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nina eleanor alter

@ninavizz.bsky.social

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Human, curious; designer, usability advocate; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork. “Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP bigwheel.net

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 15h

Ugh, I'm so sorry, man.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 15h

This article is positively hilarious. 18F and USDS *WERE* the elite go-to places for exactly the talent he's describing. Until his boy Elno burned both organizations to the ground. Dingbat.

Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 15h

"What sets Kupor’s efforts to attract tech talent apart from his predecessors' is the fact that they come after sweeping cuts pushed by DOGE. ... The entire 18F office at the General Services Administration ... was laid off in the spring."

How Trump’s OPM director wants to attract tech talent after months of workforce cuts

OPM Director Scott Kupor wants to bring on new feds with cutting edge skills, but the government’s recent flood of layoffs and resignations could complicate that effort. With a government shutdown ong...

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 15h

This is also the worst job market I've personally seen, in over 25yrs. I had to submit hundreds of resumes, before landing my current job a year ago—and in the past, I only ever submitted maybe a dozen. Yes, I work in tech, but I've heard the same sentiment from folks in other markets as well.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 15h

For older white women the job market is hideous. It took me two years to land my current job. TWO. YEARS. Another friend who's Latinx, is interviewing with my company—and she's been on the market, almost as long. AI is screwing-up all the things that racism and sexism aren't.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 2d

I was around in the 1990s, and strongly disliked The Cranberries, then. Was I really the only one?

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone that committed to ruining the joy of others cannot like themselves that much, either. And yet, their commitment to White cishet monoculture only shapes climates of harm for others, not themselves.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 2d

Even though I love shootin' stuff and blowin' things up like my colonist brethren, it really brings down a sunny day in the country like almost nothing else to hear random outbursts of firepower. Pow, pow, pow, pow—no more birdies, my back tightens up.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 3d

I like privilege hire! I've said nepo-hire, before.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 3d

I had a foldable titanium spork, until TSA confiscated it. Yes, a damn spork! Copper, I cannot see tasting well; and they very easily patina, which I really cannot see tasting well. Danky dark-brown not a good look on silverware.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

If that little man really wants to call a few adults in furry suits playing ukuleles a "terrorist mob," ok. Can Black college students in the South get that kinda protections from lynchings, or just ICE officials butthurt by the PDX welcome wagon for international-law abiding refugees?

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

4 quarts of canned apples, 6 quarts of frozen peaches, and 14 pints of canned chicken stock leftover from earlier in the week. ~3k steps to do all of that—which feels incredibly dystopian to care about, but for a day mostly spent in my kitchen, that feels impressive!

White quartz counter atop cherry wood cabinets, shot from above, packed with the mess of prepping apples to can.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

Me too!

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

OMG AN INFLATABLE POTATO gods help us!

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4d

We’re thrilled that Egyptian writer and technologist Alaa Abd El Fattah is finally free and at home with his family. But we must remain vigilant: Alaa must be allowed to travel to the UK to be reunited with his son Khaled. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

After Years Behind Bars, Alaa Is Free at Last

On September 22, it was announced that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had issued a pardon for Alaa’s release after six years in prison. Alaa Abd El Fattah is finally free and at home with

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

Translation: Your strength is your ability to assimilate w/o cracks, not your shining as you each truly are. Fascist, much?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

Not to the venture community. Users will matter, again. Someday.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 4d

Gram Parsons, canning bonanza, and sunshine on a Sunday. As the world burns, of course.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 5d

That's the only reason its not freaking me out that much. Yet. He's just so filed with hate and a toxic kind of self-delusional pride.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 6d

They report on very little that's relevant to informing the electorate; and sensationalize what they do report on.

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 6d

Looking at world history from the past few thousand years, greed, power, and an accrual of material wealth are our weak spots. Capitalism is but a tiiny spark of a flash in only one pan.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 6d

The massive irony there, is that PPB is notoriously biased—favoring conservative activists. Oh, Pam...

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhh that would make a gorgeous tattoo!

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 6d

😕😢

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Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social · 6d

TIL “Ochlocracy” is a Greek term for a government by a mob who have become unruly, irrational, and lawless. It is the degenerate form of democracy, where people no longer guided by reason or virtuous leaders become easily manipulated by demagogues who appeal to their passions and prejudices.

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