Isn’t the politically smart thing for them to do to say there will be an investigation, etc, etc, and then let it blow over? Or hang any blame on the agent if there is wrongdoing proven? Why hitch their wagon to this incident and this guy like this?

I accidentally bought some Instax wide (my son’s camera takes a different kind) and missed the return window. Now I *really* wish I had a press camera to use it with!

I figured those were from your log, but I didn’t know if you got to pick what it showed in the graphic. I moved to StoryGraph. It’s good for logging and has some good graphs and things, but isn’t as social as GR. This is my 2024 wrap-up. They haven’t done 2025 yet.

Does it let you pick the books or does it pick for you? (I don’t use Goodreads.)

I’ve used several of these this year

His Good Luck Babe, though…

And now Canva has made Affinity free (it was already a pretty good deal when it was a suite of paid apps), and it seems like it will integrate with Canva in a way that lets you create a design template or assets and work with them in Canva, which I know has been a point of friction for designers.

Figma’s free version’s limits are mostly around collaboration, which you may not need if you’re doing it all yourself. And the design tools out-class Adobe for web/app/interactive design.

Reaper is a full-featured DAW that does everything Logic does, as far as I can tell. And I’m sure most of what Pro Tools and Ableton do. Audacity is a free audio editor that does all you need for basic audio editing, and is getting a big design overhaul.

For all the enshittification of software and all of that, the free creative apps that exist in 2025 are incredibly high quality.

DaVinci Resolve probably does everything you need for video for free and has paid upgrade options you can get to when you need them.

It was a huge deal. I remember some of the marketing tie-ins like the happy meal… toy? Game? www.ebay.com/itm/27730597...