I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Quit trying to monetize your hobbies

Goooood morning and happy week, Bsky! This post appeared on my timeline, which is timely, considering I am browsing Bsky while I pseudo-listen to a Teams session on using Copilot given by the corporation I work for.

Real gamer girl weekend hours

Nintendo will literally let people share digital games but God forbid you are able to start a second Animal Crossing save on the same device.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Hate it when the Sims 4 just says ‘OK’ at me - why aren’t you adjusting emotional weights like god intended? What happened to calibrating my personality matrix?

Oh come on now, we’re just actively trying to destroy the world at this point right?

“It’s a relaxing hobby,” I mutter to myself

you know someone's mad at you on Teams when they spend ages typing and then it just stops and they give you a thumbs up react

mostly i am a bad bitch who handles my own life problems. however i HAVE learned that if i look sad and pathetic enough, within 10 minutes a man will offer to do something IT related for me, like emerge from a bush holding a spare HDMI cable, and i abuse this privilege to its fullest extent

thats ok im already fluent in anxiety

(elon unveiling his new martian flag design) well as you uh can, you know, see. there's red which of course uh is the mars color. duh ha ha. and then here a white circle, and this is um representing the bright future for the ahh, human race. and then uh you have so, this is a hindu symbol,

Normalizing eugenics and prioritizing individual rights over community care helped get us here.

Was 95% sure that a random in my replies *was* a reply-guy-as-a-service aggro-bot, but this took it to 100%

Several of the Trump Admin's new executive orders feature bizarre errors, formatting oddities, and stilted language -- familiar artifacts that have led to speculation that AI was used in the drafting process. futurism.com/trump-admin-...

"Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off."

1. Computer engineering + EE double major 2. Computer engineering (uni stopped offering double majors) 3. Nope 4. Software tester!

WARNING: this post contains graphic language GPU. Nvidia. Anti-aliasing. Dynamic shadows. Texture

the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards apologize to me

I thought this was going to be a cursed beer, but it tasted pretty good actually! The fruit and vanilla flavours are not overwhelming.

Today work is fun, because I’m doing some internal research to make sure documentation I’m writing is accurate. Good documentation is fun, don’t @ me. And we have a new management-type person who’s encouraging me to document + giving great feedback.

I have largely forgotten how to play or what I was doing, so this will be interesting. 😂 I can see that I am as stylish as ever, my house is still standing except I probably was redecorating around it, and that back spot is I think for fossil burials?

Huh, it’s been awhile.

Idk feels pretty irresponsible to start another year like RIGHT after this one. Borderline reckless.

Happy 2025, friends 💫 Hope this year brings you all you want. You deserve all the happiness in the world.

I would like the fireworks bans to be enforced, please. Signed, the owner of a dog who is now too afraid to go outside.

Okay but. Can we talk for a second about how influencers do their nails on their desk with their computer or tablet right next to them? And they’re working with acetone, filing up a storm with all that nail dust flying around? I can NOT relate. It’s giving me anxiety just talking about it. ;-;

I’m now “needs a stomach tablet after Christmas dinner” years old. ;-;

Watching a stream on your phone while also wondering where your phone went and turning the room upside down to find it: The classic.

Turns out I accidentally asked for the wrong item for my Christmas gift. But! I really like what I actually got, so I might keep it.

I was going to make a Christmas lasagna but I forgot to buy the cheeses… Merr Cerr 🎅🏼

anagramming these “merry christmas” blocks is the only thing my husband has done the entire time we’ve been at his mom’s house

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i have just been nominated head of the Depertment of Not Shidding on Motor Vehicles and i am going to shid on the motor vehicles

Me: I got so much to do! Also me: *goes to lay down instead

Man, Christmas eve is generally for chilling, so what better way to spend it than building a LEGO MOC of Untamed's front car. Let's do that on stream! twitch.tv/grumpmeister

me: i cooked you a homemade dinner! 2yo, eating floor lint: but i want to do this instead me: (deep sigh) okay engineer: i made you a new design tool to improve all the pain points of your current workflow! designer, opening excel: but i want to do this instead engineer: (deep sigh) okay

It is so perfectly American that we have two indicators for public safety, both revolving around corporations: the Waffle House Index for storm severity and the Yankee Candle Index tracking covid rates.

@poetessa.bsky.social First two are me and MPT

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BREAKING: everything

What a photograph.

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.