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nancybeeeee.bsky.social
copyeditor, painter, embroiderer, rootless cosmopolitan; she/her but I identify as a small pile of shards 🖖🏼 MS Runner on TikTok | OopsAllBernstein.com
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Spam from a Korean skincare brand I use just offered me “bouncy skin” and I don’t know if that’s a blip of translation or a new TikTok craze

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Not a stupendous weekend in Vegas but kudos to the airport for playing the entire soundtrack to Xanadu while we waited to board our flight home

“Sets a new standard of quality” “Is indispensable to the team, department, and company” —some of the comments in my performance review before they gave me a raise of 38 dollars a week #corporateAmerica

Hard hard run yesterday and today’s upper body workout with my trainer made me so sore only my wrists and fingers moved easily but hey at least I still can’t see any muscle tone

alphaguess poem for 2/14/25 eaten, failed, filthy flytrap force forward *foster* foul fracture furtive, guilty- jaw noon (not a tremendous effort here but pleasingly, aggressively at odds with valentines day)

They’re not perfect looking on the outside but not bad structure—and they taste great. Calling it a success!

How it’s going

Here in the third proof of these baguettes this is already the most stressful day of my life

Adding to my list of general worries I am now specifically concerned that I didn’t mix my poolish well enough. I guess we’ll see tomorrow 🥖

alphaguess poem for 2/13/25 devour future gusts high *hollow* hungry inviolate noon

alphaguess poem for 2/12/25 black eye, furious gnawing gold grab grace, *grade* grand grasp gray- green ground half- junk noon

Honestly not sure any drug I have ever taken was as good as 7 hours of sleep and a good shit

After a couple weeks of training with our AI platform it is very clear that it can *in no way* copyedit. But the stress of working with it has left me without the strength , focus, or bandwidth to do it either

alphaguess poem for 2/11/25 destroy hope kill madness muzzle naive names narcotic narrow *nation* naturally negligible noon

alphaguess poem for 2/6/25 ​everything except *exercise* exhausts existence experience fades, galloping, haggard, just noon

My phone is now just a shock buzzer that I keep picking up anyway

Too Much Soup: The Nancy Bernstein Story

Yeah my job right now is serving soviet style disincentive to put any effort into anything. Brb gotta go find some way to decapitate my work ethic

30 years since I wrote the poem but there still just is no dod damn plan b for sleeping. You do it or oxygen is useless. You do it or electricity is useless. Insomnia day 5

alphaguess poem for 2/5/25 destroy hysterical lesser machines missing mortal mud multiple *mundane* murders murmur, nagging noon

Alphaguess poem for 2/4/25 avoid baleful bastards baying *beach* beady beastly beauty blood butchers collapsing noon (ugh I'm writing a poem that is rapidly turning into something about werewolves and the WOTD turns out to be freaking beach)

As I learn my company’s AI system it occurs to me that my industry isn’t going to be put out of existence by the actual abilities of the technology but by the false claims of its marketing

alphaguess poem for 2/3/25 noon, obedient ongoing opal orbiting ordinary *organ,* original ornament, orphaned overnight, punishing turncoat

alphaguess poem for 1/30/25 careful edits, empty enough enter enthusiastic entropy. Entry *envelope,* envy epidemic eroding faceless, gutting noon

Alphaguess poem for 1/28/25 cold fitful immense labor last *laugh*, least lessened logic lunar noon

Alphaguess poem for 1/27/25 bastard earnest future glaring gloat glorifying glow *glue* gnashing greed half knockoff noon [moderately successful I think--glue isn't a great fit, but I do love the idea of a bastard future and a knockoff noon]

This work that I’m doing now, talking the new designer through the process maintaining version control in the CMS platform while identifying and correcting the mistakes she made, and then proofreading the PDF against 3 different files and file types—AI will be able to do that?

alphapoem for 1/25/25 collapsing frankly junk lady leisure *lemon* lewdly limply loving luscious noon (WOTD took me by surprise! was really thinking I would use it as an odd little adjective, not the subject of the whole damn poem. But live by the form, die by the form I guess)

I miss Instagram sometimes kottke.org/25/01/004605...

Listen I never wanted to be the asshole who drones on about the life changing power of running and squats, I was perfectly happy smoking and writing poetry, but shit took a weird turn

alphaguess poem for 1/23/25 noon, numb, obliging old orbits orienting orthodox, oscillating *osmosis* ostensibly otherwise preaching ruthless yellow

Any job that can be done remotely but isn't allowed to be should be referred to as on the severed floor

alphaguess poem for 1/21/25 noon punctuated quaint queer *quell* quench question quickly quoted reaching tumbling

The CMO called me a “singular talent” at the all-hands today and it freaked me out so much it was all I could do to not hide under my desk

Here in the Great Step Backward with all these little Caesars and their proclamations, I cant help wondering if all the pizza chains will be made literal in some ghastly way

alphaguess poem for 1/17/25 catch fire imagine losing my neglected never *nice* night, noon

Off to see The Brutalist. We'll be at the theater so long I'm packing a change of clothes

One day after my first meeting with my trainer I can confirm that “posterior chain” is the worst term in the English language

Taking baby steps back onto this app after 3 months away and whew, muting a lot of accounts

First TikTok-less morning Bluesky: feed full of depressing people re-enforcing each other’s impotent rage Reddit: comment threads 75-people deep discussing the hidden significance of the last image in Severance Reels: now 80% sponsored content without re-posted TikTok videos