Alyssa Smith (job market era)

that is an understatement!

Poppy, a white pitbull type dog with brown ears and faces pots, is sitting like a human on the couch. She is gazing down at the camera with a bewildered yet judgemental expression on her face

i told the dog you were developing in C on the weekend to talk to hardware and this is what she said

whymst? on a saturday no less??

we were supposed to demonstrate understanding of foundational concepts in the ✨ canon of network science ✨ but unfortunately i am still not sure what that is 🤷‍♀️

i know so many centrality measures tho

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NEW STUDY!

@juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.

Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me Maybe we want to bare our teeth.

Reading this piece by @sesmith.lol made my (Gen X) head spin. You, too, should definitely read it.

"The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength."

never a good sign when you’re on hold trying to get your specialty medication long enough that you figure out when the hold music loops

We didn’t spend free time on ERGs because we thought it would benefit shareholders, it was because it made our lives slightly less miserable as a cog in the machine and it let us consolidate what little power we had.

hi i’m a tiny crumb of peanut dust

a light blue knitted cowl in the shape of a mobius strip (seed stitch, so it looks bumpy, and the yarn is light blue with speckles of darker blue mixed in)

more cozyposting: just knit a chunky mobius strip cowl

a large jigsaw puzzle on a coffee table with a waterfall cascading between two large colorful trees. there are raccoons standing by the waterfall, especially near the bottom, and some boulders throughout the water elements. below the trees and next to the waterfall are plants that look kind of like rhododendrons.

we’re done!! there’s a bit of glare from the overhead light, so i’ll take a better photo tomorrow when it’s light out again.

same puzzle, but the leaves at the top right and left hand corners are entirely filled in. the puzzle is definitely more done than not

yesterday’s progress:

america’s primary care physician does what it does best (again)

thinking about that time in college when i posted about my sleep schedule on the polyphasic sleep subreddit and someone was like “bestie that’s not polyphasic that’s a sleep disorder” and i went “haha couldn’t be me” then got diagnosed with narcolepsy like 6+ years later

the same puzzle, now with a large connected bit with water and raccoons (and a partial deer). the leaves on the trees are also slightly more filled in.

progress occurred!

she does contain multitudes after all!

same puzzle as before, now with large chunks of water features, tree leaves, and raccoons filled in. it’s generously 15 percent done.

spouse acted as raccoon assembly czar; i did the water features

a white pitbull type dog with brown spots on her nose and ears is lying on a couch under a cream colored quilt that has a fish scale like quilting pattern on it. she looks deeply skeptical.

a zoomed out photo of the dog (only head and tail visible) under the quilt

made a practice quilt for the creature to get better at longarm quilting and quilt binding. i don’t think she’s impressed.

same puzzle as before, but the chunks of red, blue, and purple pieces have been moved to the other side of the puzzle and attached to the edges in one larger, more cohesive chunk

today’s update for now:

same puzzle as before, now with two distinct chunks of pieces put together that have 10+ pieces in them

incremental progress has occurred!

the same puzzle, now with more pieces inside the outline made by the edges and somewhat more pieces paired together than last time.

poppy, a white pitbull type dog with brown ears and brown spots on her head, is pictured lying on the sofa resting her head on my laptop. the camera is below her chin, capturing the skin folds on her neck. she is wearing a black fleece sweater with dinosaurs on it.

well, we’re not doing amazing, but i guess that’s the point. my assistant is also napping on the job tbf!!

the same puzzle, now with pieces sorted into bigger piles by color, with some pieces put together in small chunks (usually just two pieces)

progress is not forthcoming (this is like half an hour after the first picture)

A very incomplete puzzle. The edge pieces are mostly assembled, and there are a few lost edge pieces and the beginnings of some pieces being sorted into piles by color inside the outline of the puzzle. the box is also inside the puzzle with many pieces that haven’t yet been sorted, as well as a nearly empty teacup.

this thread will just be me doing a puzzle because it’s nice to do something you’re bad at

just found several interview transcripts for my undergrad thesis, along with an early draft of said thesis. past me did her qualitative coding with 3 highlighters and a lot of caffeine, near as i can tell. i need to go email my thesis advisor and thank her for putting up with me 🥺