counter-point: I don’t want to need to get up to piss on a plane otherwise, should there be sufficient time for pre-flight airport bathroom pitstop, follow instructions as outlined ⤵️

Don't know why I'm so grinchy-grouchy today but I joined a webinar to learn "AI for productivity" and it was a full hour of demos for genAI slop tools "Create a scrapbook slide deck with family photos!" "Make a 5 second video of zoo animals waving!" Amusing but super low value, unusable stuff

The twelve days of Christmas start on / after Christmas through Epiphany All the businesses running their dumb little 12 days of Christmas promos right now are getting on my nerves

Just let the whimsy flow!

Oh. What. Fun. is like somebody threw all the family Christmas movies in a blender But I do appreciate the comical quantities of wallpaper, iconic Atlanta filming locations, Gwen Stefani soundtrack, bizarro tone shifts and eldest daughter vs. type A mom plot

What is it about the holidays that makes everybody think it’s fine to go outside while they’re clearly sick The yoga teacher who “lost her voice” The woman behind me in line at the Christmas Party bar who looks like hell but insists she’s “over it” 8 FEET PLEASE

I haven’t seen the Hamnet movie yet but from all the promos, I can only imagine Shakespeare in Love… only devastatingly, unspeakably sad

The ChatGPT integration with Instacart is pretty slick Prompted "Instacart help me source ingredients for ropa vieja" Ran their list against my Google Sheet which contains an inventory of all the ingredients in my fridge and pantry It did a decent job filling my cart with only what I need

Monday night big batch dinner is: black-eyed peas in a tomato gravy with chickpea roux. 🍽️ Cumin, asafoetida, curry leaves, ginger, turmeric, cayenne and tamarind. Lots of fresh cilantro. From the Vishwesh Bhatt cookbook Next time will try the serving recommendation with cornbread

Just saw a startup job description with a listed perk “free dinner when working after 7 PM” 🚩 If you need to work late around kid schedules or do some occasional crunch, that’s cool But “free dinner” screams “nobody at this company has a real life outside of work”

Reading Wuthering Heights Love books like this where half the plot is: young woman catches a cold, forced to hang out at richer person's house and then marry them

Usually my motto is "bad art is better than no art" But my experience with Nano Banana this morning sent me in a different direction The generative AI art was so bad, and my personal design skills were so limited, I decided to remove blog post header images from a website completely

Just realized a gala party I had on my calendar for Friday night is actually happening TO-MOR-ROW My husband, supportively, "It's okay. You're not good with dates. You don't believe time is real." uhm-hmm. yep. that would be the problem

Whew! Went too long without painting and I can tell I’m out of practice Will try again tomorrow

God surely did not create me with womanly desires in my heart. I was indoctrinated early with over exposure to Laura Ingalls Wilder and HGTV like the rest of y’all.

The micro-greens on these cheesy scrambled eggs are doing a lot of lifting here 🍽️

Marketers should have to put $20 in a jar every time they ship "Supercharge your workflow" as a tagline

Also: shout out whoever on here said, “Just use the recipe on the back of the Karo bottle” because this turned out divine 🍽️

Leftover dressing makes this mandatory

Yesterday I made successful pecan pie and cranberry sauce Today I am going to make brussels slaw with apple cider benne vinaigrette, bake cornbread, turn that cornbread into dressing and try not to think about how I over-aerated the custard for the two pumpkin pies chilling in my fridge

When I tell you I *needed* the recap Previously on Stranger Things 😤

Sometimes I take my laptop out of the house to say “hi” to other laptops

Reading the “Campbell’s Soup is for povvos” content, remembering I have a 4-pack of cream of mushroom in the cupboard 😑

Last year I stood up a website with an email subscription form because I thought I was going to need to blog and send a newsletter to advertise my freelance work Then I got busy. Never even sent the first email Now the "audience" has grown and bill is exploding $$$... but it's all form spam bots

Spent the morning analyzing our restaurant rotation so I can optimize budget and food joy for next year Observations: 1. The priciest spot is *that* good 2. The next 5 most expensive are mid 3. We spend less on sushi when we Doordash it 4. Weekly pub is cheaper than (previous habit) weekly Mexican

Somebody please explain to me why this man changes into a separate suit after dinner If it’s a smoking jacket, why change his whole tie??

It’s test run night over here! Trying my hand at Granna’s dressing. There’s a whole skillet of cornbread and six slices of bread in this thing. She would have done smaller pieces of bread, I think. But this is close.

Marking my 2026 calendar with a reminder to just STAY INSIDE between Veterans Day and Thanksgiving next year. The holiday pop-ups are out of control. I don’t want to hear Charlie Brown Christmas Music even one second before December.

Watercolor break

I know I’m missing out on a lot of opportunities because I’m not in SF But tonight I serendipitously ran into my sister-in-law plus the nieces on my way to hot yoga After a full launch day, done remotely from my kitchen table This is the dream. It’s the whole dang point

This dog!

Appears the Cloudflare outage hit Mindbody so I can't online book my yoga class for today 😑 What am I gonna do, pick up the phone, dial the studio and ask for today's class times like I'm calling Moviefone in 1998?

The email marketing nerd in my heart is curious what's going on here Are they using SendGrid for their ESP for marketing emails? Do we think ChatGPT coded this email template?

Oh snap the shop that made my favorite hot sauce tote bag put that art on a t-shirt menminmade.myshopify.com/discount/MC?buzz_ref=4872976332ShNis&redirect=/products/asian-hot-sauces-t-shirt

Yesterday I made a gorgeous fall salad with local kale, shaved brussels, green apples and benne seed dressing But I let the sprout leaves go down the garbage disposal, clogged up the pipes, and now our kitchen is unusable Grateful for Doordash pancakes and disposable silverware this morning

Spectacularly incorrect AI overview

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So… at this point do we think the Bluesky mods are just running a growth tactic to force faster adoption of ATProto? Like, we will make this app so hostile and so disciplinary you nerds will be forced to build your own alternatives Go and distribute yourselves at once!

…why can’t AI count yet? melaniecrissey.com/blog/count/

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Snow flurries! ❄️ It’s not gonna stick but it smells delicious outside

Fall bouquet

SO much to love about Frankenstein Mia Goth Her beetle-esque costumes Lauren Collins! Gore science Wizard of Oz Medusa morgue hydro power plant spinal cord tower metal prongs of life and death And butterflies

Today I'm timing out a keynote presentation for a product VP which means I've been sitting here talking to myself with a slide deck and a stop watch for hours So glad I don't have to do this job at a desk in an open office

Bested by clouds again

All I want for Christmas is your vote today <3

Has anybody else noticed search is super slow on Bluesky lately? I used to search for “watercolor” posts and sort for most recent every day. Lately I can’t get any new searches to load. Spins and spins on my phone.

At some point in my life, I’d like to know what it’s like to fall asleep without knowing there’s a crushing avalanche of overdue tasks waiting for the next day.

Biscuit time 🍽️

Banner night for Halloween Trick or Treaters! Coasting into the 8 PM lull with a record 112 costumed kids, twice last year’s numbers. So many great outfits but my favorite was an entire family dressed like Lord Farquaad. Chocolate almost depleted. Surplus 100 pieces of fruit & sour.