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Hazel is still disabled in a pandemic
@phazel.bsky.social
The name stays for as long as it's true. Urban hermit, queer crip, knitter, tech ghost, career changer, postgrad student, ND, parent, gay married, any pronouns.
🦓🧑🏻‍🦼👩🏻‍💻📚🧶🏴
Previously @phazelic on Twitter.
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This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.
December 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Opening my skills training consultancy for vibe coders who want to take it to the next level.
Tricking a vibe coder into learning to code
YouTube video by Alberta Tech
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December 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Hey quick reminder to fellow CSA victims: You're under no obligation to say anything or know anything about those files. You're allowed to sit this one out. Go have a nice drink, talk to someone you like, curl up with a pet, watch some good TV, drink your water and take your meds, have a bath...
December 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I will never, ever forget the utter contempt that the tech industry has consistently shown me for the last 13 years. I am very good at leaving abusive systems. You could say it's the only thing I've ever been granted the time to become a true expert at.
December 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?”

For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.

Because I care about people.

You dipshit.
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The only thing you have to do is…nothing. Don’t use their shitty chatbots. Don’t let anyone else peer pressure you into using their shitty chatbots. It’s really simple.
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I told a technical interviewer that in the last couple of years I’ve mostly been using TypeScript and Ruby. He said, and I quote: “don’t use C# because it doesn’t have data structures.” This was ostensibly a senior engineer. Why can’t I get a job? Because these are the people evaluating me.
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Note to self. This week the scales shifted from me mostly seeing myself as a failed software developer to mostly being a successful career-changing postgrad student. Try to keep it that way if you can.
December 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I've realised something that seems obvious but it's taken me a while to come to terms with it. I have, quite simply, outgrown tech. I have very little respect for the majority of people in that industry. The ones who could have something to teach me will not do so. It has nothing for me anymore.
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We're spending Christmas with my wife's friend's mother. That's who's showing up for us. Our family didn't invite us to Christmas last year, so this year we're uninvited as punishment for not showing up last year.
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Today my kid said "I love you" for the first time. It was more like "Ayayu" but it was obvious what he was saying. We said it back and forth a few times while I cuddled him. We'd had a hard day together, and I was feeling down about not spending as much time with him as I wish. Then this happened. 💕
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When people tell you they care about you, that's a signal they're about to disappear from your life forever. They may or may not pick a fight first. That's the only variation.
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Everyone’s got a theory about what’s wrong with my soul
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
It's bad enough now that we asked our family for help with staying alive until this contract starts. My wife's dad sent her a video of him mopping a floor saying "just get a job!" and her sister screamed at me that I'm going to die in the street. This is the side of the family we still talk to.
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I could have really been something
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
My boss sits down with a clipboard and asks, "So how do you like to have sex?" He clicks his pen. "It's for diversity, you know. So you feel included. Please be professional and answer the question, all the normal people already did."
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Had an interview today where nobody talked about AI.

Nature is healing.
October 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I kiss my baby and he leans back into me for more kisses. He makes his little kissy noises back at me as he walks away to play. I love being a parent.
September 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Imagine if Americans cared as much about Palestinian lives as they do about late night comedy
September 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.'

Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
September 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Your children are refusing to go to school because you let them contract a deadly virus which is now causing them horrible disabilities. They're right to refuse this.
September 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM