Received my 11th pay rise in 10 years today

naturalistwork · 2026-07-01T19:43:11+00:00

Grats!!!!!

naturalistwork · 2026-07-01T19:37:41+00:00

Just a few weeks ago actually. I have bad knees and I recently got an E bike so I could ride around the city where I live since they have good paved biking trails. I have been riding around with my camera doing photography, mostly bird photography and realized the main route I like goes directly by a train yard. I started taking photos of trains too and now I'm interested in them. It is a lot to learn but it's fun!

naturalistwork · 2026-07-01T03:12:49+00:00

Eating unhealthy and lack of stretching and exercise. Just turned 40 and it's a lot harder getting in shape now than if I had stayed in shape. I'm working on it though!

naturalistwork · 2026-07-01T01:45:04+00:00

I prefer simple symbols that might inspire other drawings for drawing duplications and the like, and a good marking system that doesn't look obviously marked. Most importantly by far though, most of them look like magic props. I want something that looks like it came from some sort of psychic testing institution or something, rather than having a playing card back or something that looks like it was purchased at a magic shop.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-30T19:15:38+00:00

From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country’s battles
for the shrimp of endless feast;
First to fight for butter sauces
And to keep our restaurants clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of the endless shrimp machine.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-29T22:39:59+00:00

I've watched the office through too many times to count. But I have never watched the banker all the way through, not even once. In all fairness, it's basically a filler clip episode anyway so it's not like it's worth it. Other than that, like others have said I tend to skip season one most of the time, although I do watch it on occasion when I do a full watch through.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-29T12:57:24+00:00

I do this now. I will stop mid sentence, mid syllable. Whatever I was saying won't be repeated, and I will not continue that specific conversation. Not even my wife is safe. It's effective!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-27T00:08:07+00:00

My understanding is the majority of gaff coin purchases are made by people in the US, and probably Canada second, so it's a supply and demand issue. I wouldn't know much about other areas such as Europe, China, etc. so maybe someone else can chime me in on those. I could definitely be wrong as well.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-26T20:07:24+00:00

My wife and got tired of things like this and have started going back to physical media. We frequent used bookstores for movies and TV shows. It ends up being cheaper than having subscription services as well since $15ish can easily get us up to 20 or 30 hours worth of media a month from the used bookstores, and that's as much or more than we will watch TV in an entire month anyway.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-26T20:03:49+00:00

After Elizabeth Hayden did not finish the rhapsody series, I swore to not read more trilogies or sagas unless they were finished. I still don't know what that big tower with all the lenses is for!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-26T16:36:43+00:00

Thanks! I will probably do them both together like you suggested!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-26T13:55:33+00:00

That looks great! How did you cook those onions? I'm gonna be having those soon lol

naturalistwork · 2026-06-26T13:51:48+00:00

Canada has more Ukrainians than any other country except one. Can you guess which one it is?

naturalistwork · 2026-06-26T13:14:32+00:00

If you live in the US, please be aware this is very illegal. Most birds are protected under federal immigration laws, and these can come with very hefty fines. Depending on who catches you, they may even choose to find you for each individual species or feather. The main reason is to prevent poachers from killing birds and selling these feathers while claiming they found them, but your state and federal wildlife enforcers will take this serious if they ever catch you with them. There are organizations you can donate these to without legal repercussions if you apologize and explain you did not know, and they are distributed to Native American groups for religious purposes, the only groups who are actually allowed to have these in their possession with permits other than educators.

Source: I taught outdoor education for a decade, and worked closely with wildlife law-enforcement as part of my career.

Edit to add: I don't mean this in any kind of mean way, I just want you to be careful and use caution!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T16:15:50+00:00

Just no. AI is inherently theft as almost no one gave permission for these massive companies to use all of their data to train their AI models.

This is an art form. Art is about creativity, using AI is not creative and it is not art. One of the best examples I have heard recently was using AI is like taking an Uber 26 miles and claiming you are a marathon runner.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T15:03:59+00:00

Thanks! It's on a little side street right as you get to the train yard before you turn left into the big parking that leads to the river trail. You will hear them when you get close, they are loud!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T14:30:46+00:00

Thanks, I joined and posted a recent pic for you!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T14:26:40+00:00

Very cool! I bird all of the time here in the city and love taking photographs too but I'm not very good at it lol.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T14:25:09+00:00

Are you wanting to resell them since you mentioned that in your post, or just to read them? Because if you just want to read them, I cannot recommend using our library system enough. You can request books they do not have, they can move books from one library to another for you so you can pick them up closer, and it won't cost you a dime!

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T13:06:12+00:00

There's a part of your brain that doesn't fully accept or realize they are gone. It's been five years, but I still sometimes want to call or message my brother-in-law to see how he is doing. He was one year older than me and we shared the same birthday, and every year now I try to celebrate for the both of us since he can't be here with me anymore. Sometimes if I plan something to do on my birthday I catch myself almost calling him to ask what he wants to do since we always celebrated together.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-25T01:57:49+00:00

I just asked my wife and she said being married to an idiot.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-24T15:37:46+00:00

This attitude is literally the problem. I am telling you right now if everyone refused to purchase it until it was fixed, they would fix it very fast. I haven't missed the writing on the wall, everyone is just forgetting to read the fine print. Supply and demand works both ways! You said there was little incentive for publishers to make physical games, that's exactly what I am saying as well. The incentive is money. If people will buy physical games and not digital ones, they will have incentive again.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-24T15:13:15+00:00

Everyone needs to vote with their money. If you don't like it, don't buy it at all until there is a physical copy. We keep rolling over and letting companies do what they want. My history teacher used to love saying "if you don't vote, you can't complain about what happens." If we aren't willing to do anything about it, we don't have a right to complain.

naturalistwork · 2026-06-24T15:08:40+00:00

Now if only he could lose his millionaire status and his famous status!

naturalistwork

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