Blair allen
@blair-allen.bsky.social
Here, queer, full of existential fear. They/them
why is the entire set uup procss to sew a hem just. the literal worst.
sewing it? fine! enjoyable, even, sometimes.
measuring and folding and etc? please kill me. I long for death.
sewing it? fine! enjoyable, even, sometimes.
measuring and folding and etc? please kill me. I long for death.
April 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
why is the entire set uup procss to sew a hem just. the literal worst.
sewing it? fine! enjoyable, even, sometimes.
measuring and folding and etc? please kill me. I long for death.
sewing it? fine! enjoyable, even, sometimes.
measuring and folding and etc? please kill me. I long for death.
on the otherhand I went from that hr of "training" to a meeting with my boss, grandboss, and counterpart, and like 75%+ of it was gboss being like U GUYS ARE SO GOOD AT YR JOB. THANK U. LOVE YR WORK. while boss was full parent-of-only kids-not-openly-eating-glue.jpeg
so. swings & roundabouts.
so. swings & roundabouts.
April 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
on the otherhand I went from that hr of "training" to a meeting with my boss, grandboss, and counterpart, and like 75%+ of it was gboss being like U GUYS ARE SO GOOD AT YR JOB. THANK U. LOVE YR WORK. while boss was full parent-of-only kids-not-openly-eating-glue.jpeg
so. swings & roundabouts.
so. swings & roundabouts.
how is it that every project management training I do via Mandatory Training or w/e, it feels like I understand less about it than I did before I sat through the hour to several hours of lecture.
April 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
how is it that every project management training I do via Mandatory Training or w/e, it feels like I understand less about it than I did before I sat through the hour to several hours of lecture.
we're now at the "multiple national/international financial news outlets have 'top [X] movies about financial crisis' as a feature article" point, which, y'know, probably means nothing.
on the other hand, interesting cultural comparative!
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on the other hand, interesting cultural comparative!
🫠
April 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
we're now at the "multiple national/international financial news outlets have 'top [X] movies about financial crisis' as a feature article" point, which, y'know, probably means nothing.
on the other hand, interesting cultural comparative!
🫠
on the other hand, interesting cultural comparative!
🫠
oh hey, folks here seem likely to have Opinions: what're the current best options for RSS readers in 2025? ideally has web and Android options, actual folders to organise feeds, and isn't ridiculously limited in how many feeds you can follow before paying through the nose; search would be nice.
April 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
oh hey, folks here seem likely to have Opinions: what're the current best options for RSS readers in 2025? ideally has web and Android options, actual folders to organise feeds, and isn't ridiculously limited in how many feeds you can follow before paying through the nose; search would be nice.
I survived a regional work call with improv roleplay tasks, surely that means I'm done for the day, right?
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I survived a regional work call with improv roleplay tasks, surely that means I'm done for the day, right?
on the one hand, this meeting started literally before dawn.
on the other hand, dawn chorus so loud everyone else heard it over teams, incredibly funny to watch a bunch of US folks experience aussie bird calls for the first time
on the other hand, dawn chorus so loud everyone else heard it over teams, incredibly funny to watch a bunch of US folks experience aussie bird calls for the first time
March 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
on the one hand, this meeting started literally before dawn.
on the other hand, dawn chorus so loud everyone else heard it over teams, incredibly funny to watch a bunch of US folks experience aussie bird calls for the first time
on the other hand, dawn chorus so loud everyone else heard it over teams, incredibly funny to watch a bunch of US folks experience aussie bird calls for the first time
*deeply* unserious country
March 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
*deeply* unserious country
werid side effect of my job being what it is, my work browser is actually better set up for more convient paywall dodging than my home browser is.
February 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
werid side effect of my job being what it is, my work browser is actually better set up for more convient paywall dodging than my home browser is.
man. I miss having locked accounts. like. anywhere.
sometimes I want to be vaugely anon and also be vaugely public and also, crucially, not be somewhere anyone who knows me in meatspace can read stuff by accident and know it's me posting it.
sometimes I want to be vaugely anon and also be vaugely public and also, crucially, not be somewhere anyone who knows me in meatspace can read stuff by accident and know it's me posting it.
February 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
man. I miss having locked accounts. like. anywhere.
sometimes I want to be vaugely anon and also be vaugely public and also, crucially, not be somewhere anyone who knows me in meatspace can read stuff by accident and know it's me posting it.
sometimes I want to be vaugely anon and also be vaugely public and also, crucially, not be somewhere anyone who knows me in meatspace can read stuff by accident and know it's me posting it.
going to the stupid post office to get my stupid mail because apparently I ceased to exist for the millisecond the postie "attempted" delivery before taking it to the most distant post office possible in the delivery area💀
February 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
going to the stupid post office to get my stupid mail because apparently I ceased to exist for the millisecond the postie "attempted" delivery before taking it to the most distant post office possible in the delivery area💀
haha gotta say. the colour of the light rn makes me. mmmm not optimistic about the rest of summer, we'll say.
December 20, 2024 at 6:01 AM
haha gotta say. the colour of the light rn makes me. mmmm not optimistic about the rest of summer, we'll say.
why is it that apparently what we as a country have decided that, in the absence of specifically xmas dirges, any dirge will do?
radio has played literally nothing but Xmas carol or dirge (nonspecific) this entire uber ride. this is not the first, nor do I expect it to be the last time it happens
radio has played literally nothing but Xmas carol or dirge (nonspecific) this entire uber ride. this is not the first, nor do I expect it to be the last time it happens
December 10, 2024 at 1:14 AM
why is it that apparently what we as a country have decided that, in the absence of specifically xmas dirges, any dirge will do?
radio has played literally nothing but Xmas carol or dirge (nonspecific) this entire uber ride. this is not the first, nor do I expect it to be the last time it happens
radio has played literally nothing but Xmas carol or dirge (nonspecific) this entire uber ride. this is not the first, nor do I expect it to be the last time it happens
so like, we brought some stuff from Suk (huge rec, btw, if you haven't already seen misha's rec), and it is all fantastic!
but I am finding one(1) problem with the stuff we brought. or "problem", maybe, is the better phrasing.
I keep losing my phone in the pockets. because they are *so* big.
but I am finding one(1) problem with the stuff we brought. or "problem", maybe, is the better phrasing.
I keep losing my phone in the pockets. because they are *so* big.
December 8, 2024 at 7:44 AM
so like, we brought some stuff from Suk (huge rec, btw, if you haven't already seen misha's rec), and it is all fantastic!
but I am finding one(1) problem with the stuff we brought. or "problem", maybe, is the better phrasing.
I keep losing my phone in the pockets. because they are *so* big.
but I am finding one(1) problem with the stuff we brought. or "problem", maybe, is the better phrasing.
I keep losing my phone in the pockets. because they are *so* big.
y'know, possibly I should have hesitated for a moment at literally any point before my screen looked like this
I didn't tho; what I did do is create more logic squares to *checks notes*... make sure my phone lock screen's temperature animations were visually pleasing in any combination
as you do.
I didn't tho; what I did do is create more logic squares to *checks notes*... make sure my phone lock screen's temperature animations were visually pleasing in any combination
as you do.
November 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
y'know, possibly I should have hesitated for a moment at literally any point before my screen looked like this
I didn't tho; what I did do is create more logic squares to *checks notes*... make sure my phone lock screen's temperature animations were visually pleasing in any combination
as you do.
I didn't tho; what I did do is create more logic squares to *checks notes*... make sure my phone lock screen's temperature animations were visually pleasing in any combination
as you do.
some people take up like. ultra marathoning, or idk, ultra micro crochet.
apparently what I have taken up as the endless grind of frustration i intermittently throw myself at is trying to put get along shirts on people, like coaxing increasingly feral cats into carriers to go to the vet.
apparently what I have taken up as the endless grind of frustration i intermittently throw myself at is trying to put get along shirts on people, like coaxing increasingly feral cats into carriers to go to the vet.
November 27, 2024 at 12:34 PM
some people take up like. ultra marathoning, or idk, ultra micro crochet.
apparently what I have taken up as the endless grind of frustration i intermittently throw myself at is trying to put get along shirts on people, like coaxing increasingly feral cats into carriers to go to the vet.
apparently what I have taken up as the endless grind of frustration i intermittently throw myself at is trying to put get along shirts on people, like coaxing increasingly feral cats into carriers to go to the vet.
sitting outside where my team is meant to meet in 3 min and no one else is here yet
on the one hand, fine, they'll get here, the meeting isn't actually for like 20 min anyway.
on the other. am I in the wrong place. are they all dead and I'll have to do this meeting alone. many such fears, etc.
on the one hand, fine, they'll get here, the meeting isn't actually for like 20 min anyway.
on the other. am I in the wrong place. are they all dead and I'll have to do this meeting alone. many such fears, etc.
November 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
sitting outside where my team is meant to meet in 3 min and no one else is here yet
on the one hand, fine, they'll get here, the meeting isn't actually for like 20 min anyway.
on the other. am I in the wrong place. are they all dead and I'll have to do this meeting alone. many such fears, etc.
on the one hand, fine, they'll get here, the meeting isn't actually for like 20 min anyway.
on the other. am I in the wrong place. are they all dead and I'll have to do this meeting alone. many such fears, etc.
fancy bitch meeting today with outside consultants for work
one of them got here like an hour early
I am: the only person in the team here💀💀
one of them got here like an hour early
I am: the only person in the team here💀💀
November 17, 2024 at 10:57 PM
fancy bitch meeting today with outside consultants for work
one of them got here like an hour early
I am: the only person in the team here💀💀
one of them got here like an hour early
I am: the only person in the team here💀💀
in information that is possibly only exciting to me, someone's made an excel UDL for notepad++.
visual basic was a good enough match, and I'm still looking at how it handles the styling, but. hahaha this is going to make it so much easier to inflict my spreadsheet crimes unto the world/god/etc.
visual basic was a good enough match, and I'm still looking at how it handles the styling, but. hahaha this is going to make it so much easier to inflict my spreadsheet crimes unto the world/god/etc.
November 16, 2024 at 4:02 AM
in information that is possibly only exciting to me, someone's made an excel UDL for notepad++.
visual basic was a good enough match, and I'm still looking at how it handles the styling, but. hahaha this is going to make it so much easier to inflict my spreadsheet crimes unto the world/god/etc.
visual basic was a good enough match, and I'm still looking at how it handles the styling, but. hahaha this is going to make it so much easier to inflict my spreadsheet crimes unto the world/god/etc.
look the thing that I am slowly coming to grips with is:
once I finish setting up this absolutely absurd kustom set up on my phone.
I'm almost certainly going to give in and get back into rainmeter.
once I finish setting up this absolutely absurd kustom set up on my phone.
I'm almost certainly going to give in and get back into rainmeter.
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
look the thing that I am slowly coming to grips with is:
once I finish setting up this absolutely absurd kustom set up on my phone.
I'm almost certainly going to give in and get back into rainmeter.
once I finish setting up this absolutely absurd kustom set up on my phone.
I'm almost certainly going to give in and get back into rainmeter.
man, having a real 'so many fuckin nickles' moment; the number of Major International NGO Conferences being hosted in hilariously inappropriate seeming countries is uh.
well. certainly is a lot of 'em coming up, huh?
well. certainly is a lot of 'em coming up, huh?
November 11, 2024 at 10:42 PM
man, having a real 'so many fuckin nickles' moment; the number of Major International NGO Conferences being hosted in hilariously inappropriate seeming countries is uh.
well. certainly is a lot of 'em coming up, huh?
well. certainly is a lot of 'em coming up, huh?
coming to you live from the capitalism mines, start up funders edition: lmao whoops
October 28, 2024 at 6:24 AM
coming to you live from the capitalism mines, start up funders edition: lmao whoops
I am once again begging the events and marcomms staff at work to learn to read
like. at all. please.
like. at all. please.
September 11, 2024 at 4:51 AM
I am once again begging the events and marcomms staff at work to learn to read
like. at all. please.
like. at all. please.
medical industry be even vaugely on time challenge 💀
September 4, 2024 at 5:47 AM
medical industry be even vaugely on time challenge 💀
so if you've ever wondered 'ok blair, how technologically haunted Are You, Really?', this is for you.
on my windows explorer sidebar thing, I have two video folder shortcuts. one is pinned, one is not; they go to the same file location, and are otherwise theoretically identical.
on my windows explorer sidebar thing, I have two video folder shortcuts. one is pinned, one is not; they go to the same file location, and are otherwise theoretically identical.
August 31, 2024 at 7:48 AM
so if you've ever wondered 'ok blair, how technologically haunted Are You, Really?', this is for you.
on my windows explorer sidebar thing, I have two video folder shortcuts. one is pinned, one is not; they go to the same file location, and are otherwise theoretically identical.
on my windows explorer sidebar thing, I have two video folder shortcuts. one is pinned, one is not; they go to the same file location, and are otherwise theoretically identical.