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Donate to Rose and Riff's Essential Needs, organized by Riff Millar

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

On Monday 22 Sep 2025, Rose was diagnosed with inoperable, terminal lung cancer. At this time I am providing her hospice care, trying to make her feel as comfortable and loved as possible until it’s time for her to go.

gofund.me/b0d43ba17
www.paypal.me/riffmillar
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I am a disabled IT professional who has been fighting an uphill battle with a broken jo… Riff Millar needs your support for Rose and Riff's Essential Needs

Donate to Rose and Riff's Essential Needs, organized by Riff Millar

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 2d

Total cost for services is $900.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

On Monday 22 Sep 2025, Rose was diagnosed with inoperable, terminal lung cancer. At this time I am providing her hospice care, trying to make her feel as comfortable and loved as possible until it’s time for her to go.

gofund.me/b0d43ba17
www.paypal.me/riffmillar
cash.app/$RiffMillar

I am a disabled IT professional who has been fighting an uphill battle with a broken jo… Riff Millar needs your support for Rose and Riff's Essential Needs

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this tracks.

Z71 opossum @backwoodsopossum.bsky.social · Jul 16

Another reason why I’m glad I’ve left trident seafoods, They’re abunch of republican supporting/MAGA punks. Yeah no wonder why the company I was hired at literally hires folks who are dickheads that don’t care about you, Big signs of a Trump supporting corporation.

#FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans

Donate to Rose and Riff's Essential Needs, organized by Riff Millar

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 2d

Oh. Well, bullet dodged.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 2d

Today of all days.

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Trident Seafoods :

“After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that Munyaka and Mike have decided not to move forward with an offer at this time. As I previously mentioned, they brought you and one other candidate onsite for interviews. Instead of moving to an offer, they decided to reopen the position and will be starting the hiring process over from the beginning. I've reached out to them to request more specific feedback but have not heard back from them yet.”

After multiple delays in setting a second interview, I had removed myself from consideration for the position. That was August.

I was reached out by Trident Seafoods HR to reconsider as they only had one other candidate they were considering and I had impressed the hiring manager in the first interview. They wanted to move quickly and fill the position by the beginning of October.

I agreed.

I was scintillating in the second interview round. I had the right answers to every question, I illustrated how I could link the various platforms to provide complete coverage and modernize their entire enterprise, I felt I bonded with at least two of the interviewers.

This was the email response I received today.

The cruelty is the point.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 2d

Today of all days.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 3d

In-home services have been arranged with Lap of Love for this Thursday, 9 September 2025.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 3d

As of now, we are arranging in-home services for Rose.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

On Monday 22 Sep 2025, Rose was diagnosed with inoperable, terminal lung cancer. At this time I am providing her hospice care, trying to make her feel as comfortable and loved as possible until it’s time for her to go.

gofund.me/b0d43ba17
www.paypal.me/riffmillar
cash.app/$RiffMillar

I am a disabled IT professional who has been fighting an uphill battle with a broken jo… Riff Millar needs your support for Rose and Riff's Essential Needs

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

I’m watching my cat die.
I’m listening to her final breaths.
I have never felt so devastated in my life.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

I carried her to the bedroom and put her on the bed, where she used to sleep by my side every night yet hasn’t been able to since her breathing became so laborious.

She dove right under the covers at the foot of the bed. Rose hasn’t slept against my feet since the V catastrophe. She did once more.

Rose, a black and white tuxedo cat with a perfect moustache, stretched out in a sunbeam on a brown sofa, a purple star pillow behind her.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

These trips were a direct beeline to the elevator bay, previously her mortal enemy. Both times we just sat there awhile, breathing.

One morning she wanted physical affection to the point that she allowed me to pick her up without protest, typically a taboo move.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

The past couple of nights, she’s cried out for me in the early morning hours.

Twice it was at the door as she insisted on patrolling the building’s hallway. In the past she would take her time serpentining from door to door to catalogue all the scents.

Rose, a black and white tuxedo cat with a perfect moustache, loaded on a black towel lying in a white bathtub.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

Her every breath is a struggle, her mouth open, ribcage working like a bellows.

She has become extremely touch averse; when she does allow me to pet her I can feel how dreadfully skinny she has become in the matter of just a few weeks.

Rose, a black and white tuxedo cat with a perfect moustache, stretched out forlornly in her scratch cave.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 4d

I’m writing this outside because I can’t bear to do so in the same room as her.

Rose has not eaten for two weeks. I’ve tried all kinds of liquids, but she literally cannot eat — she will cry at her food dish, lean in for a sniff, then turns and goes directly into the bathroom.

Rose, a black and white tuxedo cat with a perfect moustache, lying forlornly in her scratch cave.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

I apologise for the Möbius loop.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 17d

It’s inoperable. I’m performing hospice care for Rose for as long as she has left.

She’s only had half the life she deserved. We were supposed to grow old together.

Rose, a black and white tuxedo cat with the best moustache is dozing on a brown sofa in a sunbeam.

Rose is eepy monorail mode with both white foresocks presented for admiration, now on the back of the sofa having followed the path of the sun.

Rose normally only knocks the grocery bags over but here she is in a rare paper cave predator pose.

Rose back on the sofa with her white belly patch up and out and basking in the sun, her favourite catnip toys — knitted orange octopus, PRIDE rainbow, and weird plaid blunt with eyes — as pillows.

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

I’m doing my best, thank you for the endless support you have graced us with.

Donate to Rose and Riff's Essential Needs, organized by Riff Millar

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

On Monday 22 Sep 2025, Rose was diagnosed with inoperable, terminal lung cancer. At this time I am providing her hospice care, trying to make her feel as comfortable and loved as possible until it’s time for her to go.

gofund.me/b0d43ba17
www.paypal.me/riffmillar
cash.app/$RiffMillar

I am a disabled IT professional who has been fighting an uphill battle with a broken jo… Riff Millar needs your support for Rose and Riff's Essential Needs

Donate to Rose and Riff's Essential Needs, organized by Riff Millar

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Reposted by Riff Millar

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 17d

It’s inoperable. I’m performing hospice care for Rose for as long as she has left.

She’s only had half the life she deserved. We were supposed to grow old together.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 15d

On Monday 22 Sep 2025, Rose was diagnosed with inoperable, terminal lung cancer. At this time I am providing her hospice care, trying to make her feel as comfortable and loved as possible until it’s time for her to go.

gofund.me/b0d43ba17
www.paypal.me/riffmillar
cash.app/$RiffMillar

I am a disabled IT professional who has been fighting an uphill battle with a broken jo… Riff Millar needs your support for Rose and Riff's Essential Needs

4 20 29

Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 17d

It’s inoperable. I’m performing hospice care for Rose for as long as she has left.

She’s only had half the life she deserved. We were supposed to grow old together.

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Riff Millar @themasterdances.bsky.social · 18d

Oh god no.

Rose has a lung tumor and it’s pushing against her trachea.

I’m lost. I’m hysterical. I don’t know if I can take any more.