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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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...
www.reuters.com
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...
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Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
chicagoshovels.org
chicagoshovels.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
chicagoshovels.org
chicagoshovels.org
Remember I said fuck ovens a few months back? Well my oven heard me and failed the day before Thanksgiving. So I finally have a new oven but I didn't even manage to get a picture of it when it was shiny and clean because I had to cook dinner.
December 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Remember I said fuck ovens a few months back? Well my oven heard me and failed the day before Thanksgiving. So I finally have a new oven but I didn't even manage to get a picture of it when it was shiny and clean because I had to cook dinner.
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For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
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This is absolutely correct. Almost every artist I know is DROWNING in ideas. The issue is in executing the ideas.
& this nonsense that whomever has “the most ideas the fastest” is “the most creative” is ridic. There’s ppl with 1,000 ideas for paintings yet will never paint The Starry Night. An idea and $2.90 will get you a ride on the subway in NYC.
Artistry isn’t solely manufacturing ideas. It’s the process.
Artistry isn’t solely manufacturing ideas. It’s the process.
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is absolutely correct. Almost every artist I know is DROWNING in ideas. The issue is in executing the ideas.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.