Ellen M.
@graphxgrrl.bsky.social
Wanderer. Graphic designer. Translating for engineers since 1977. The QuimbyCats are Beatrice & Ramona. Pictures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/graphxgrrl/
I’m not sure how I didn’t catch in the promos that the Hallmark country music movie this year involved time travel.
I do not have it in me to ignore terrible time travel mechanics in a second Christmas movie this season.
I do not have it in me to ignore terrible time travel mechanics in a second Christmas movie this season.
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I’m not sure how I didn’t catch in the promos that the Hallmark country music movie this year involved time travel.
I do not have it in me to ignore terrible time travel mechanics in a second Christmas movie this season.
I do not have it in me to ignore terrible time travel mechanics in a second Christmas movie this season.
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#OnThisDay in 1999, when most journalists were cleared out of downtown Seattle during the WTO protests, HistoryLink had the only live feed of the disturbance (one frame per minute) from the webcam in our office window. Learn more about it here: www.historylink.org/File/9203
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#OnThisDay in 1999, when most journalists were cleared out of downtown Seattle during the WTO protests, HistoryLink had the only live feed of the disturbance (one frame per minute) from the webcam in our office window. Learn more about it here: www.historylink.org/File/9203
While folding laundry in the living room, heard Ramona yowling about something in the bedroom.
Upon investigation determined that she wanted someone to lift up the covers for her to burrow under.
These cats.
Upon investigation determined that she wanted someone to lift up the covers for her to burrow under.
These cats.
November 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
While folding laundry in the living room, heard Ramona yowling about something in the bedroom.
Upon investigation determined that she wanted someone to lift up the covers for her to burrow under.
These cats.
Upon investigation determined that she wanted someone to lift up the covers for her to burrow under.
These cats.
One of the hopes that got me through 2020 was thinking that we might actually learn something about the importance of public health and the role of government in society.
And here we are.
And here we are.
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
One of the hopes that got me through 2020 was thinking that we might actually learn something about the importance of public health and the role of government in society.
And here we are.
And here we are.
Sometimes when I finally work up to doing All The Laundry I just want to bag all the clean clothes up and take them to the thrift store—and then just wear the same identical outfits every day for the next 40+ years. (Trying to be optimistic about my time remaining considering our modern dystopia.)
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sometimes when I finally work up to doing All The Laundry I just want to bag all the clean clothes up and take them to the thrift store—and then just wear the same identical outfits every day for the next 40+ years. (Trying to be optimistic about my time remaining considering our modern dystopia.)
I gave up on dating long ago with very little regret. When I think about it even conceptually, this is pretty much exactly it.
I once mixed up the “rather get a root canal/pap smear” analogy by saying “I’d rather get a Pap smear at the dentist” and tbh, that is exactly how I feel about dating.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I gave up on dating long ago with very little regret. When I think about it even conceptually, this is pretty much exactly it.
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Hey, foreigners! To celebrate the anniversary of Henry Kissinger's death, why don't you do the thing he loved best, and arrange for a regime change? Your choice of government!
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hey, foreigners! To celebrate the anniversary of Henry Kissinger's death, why don't you do the thing he loved best, and arrange for a regime change? Your choice of government!
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If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
I’ve started a rewatch of Stargate.
I really do miss when all alien planets looked like British Columbia.
I really do miss when all alien planets looked like British Columbia.
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’ve started a rewatch of Stargate.
I really do miss when all alien planets looked like British Columbia.
I really do miss when all alien planets looked like British Columbia.
I am always amused by the sheer volume of tasks I can discover that need to be done to avoid hauling my laundry to the basement.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I am always amused by the sheer volume of tasks I can discover that need to be done to avoid hauling my laundry to the basement.
As a manager, it’s depressing to see short term thinking that leads to these layoffs. A huge part of my work in the next year is focused on developing our junior staff tied to succession planning, and while initiatives around “efficiency” shape that planning—our goal is improving our team’s future.
Two hours after presenting a team of AI agents he’d built to some 70,000 PwC employees, Donald King was laid off. “It was actually like I was just feeding myself into the AI meat grinder,” he said.
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As a manager, it’s depressing to see short term thinking that leads to these layoffs. A huge part of my work in the next year is focused on developing our junior staff tied to succession planning, and while initiatives around “efficiency” shape that planning—our goal is improving our team’s future.
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For Small Business Saturday (and every day), consider supporting independent arts, crafts and more direct from creators right here on Bluesky! I worked with @davis.social to make the #BlueSkyNightMarket feed; add it here to shop: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Creators, check the flyer to participate!
Creators, check the flyer to participate!
November 25, 2023 at 5:15 PM
For Small Business Saturday (and every day), consider supporting independent arts, crafts and more direct from creators right here on Bluesky! I worked with @davis.social to make the #BlueSkyNightMarket feed; add it here to shop: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Creators, check the flyer to participate!
Creators, check the flyer to participate!
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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I'd only receive UBI because giving it to everyone is cheaper than means-testing.
But while it wouldn't make a dramatic material difference to me, it would massively ease my worries about my son and members of my extended family.
But while it wouldn't make a dramatic material difference to me, it would massively ease my worries about my son and members of my extended family.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'd only receive UBI because giving it to everyone is cheaper than means-testing.
But while it wouldn't make a dramatic material difference to me, it would massively ease my worries about my son and members of my extended family.
But while it wouldn't make a dramatic material difference to me, it would massively ease my worries about my son and members of my extended family.
I have a package that seems to be getting a daily scan at a local distribution center—but rather than it make it on to a USPS truck to my house… it’s just been sitting there getting its daily scan since the 22nd.
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have a package that seems to be getting a daily scan at a local distribution center—but rather than it make it on to a USPS truck to my house… it’s just been sitting there getting its daily scan since the 22nd.
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Someone asked me if this was photoshopped lol, so... video evidence...
February 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Someone asked me if this was photoshopped lol, so... video evidence...
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The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been a surreal journey through its own twisted reality.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit A:
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been a surreal journey through its own twisted reality.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit A:
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ALERT: To respect centuries of tradition, today I shall be watching the dog show and renaming all the dogs. (Peacock won't let me take screenshots so I am literally taking pictures of my television. WHY DO YOU HATE HAPPINESS, PEACOCK?)
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ALERT: To respect centuries of tradition, today I shall be watching the dog show and renaming all the dogs. (Peacock won't let me take screenshots so I am literally taking pictures of my television. WHY DO YOU HATE HAPPINESS, PEACOCK?)
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
(Likewise.)
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
(Likewise.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
(Likewise.)
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
(Likewise.)
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Dunno what’s up w that shooting in DC but if you follow these things at all the only sure bet is that the perp’s politics are likely to be at least somewhat incoherent. A lot more of these shootings are “I have no side and I’m furious” than they are “I’m on this side and hate the other side.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dunno what’s up w that shooting in DC but if you follow these things at all the only sure bet is that the perp’s politics are likely to be at least somewhat incoherent. A lot more of these shootings are “I have no side and I’m furious” than they are “I’m on this side and hate the other side.”
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Not impressed by human BS
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Not impressed by human BS
Delighted that my muted words are letting barely any of today’s discourse through so I can enjoy photos from people baking pies.
Which I will be starting on myself in a few hours.
Which I will be starting on myself in a few hours.
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Delighted that my muted words are letting barely any of today’s discourse through so I can enjoy photos from people baking pies.
Which I will be starting on myself in a few hours.
Which I will be starting on myself in a few hours.
As someone with an abiding love for Canadian sci-fi tv of the 90s and early aughts—hard endorse.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
As someone with an abiding love for Canadian sci-fi tv of the 90s and early aughts—hard endorse.
Not going to lie, as an Adobe Illustrator user, it’s been a confusing time when folks are talking about the AI tools they used in an *.AI file.
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Not going to lie, as an Adobe Illustrator user, it’s been a confusing time when folks are talking about the AI tools they used in an *.AI file.