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title:Got a lot accomplished this laundry day
author:matt
tags:blog, cats, games, tech
date:2025-06-08
mdid:114650060031454853
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A gray and white cat I've never seen before approached me outside the laundry room. It was a little shy, but I put my hand out and it eventually sniffed me and decided I was safe to dispense some pets. It meowed very gently at me, and didn't seem quite ready to get in my lap, but flopped over and stretched out next to me for a bit.

I don't know where it came from. A neighbor came by and greeted us and said he's never seen it before either. I think some people have decided our neighborhood is a perfectly fine dumping ground for cats they don't want, which sucks, but I'm glad for their company if they want to give it. It makes laundry less of a chore.

I need to update the [cats](/cats) page with my new friend, and also post Laundry Cat updates. I hadn't seen her in so long that I was worried she went to live on a farm upstate, but she's come around the last two weeks and jumped right up in my lap like no time has passed at all. I didn't see her this week. She was quite pregnant last week, so maybe she's off taking care of new kittens. I was very happy to see she's okay. I can't believe I've known her for nearly 4 years now, and that she still remembers me after months and months of adventures. Hopefully my new friend sticks around too. If they do, I'll need to think of a name, cuz "Laundry Cat" is taken.

## Laundry day accomplishment #2

![](/files/goldbrick.jpg)

I got all the achievements in [Gold Brick Simulator](https://damonwakes.itch.io/gold-brick-simulator).

I guarantee I'm the *GBS* world champion, unless different platforms have different leaderboards, and unless people have played and not submitted their high scores. But of the players on the leaderboard, I'm the first and so far only one who's gotten all the achievements. Come for my crown, if you dare.

Okay, this was just going to be a cutepost on fedi, but I forgot that Mastodon *__still__* won't let you make a post that has both a video and a JPG attached. It's quite stupefying. I had some time to kill while I waited for laundry to finish, so I tried to figure out some way around this limitation. I used a screen-recording app to capture a short still clip of my achievements in *GBS*, and was going to awkwardly edit it into the end of the cat video, but android's built-in video editing tool will inexplicably only allow you to splice two clips together if you first agree to upload them to google's cloud image platform, which I wasn't willing to do. So "fuck it", I thought, "I'll do it when I get home." What was supposed to be a simple social media cutepost has now turned into a project, and if it's a project, that means it gets a blog post instead. Mastodon doesn't want my post, fine. Blog-exclusive content it is

I really don't understand Mastodon's one-video policy. I guess it's because they don't want people uploading multiple huge videos because they assume it'll be a lot of storage and bandwidth, but my video is 2MB and the image is only an extra 60k on top of that. Meanwhile they'll happily let people upload four 8MB ultra-high-res photos per post. Maybe there's some other technical reason for the limitation, idk, but if bandwidth/storage concerns are the issue, I think their priorities could use some work.

That's it, just a short post for today. I'm working on one about how my job has been kicking my ass, that'll probably be up in the next day or two. $$pat$$

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