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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 17h

YEAH I had just been laid off before Gateway last year and I almost bailed but then was like, well, I spent the money already, sure hope this doesn't affect my ability to pay my mortage in a couple months

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 18h

augh I'm so excited to go to a con without having unemployment and the guilt of "I paid for this experience when I still had a job and I deserve to have a fun and see friends, but like, damn, I'm broke," hanging over my head

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At least this house managed to trap their giant skeleton so all it can do is look at us

Big upper section skeleton tucked into a gable porch

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah that's all I got in me. If you really think C/aude can do my job to "save me time" then find someone who uses A///I to do that, which is in the resignation note in the format of "If you genuinely feel this is the best use of your time, I encourage you to seek out A///I Design Specialists"

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Dreavindr @dreavindr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

☀️ #wolgraha

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

adds one: "Several volunteers lost their previous jobs bc those companies adopted AI to replace us, and you’re implying we should be using the tool that’s putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work bc it’s “fine” and asking us to make revisions to our hard work is inconvenient for you."

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

okay well I have like a 12-14 paragraph resignation notice that I'm not even sure they're going to read all of

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

yeah, no, I 100% agree! And in this case none of them are learning graphic design bc they don't have computers, they need other people to do it for them, so it's literally just a guy in prison telling everyone, "it's just a waste for a designer to spend time on this when C/aude can do it"

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

People talk a lot about foot fetishists, but nobody talks about how artists are all sickos for hands. Anyone who draws the human form regularly goes absolutely wolf-howl sicko mode over a well drawn hand. It's like an entire body on it's own, artists are out here hubba-hubba-ing and awooga-ing

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The nonprofit is based out of San Quentin so the impact team is all incarcerated, it's meant to give them skills they can use when they get out so they get hired more easily while also making life better for them while they're there / justice rehabilitation

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh you mean the designer LOL I'm sympathetic bc he's unemployed and clearly freaking out and I did get to the point where I was like "do I need to learn this?" But my response was actually I don't want to be a designer anymore if this is what it's like And started applying to other jobs LOL

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

He's also IN PRISON so he doesn't have access to the correct information but he's convinced that we're "going through an economic boom because of all the money in A///I" like b r o those companies are trillions of dollars in debt

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Which TL;DR I find it disrespectful he won't have a frank and constructive conversation with me about this but keeps bringing it up in meetings when I'm not there hoping people will pat him on the back and tell him he did okay

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Kind of sucked to be told to replace my custom illustration with a genA///I image and someone else said "he feels really bad," so I think it's already more about how he thinks my feefees are hurt and less about ethics, which I don't think he knows about but I don't have the patience to educate him

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

it's a volunteer gig, so I don't technically have a manager, but I am planning to frame it as I don't feel my time and skills are valued by the team if this is how they're going to talk about my creative output when I'm not around Also this guy hasn't spoken to me directly since I told him that it

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That's literally what it sounds like!! And I learned new skills with them, like hands-on social media management and have a year of experience to bring to my new job, but this guy who previously was so anti-A///I is like "let me lick billionaire boots for you, it's what jobs want to see"

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm also going to bring up that the other designers who left were anti-A///I and it's not just me in a vacuum bc I feel like he thinks I'm uniquely overreacting for not liking it and I'm not sure I will even be able to convince him of that LOL

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

But if they're literally having conversations behind my back about how C/aude can basically do my job and all of the designers (read: me and one guy who doesn't come to meetings anymore) should be using that instead then like. Bye?? I'm already planning what kind of resignation message to send them

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And that he wants to learn to design using A///I bc "jobs require that so he needs to know how, even if he doesn't like it" but warns them that generated assets require ~20 rounds of revisions to get right which, if you can make sth from scratch that requires 1-2, doesn't that save time??

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The conversation progressed into green name designer saying that "things like branding and logos and websites" need to be made by a human but everything else is "kind of iterative" so a social media post that goes up and then you forget about it is "kind of whatever" and they could just use C/aude

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It also doesn't look fine, the version of my poster that they fed into A///I instead of asking me for decisions looks busted as hell. Just say you don't value hard work Also have these people never heard of revisions?? It's so normal to say "can you swap this image out/change this text"

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And for some reason, every time anyone mentions A///I at least one person has to infodump their whole opinion about it What, like me? The project I spent six hours on for you I wouldn't have if I just used C/aude instead? When I wasted my time doing my job that I'm good at for you?

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I didn't attend this week's nonprofit meeting either bc busy and I'm reading the transcript and lol The one designer who has been staunchly against A///I I guess has completely changed his tune bc he thinks he won't get jobs if he doesn't learn it. So we're just using machines to think, now?

A meeting transcript that reads "Let me commit to doing just a little bit of I want to work with Gemini ChatGPT to just go through all the reasoning of why this would be a good idea vs why it wouldn't be. If we can put a decision this until next week..." There's more, but not really important to context

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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · 14/10/2026

LAST CHANCE! In one hour, these #dailytees will take a detour through subspace for some privacy! Act fast! www.theyetee.com

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Didn't get home from work until like 7:30 so ofc I cooked dinner, did some tasks, did like two things in FFXIV and then I looked up and my bedtime was an hour ago. Love this job thing.

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I only have one Espeon plush (which I also got in Japan) despite Espeon being my fav Eeveelution, so I'm excited to have her....

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My mom sent me a bunch of pictures of Espeon plushes from a Pokemon Center in Tokyo, using my dad as a model, and asked me which one I wanted, and I didn't answer fast enough so she just sent me "we got you the big one" Years of childhood neglect forgiven

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

my orange boy is Biscuit and I know like 3 other orange boys named Biscuit, which I did not know when I named him Biscuit. His original name was Jacke like Jacke Final Fantasy I feel like I have no super original names but Cheese Puff is eternal

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My therapist rescheduled our appointment at the last minute last week and then slept in today and reschduled again and this feels like some kind of exposure therapy for abandonment issues

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壺 @doskoi777.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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✦⛓️𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖊⛓️✦ GATEway FATE @humonculuss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a sketch I’m starting to really like

Rough sketch of Uri. His eyes are downcast and he is smiling

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the one time I ordered Doordash to the office the dasher dropped it off somewhere completely different that I never found and I did not get my money back and I'm weirdly scarred by that experience now It'd take 20+ minutes round trip to walk anywhere to eat, too x.x

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I forgot to bring lunch to work today so I just ate some of the free food samples I've been hoarding my office (read: banana chips and an OJ) and it's almost 4pm and I'm getting pretty hungry but should I just wait for dinner at this point lmao

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Doing some competitor research for a marketing deck and the guy who makes a lot of Viz Media's convention displays made a really cool booth for one of them.... Anime cooking booth when....

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Congrats on the new job, can you put some time on in the next couple weeks for me to sell you this software that you definitely have previously used and liked?" "Oh no, you DEFINITELY used it. But okay well can you connect me with who can?" I'm NEW, there are four people working in my building, man

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

got a message from someone on LinkedIn who is trying to meet with me to sell me an ERP software (I'm...a marketing specialist) using the premise "Crunchyroll was one of our customers so you're familiar with us already" and when I said "No, we didn't use that software" he tried to gaslight me LMAO???

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think my plan is to bring Miss Spider out of retirement bc I finally found her legs and she's easy to move around in (aside from the fishing wire that lets me move my spider legs catching on every doorknob)

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was starting to make my peace that I don't have time to make an entire Halloween costume (I really wanted to make BAS Poison Ivy finally) but after finishing Hermes I am high on my own juice like "yeah if I ordered materials now I could totally do it despite never having made a bunny suit before"

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Actually maybe that had something to do with the Barney thing (because toddlers watching Barney in the 90s is objectively not weird)

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Also I kept trying to sneak plushie dinosaurs into school with me under my coat (we weren't allowed to bring toys) which neither the students nor teachers liked

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Jacquelantern 🎃🦇💀 Gateway FATE @strawberryjacquiri.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I literally had someone who bullied me for previously having watched Barney as a toddler when I was in pre-K (she later wrote me an apology letter and put it in my cubby) so I started internalizing the "is the problem me" when I was 5

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