Re: my decision not to report the all-expenses-paid trip that I made to the Vlad Dracul Institute For Liberty And Innovation's annual conference in Gstaad, this was a personal trip with personal friends. It had no bearing on my decision in the Amalgamated Bone Slurry Corp. vs. Poisoned Town case.

i'm writing a blog that answers the common Qs young people looking to start a career in progressive data ask me. i no longer have the capacity to meet with every person that reaches out to me, so I'm sharing my best nuggets of advice for free and becoming more strict with my pro bono availability

crying big tears at my 360 review results like damn i really am seen at work

what distro of linux should i try installing for funsies?

remembered that my 360 feedback becomes available tomorrow and got a wave of anxiety

i lost my airpods in my 900 sq ft apartment. they’re gone gone. last seen an hour ago but no more pings. can’t connect. haven’t left my apartment. they just vanished

happy july 4th to me i finally paid my taxes

accidentally assembled a self portrait with the “currently reading” stack

part of me regrets not trying to build an audience (like a newsletter) independent of twitter. it could have pushed me to take my writing more seriously and i would have been able to develop a community on my own terms

i can’t believe i’m dating the love of my life and i rejected him on our first date

attempting to make udon from scratch wish me luck

my first real job in political data was being a data director for a large nonprofit and in hind sight i should have never been given that job

i’ve been playing Magic the Gathering for about two years now and I still suck tremendous amounts of ass to the point that i normally end up crying and feeling shame after i play with a group // debating going into a hole until i’m a better player

i used to think theory was beyond me, that i wasn’t smart enough to read all those seminal books, but now i understand how important theory is for grounding yourself in a coherent ideology in order to navigate the bullshit that is politics, and i’m hungry for more

maybe i don’t want to sell out…

god damn

it’s 9pm on a sunday should i start a game of Civ?

no data skeets this week i’m on vacation and the word data triggers my flight or fight response

got a scoopy scoop it’s so over

i made the greatest sandwich of my life with that leftover strip steak

that Juvenile tiny desk concert is going to go down as one of the greatest performances of all time

Odette should die at the end of Swan Lake i don’t like these interpretations where she miraculously gets saved. i want that iconic dearth over the water scene!!!

real bitches sob big tears when they watch swan lake

i love my hobby

yeah women definitely hit a wall when they turn 30

rice noodle bowl

either most men make dating profiles as if they want women to be repulsed by them, or i like men a lot less than i thought i did

so it begins

the chef // todays recipe: chicken poached in an anchovy-tomato sauce with mozzarella and pancetta

whenever i see someone being mentally ill in public i’m like word i know that one

my dad—who tried to kill my mom and kidnapped me—‘s brother—who helped with the kidnapping—keeps viewing my LinkedIn profile and I hope he’s realized what a badass bitch I’ve become!!

i had a brutal week and i don’t feel good!

i’m so proud of myself for being sober

do you ever make a mistake at work and suddenly remember every mistake you’ve ever made and convince yourself that you’re a fraud?

i absolutely obliterated my brain in 2020 by rapidly alternating between tik tok insta and twitter 6 hours a day to manage my covid anxiety—smoothed out all my lobes and have myself a nice phone dependency. today i read for 1.5 hours straight go me

Cloud Cuckoo Land is just an absolute joy of a book

my best career advice is to be good at what you do

sorry i haven’t been as funny lately i’m in a very healthy relationship

WHAT IS POLITICS by worldwidescrotes is stupid good and possibly my new favorite podcast god damn

sometimes i have a hard time explaining why i stopped talking to my mom, but then i’ll share an anecdote from my childhood and my friends will be like 😬

Taco Bell Quarterly appreciation post

i wish i could go back and re do my undergrad now that i’m not bat shit mentally ill anymore

in middle school my mom tried to have The Talk with me by asking me if I knew what sex was, and I didn’t want to look uncool to my mom so i lied and said yes, and she skipped giving me The Talk altogether. anyways i didn’t learn was sex was until waaaaay too late

been doing a lot of self reflection on how i can better grow — not just in the tangible skills i need to learn but how i can adopt the skills, attitudes, and behaviors of a great engineer

my partner has been on tour for a month and comes home at 3am, so i have less than 12 hours to do all the chores i haven’t done in a month

frantically google how to get 5 years or analytics, engineering, and devops experience in 6 months so i can survive the 2024 cycle

feeling really grateful to be in community with such talented and kind folk

how much dev ops is one measly nonprofit data director supposed to know?

i won’t be truly happy on Bluesky until the Beyhive is here. i need that level of derangement and obsession in my social media