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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.
My experience is that most women can assemble professional grade logistics while still handling all their other responsibilities before any guy can figure out how to find the starting line.
January 26, 2026 at 7:01 AM
P!nk!

Which is the only concert I have been to in 20 years ...
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Reposted by PurpleMarsAlien
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
How To Talk Minnesotan | Full Length Film
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
My local Y has recently added some women only hours for the pool. I suspect someone will try to sue them.
January 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by PurpleMarsAlien
It's the excuse of every abuser -- "look what you made me do".
January 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
People also seemed to miss that the flooding in WA in early to mid December was all about temperatures as well. That should have been 100 inches of snow for a good start to our snowpack. Instead it was 20 inches of rain which flowed out of the mountains and flooded the lowlands.
January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The problem is going to be to get someone to stop talking at you after their 5 minutes are up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 AM
I don't think my kid gives a damn, but I am GenX and the not giving a damn might be genetic.
January 1, 2026 at 4:03 AM
If my child went to one of these, I would be HAPPY about the way the staff reacted to keep the strange and aggressive people with the cameras OUT and information-less.

Which is exactly what daycare staff should be doing to strange people who show up without an appointment.
December 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
For the record, I did actually think it looked a little better covered in silly string.
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
At my childhood Catholic church in the US, I think the only two times I encountered the cup were First Communion and Confirmation.
December 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Or, "I didn't pay attention to anyone outside my tiny little friends group because I already didn't give a crap."
December 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
My neighborhood in Chicago did it, way back in the 1980s.
December 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Make them understand that the value of their company has to exceed the value of your own company. And if you've done the work on yourself, that's a pretty high bar.
December 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'm not even understanding why they are beating up Santa Claus.
December 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is obviously someone who has never been in Saint Peter's Square in July.
December 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM