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I make food, prose, comics, 3D art, code, things with yarn, and (in what might better be described as a very ambitious WIP) a kid. If you met me at a con, I'm […] [bridged from https://wandering.shop/@katfeete on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#wordweavers In Sunset Grill the competition is steep — as I said most of my main cast are sensible cautious types — but at this time Murdoch probably wins. Not that he doesn’t take risks but his life is, of the main cast, the most precariously balanced, and he’s quite aware that a wrong step […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#wordweavers 10/14: Who among your characters is the most cautious?

In Lies, the antagonist. The murderer kills out of what might be called an abundance of caution, and finds it personally offensive to their worldview that Casey isn’t dead yet with the way she carries on. They would never dream […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@rustiej.bsky.social I can see BlueSky comments on my bridged Mastodon posts but I can’t reply without an account, which I am too lazy to make right now. Hope this gets to you!

Lies is a novel in progress, currently too messy to publish anywhere. Someday!

Sunset Grill, I dropped when my […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

#wordweavers In Sunset Grill, there’s, ah, some competition, but it’s probably either Zeke or Kris. And of the pair Zeke probably wins; Kris lacks caution in part because she’s wealthy, privileged, and has never had to face that many consequences when she gets it wrong. Zeke has had plenty of […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Getting back on the wagon with #wordweavers: Who among your characters is the biggest risk-taker?

In Lies, it’s Casey. That’s her role: go out there, risk her neck, get results via whatever messy means necessary.

It’s a mistake to think of Livia as a voice of caution, though. She just doesn’t […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

God, so much this.

My family’s small business is down 20% in gross from last year and our expenses are up by at least 10%. We’ve been in the red for months; I’ve been running like a madwoman since May, trying to get new customers, open new markets, cut deals, anything to get sales. And almost […]

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 6d

As someone who works in ag:

THESE FUCKING DOUCHEBAGS I SWEAR TO GOD
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David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social)

So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages." https://prospect.org/politics/trump-labor-department-immigration-ICE-food-crisis/

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@Richboy50 The place I ended up going with had good reviews and had been around a while, so I took a deep breath and took the plunge. Will report back on how it goes!

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@Svenauskr It’s genuinely amazing and cool and I do kind of love it, but it’s also scary and overwhelming. A lot of this stuff is visibly deteriorating and I am just one person with no experience and a rather damp basement. I should look into museums, though.

(I’m planning to scan as much as I […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@justmegi Ooo, Thats a good idea, I’ll have to look at it!

There’s a charity shop for crafters near me that’s getting a box this weekend (my grandma was a quilter, knitter, and seamstress) but they’re not currently taking patterns, I’m guessing because this is a not-uncommon problem….

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

… there’s more stuff in this box but that’s it. I’m done. I’m going to bed.

Why is family history so hard and why’s it gotta take up so. Much. ROOM

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

A LETTER OFFERING HIS A JOB WITH THE FBI SIGNED BY J EDGAR HOOVER (he did not take that job)

Guys I have Hoover’s signature in my house. That is creepy. What do I do.

Oh and a Western Union telegram, that’s pretty cool.

JOHN EDGAR HOOVER
DIRECTOR
Hederal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice
Washington, DC.
August 6, 1942

Mr. Leonard Wright
In Care of Y. M. C. A.
York, Nebraska

Dear Mr. Wright:
It has come to my attention that you are an amateur radio operator and may possibly be interested in making appli-cation for the position of radio operator with this Bureau.
For your information, I am enclosing herewith a statement of the qualifications for the above mentioned position as well as an application blank in the event you desire to apply for such position.

If you are interested, it is suggested that you
execute the enclosed application and forward it to this Bureau at Washington, D. C., at which time further consideration will
be given your case.
Very truly yours,
• ce. above
John Edgar Hoover
Director
Enclosures
FOR DEFENSE
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS

CLASS OF SERVICE
WESTERN
1201
This is a full-rate
• Telegram
or
Cable-
gram unless its de-
ferred character is in-
dicated by a suitable
symbol above or pre-
ceding the address.
UNION
(08)
R. B. WHITE
NEWCOMB CARLTON
J. C. WILLEVER
SYMBOLS
DL = Day Letter
NT = Overnight Telegram
LC -Deferred Cable
NLT - Cable Night Letter
Ship Radiogram
PRESIDENT
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination
MAD134 9 XC-YORK NEBR 18 129P
1942 JUN 18 PM 2
12
J H WRIGHT =
CARE HOTEL CARLETON
LEAVING GRANDISLAND 1145 AM FRIDAY FOR SPOKANE WASHINGTON
LOVE=
LEONARD:
1145 AM.
THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

AND THEN IT GOT WORSE

My great-grandmother — my grandfather’s mother — ALSO kept a scrapbook and it was ALSO in this damned box

She kept it all. His high school graduation. Pictures. His football wins. The newspaper clipping where the amateur radio station […]

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My grandfather’s record of birth and a selection of pictures of him from the 1920s

Scrapbook page of high school awards and membership cards from the thirties

Newspaper article:
PICKS UP SIGNALS
OF ADMIRAL BYRD
EXPEDITION SUNDAY
After working by lamplight for
several hours Saturday night after
the wind had gone down, Leonard
Wright, local operator of an ama-
teur radio station, and a crew of
nine men succeeded in erecting a
65 foot perpendicular antenna
above the roof of the Y.M.C.A.
building.
On the following evening
Wright felt that their efforts had
been rewarded for he was able to
receive direct from Little America
the radio broadcast signals of the
Byrd expedition.
As far as Wright has been able
to learn, he is the second amateur
operator in Nebraska ever to pick
up the signals from the Byrd ex-
pedition, direct from the south
polar region.

Next to that a signed picture of some dude (Byrd?) and a rather nice Husky

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The first thing I pulled out of the bottom layer was my uncle’s baby book, which he will be getting in the mail whether he wants it or not. And then… a memorabilia book from my grandmother’s Navy career. What the… okay, no, put it aside, don’t think about it […]

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Elderly leather cover of a falling-part book labeled “Scrap Book”

A formal wedding invitation form “nineteen hundred and forty-four” taped onto yellowed paper. Below it is a smaller card for the reception; beside it is a hand drawn cartoon of Donald Duck. I assume this has something to do with both my grandparents being in the Navy?

Double page of 1940 cutsy congratulations cards carefully taped into a yellowed scrapbook

MORE CARDS (at least one kind of offensive by modern standards, featuring Native Americans.) I have no idea who any of these names are. What in the HELL do I do with this?!

katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The Last Box didn’t even come from my grandparents’ house. It came from their overflow storage unit, the one we cleaned out a year ago. We’d opened it enough to ascertain it was photos and therefore Kat’s Problem and the shut it again.

The top layer was deceptive; the litter of framed […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

And I was doing so well, guys! Box after box! Pictures being roughly sorted by decade! A box for letters and stuff that the service wouldn’t scan for Later Dealing With! I did get a bit slowed down by the shoebox of assorted 30s-40s photos of my insanely young grandparents and a lot of people I […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The past month or so I’ve been figuring out to reclaim my office, swimming in, among other things*, giant boxes of photos, I had a brainstorm. SURELY I could throw money at this problem.

And indeed there are places perfectly willing to take your money and your giant box of photos and give you a […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

For various reasons during the cleanup I got all the photos. I at one point planned to scan them, make an archive, etc, but got defeated because a) I realized this would take at least the lifetime of my scanner because there are THOUSANDS of THEM and b) every time I opened a box, the “what the […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

I am having An Evening.

Ok, the backstory here is my grandmother died in 2013; we got my grandfather out of the house in 2014; and we spent literally the next 5 years cleaning out the house. They lived through the Great Depression. They saved EVERYTHING.

There was not a day cleaning out that […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social In my case the #gardening excuses are

a) we’re on a steep piece of land with lots of hard to mow bits
b) the house builders planted over 20 white pines back in the 70s and now they’re dying and I gotta do SOMETHING with all this waste wood

Raised bed? Check log […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

#wordweavers Sunset Grill is set on a futuristic Earth; I haven’t really messed with garbage disposal, aside from their habit of dumping inconvenient bodies in the lake. A lot of inconvenient stuff goes in the lake. The rest gets sort of shifted about, piled up until the neighbors complain […]

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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

#wordweavers 10/7. How does the world your characters inhabit deal with garbage?

Lies is set in a multi-racial alien colony. At first they dumped garbage in the jungle. The jungle LOVED that and the fast growing, metal eating vines came looking for more. Then they dumped it in the river. The […]

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