Context: I’ve been shooting with a canon 6D for a few years. It was my first DSLR and I’ve gotten a ton of use out of it but lately I’ve been shooting and touring a lot more and it just really blows in low light, which is a problem because most of the shows I’m at are smallemore intimate venues with…questionable lighting, and I try to use flash as little as possible. It produces a lot of grain if the ISO is higher than say 4000, and the autofocus is just trash because often it’s too dark for it to detect a subject.
Was just wondering if anyone had tried both of these cameras and had any strong thoughts on them? I’ve read pretty much all the specs and comparison articles, just looking for some human perspectives or personal anecdotes (even though I’m sure a lot of it is just personal preference and brand loyalty haha)
I’ve got 50mm 1.4 and 16-35mm 2.8 canon lenses already that I know I could get an adaptor for if I went canon but I’m open to just starting fresh with Sony. And final note I’d be using it 90% of the time for photos but moving into a bit of video as well. Thanks in advance!

Hi all, love and lurk this sub, throwaway account created for this post. This is a doozy, so if you make it through this, I thank you. If it's too much for you, I'd love to get your thoughts on just the last paragraph, "THE LAST STRAW."
My husband and I have been together for four years now, and ever since we got engaged two years ago, things have gone south with my JNMIL. Some examples: the day I started planning my wedding and sharing my to-do list with her, all excited to plan with her, she called me naysaying "sweetie you can't do this on your own, you should get a wedding planner" (meanwhile my husband and I ended up planning it all in three months); she designed a wedding invitation for us, which I didn't like, and she was butthurt about it for months (not even giving me the option to redesign it or considering what I would like); we were planning our wedding to be either in Dec or May so my BIL, who was in grad school, could make it, and she pushed for May so that SHE wouldn't be cold; when I said that I'd rather not have a May wedding because I wanted to wear a poofy, heavy wedding dress, she said "well why don't you wear a lighter style?"; when I was shopping for wedding dresses and sending her photos to get her opinion, she had told me there was one that she loved, and then she went and told my then-fiance "I didn't really think it looked good on her," making me wonder why she lied to me (just seemed like a mean girl thing to do...; and when I finally chose my wedding dress, she was mad that I didn't send her a photo, making the whole thing all about herself, not even being happy that I found the dress of my dreams; she was also disparaging about my culture's traditions and cuisine in many ways throughout the process. For example, after my bridal shower, she told my then-fiance "I wish they'd play music that WE like," regarding the cultural music that we play (instead of trying to get to know my background and appreciating where I come from, of course). Because of all that she had done during our wedding planning process, I became quiet in my relationship with her (after attempting many times to explain to her all that she had done to upset me, which maddened her, because she is not used to talking things out), so I became less close with her. Right before our wedding, she called me saying "I don't know what's going on between us, I'm sorry, I just want you guys to be happy," which led me to just forgive and forget. After our wedding, however, many friends came up to me and said she was sulking during our reception and she was making dirty faces at our ceremony while she was under the arc with us.
Fast-forward a couple of years. We had a baby in November, and everyone was at our house for Thanksgiving, five days after I gave birth. I had noticed that she was soaking frozen chicken in water, and I made a comment that we shouldn't do that for the frozen turkey for the holiday, because it creates bacteria. Her response: "I've been doing it this way for 40 years." I calmly showed her the USDA page and other sources online that say you shouldn't wash poultry, and I repeated it a few times over the span of 1-2 days in response to her going over how she was going to prepare our meal, especially because I was breastfeeding and I wanted to be mindful of infection. Several times of her repeating that she was going to soak the turkey in water, I sternly said, "please don't do that, it's not safe," and it turned into a screaming match, including her saying "I'm done. You do it!!!!" It was horrific and embarrassing, and you'd think that she'd have some patience and understanding with a first-time mom who just gave birth a few days prior. Again, she came upstairs, gave me an empty apology while I was breastfeeding, and we moved on.
The entire time that she was staying with us in November, there were a number of comments made, all WITHIN A MONTH OF ME GIVING BIRTH. 1- how are you possibly going to handle work and motherhood at the same time? 2- rolling her eyes regarding me breastfeeding (she exclusively did formula with her kids) 3- whenever it was time to feed our baby, she suggested she bottle-feed him, and I'd reply, "no thank you, if you do that, I have to pump, and it's a lot of extra steps, so I'd rather just directly breastfeed for the convenience and the bonding factors," and she'd just repeat this suggestion over and over again, which was so frustrating because she was essentially ignoring my explanations. 4- making comments about how I'm feeding our baby too much (he's a healthy percentile, she just wants to criticize). ETC.
Fast-forward to this past April. My husband and I are flying with our baby for the first time and are extremely nervous. We are spending 4 days with his family and four days with my family. Of course, there are comments made, this time about my parents, but I let it slide. Comments include "I didn't like that your mom brought over rice for Passover," meanwhile, they don't even keep the rules of Passover. Something else was that JNMIL spent an entire day cooking my BIL's girlfriend's cuisine and learning about it, but she has never once done that with my cuisine (she is French, I am Iranian - husband says JNMIL is quite xenophobic), and in fact once threw out a plate of my mom's home-cooked food right in front of her at a family gathering. She also had her phone on loud on facetime during a family gathering, and I asked her to please lower it because someone was giving a speech, and she was horribly offended. Another time, she was taking my car to go grocery shopping, and I casually said "drive safe!" and she was offended by this comment and went to vent to my husband. Just insane, irrational behavior coming from her, even from my well wishes.
THE LAST STRAW: two weeks prior to us staying at their home, I asked JNMIL if my friend who lives close by can come visit. She said no bc her sister and BIL were visiting that day, and she wanted family time. I said, "okay maybe I'll just go get dinner with her or go for a walk, when are they coming over and I'll schedule that around them," and this was highly offensive to her apparently? She called me saying how "aggravated she was" and then totally gaslighting me and saying "it's fine! she can come!" Acting like I was crazy for thinking it wasn't fine with her... I was highly confused because she just sent me a series of texts saying how it's not fine, but now I'm realizing that she just didn't want me to take our baby away from her house so my friend could meet him and she was switching her story up last-minute. Okay whatever. The day comes for my friend to visit. JNMIL had made a coconut cheesecake and before my friend arrived, I said "hey, can friend have a slice, it was so good?!" She replies, "no it's already packed up and in the garage." I reply "oh I can go get it." She replies, "there are only a few slices left and I'd like to save that for my boys." I reply, " well I didn't have my slice earlier today, can she have mine?" She yells "NO" and storms upstairs. I say to FIL "okay can we serve her some coffee and tea? She's driving an hour to come see us after a 12-hour-long workday," and he goes "yeah of course." I say "great! she's spending so much time to come see us and I just want to make her feel welcome." BIL goes upstairs to JNMIL and tells her that I was implying that she is not being hospitable. She comes back downstairs and sits in the dining room with BIL and starts venting to my husband about me, saying how I was saying how inhospitable she was being (which she was, and no I wasn't) and "how dare she say we are inhospitable, there is not a more welcoming home than ours" (while providing absolutely no food or snacks to my friend and not doing anything to make me feel like my friend is welcome in her home), while BIL starts saying that "if she wanted to make her friend feel welcome, don't put that on us, OP should have gone to get snacks for her friend herself." Husband says that I was working all day long and that I didn't have time, and that it's not a big deal to serve my friend some snacks and coffee, as it's common courtesy. It turns into a whole 45-minute vent session about me to my husband. I'm in shock, especially because MIL and BIL are saying contradictory things and I don't even know how to start to defend myself. MIL's other issues come out now as well, all bottled up and nothing I had heard before, so I'm in even more shock. She talks about how she was in the hospital for a day and she didn't get a text or call from me (husband defends me saying that I didn't want to bother her while she was there, and that I was asking him how she was doing nonstop). MIL also says "why is she working while you are here at our house, I thought we were family" and husband says "she already took off four days last week to be with us and with her family, she can't take off anymore" and instead of appreciate how I'm trying to balance family time, breastfeeding, and working, she goes on and on about how "she was off for two days with us and for four days with her parents, I thought we were family, why didn't take take off today and tomorrow to be with us," and by this point, my husband is speechless at how petty she is being, and my friend is 5 minutes away, so to save him from this, I enter the dining room, boob in baby's mouth, and I calmly say "what's going on?" Silence from MIL and BIL, because IT'S SO EASY TO TALK BEHIND SOMEONE'S BACK AND IT TAKES COURAGE TO APPROACH SOMEONE F2F, WHICH NEITHER OF THEM HAVE. I ask a few more times, and BIL says "I just think it's rude that you put it on us to welcome your friend, if you wanted to give her food, you should've gone to get it yourself," and I say "okay what else?" MIL gives a disgusted look and yells "what do you mean what else?" and I said, "I just heard you trash-talk me to husband for 45 minutes, so what else is on your mind?" And she YELLS "that's it, what do you mean?" and she storms upstairs like a child after giving me an incredulous, disgusted look. I'm shaking from crying, and at this point, my friend enters the house (FIL let her in) and is a lovely, friendly, happy face, but I'm crying so hard from how much trash I just heard said about me (later on, MIL says she stormed upstairs because she didn't want to talk in front of my friend, but now in hindsight, I realize that if that was the case, she could've just calmly said that and asked to continue talking later instead of throwing a temper tantrum). I apologize to my friend that this is what she walked into and that we didn't have anything for her, so can I please take her out to dinner. She says "of course," and we leave with husband while I'm crying. Once I return, JNMIL comes to me and gives me an empty "I'm sorry, can we start over?" and I'm way too soft, so after saying "I mean everything I heard you say was really hurtful, but yeah we can do that," and she replies "I think the problem is that I just don't feel a connection with you," and I should have said, "that's not an excuse for trash-talking someone like that based on absolutely nothing," and she starts to victimize herself. I want none of it and she's not understanding me, so I just let it go, in hope of enjoying our last day on vacation with family. I tell her "okay, we can start over," and that's it. BIL pretends nothing ever happened and goes about his business like a child, not even acknowledging the shit he just stirred between his mom and SIL for absolutely no reason (he is 26). I have forgiven her for this, but I won't forget how she treated me and my friend. In addition, I don't appreciate the awkward position she put my husband in, trash-talking his wife and mother of his child, while I was within earshot, and making him defend me, and for such an unnecessary thing, too.
A week after returning home, husband gets a call from JNMIL and FIL about how they are worried that my parents are going to become the "primary grandparents." Husband says "WTF are you talking about?" In-laws are absolutely insane. All my parents have done is include them and prioritize them in events, group chats, everything. He convinces them that my parents admire, love, and respect them, and that they are just making up stories in their heads with no evidence. I overhear this conversation and I can't believe my ears. It turns out, in-laws are paranoid due to the fact that we are planning to move to the tristate area, where both my parents and in-laws live. In-laws had been planning to retire where we currently live for the past 20 years. So now they are scrapping their plans for this, not because they want to be close to us, but because they don't want my parents to be the "primary grandparents." They are incredibly paranoid, jealous, and rude. What's more is that FIL lied about a hot job offer he received in the city that husband and I currently live, in order to guilt us into staying here.
Fast-forward to now, two months after this phone call. I didn't hear from either JNMIL or FIL or BIL on my first ever mother's day. No text or call. Baby is 6.5 months, and I haven't received a single message this whole time about how I'm doing. I've been back to work for 2.5 months, and they haven't asked me how I'm handling work and motherhood, or if I need anything. I guess my question is, should I reach out? Should I just walk away? I've vented to my husband enough about them, and he is fully in agreement with me regarding their behavior and mean words. He says that this is just how they are and they won't change. They are incredibly antisocial, passive-aggressive, narcissistic, cynical, and negative. Ever since I've given birth, it's been pure vitriol and discouragement, rather than empathy and support. They are in their late 60s, so I don't know if they will ever change their ways.
I know this has been so much. I really needed to vent here. However, any words of advice would be appreciated. If there's anything you see that I've done wrong, please point it out, too.

As I stated in the title, my 13 year old cousin is sending nudes to grown men. Sometimes she sends them fake pics. My grandmother knows about this along with my aunt and they did nothing.
My aunt is never around her kids, probably doing drugs. I mean, she’s only 30 something and all her teeth fell out. She’s unusually skinny, which is weird in my family and used to weigh a lot but never exercised or went on a diet to lose this weight. She just keeps getting thinner. She doesn’t have an E.D. either. She’s a pos of mom who is never around, telling her kids she’s at work (she works at a bar, they’re not open super early in the morning). My cousins dad is known to be on drugs, he’s been to prison several times and is never around. Despite this, they’re not divorced though seeing other people. My grandmother along with my aunt constantly berate their dad. I can’t wait till the day they try to get divorced and do custody, cause parent alienation and being on drugs wouldn’t grant either of them custody.
My grandfather was the only one who was somewhat decent and he unfortunately passed about a year ago.
My grandmother has told her stuff you should never tell your kid, like that she’s gonna be in prison just like her dad. Not to mention, my cousin has started acting out physically, shoving my grandmother a few times.
My sister tested her after my cousin admitted to talking to older men, (my sister is also a minor) created a fake profile on snap, and asked for nudes posing to be an older man. Surprise, surprise, she sent them.. they’re mad at my sister and didn’t do crap.. I don’t know how to go about this. I’m trying to get my therapist and psychiatrist to make an report but I don’t know if they can. I have photos of her begging me not to tell along with witnesses.

I'm trying to find a photo I saw in a Fortean Times issue around 20 years ago, maybe one of you can help!
When I was a kid, we had a family friend who knew I was into aliens, UFOs, cryptozoology, and the like, and he was too. He had a subscription to the magazine Fortean Times, and he started giving me his old issues after he’d finished them. This was an ideal situation for tiny me, and it fed my imagination greatly. I can’t tell you how many hours I spent leafing through the pages and imagining what was out there.
If you’ve read FT, you know that it’s loaded with interesting accounts of strange phenomena as well as some weird and sometimes shocking photos. There’s one photo and story in particular that lodged itself in my brain, though, for some reason. It wasn’t a photo of a purported alien, or a shot of Bigfoot, or anything like that. It was a relatively unassuming picture of a specter of an old man standing right outside of someone’s screen door.
It’s been about 20 years since I saw the photo and read the accompanying story, so some details might differ from what’s actually there, but here’s how I remember it. A reader claimed that they were visited by someone at their home. When they answered the door, an older man was there, or at least what at first appeared that way. I vaguely remember them trying to talk to the old man and being immediately put off by his appearance. The thing was that all of his proportions seemed off, particularly his head. They managed to get a photo of the figure, and sure enough, there was a profoundly uncanny appearance to him. His head was far too large when compared to the screen door in front of him, and I seem to remember that you could almost see through him.
The photo itself is typical of digital photos from the late-90s to mid-2000s, with blurriness and compression artifacting, but the face itself looks blurrier than it should be and blurrier than the rest of the photo. The face is close, very large, and takes up a good portion of the photo, framed by the left and right sides of the screen door. The head is a bit misshapen, squarish, and far too large, but apart from the fact that it seems you can slightly see through it, you’d be forgiven for assuming this was a living person standing in front of you. Behind the old man was greenery, I want to say woods. I don’t remember eyes, or other facial features. It was more like the suggestion of facial features. I don’t remember him having any hair, and I can’t stress enough how absolutely huge his head was. It seemed to be roughly in proportion to the rest of him, which I think contributed to not realizing at first that something was off, but when compared to the size of the screen door, you could immediately see that this made no sense.
I sadly lost all my Fortean Times issues in a move long ago, but I’ve gone through quite a few issues after the fact and included a list below of ones the photo is NOT in. A rough year range for the search would be 1997-2004. It could’ve been from an issue a bit older than that, but I don’t remember receiving many with the logo seen here: https://ft.gjovaag.com/w/FT118. I remember more with the logo seen here: https://ft.gjovaag.com/w/FT129. I’ve checked up until May of 2004, but it could’ve appeared in an issue slightly later than that. I remember him giving me FT issues starting around 2001 and continuing to give me them until around 2004. I’m positive this was a reader-submitted story and photo, and I’m fairly certain it appeared in the “letters” section toward the end of the issue. I tried to have AI generate this photo, and while they’re not super close, these were the ones that were closest: https://imgur.com/gallery/Dh6No8Z. The top left photo has the most accurate screen door effect, background, and overall color grading, while the others capture the uncanniness and strange proportions better. My partner also did a quick illustrated recreation of the photo based on my notes, and this is the closest to my memory of what it looked like: https://i.imgur.com/Ah4KRw0.jpeg I’ve been thinking about this photo since I first saw it half a lifetime ago. If anyone with old Fortean Times issues could find it (or even add to my list of issues it’s not in), I would be incredibly grateful. Thanks in advance for your help!
List of Fortean Times issues the uncanny old man photo is NOT in:
Fortean Times 104 (Dec 1997) Fortean Times 142 (Jan 2001) Fortean Times 164 (Dec 2002) Fortean Times 165 (Jan 2003) Fortean Times 166 (Feb 2003) Fortean Times 167 (Mar 2003) Fortean Times 168 (Apr 2003) Fortean Times 169 (May 2003) Fortean Times 170 (Jun 2003) Fortean Times 171 (Jul 2003) Fortean Times 172 (Aug 2003) Fortean Times 173 (Sep 2003) Fortean Times 174 (Oct 2003) Fortean Times 175 (Nov 2003) Fortean Times 176 (Dec 2003) Fortean Times 177 (Special 2003) Fortean Times 178 (Jan 2004) Fortean Times 179 (Feb 2004) Fortean Times 180 (Mar 2004) Fortean Times 181 (Apr 2004) Fortean Times 182 (May 2004)

If I’m understanding correctly, VIP lets you not have to wait in the giant photo and auto lines for ANY celebrity guest, correct? And let’s you into any panel guaranteed?
These are my main interests. I don’t need to rush into the show floor for exclusives or anything, I’m mostly interested in getting into panels and not waiting on 2+ hr lines for photos and autos.
I feel like I’m in a catch 22. VIP would help me SO MUCH with cutting the lines for all the photos/autos I want to do. I have at least 8 celebs I want to book for and I anticipate long lines for at least 5 of them. I spent the last two NYCC years mostly spent on guest lines and I didn’t get to do much else. But photos/autos are extremely expensive, and that extra $320 for VIP could be used to contribute to the price I’m paying to buy the photos/autos in the first place. It’s hard for me to justify spending $500+ on a ticket. I’m penny pinching as it is.
Saving money = more people I can afford to meet, but then spending the whole con waiting on lines for them.
VIP = less time waiting for panels and guests, but less guests I can purchase cuz much of my money went to the ticket itself
Not to mention possibly going for a hotel, cosplay and travel expenses, artist alley…
I realize this is mostly a vent, ultimately this decision will come from me and it’s really a “weighing your options” kind of thing with no clear answer anyone else can make, but your advice is appreciated.
Was VIP worth it to you in years prior?

Where: PCT Section D from Angeles Forest Hwy to Soledad Canyon Rd
When: May 13-14, 2023
Conditions: Sunny, high of 78F, nighttime low of 60F, little to no wind
Lighterpack: https://lighterpack.com/nzlooc
Overview: My training plan had back-to-back long runs of 18mi and 12mi scheduled for this weekend. I wanted to turn it from a lonely training slog into more of an adventure, so I decided to try my first fastpack. I found a partner unhinged enough to run it with me, and chose a section along the PCT so I could use the FarOut app to check current trail conditions and water availability. This section was runnable, came close to the goal mileage, had no food storage restrictions, was free of snow, had plenty of thru hikers around for additional safety, and had the North Fork Ranger Station (complete with picnic tables, water cache, and pit toilet!) conveniently located for our overnight stay. We planned to just cancel or perhaps try to find a different route in the event of unfavorable weather, but the weather forecast shaped up nicely in the days leading up to the trip.
Day 1: 17mi, +2700ft/-3500ft, 5:23 elapsed time, 4:48 moving time
My boyfriend dropped us off at the Mill Creek Summit, took a photo of us, and we started up the trail at 2:44pm. I was expecting a long, slightly uphill but mostly flat jog, followed by a downhill into camp. We were met with more of a rolling hills situation for the first few hours, resulting in random intervals of jogging (flat and downhill) and walking (uphill) as I tried to keep my heart rate in zone 2. I typically run in the cool evenings and into the night after work, so the afternoon sun, mild heat, and (albeit relatively low) pack weight made me feel even slower than usual. Or maybe it was my faster buddy running effortlessly on my tail?
We crossed a few streams where we gulped down the rest of our electrolyte mix and topped off with cool, clear water. We lost the trail once, briefly, when we climbed over a large blowdown instead of switching back in front of it, then crested a ridge and began the unexpectedly steep descent over rocks and roots, shielding our faces as we ran through overgrown bushes. After a final short rise, the sun began to set as we flew down sharp switchbacks cut into a steep, brushy hillside. My toe snagged a rock on the trail and I fell, gashing my knee and hand before performing a somersault front-flip to land just off the side of the trail, scrambling a bit to stop my slide down the hillside. After some cursing and waiting for the initial jolt of pain to subside, I determined there was no serious damage and we ran the final 1.5mi down to the ranger station.
We filled our bottles from the cache (thanks Todd!) and located a relatively flat spot to set up amongst several PCT thru-hikers' tents. One group asked us if we had cached our overnight gear at the station before our run, and were amazed to hear that all our overnight gear was in our running vests. I pulled an alcohol wipe out of my snack-Ziploc first aid kit to discover it was dried out... my buddy gave me one from his kit to clean up my knee and hand. I ate 1500 calories of turkey wraps, pretzels, and granola bars; a welcome change from the 9 energy gels I'd eaten during the run. I laid out my Thinlight pad on the dusty gravel and set my Uberlight mattress on it, suddenly realizing that they're the same width and the Uberlight would probably end up touching the ground as I tossed and turned in the night. I hoped it wouldn't get a hole in it, pulled my Buff over my eyes, and went to sleep.
Day 2: 8mi, +700ft/-2600ft, 2:22 elapsed time, 2:02 moving time
I woke up after a restful night's sleep to a still-inflated Uberlight. I ate my breakfast of mountain house blueberry granola (my fave) and Starbucks sweetened instant cold brew (new for this trip but definitely a keeper) in bed. As we packed up, we overheard a hiker asking Todd about trying to catch a ride to a gear shop and post office to exchange his threadbare pack; my buddy was heading home in that direction and was able to offer him a ride to build up some trail karma. We waved goodbye-for-now and set off down the gradual descent, working up a sweat quickly in the direct morning sun. We dipped our shirts in a stream to cool off, climbed out of a valley, then descended to my buddy's girlfriend's air conditioned car at the trailhead. I got dropped off at home and then my buddy drove back to give the PCT hiker a ride before heading home himself.
Gear Notes: New gear on this trip included the Salomon Adv Skin 12 running vest, Thinlight pad, Salomon filter soft flask, and S2S Air Head Lite pillow. New experiences included cowboy camping and no-cook (if that even counts when you can just pack fresh turkey wraps for dinner).

• Though I've run hundreds of miles in this Adv Skin 12 vest, I've never loaded it up with 9lb of overnight gear and food. I put my gels, bars, and electronics in the strap pockets, and zipped the overnight gear (including fleece) in the back, inside the turkey bag to protect everything from my sweat soaking through. I borrowed some elastic cord and a cord-lock from my KS backpack to lash the Thinlight pad to the outside. Thanks to the frequent water access, I was able to leave my sloshy water bladder at home, so bounce with this loadout felt even less than I'm used to on my long runs.
• The Gossamer Gear Thinlight pad was way denser than the MLD Goodnight EVA pad I've used before, giving me some extra peace of mind in leaving my groundsheet at home (I'm always nervous about getting a hole in the Uberlight). I may add the groundsheet back in next time though, since the Thinlight isn't quite wide enough to keep the Uberlight off the ground, and it would have been nice to have somewhere to put my phone/socks/misc. off the ground without balancing them precariously on my sweaty shoes on the dirt beside me.
• The Salomon filter flask was an excellent purchase. Flow rate was nearly the same as the sans-filter flask. However, filtering water from the filter-flask to the sans-filter flask was a bit awkward; holding the sans-filter flask upright while squeezing the filter flask and pinching the cap -- without dripping too much dirty water into the sans-filter flask -- would have been easier with 3 hands.
• The S2S Air Head Lite pillow, my luxury item, was worth its weight in gold. I will never skimp on that 1.5 extra ounces again.
• Cowboy camping was great in the excellent weather. The gentle breeze was particularly pleasant. I discovered a couple itchy bites on my foot a day or two later though.
• I still overpack food. I packed 2.84lb of food/gels/electrolytes (including wrappers) for this trip and had some bars leftover afterwards. I was proud of myself for scarfing down my entire dinner Saturday night, though, and eating all my gels on schedule.

long shot maybe, but: there's a cat hanging around in the bushes across the street yowling morning and night, i've caught only one glimpse of her (i'm choosing a gender at random, don't know if it's female, just don't like calling them "it") and she looked like a solid gray adult. poor thing sounds so forlorn but won't come out of the bushes when we approach and try to coax her out. if we can get her to trust us we'll take her in and see if she's chipped, but she's very leary.
so if you're missing a gray kitty, she might be here in the lower townsite area, mostly hanging out in the bushes by the apartment building parking lot at 333 vancouver. if i can snag a photo i'll post it but she doesn't come out often.

A few months ago I got out of a long term relationship with a girl I had been seeing. I am now realizing that she was kind of abusive and I'm not really sure how to feel about it or whether I can even call what she did to me abuse because we were kind of young, she only ever hit me out of anger once and most of what she did was emotional. I was really depressed when we were together because she was always talking about her mental issues and how she would hurt herself. Sometimes she would send me photos or show me her self harm when we hung out. But recently what got me thinking about all this was a conversation I had with my mom. She was talking about how my new boyfriend is bringing "the old me" back and how happy she was about it, she said while I was dating my ex that she noticed a big change in who I became and was to scared to say anything because at the time I wouldn't listen to anyone and was always making excuses for the way my ex would act. I opened up to her about how I felt during the entire realationship. I told her about the summer I met my ex and the fact that I can't remember any of it, I also can't remember any summers after that it's like my mind kind of blanks out around that time I feel like something happened and that there is a reason for this but can't remember that either. My mom then asked the question that got me thinking about this "did she ever hit you" my initial thought was no, and that's what I said but now that I have been thinking about it I realized a few instances where she got physical. Usually it was just a shove here or there and something that I could play off as her just getting a little angry but there was this one time we were messing around in her room, she was sitting at her desk and on her desk there was a hammer (she was always prone to keeping weapons in her room for some reason) I forgot what we were talking about but she said something about hitting me with the hammer and I said that she wouldn't do it because that would hurt me. It was like something in her snapped and she ended up hitting my arm with it. She didn't talk to me after that and I was kinda in shock that she had just done that, I ended up leaving her house shortly after. It bruised my arm and now that I think back to it I should have left then and there but for some reason I didn't. The emotional aspect of things was her always telling me how stupid I was or sounded, she always made fun of the stuff I was interested in, and blamed me everytime I felt bad about something. I'm not sure why but I just felt the need to vent about all of this and see if anyone has any thoughts about it. Also if anyone knows a reason as to why my mind always seems to blank out around the same time every year I would really like to understand that more as well.

Life tip: If you have an OWE family and there is an option for other family members (eg siblings, cousins, esp. those who are quite smart) to go to a quality catholic school, advocate it! That might just very be a catalyst for the individual to realize how dumb INC is. Not mainly because of Catholic teachings, but the idea that there is more to the bible interpretation-wise than what the surface-level cherry-picking interpretation that INC dictates.
I was enrolled in catholic schools all my life. Although I was still brainwashed in elem and HS, I do think that my religion and philosophy subjects in college were one of the main reasons when I really started to doubt the authenticity of INC. You just can't beat critical thinking and scholastic integrity!
It may be more expensive but at least it can help prevent a lifetime of mind conditioning XD

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I’m trying something new because I’m usually stubborn and have been avoiding these these things because i prefer to be rejected the old fashioned way (one at a time instead of 12 at a time).
Has anyone felt like they’ve had more or less success based on how much you put into your profile? I have sufficient photos and little prompts and things; I think I’m just impatient and also unwilling to spend money to see the 17 or so men who apparently “liked” me on Bumble lol. What are your thoughts?

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For context, we were together for 19 months and at one point she told me she lost feelings for me and a short while later she broke up after trying to make it work for a week. The breakup was pretty smooth and there wasn't any begging or screaming, just tears and understanding. Since then we hadn't talked much, but I did send a text every now and then, at first it was just saying stuff like "You're in my thoughts and I love you," (Im assuming it didn't mean she was in love though). That happened twice shortly after the breakup and she responded in kind with I miss/love you too but I cut that out after a little.
We ended up meeting up at one point like 3 weeks post breakup and walked my dog together and had a talk, at first it was fun and lighthearted with laughing. I tried to put my hand on her leg while sitting down which she said she wasnt comfortable with right now, so I didnt press it. We ended up talking about the breakup and that she said she would be willing to maybe try again when summer ends since she is still grieving and that she doesnt think she's ready to talk either until summer starts for the same reason. She said she thinks the breakup feels too fresh to do anything right now together but maybe in the future it could be something we do.
That leads up to now, 5 weeks post breakup. I wrote a letter apologizing for being clingy since that was where I think the feelings were lost from and I truly did mean it. Along with it I said that it wasn't an act and that Im not asking to get back together, but would like to rebuild our friendship sometime soon and see where that takes us. I dropped it off with a sweater I thought was hers (turns out it was my friend's... oops) as well as some candy and a scarf I got for her.
Her response was:
"Thanks for thinking of me, that's really nice of you. I appreciate the letter also.
Only thing is that's not my jacket lol it's prob your mom's or your sister's?? I leave on thurs so lmk if you wanna come by and then grab it lol."
I swung back by shortly after and had a short conversation. It was a little awkward due to my nerves and her looking tired so I didn't press for talk if she didn't look like she was in the mood.
SO, I think this was a really good sign for me that she isn't walled off and knows I am willing to change. Obviously I can see that she doesn't really have romantic feelings for me at this time or is really good at hiding it so I am likely the one who is going to have to keep stepping up to bat which is fine.
I could use some advice on where to take this. Some things worth noting is that every conversation we have had has been super friendly, like heart emojis and smiley faces in the majority of messages (granted we haven't talked much so that is like a total of 5). She still has photos of us up online and hasnt taken me off any of her socials. She has 100% not been with any guy since the breakup and I know she isnt even considering it (don't bother with the usual stuff about this in the comments). Finally, when she says leaving Thursday she means she is leaving to New York over the summer for an internship across the country.
Feel free to ask any more questions about my situation. I'll put the letter I wrote in the comments.
Tldr: I wrote my ex an apology letter for things I did to contribute to the breakup and she gave me a pretty warm response. Looking for advice on where to go.
My question is, where should I go with this next? I plan to obviously step back and give her more space so I don't smother her, but I'd like to have a game plan for when it feels right to contact again. I'd like to know what to do after that though. I do truly plan on building a relationship from scratch rather than pressuring her into what we had in the past.

For context, we were together for 19 months and at one point she told me she lost feelings for me and a short while later she broke up after trying to make it work for a week. The breakup was pretty smooth and there wasn't any begging or screaming, just tears and understanding. Since then we hadn't talked much, but I did send a text every now and then, at first it was just saying stuff like "You're in my thoughts and I love you," (Im assuming it didn't mean she was in love though). That happened twice shortly after the breakup and she responded in kind with I miss/love you too but I cut that out after a little.
We ended up meeting up at one point like 3 weeks post breakup and walked my dog together and had a talk, at first it was fun and lighthearted with laughing. I tried to put my hand on her leg while sitting down which she said she wasnt comfortable with right now, so I didnt press it. We ended up talking about the breakup and that she said she would be willing to maybe try again when summer ends since she is still grieving and that she doesnt think she's ready to talk either until summer starts for the same reason. She said she thinks the breakup feels too fresh to do anything right now together but maybe in the future it could be something we do.
That leads up to now, 5 weeks post breakup. I wrote a letter apologizing for being clingy since that was where I think the feelings were lost from and I truly did mean it. Along with it I said that it wasn't an act and that Im not asking to get back together, but would like to rebuild our friendship sometime soon and see where that takes us. I dropped it off with a sweater I thought was hers (turns out it was my friend's... oops) as well as some candy and a scarf I got for her.
Her response was:
"Thanks for thinking of me, that's really nice of you. I appreciate the letter also.
Only thing is that's not my jacket lol it's prob your mom's or your sister's?? I leave on thurs so lmk if you wanna come by and then grab it lol."
I swung back by shortly after and had a short conversation. It was a little awkward due to my nerves and her looking tired so I didn't press for talk if she didn't look like she was in the mood.
SO, I think this was a really good sign for me that she isn't walled off and knows I am willing to change. Obviously I can see that she doesn't really have romantic feelings for me at this time or is really good at hiding it so I am likely the one who is going to have to keep stepping up to bat which is fine.
I could use some advice on where to take this. Some things worth noting is that every conversation we have had has been super friendly, like heart emojis and smiley faces in the majority of messages (granted we haven't talked much so that is like a total of 5). She still has photos of us up online and hasnt taken me off any of her socials. She has 100% not been with any guy since the breakup and I know she isnt even considering it (don't bother with the usual stuff about this in the comments). Finally, when she says leaving Thursday she means she is leaving to New York over the summer for an internship across the country.
Feel free to ask any more questions about my situation. I'll put the letter I wrote in the comments.
Tldr: I wrote my ex an apology letter for things I did to contribute to the breakup and she gave me a pretty warm response. Looking for advice on where to go.
My question is, where should I go with this next? I plan to obviously step back and give her more space so I don't smother her, but I'd like to have a game plan for when it feels right to contact again. I'd like to know what to do after that though. I do truly plan on building a relationship from scratch rather than pressuring her into what we had in the past.

I (F26) have been with my partner (M25) for 2.5 years. I have a kid he does not. Relationship is long distance as well. We have had our fair share of issues just like any couple. I tried to leave him before a few months in, but he fought for me and we slowly worked on things. He now doesn’t trust me because during that time I hung out with a male friend. I constantly feel like I’m walking on egg shells now. He also doesn’t trust me because it bothered him that I still had pictures with my ex (my kid’s other parent) and I said I would delete them but still had majority of the photos a year later. For me they are memories I can one day share with my child… then his family got involved in that situation because the way he reacts and speaks to me (he begins to yell at me, says hurtful things, and tells me I only look at his reaction not my actions). I then spoke with his family and he got upset because I did that and he thinks I didn’t tell them everything that I just made him look bad which I didn’t I took all the blame his family told me to stop… then there’s so many issues with my child’s father. He isn’t very involved, we live in different states, he calls when he’s able due to work and schedule clashing with my kids school and bedtime routine. He disappeared for a few months and suddenly showed up again for my kids birthday and it caused a lot of stress and me and my partner got into aHUGE fight and he yelled at me he said the most hurtful things and some things he has said to me before… so I chose to walk away…. He then chose to start anger management classes and to take accountability for that situation. And then he showed up at my house with flowers 2 weeks later to fight for me thinking I’ll just accept him back. We also had a HUGE FIGHT and break up just two months ago for his similar behavior. I also battle with depression and anxiety from previous relationship trauma and he hasn’t been supportive lately at all. I feel so stuck. He keeps telling me I only see his reactions to things I don’t see my actions that make him act that way. He says he wants to change but I don’t know if he will I feel like it will be temporary like in the past because he constant gets so angry and ignores me for hours to days and then yells because I get even more upset when he does that. Communication sucks and we used to be so good with it. Close friends and family including his have told me I need to let go.everyone including coworkers, people who barely know me tell me that I don’t look ok that I haven’t been acting like myself. I was feeling ok until he showed up at my door. Now I’m just an emotional wreck. I know my wrongs and how I have upset and/or hurt him but the way he speaks to me reminds me of my previous relationship and that scares me. I told him we are just becoming too toxic and he said it’s all because of the actions I’ve taken that led to his reactions to make us toxic. I feel so lost.

At roughly 8:30 AM tomorrow, I turn 20. It's been a long seven years, and admittedly my teen years probably featured the most miserable moments of my short life so far, but they also held my highest highs.
But I always think to myself "What if I could have done better? What if I had just done things a little differently?"
So I'm just jotting down some suggestions for the rest of you kids and trial-run adults before I go. It's a bit of a toss up between advice I just see as helpful and me lamenting my own missed opportunities and mistakes, but I hope that it can make someone's life just a bit better as they navigate this turbulent period in their lives.

Don't stop talking to your friends

When I was a little kid I had a lot of friends. When I became a teen, I lost contact with some and kept others, but I made more friends. But as I moved from middle school to high school, and when the pandemic hit, I started talking with those friends less and less. I stopped meeting up with them and inviting them to my house, and then eventually all the group chats I shared with them started getting less busy. Now, there's scarcely a word between me and any of them. Oh sure, I'm certain if I asked them they would still consider me their friend, but we never talk to each other any more. Now I just feel... dull. Talking with people I barely know beyond their usernames only, never remembering who's who.
So just never stop talking. Shoot them a dm regularly, even if it's just to say hello. Inquire about their interests, what they're doing in school, tell them jokes and share things that you found interesting with them. If you're like me, then you might have the issue of feeling like a burden, like you're third-wheeling, that people are annoyed by you. I know those thoughts can't just be magic'd away by so words of encouragement, so I won't tell you that it's just all in your head. But I can tell you that if you don't stay in contact with your old friends? If you don't initiate interactions with them, or jump at every opportunity they offer you? You'll lose them. And that's a problem if making new friends doesn't come easy to you, cause I'm the same. I can guarantee that even if all those intrusive, doubting thoughts about yourself are somehow true, you'll come out the other end of constantly talking and seeking interaction with more friends than you will just staying silent and hoping that someone will come approach you.

Use your boredom to get things done

Procrastination. It sucks, even for those without attention disorders. I assume. I do have one, so I wouldn't know. It's hard to get important work done, whether it's school related, chores, or even just getting around to personal projects like art, writing, or reading a book. It's easy to get sidetracked with a billion other distractions surrounding you at all times.
But. Those distractions aren't airtight. After a while of playing the same game, or scrolling far enough down whatever social media you use, you might start to feel a bit of boredom kicking in. That what you're doing isn't holding your attention quite as well anymore. You look for something else to do. But in that moment, don't think! Don't consider what other options you have to entertain yourself. Immediately put yourself to the task of one of those things you said you needed to do! Give yourself the excuse that it'll take some time to figure out what you want to do to kill time, and that you might as well spend a few minutes reorganizing. Some chores like folding your laundry or emptying the dishwasher take surprisingly little time to complete, so you could actually complete quite a bit before you get sick of working again and wander off to a new distraction. Even with longer tasks like completing school assignments or doing art or projects, you'll at the very least get some work done before you get sidetracked again. Every little bit you do makes the final mad rush to complete it before its deadline that much easier- not even just because you've filled out space, but because you now have a more solid idea of what you intended to work towards rather than having to figure out your thesis statement and write the entire essay and gather sources for it in 3 hours.

Go for a walk

Yes, yes. "Touch grass". But seriously, the sun is good for you. I'd say the air outside is fresher than it is inside but I guess that doesn't really apply to people who live in extremely urban environments. But still, taking half an hour or so out of each day to just walk around outside may not seem to offer any tangible benefits at first, but trust me, it can be vital for your mental health. I literally spend most of my time cooped up in my room, but just going out and walking around my neighborhood for 20-40 minutes each day is probably the reason why I'm not insane.

Stick behind after school

If you don't happen to have a particularly busy schedule after school and don't have like, an hour-long commute home, then stick around! Just hang out at the front of the school and chat up others, or wander around inside and see if there's any after-school clubs or study groups. You'll meet more people, and more people will start to know you- You know, I literally was not in any picture in all of my high school yearbooks besides the individual portrait photos of the students at the end. Probably because I just immediately went home after the bell rang to do absolutely nothing.
And this doesn't just apply for middle school or high school either. When you get to college and university, take advantage of the campus facilities! You're paying for it after all! Wander around, get a lay of the land, and most importantly, talk to your classmates! In university, you're literally picking the exact courses you want to take, meaning that the people in class with you share so much more in common with you than anyone in high school did. Talk to them! Get to know their hopes and dreams! And talk to your TAs to, so you actually know what their names are! Fortunately I still have more years of university to go after I turn 20, so I'm not a lost cause on that front yet.

Talk about your interests

I know it's easy to just go find online communities specifically about whatever game or comic or cartoon you're obsessing over at the moment and find content and people specifically interested in that, but you need to take it even further beyond! Bring up your interests in conversation with others, be they classmates, friends, or family! Don't be so embarrassed about the things you like. Remember, you can control what others might think about something if you're the one introducing it to them for the first time. Think that your cousins might look down on you for watching cartoons? Tell them about this amazing story you've been keeping up with and highlight all of its best parts. Once they're interested and ask you to hook them up with this interest of yours, they'll be more receptive to it being a cartoon after they've heard you sing its praises so much! Bam, just like that, you have someone to share your hobbies with!

It's not as serious as you think

I'm not going to just lie and say that nothing really matters and that life can just be taken at a snail's pace without any regard for the future. But I will say that it's almost never as bad as you think it is. No, don't try and hope that the teacher will just forget about the assignment you didn't hand in. They won't scream in your face and drop your mark to nothing when they remember. Just be upfront and tell them that you're struggling with it and that you just need more time but it will be completed. You may have to accept a mark deduction, but often teachers may even just waive that so long as you can turn in your completed work- or just any at all, and mark what you give them.
You can't expect everything to just go your way and end up perfectly. But more often than not, things may be far better than you think they are. Just have faith in yourself, faith in those around you, and faith that with a cool mind and a calm, measured explanation, you can settle things down.
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...Well. I guess that's all I have to say. It's pretty late, so I don't expect this to reach to many people by the time I post it. But still. Being a teenager... it's been a trip. You will get through this, I can guarantee that. Will you be the same person when you get out on the other end? Will that be for the better or the worse? I can't tell you that. So that means that the only way to find out is to keep pushing on, right?

I thought I had a pretty good deal. Google offered me $180 USD trade in on my Pixel 3. For comparison, my carrier offered $20. So I did the factory reset and sent it in. And their 3rd party partner cloned it and is still fucking up my accounts. Every place I've logged into with that phone is now compromised. My bank stepped up and I won't be liable for any financial issues, but think how many places you use a login at regularly. How many places you've used a login in the last 5 or 6 years. How many passwords are stored in your phone.
"Find my phone" search got nothing because it was cloned and likely destroyed after that. If it had found it, I could have bricked it through there. Cloned means every password reset ( until I caught on and reset my email accounts) was just as visible to them as it was to me. Every bit of information on my phone was in their hands. Every photo.
Google takes no responsibility. What could they do? They probably auction off old tech by the pallet. It's likely they don't even know which scammer they sold it to. They could have offered something to protect my computer and phone. Heck, my bank, who had no skin of their own in this game, sent me a free Webroot subscription (retail $200) AND offered to pay any fees incurred from having to change all my account numbers and issue new cards and checks.
Google pretends they are the good guy, offering a better trade in value than others, but they quite literally sell you to the highest bidder to do with what they please.

I have a fashion label based in USA and we sell festival clothing. One of the hashtags that we use on our IG posts is #coachellaoutfit. Although Coachella is registered trademark when I check US database, I see no trademark related to #coachellaoutfit. However this third party company called Rico Management constantly is harassing my company saying that we are not allowed to use the hashtag. Also some of our posts show the location when we do the photoshoot and they are all taken at Coachella Valley which is geographical location in California where I live. They also claim that I can't tag the location while all those photos are literally taken in my home studio in Coachella Valley.
Would you please give me some advice how to deal with third party company?