the holiday szn is a hard time of year for me and for many of us, so here's a little mini thread of nice things that happened to me so far this holiday season if you'd like to add any of your Holiday Nices.

i am once again asking professionals to not post what chatgpt thinks of them, it will always be obsequious bullshit, chatgpt thinks everyone is the most special smartest boi ever

ppl love to hate on living on south broadway but it's simply a skill issue.

tragically there are urban ecology benefits to lawns

kind of becoming obsessed with denver based influencers because they're almost exclusively recent movers (the dreaded transplant)

csu extension really said fuck your sprinklers on your lawn and they're so right

caught between 'won't someone think of the poor wittle executive who got caught behaving badly' and 'ritual shaming of people online is fucking stupid and makes me feel like we're living in the literal medieval times'

CARS RUIN CITIES! join us in the war effort

the way startup founders talk about 'builders' has always rubbed me the wrong way. sanctimonious linkedin posts with 'here's to the builders' or 'i'm raising my kids to be builders' like my guy people have been building businesses since the dawn of time do you think you fell out of a coconut tree?

join my new startup, grombl

whenever someone assumes i am an extrovert i feel i have pulled off the greatest con of all time. haha! you fell for it again, i'm just friendly.

i feel old in a great way bc my besties and i started saying 6-7 ironically but now we find it hilarious

proud to say a customer did her darndest to make me cry today but i got gentler and kinder the more unkind and snippy she got so who won here babes

i simply must tell you my cat is sitting on my lap in the shape of a jelly bean. a little black licorice jelly bean i say!

my husband and i are sharing our first ever credit card and the process of reconciling the bill is a bit rough. so he built a retool app that cuts the budget reconciliation time from an hour to 10 min, he is so smart and i love him

do not read the sacred texts of cell structure to me i was there when they were written

hot girls use dichotomous keys. iykyk

OMG course mentioned inaturalist/seek to help identify plants, has to be verified by 2 other real humans & it's like shazaming a plant it is amaze help.inaturalist.org/en/support/s...

herbariums are actually incredibly badass, they keep record of every damn plant they can in a given state. that is hero's work www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/res...

i remember being devastated in college to learn that binomial nomenclature has nothing to do with...logic and latin names helping you understand living things, and everything to do with who discovered the thing. maybeeeee the name will make some ergonomic sense but not always

now. if you're a romantasy girlie you might be having some Thoughts around a vascular plant vs a bryophyte. but the answer is simply that one is flat like moss and one has....veins. welp

gardener course now getting into taxonomy. one time when i was younger i tried to write a novel called the zombie taxonomy. i wasn't successful but the idea sure was fun

my master gardener course is savage. on the word 'native' plants it says 'the term is so overused that it has little meaning' ok go offfffff

devastated to report that when horticulturists refer to growing 'edibles' they don't mean anything having to do with marijuana

torn between adults should be able to responsibly use nicotine whenever and the reality that at least in denver, people who use flavored vapes have been unbelievably rude about it.

doing a little work sprint thread if anyone needs some accountability. 25-5 structure if ya like pomodoros sprint 1: get a skeleton project structure in place for some new online learning. will check back to see how far i get.

every now and then i'll look at data job postings for companies based in NYC, because i've always had a crush on that city. but the pay for IC roles that REQUIRE IN OFFICE PRESENCE in NYC is fucking criminal. what do you mean you'll pay $75k for an anlayst and make them go to manhattan 2x/week?!

every startup name i see is goofier than the last. cribl, blorbo, bleepie.ai we make ur ai good no actually those of us over at gulp shitto dot ai make it even better 1101111010101111

what corporate buzzword do you hate right now and why is it "learnings" like it just really gets to me

holy hell thank god for a day off after coalesce i am so tired lololol

gang the 67 trend made it to my linkedin feed, i fear the youths are winning

coalesce is the best time of year bc i am obsessed with the niche hills people will die on over their data. so please, #databs, what's your niche data hill you'll die on. and give me better shit than lowercase sql or commas, even tho im the one who made a lowercase sql joke at the keynote

this gets me so hard because there's no bigger advocate for cyclists than the war on cars

my husband texts me this gif when i suggest evening plans that he really likes (tonight it's table craps in vegas) and that's when i know i've really knocked it out of the park

now everyone can have their opinions on this and i won't fight you, but one of my coworkers who's newer to dbt told me he felt our keynote announcements were 'FAANG level' in production and professionalism and that shit made me glow with pride. it was a lot of work to get there. :D

saw a reddit post called 'the problem with sql' and i was like jesus christ the data engineering nerds have really done it this time. i blocked the poster immediately

my hipster streak is always slightly offended when people act surprised that i'm quite a good speaker lol. i'm like i am silly and dramatic and on top of my shit, did we not think these skills would transfer?

going to a wedding after you've been married for a year really hits different like it's so beautiful to see another bride experience the highs that you did and just enjoy all the love around her, it's so nice

got harassed and followed today by some shitty dude in my neighborhood and it's bumming me the hell out. tell me something nice that happened to you today.

oh fuck me there's a movie getting made about sam altman? the AI bros are going to be somehow even more insufferable after this

if you unironically use apple's numbers app/excel wannabe app i just wanna talk (what is wrong with u)

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

i love my beautiful kitty so much. he is small and so nice.

nothing is more deeply cringe to me than people posting 'what chatgpt thinks of me' on linkedin. i'm like my brother in christ do you know it's literally programmed to be a sycophantic kiss-ass?! like chatgpt was never gonna say anything less than glowing things about you, how do u not know that

i don't want to work i want to snuggle my beautiful kitty who is sleeping so nice in the sun

it's always hilarious to me when tech bros online salivate over Meta's engineering culture as if that isn't one of the most singularly evil products in the world to work on. Nothing turns my luddite brain on more than companies whose profits depend on exploiting weaknesses in human brain activity.

also it's taken awhile but my husband and i have developed a really good habit of thanking each other for everything 'thanks for doing the dishes, ' 'thanks for cooking' and today he texted me 'thanks for handling the AC guys' and man it's just so nice to feel appreciated for little stuff like that

girl help my pet project at work got bigger than i thought it would and now suddenly the COO and CRO know about it and were involved in approving its expansion, i didn't think they knew i existed

i truly mean this in the nicest way, i think engineers are so freaking adorable, they will do things like 'here is this toy db i spun up over the weekend hahaha' and it's like extremely cool shit that i couldn't build in a month

me psyching myself up to write: you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you repeatedly do you are what you rep