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Caroline, doing the work
@carolinethegeek.bsky.social
PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, moderator/ModSquid🦑, enjoyer of things.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!

Yes, I'm here. On the job market!
I mean, @seattledot.bsky.social could've worded this a little better... But anyways.

These things are the scourge of UW campus and a safety hazard.

(UW Station bridge.)
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Word problem:
If Caroline buys 10 lbs of clementines and 6 lbs of apples, and Jason buys a large amount of other snacks, how soon will Caroline have to go back to the store if there are 18 children at KidsTeam camp, about half of whom descend upon clementines like a horde of locusts?
July 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I don't know if my housemate finds this as funny as I do but...
CC: @gamechangershow.bsky.social @dropout.tv

(Luckily most of my work meetings aren't on Mondays so I can be a little flexible.)
July 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I should be around for the whole conference, but I will definitely be at the Wednesday poster session for #IDC2025!

Come say hi and play game prototypes!
June 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The posters were mostly Capstone projects, but it's the 10 year anniversary of KidsTeam UW and we have a ton of undergrad research assistants and such so...
June 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I'm sad it took me this long to go to the MILL at UW but it was a lot of fun to print and trim the KidsTeam @ischool.uw.edu Showcase poster myself.

(Also cheaper than most print shops...)
June 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
On Wednesdays we wear pink... Also finally getting through my mending pile. These jeans were getting too artfully torn and distressed.
May 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I mean, I guess if I couldn't be at #CHI2025 in person, at least I was there in spirit*.

* (And by in spirit I mean I got cited, was an AC, and got to send one of my lab's grad students to the SV program.)
May 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
TFW when you're finishing your last @acm-idc.bsky.social review on Boat because you had too much @jococruise.bsky.social prep to do.

(I did most of the work on the flight over.)

#jococruise2025
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I made brown butter chocolate chip cookies with toasted walnuts. My housemate made zucchini muffins. We're trying to be better about making treats vs. buying them.
January 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Sunday at OrcaCon I got switched from Games Admin to Paint and Take for my volunteer shift.

I'd been hoping to get to the Paint and Take all weekend so...

Anyways, I'll take some closeups of this guy later, I should've done a higher contrast color scheme.

#OrcaCon #OrcaCon2025
January 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Even if the snow is a bust (Seattle it almost always is, DC is variable.), I have already rescheduled my flight because it's gonna be a mess.

The same thing happened a few years ago and my flight was one of the few that went, but it had stopped snowing by then. Had to de-ice though, iirc.
January 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Me: I should head back to the Seattle area soon

Weather: Hey so you know the day you scheduled your flight months ago
After the weather in the DC area has been in like the 50s and 60s for the past couple weeks

Me: Yes?

Weather: About that...
January 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Luckily I have advantage that I saved from last year, cause that first roll... oof.
January 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Yesterday's at Motorkat's Feast of Seven Fishes was a Pink Pony Club (rum, Campari, pineapple, lemon, and a cherry).

I'm not much of a drinker (I dislike the taste of beer and most wines), but I like to try a fun cocktail now and then.
December 26, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Tonight's cocktail is a Chiba Nashi.

It is very tasty.
December 26, 2024 at 1:23 AM
I have a touch of a cold so I need all the liquids.
December 26, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Flew coast to coast yesterday, slept 12 hours, woke up at like 1pm ET, submitted two more job apps.

Now to eat what I think the youth might be calling "girl dinner" unless that's already passé.

Then IDC paper writing.

The exciting posts you all follow me for.
December 16, 2024 at 1:05 AM
I also tried this the other night, my interdisciplinarity and lunchtime socials checks are highly visible.

(As is my fairly consistent sleep schedule, which I've been working on for the last couple of years.)
December 1, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Not particularly fond of AI wrappers for everything, but I did want to see how it handled my account.

It can only work from what I've posted, so it thinks I'm into sci-fi more than I am (I like it, but I love fantasy a bit more).

Apparently I'm communicating the overall vibe successfully...
December 1, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

(I roasted two heads of garlic today, one for the compound butter and one for later.)
November 28, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Well, I did my Wednesday prep shift, so now it's my housemate's turn to take over the kitchen.

(She made roll dough this morning and she'll also try to get the apple pie done.)
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 AM
These tiny digital civic engagement playbooks are for an event tomorrow!

Inspired/heavily based on the Big Bad World game created by @nathanblack.bsky.social and @seannittner.bsky.social, based on @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social's Apocalypse World system.

(1/4)
November 16, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Made this for the @seattleindies.bsky.social/Foundry10 Games and Education Collider.

Does anyone know the name/handle of the person who made this type of thing for Big Bad Con so I can give proper credit for inspiration/format?

(The four roles: researcher, influencer, moderator, organizer.)
November 16, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

... I mean if by "saved meme" you mean tumblr drafts folder sure.

(from: www.tumblr.com/whatsupwalnu...)
November 14, 2024 at 7:20 AM