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eDiscovery paralegal, nerd, artist, knitter, convention wrangler, ADHD gremlin, HSD zebra living the chronic illness dream. Chicago-ish. Trying to post Mostly Not Politics, because we all need a break sometimes, currently failing this goal

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · Sep 6

hey babes

Kira Nerys from DS9: Unfortunately for everyone I will continue to do whatever I want.

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 4h

a couple decades of occipital neuralgia combined with bruxism makes me wonder what it’s like to not have neck pain and cracked teeth

it sounds nice over there

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 4h

gonna get my neurologist and my dentist on the phone so I can get like, a 2-for-1 deal on Botox shoved into the back of my skull

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 5h

I feel this in my soul 🫠

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you!! 💖

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 5h

My staff: only one month until Chicago TARDIS! 💖
Me: only one month until Chicago TARDIS! 💀

I am at the “negotiating with the boss” stage of con planning 😭

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 5h

For all of you who were here the last time I mentioned the ongoing Naperville/Aurora feud: this is really going to piss Naperville off. (Mostly the racists.) 😂

Ignore the clickbait; it’s obviously Aurora

Chicago suburb named among safest cities in U.S. in new report

A Chicago suburb has been named among the safest cities in the country in a new report.

www.nbcchicago.com

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 5h

Yup! I didn’t remember that it was a little tight in the sleeves last year

anyways the most important part is that I can twirl like a pretty pretty princess

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 6h

I’ll be right over

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 7h

The Coat:

A knee length peacoat with a matching belt, a flare from the waist down, and suit lapels.

It is also bright fucking green with an oversized navy houndstooth pattern. It’s brighter in person 😂

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 7h

actually I lost like 17 stone in your strange alien weight system 😂😂😂

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 7h

cw: weight

I have been dropping sizes like a stone and I’ve just started assuming that whatever seasonal item I wore last year is going to be too big.

I think this coat is one of those things that looks good on a number of sizes. Because it’s perfect

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 7h

I was over here pouting because my coat from last year, the best coat ever, my precious, is not on Poshmark or eBay or anything and my current one is too big—

…and then I thought “why don’t you, y’know, try it on”

IT STILL FITS
FASHION CRISIS AVERTED

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 13h

I’m not being petty or shady, this is objectively hilarious

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 13h

New display name courtesy of the person who blocked me on LinkedIn and then got mad I didn’t notice 👀

a man in a blue shirt leans on a shelf with bottles of liquid in the background

Alt: Man gives a side eye, taps the shelf he’s leaning on, and leaves like “ ok well”

media.tenor.com

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Jordan is the Huggiest Kaiju @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 18h

We get signal. Main screen turn on.

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 21h

That's awesome dude, I love the internet and being old.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

star child: "organics and synthetics cannot coexist"

shepard: "I literally just solved the geth/quarian war five minutes ago and my pilot is banging the ship's AI"

Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Fundamentally every ending to ME3 asks you to concede that the Reapers are a bad solution to a real problem & propose an alternate solution to that problem. But the entire story up to that point was one long argument that the problem wasn't real except insofar as the Reapers caused it on purpose

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

legitimately one of the most insanely left-field endings to an rpg i can recollect

the entire series is about shepard finding ways for people to live together despite their differences and the ending is like "actually that's impossible. now choose your preferred explosion color"

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Almost missed it but None Pizza With Left Beef is old enough to vote today

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 1d

Literal heroes. I hope they’re getting some Tetris time in now, because shit that’s traumatic

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

like I *just* finished a virtual staff meeting, jesus

and here I am just hearing about Emiru and TwitchCon, where I do not know the details yet and it's already fucking infuriating

GOING TO HAVE TO DO MORE CON EXPLAINERS

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

@rahaeli.bsky.social sorry to keep spamming you today but this is 100% rahaeli material if you haven't seen it yet

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

when I think of trust & safety teams, this is not what I envisioned, but holy shit that's amazing

also, as a con runner: the stuff of nightmares oh my god

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

Me: fuck this, I'm going back to copilot
ChatGPT: wait before you go to Copilot, give me another shot
ChatGPT UI: You’ve hit the Free plan limit for GPT-5.
Responses will use another model and apps will be unavailable until your limit resets after 5:48 PM.

me: well I did warn it

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re not following @rahaeli.bsky.social you need to do so; she’s got decades of professional experience with this sort of thing

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

Did you ever know that you’re my hero

blocked on LinkedIn @hellonerds.bsky.social · 2d

The number one rule of bluesky: block early, block often. It’s FAR more effective here than it was on Twitter, especially for this brigading shit.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

A lot of regular MAGA filth followed Trump administration accounts to Bluesky. Their only purpose is to troll, to trigger libs. Block them on sight, starve them of oxygen, let them scream into the void.

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