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aetherlev.bsky.social
Fibre Artist, antique glass nerd, occasional writer, amateur comedian, former senior full stack developer, unrepentant Luddite Go Marlins! ⚾️🏟️
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Live by the code, die by the code Fucking morons

Free app idea: Crowdmatch, a dating app where other users are encouraged to help you find your soulmate, thus turning everyone into matchmakers Of course it could also be a weird social experiment gone wrong as well

“Well you see, the complete enshittification of the fashion industry happened before any of us were born” -me complaining about clothes again

It’s so interesting that the US is a giant nest of infighting and screaming, EXCEPT if anyone ever comes for Dolly Parton Then the entire country draws together like Voltron and prepares to defend their tiny platinum-haired goddess

Long live General Ludd. 🔨

Self Made Men #transmemes

Sometimes I buy things because I am a savvy glass nerd, and sometimes it’s because I am a child with poor impulse control. Anyway I have Cinderella’s slipper lol

Who’s got two thumbs and a whole stack of vintage Cowichan sweater patterns?? THIS WOMAN RIGHT HERE 👍👍

AAHAAHAHHAHAAH MARK CUBAN BLOCKED ME, the cowardly shitbag Must’ve hurt his precious billionaire feelings

I still refuse to know anything about the Super Bowl, but I understand that the halftime show was great and Kendrick Lamar is a legend among men, so I’m happy about that.

The same process takes place in the "learn to code" space. If you are in fact learning to code, you have to back up all the way to the first principles: what is a variable? What is a function? A library? An API? But if you only want to pass this assignment, you can just search Stack Overflow.

I dare you, Mark, to hire a bunch of people with zero education, give them smartphones and access to ChatGPT, and let them work for you in jobs that require advanced degrees. Go on. Put your fucking money (and we all know you have it) where your mouth is.

One thing that really annoys me about the argument that highly gendered languages can’t and shouldn’t be expected to adapt to current norms about pronouns. Bitch what exactly do you think languages do over time??

From Wicked by Gregory Maguire

I put weird stuff in all my alt text with the descriptions, because that’s like an extra 2000 characters and you better BELIEVE I will use that to indulge my horrible sense of humor.

The uncanny valley is real and we are all being sent there against our will

Just me embracing underconsumption-core by not wearing makeup or having a skincare routine Totally not because I’m just generally lazy about that stuff

Yep I’m gonna get my terrible books off Amazon. I’ve been ignoring them but it’s high time I did something with that KDP account.

OMG @isasaxonists.bsky.social I just checked the mail and it arrived! YARN FOR ME, IMMA MAKE SOCKS

*gets out the megaphone* OLD PEOPLE FIND COMPUTERS HARD BECAUSE THEY’RE INFESTED WITH DECADES OF TECHNICAL BULLSHIT AND EVERY UI IS AN INCOHERENT MESS THAT ASSUMES KNOWLEDGE THEY DON’T ALWAYS HAVE FFS BE MORE SYMPATHETIC, SOMEDAY THAT WILL BE YOU

I swear 90% of programming is knowing the quirks of whatever language you’re using and being aware of them and able to work around them

@isasaxonists.bsky.social hey! I’m still waiting on the Sagittarius yarn, when is that gonna ship? I really want to get started on socks with it

I should learn COBOL for the lulz

Me: I should do some self-promo. Brain: no you shouldn’t, they’re only following you for the weird tech rants Me: FUCK YOU, MY PATTERNS ARE GOOD #knitsky #showmeyourknits #crochetsky #crochet ko-fi.com/raynfallcrafts

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Poison the data, people!

Today I had the pleasure of helping a guy with mobility issues install a hands free Chrome extension that allows him to be able to surf the Internet again. We also set up his Echo Show 8 so he can tell Alexa to play John Lennon. Sometimes, just sometimes, technology is an amazing force for good.

In class today, my students got to witness me slowly going insane as I found three different mistakes in a crochet motif pattern from what is presumably a book compiled by professionals. Just a stream of swearing and complaining occasionally interrupted when I helped them with their projects