PurpleMarsAlien
@purplemarsalien.bsky.social
PNW software engineer, but still a Chicagoan.
Pronouns, she/her. 40-something in tech. I like knitting, enjoy dogs and have a happy teenager.
Pronouns, she/her. 40-something in tech. I like knitting, enjoy dogs and have a happy teenager.
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Lemon Pasta and why I can't just share recipes.
YouTube video by The Korean Vegan
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January 25, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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This is light-hearted and doesn't touch on cases of fuckaroundits, but maybe it'll spark joy. Mid 90s local PBS.
youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0
youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0
How To Talk Minnesotan | Full Length Film
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
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January 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This is light-hearted and doesn't touch on cases of fuckaroundits, but maybe it'll spark joy. Mid 90s local PBS.
youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0
youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0
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It's the excuse of every abuser -- "look what you made me do".
January 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
It's the excuse of every abuser -- "look what you made me do".
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Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.
I feel in my bones that the wave has started to crash back in and Certain People/Companies who thought they were safe to abandon everyone they’d been pretending to care about will suddenly realize that those people have money/power and I, for one, will be holding a grudge until the end of time 💜
January 2, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.
Does anyone else find it extremely disturbing to have AI generate an apology? It's not like AI can feel or express remorse, it's like a sociopath generating an apology.
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Does anyone else find it extremely disturbing to have AI generate an apology? It's not like AI can feel or express remorse, it's like a sociopath generating an apology.
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This just in: most women (most people, really, but most women for sure) don't want to be chums with people who try to literally murder them and their co-workers.
![Tucker Carlson: "What's [AOC] like?"
Matt Gaetz: "Before Jan. 6 she was incredibly chummy with Republicans, she would regularly come over to our side, sit down, hang out... after Jan. 6 she treated us all like we had horns or something."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreiagl3tmxesoqw6lydhcwey52rczco3joc2m4x3kz4yv7ojrekk6ci@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This just in: most women (most people, really, but most women for sure) don't want to be chums with people who try to literally murder them and their co-workers.
Since we have several Cyber trucks in the neighborhood, the experience I witnessed with elementary kids and a ct were them talking about how ugly it was and then spraying it with silly string. I gave them a WTF look since they apparently didn't even care who saw this. Then walked on.
They're supposed to make emotionally underdeveloped 8-year-olds say "cool!", right?
All other considerations are secondary at best
All other considerations are secondary at best
December 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Since we have several Cyber trucks in the neighborhood, the experience I witnessed with elementary kids and a ct were them talking about how ugly it was and then spraying it with silly string. I gave them a WTF look since they apparently didn't even care who saw this. Then walked on.
I go through the same mental fight every night: I know I will get out there and enjoy my 3 mile walk, if only I can get my butt off this chair.
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I go through the same mental fight every night: I know I will get out there and enjoy my 3 mile walk, if only I can get my butt off this chair.
I read this list for myself and went oh, I didn't know fire extinguishers have expiration dates. Now, how do you get rid of expired fire extinguishers?
🧵Helpful things to do while visiting your parents this holiday season:
- Change their remote, smoke alarm, & flashlight batteries
- Make sure they're logged into all apps on their phone, Roku, etc
- Turn off the motion smoothing setting on their TV
- Check the fire extinguisher expiration date
- Change their remote, smoke alarm, & flashlight batteries
- Make sure they're logged into all apps on their phone, Roku, etc
- Turn off the motion smoothing setting on their TV
- Check the fire extinguisher expiration date
December 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I read this list for myself and went oh, I didn't know fire extinguishers have expiration dates. Now, how do you get rid of expired fire extinguishers?
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Nobody wants to know where my can opener has been, or what it has opened.
I can't even answer that.
I can't even answer that.
It took both my wife and my mother-in-law almost ten minutes to eventually figure out how to open one (1) can.
My mother, in contrast, simply has a can opener from, like, 1987 that has lost all cutting ability.
My mother, in contrast, simply has a can opener from, like, 1987 that has lost all cutting ability.
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Nobody wants to know where my can opener has been, or what it has opened.
I can't even answer that.
I can't even answer that.
I think this was the most fascinating novel I read in 2025. Highly recommend.
Day 24 of Book Advent 📚
Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social
Zelu's mother was a Yoruba princess, her father is Igbo with a PhD. She is paraplegic, flawed, sassy, hard-working, & an author, writing robots into a complex world of death, circuits, energy & what it means to be human.
Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social
Zelu's mother was a Yoruba princess, her father is Igbo with a PhD. She is paraplegic, flawed, sassy, hard-working, & an author, writing robots into a complex world of death, circuits, energy & what it means to be human.
December 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I think this was the most fascinating novel I read in 2025. Highly recommend.
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"Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery" is such a hilarious line because it is in fact 100% backwards.
You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????
You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery" is such a hilarious line because it is in fact 100% backwards.
You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????
You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????
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I think this is the fourth or fifth website I've seen lately that is animating its search box with example queries, appearing with a typing animation and changing every few seconds
... Did we learn nothing from the blink tag? You've all had your fun and it's time to knock this shit off
... Did we learn nothing from the blink tag? You've all had your fun and it's time to knock this shit off
December 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I think this is the fourth or fifth website I've seen lately that is animating its search box with example queries, appearing with a typing animation and changing every few seconds
... Did we learn nothing from the blink tag? You've all had your fun and it's time to knock this shit off
... Did we learn nothing from the blink tag? You've all had your fun and it's time to knock this shit off
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i'm at the epstein coverup, i'm at the CECOT coverup, i'm at the combination epstein CECOT coverup
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
i'm at the epstein coverup, i'm at the CECOT coverup, i'm at the combination epstein CECOT coverup
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So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year
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Whether it's middle-class parents giving their kindergarteners Bluey dolls or Larry Ellison giving his son David $40 billion to buy Warner Bros., parents of all economic stripes are splurging on gifts this holiday season.
December 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Whether it's middle-class parents giving their kindergarteners Bluey dolls or Larry Ellison giving his son David $40 billion to buy Warner Bros., parents of all economic stripes are splurging on gifts this holiday season.
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Never thought I'd spend 2026 just straight-up grateful to have grown up during a period of unquestioned acceptance of vaccines for polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella, but here we are
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Never thought I'd spend 2026 just straight-up grateful to have grown up during a period of unquestioned acceptance of vaccines for polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella, but here we are
So the not-quite-kid and I have decided that we are going to make: gingerbread cookies, cheesecake brownies, and raspberry stars. I just need to go to the grocery because the only thing I bake usually is bread, and apparently all I have at the moment is flour, a little bit of sugar, and yeast 🤣
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
So the not-quite-kid and I have decided that we are going to make: gingerbread cookies, cheesecake brownies, and raspberry stars. I just need to go to the grocery because the only thing I bake usually is bread, and apparently all I have at the moment is flour, a little bit of sugar, and yeast 🤣
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I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
Obviously this is someone who has never been in a never renovated bowling alley that predates the ban on indoor smoking. My kid was like "mom, why does it smell so terrible in here?"
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Obviously this is someone who has never been in a never renovated bowling alley that predates the ban on indoor smoking. My kid was like "mom, why does it smell so terrible in here?"
How I cook dinner sometimes: I want a glass of wine now. What can I make to justify opening wine now? Beef stew in the instant pot! 25 minutes later, beef stew with partly frozen beef and all the dying veggies from the fridge is sealed into the instant pot, and I have a glass of wine.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
How I cook dinner sometimes: I want a glass of wine now. What can I make to justify opening wine now? Beef stew in the instant pot! 25 minutes later, beef stew with partly frozen beef and all the dying veggies from the fridge is sealed into the instant pot, and I have a glass of wine.
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We all know there’s nobody human actually behind the Merriam-Webster account, tho. It’s just the actual dictionary rage-posting through this era to make it to the next.
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We all know there’s nobody human actually behind the Merriam-Webster account, tho. It’s just the actual dictionary rage-posting through this era to make it to the next.
And shingles isn't even something you can avoid by avoiding sick people, it's about your immune system saying oh fuck you.
If you hate the shingles vaccine, I can’t begin to tell you how much more you’re gonna hate shingles.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
And shingles isn't even something you can avoid by avoiding sick people, it's about your immune system saying oh fuck you.
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it's a dawn of an era of complete mediocrity...
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
it's a dawn of an era of complete mediocrity...