to gathering, loitering, street vending. The separation from skills, materials, time, and community means we only have our allotment of money to fall back on.

There was a massive cultural shift from "housing is cheap, stuff is expensive" to housing becoming expensive and stuff is cheap. It also used to be that people had skills to make more of their own items (or knew someone in their local community who could) but we've been isolated from craft

Between this and all the gas being burned off instead of collected...do they think Texans hate money?

Errands are essentially "living logistics." And I've seen job posts for "assistants to CEO/executive" where the job duties included picking up dry cleaning or laundry service or groceries. Companies subsidize this for their highest earners yet they don't value the people doing it.

Here's a cardboard box with Time Machine written in sharpie, it's legit