StrayCatalyst

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Game dev of a sort. Currently a Sr. Tech Writer for [REDACTED], working on internal developer docs. Worked QA, technical design, and lead roles previously. Slightly burnt out. Note: Personal account, comments are mine alone.

Small comic of a stick figure guy chasing a bipedal dollar bill saying: “come back” and the dollar running away saying “no”
From: https://www.taylorfarms.com/newsroom/taylor-farms-announces-investment-with-pure-green-farms/ Text: "SALINAS, Calif. – August 24, 2021 – Taylor Farms enters the greenhouse growing market with an investment in Pure Green Farms. This expansion into greenhouse grown fresh offerings will complement Taylor Farms’ existing 122,200 crop acre field grown program and 16 salad producing facilities across North America. "
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Secret of Mana Rabite enemy - a blob that has bunny ears and a bunny tail
Screenshot from the Xbox Moss: The Forgotten Relic store page, a few reviews available, but not quite enough to generate a score yet.
A screenshot from the PlayStation Store page, with a 4.94/5 score across 52 reviews so far on Moss: The Forgotten Relic
cartoon of a person standing between two fuzzy buffalo-like-creatures (that the blog Hyperbole and a Half call "alot") and the person is turned towards the left one with the text: "I like this alot more."
Moss: The Forgotten Relic at #74 in the Steam 100 Top Sellers list
Quill says "thanks" in ASL
Package of Bare Bones ramen-flavored bone broth
There's harsh lighting on the stepmother's severe face as she happily says: "Tonight, we'll be having a welcome party for Miya!"
X-Files show screenshot showing Mulder in a tshirt and jeans on the floor, hand held in front of his face as he recoils from a bright light from offscreen
Elder Muro saying in response to "what is manly?" part 1: "A man's value."
Old twitter post: I ain’t reading all that I’m happy for u tho Or sorry that happened
Image from LAPD South showing all of the emergency activity tonight, July 4th-5th. Many fires and car icons
Sea of people waiting outside the Shrine Auditorium in various cosplay and outfits representing their favorite Hololive people
Screenshot from Google’s page of the World Cup game at nearly 104 min and a 2-2 score between Cabo Verde and Argentina
Ryoko Kui LA Exhibit posters featuring Delicious in Dungeon
A cabinet in the bar featuring a beckoning cat and several kinds of Japanese whiskey
Screenshot of the Excel sheet that you have to download, sorted to see more recent submissions. The highlighted line shows that Keywords Inc expects 128 layoffs.
Who can be called a nurse in Washington state? A chatbot can give you medical advice, but is it a nurse? House Bill 2155 bars nonhuman entities such as artificial intelligence programs, hospital robots or automated triage tools from using certain titles. Under the new law, only licensed human professionals can use titles such as “nurse,” “registered nurse” or “RN,” and provide nursing services, the Washington State Nurses Association said. “With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, it’s important for Washingtonians to know that AI cannot act as a licensed nurse or claim to be one,” Gov. Bob Ferguson said at a March bill signing ceremony. Read more at: https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article316268787.html#storylink=cpy
Scrungly hair and headband showing the foam ears taped to fold and bend them over time
A side Caesar salad and the seafood combo from Ivars with a Seapine Pale Ale. Fried food and beer yes.
The large dog Marc Anthony from Looney Tunes with distraught sad eyes while his owner waves a cat-shaped cookie at him
Three posts on Bluesky, in a row, all commenting on feeling or hearing about the Northern Japan earthquake, in English
From the article, a quote from Valve: “…than just ours. In fact, with the newly-released SteamOS 3.8, you can run the same code and operating system as Steam Machine on your own living-room PC using whatever PC parts you want: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227 . Right now, only AMD GPUs are supported, but we’re working on expanding support for the future.”
From https://www.idrlabs.com/amazing-digital-circus/test.php - some test results that put me at like 85% Zooble.
Variant popup screens that involve pasting content from the clipboard with ctrl-v
From the article in the previous post: What Malcolm calls ‘secret societies’ have long been popular with the American elite, though they may be becoming more so. Eric Schmidt has gathered everyone from Senator Cory Brooker to Lady Gaga at his annual Yellowstone Club. Investment bank Allen & Company has run its Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’ since 1983. Now, the ‘new elite’ is finding places to think ‘outside of the orthodox and figure out what’s going on’, Collins says. Peter Thiel hosts a few of the new gatherings, from the Founders 50 island retreat to the Hereticon festival.
Steve Pinker – Professor, Psychology, Harvard University. Author, Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature. [Boston] Michelle Rempel Garner – Member of Parliament & Shadow Minister, Natural Resources, Canada. Vice-Chair, Standing Committee on Natural Resources. [Ottawa] Helen Riley – CFO & COO, X. [Palo Alto] Bob Rubin – Senior Counselor, Centerview Partners. Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. [New York] Gretchen Rubin – Podcaster & Author, The Happiness Project [New York] Tod Sacerdoti – Founder & CEO, Pipedream. General Partner, Flex Capital. [San Francisco] Gustavo Sapoznik – Founder & CEO, ASAPP. [Bozeman, MT] Jessica Schell – Executive Vice President & General Manager, Film, Warner Bros. [Los Angeles] Tara Schuster – Author, Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, From Someone Who’s Been There. Fmr. VP, Talent and Development, Comedy Central. [Los Angeles] Alexander Schütz – Principal Partner, Freie Internationale Sparkasse S.A. Founder & CEO, C-Quadrat Investment Group. [Vienna] Jessica Scorpio – Co-Founder & Chairman, Getaround. [San Francisco] Ali Siddiqui – Ambassador at Large for Foreign Investment, Pakistan. Fmr. Ambassador to the United States, Pakistan. [Islamabad / London] Anne-Marie Slaughter – CEO, New America. Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. [Washington, D.C.] Jens Spahn – Federal Minister of Health, Germany. Member, German Bundestag. [Berlin] Bret Stephens – Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. [New York] Lord Simon Stevens – CEO, National Health Service, England. Fmr. President & EVP, UnitedHealth Group. [London] Nicholas Thompson – CEO, The Atlantic. [New York] Tom Tugendhat – Member of Parliament, United Kingdom. Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons. [London] Sunayna Tuteja – Chief Innovation Officer, Federal Reserve System. [Washington, D.C.] David Wallerstein – Chief …
Young crow awkwardly stumbling along the top of the backyard wood fence and flapping wings to steady itself
Hot pink and black checkerboard patterns on game objects in Source Engine games missing textures
Momma bird on the left of a topdown view of the nestbox interior, 5 feathered baby chickadees in various stages of begging for food from her
Light from the anime Death Note with the subtitle, "Just according to keikaku" and a Translator's Note that says "keikaku means plan"
The front of small black and white card with the Destiny logo, the phrase "Your stars have aligned", and then a heart below it. The whole message is overlaid on a compass and starfield (I think).
Dr Manhattan comic with 3 panels: It's 2016 and Persona 5 is released It's 2020 and Persona 5 is released It's 2027 and Persona 5 is released
Dimly lit gray cat under a thin white linen sheet
From the Absurd Ventures careers page: Game Development Art Principal/Lead VFX Artist (Real-time) Santa Monica Lead Character Artist Santa Monica Art Director Santa Monica Character Technical Artist Santa Monica Senior VFX Artist San Rafael Audio Senior Technical Sound Designer San Rafael Freelance Audio Engineer Santa Monica Design Principal / Lead Gameplay Designer Santa Monica Campaign Design Lead Santa Monica Engineering Principal Rendering Engineer Santa Monica Lead Engineer, Game Systems Santa Monica Senior AI Engineer San Rafael We will be staffing more roles for our Game Development teams in the future. If you would like to submit a general application purely for us to have your resume on file, feel free to do so here
From the Mercury News link, also on this date: In 2024, Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (Trump received a no-penalty sentence, or unconditional discharge, just 10 days before his January 2025 inauguration to a second term.)
Nacho, a black shorthair cat, peeks half a face past the door frame into my office He is glaring and has a disgruntled expression, for a cat
A hardcover copy of Travis Baldree’s book, Brigands & Breadknives, with rattkin Fern sitting on the back of the wooden wagon with a glass, writing letters while looking at her traveling companions, Astryx the legendary elven adventurer and Zyll, the shark-toothed chaos goblin in a colorful coat
Cluster of fossilized eggs from the article, still relatively round despite showing cracking across the surfaces of the shell
Meatwad, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, speckled with shards of glass, floats in ocean water below a large yellow balloon animal
Captain Murphy from Sealab 2021 pinned under a fallen Bebop Cola vending machine
Quote from the article: Another quipped: “It tastes like an edible but instead of getting high you get diarrhea.”
6 Open Roles Contract QA Tester Quality Assurance ProbablyMonsters Fort Worth, TX Senior UI Artist Art & Animation ProbablyMonsters Fort Worth, TX Senior Community Manager Marketing ProbablyMonsters Fort Worth, TX Senior Social Media Manager Marketing ProbablyMonsters Fort Worth, TX Principal Producer (Product) Production - Fort Worth, TX General Application Other - -
Black cat Nacho nearby, looking out the glass deck door for critters
Pile of cardboard tubes that hold around 10 bee cocoons each, all emptied I’ll clean them up and save them to give out my mason bees later
Meme image of two girls fighting with text: Ian Fay, Artists, and then a guy smoking a bong on the side with text: me
From ArenaNet's careers page: At ArenaNet, we prioritize flexibility and work-life balance. While some positions may occasionally require onsite work at our Bellevue office, we also offer remote work options for certain roles. Please refer to the details in each job posting for information on remote eligibility. Programming Gameplay Engineer Senior Gameplay Engineer Publishing Marketing Analyst (Contract)
screenshot from the careers page: Advanced Unreal Technical Designer (Player Package) Location: Toronto, ON, Canada + View details Contract Advanced Material Artist Location: Remote + View details Contract Lead Character Artist Location: Austin, TX + View details Senior Gameplay Animator Location: Toronto, ON, Canada + View details
Magnetic whiteboard in a fridge that says “Groceries” with a bright orange magnet with Pam Wishbow’s art of a leafy sparkly onion
The Square Enix concert at Benaroya Hall, seats are fairly close to the stage and the orchestra players are warming up
subway logo generator that now shows a sandwich below the words: SBUBBY, eef freef
A gray cat laying with butt towards camera looks over shoulder with squinty, slow blink eyes - indicating he is very happy and chill
A display at the MOHAI about a flu epidemic in 1918, showing a gauze mask to be worn on the face and a journal entry from someone working with the sick(?) at the time. Below the mask, a placard says: "An Epidemic Adds Tragedy to Uncertain Times: October 5, 1918 The war is grinding on. The city's filled with strangers - immigrants who dress, speak, and think differently from native Seattleites. And now we've been hit with a deadly influenza epidemic that's killing more than 250 of every 100,000 people in Seattle. Today, in an attempt to stop the spread, the mayor has banned all public gatherings." The smaller placard by the mask shows that soldiers at Fort Lawton and Fort Lewis had to be quarantined - the flu they carried killed more people than the war in Seattle.
The placard below Chinese immigrant tools that has a large comic that says "The Chinese Must Go" with a policeman(?) chasing a Chinese man with long hair. It reads: "As Jobs Dwindle, Some Blame the Immigrants: Once crucial to our growth, Chinese workers are now targets of anger. Chinese people have been here since the 1860s. Many came to work for the railroad, sawmills and in the hops fields. But in the '80s, jobs started to get scarce, and white workers didn't like competition from immigrants who get paid less. When angry workers called for a ban on Chinese immigration, Congress responded. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act blocks Chinese workers from entering the country, and denies residence to those are here. In '84, a lull in the logging industry puts more men out of work, sparking racial violence."
A sign that says: "Shelly's Leg is a GAY BAR provided for Seattle's gay community and their guests" (their guests is underlined) Part of The Lusty Lady's sign is also visible in this pic.
A placard from the MOHAI from Feb 3, 1919, with the headline: "60,000 workers ready to join the strike!" The war meant more jobs and higher pay for Seattle's shipyard workers. Now that it's over, their wages are being cut. In protest, they went on strike two weeks ago. Today, the city's other labor unions voted to join them. They've scheduled a general strike by all workers - the first ever in North America. Where will this lead? To revolution? Power for the workers? The truth is: no one knows where!
A poster from 1911, part of the Workers of the World (Wobblies) display at the Seattle MOHAI. The workers at the bottom, regardless of gender, race, or job skill support all the others in the pyramid depicted, where they say "We work for all, we feed all", the next layer depicts a fancily-dressed set enjoying drinks and dinner that says "We eat for you", the layer above that is military folks that say "We shoot at you", and the layer above that appears to be religious figures that say "We fool you", and above that appear to be nobility that say "We rule you", and at the top of the pyramid is a large moneybag that says, "Capitalism"