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...

This is the kind of thing I think about when memes/quotes go around about “being the people we were on 9/12”

Restaurant near my old job had a great turkey, apple, brie sandwich

The original passage doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s not like he was giving racist speeches to liberals and hallmark channel speeches to conservatives. He was always talking to conservative outlets. They just weren’t paying attention or didn’t care about the racist and sexist things he said.

How do you do the prints, out of curiosity?

Mine is going up 20% unless I switch to an even worse plan.