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Director of Software Engineering. Apple alum. Star Wars, Math, Video Games, Books, Knitting, Spinning Wheels, Rowing, Dog Pictures, Minnesotan. My hair was weird before weird hair was cool. I’m cross-posting from Mastodon, find me there!
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That’s a shame.

It’s not of course only the misplaced apostrophe, but it’s the misplaced apostrophe too.

Replace 2x cats with 1x dog.

When you possess both a laptop and a lapdog.

15 years ago if I said on a Saturday morning, "who barfed on my favorite blanket?" it would be a legitimate mystery I was looking to solve. Now it's merely a rhetorical question I employ as I stare down a guilty dog.

I don't know the difference between a kicker and a punter (and let me be very clear: I don't care) but my undying love for Dicker the Kicker (because obviously) may have been usurped by this former MN Viking.

#Minnesota is a phenomenal place! Yeah, it was warmer on Mars than here for a couple days this week, but cold like that is what makes us hardy enough to fight back against fascism!

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

TIL that it's common (??) for some dental practices to have "open concept" layouts, described as "kind of like a barbershop." Choosing between an open concept dentist and all my teeth rotting out due to lack of care wouldn't even be a hard decision.

You know how you adore your dog more than words can express but sometimes he pees on the carpet and you have to take deep breaths and think hard about how cute and loving he is? That's me and #Minnesota this week.

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

My vaccine records are fragmented due to living in multiple states so I got a Titer Test today to see if I need any boosters. It couldn't have been easier. I made an appointment at CVS Minute Clinic yesterday. It took 10 minutes. Insurance paid for all but $2.10. I'll get results in a couple days.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone, but especially the companies sending the marketing emails that say "Happy VD."

Fun fact! CVS Minute Clinics will do Titer Tests which confirm the presence of antibodies and indicate if a vaccine or booster could be needed. Helpful if your health records are fragmented or incomplete. In my area, they have next-day appointments!

cheer up things could get worse i did and they did

Russ Vought set up a CFPB snitch line where you can report any work by the agency still trying to do its job as legally mandated by Congress. It would be a real shame if this was flooded with false tips and wild goose chases... x.com/CFPB_tipline

may god grant me the courage to change the things I can and the ability to be incredibly fucking annoying about the things I cannot

Today at Dogtopia, the dogs apparently watched Lady and the Tramp and had spaghetti and meatballs.

I like the suggestion to go to all the maps providers, search for Gulf of Mexico (only to find Gulf of America,) enter the "report an issue" flow, and report the name as being incorrect. I imagine it only really affects a poor bug screener, but the power of data is strong, and I'll help skew it!

Every sports person keeps saying words and I just replace them with this.

This article is an incredible peak behind the scenes of Prince's iconic Super Bowl performance. I read it periodically and love it every time.

I just hope both teams have fun.

I just watched a Dominos driver deliver pizza to a Chipotle, and I didn't anticipate how much that would cheer me up.

In setting up the Tapestry app (which I'm very excited about!) it took me far too long to remember that Bluesky requires you to create an app-specific password for clients. It's found in the Bluesky Settings -> Privacy and Security.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

At the end of yoga class, as the instructor is winding down five minutes of deeply relaxing breathing exercises, the room silent: "and as you exhale, stretch out your legs to prepare—" *CRRAAAASH!* What could that be? Oh was it ME knocking over my giant metal water bottle?? Awesome.

*slowly puts down microphone*

I feel like if I got stuck in a Groundhog Day loop, I'd be the iteration of Phil who sits in a diner and orders every dessert.

First rawhide since getting over a little tummy bug and it's VERY exciting.

After a protracted, confusing conversation, I finally determined that my partner, for his entire life, has mixed up the stories of Pollyanna and the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. Reader: I cackled.

The #Minnesota zoo is letting you name a bug after an ex before it gets fed to one of their animals. Step aside, International Star Registry, we've got grudges to memorialize!!

I got into my car at about 5:30am to drive to my workout. On my way, I heard a ruckus. There was a wild animal in the backseat, tearing it up! It was pitch dark, I couldn’t see anything. I was in a panic!

I'm not a big audiobook fan, except for getting through non-fiction, or for memoirs read by the author. But I just finished Daisy Jones and the Six (a book I gave up on) in audio form and it was astonishingly fantastic. Maybe even better than World War Z's audiobook. *Highly* recommend.

Apropos of nothing, I downloaded this declassified "Guide to Sabotaging Fascism" that was authored in the 1940s after watching German citizens successfully resist Nazis.

It's when your dog walks over the concrete garage floor, across the tile entryway, through the hardwood kitchen, to your carpeted and poorly ventilated office specifically to barf that you know it's love.

VOTING IS OPEN!!! Choose your favorite #Minnesota Snow Plow name!!

Typing 'minimum' is like playing a game of table tennis on the keyboard.