TM Gasque
@tmgasque.bsky.social
PhD Digital media.
Neuroqueer Storytelling and Transmedia Scholar.
Miniature Painter and Artist.
Neuroqueer Storytelling and Transmedia Scholar.
Miniature Painter and Artist.
Started a writing project.
Going to try and update with word counts each writing day.
Since October: 9k.
Going to try and update with word counts each writing day.
Since October: 9k.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Started a writing project.
Going to try and update with word counts each writing day.
Since October: 9k.
Going to try and update with word counts each writing day.
Since October: 9k.
Officially extended a part-time contract position to teach next semester at local college. It's not much, but its the first offer for any job I've gotten in 9 months of looking.
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Officially extended a part-time contract position to teach next semester at local college. It's not much, but its the first offer for any job I've gotten in 9 months of looking.
While I still don't have a job, I've been able to do doing fencing twice a week thanks to a local #SCA group because they offer free gear and carpool.
I am so thankful for them because its help me feel like I've finally gotten out of the end-of-PhD haze I've been in for the last 9 months.
I am so thankful for them because its help me feel like I've finally gotten out of the end-of-PhD haze I've been in for the last 9 months.
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
While I still don't have a job, I've been able to do doing fencing twice a week thanks to a local #SCA group because they offer free gear and carpool.
I am so thankful for them because its help me feel like I've finally gotten out of the end-of-PhD haze I've been in for the last 9 months.
I am so thankful for them because its help me feel like I've finally gotten out of the end-of-PhD haze I've been in for the last 9 months.
Job Hunting Experience Today:
1) AI or die.
2) BS degree or 12 years experience for "entry level job"
3) Send a full video, figma mock-up, and or youtube video on how you would fix our company!
This is hell.
1) AI or die.
2) BS degree or 12 years experience for "entry level job"
3) Send a full video, figma mock-up, and or youtube video on how you would fix our company!
This is hell.
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Job Hunting Experience Today:
1) AI or die.
2) BS degree or 12 years experience for "entry level job"
3) Send a full video, figma mock-up, and or youtube video on how you would fix our company!
This is hell.
1) AI or die.
2) BS degree or 12 years experience for "entry level job"
3) Send a full video, figma mock-up, and or youtube video on how you would fix our company!
This is hell.
Job market summary: Join in the AI bubble or bust.
I love being told to join an industry that will die tomorrow so I don't go homeless today.
I love being told to join an industry that will die tomorrow so I don't go homeless today.
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Job market summary: Join in the AI bubble or bust.
I love being told to join an industry that will die tomorrow so I don't go homeless today.
I love being told to join an industry that will die tomorrow so I don't go homeless today.
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I think people misunderstood my latest video…
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I think people misunderstood my latest video…
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@pintlive.bsky.social's Tankification
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
@pintlive.bsky.social's Tankification
The most fantastical element of Star Wars is the interchangeability of technology. And I blame it for my love, desire to, and continuous frustration with building interactive experiences from at-hand material.
September 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The most fantastical element of Star Wars is the interchangeability of technology. And I blame it for my love, desire to, and continuous frustration with building interactive experiences from at-hand material.
Another degree, another collapsing job market.
PhDs have the highest employment rate of all degree types? Whelp I'm, yet again, a statistical anomaly.
Better practice the customer service voice, there's big competition for the only jobs in my area: "eating shit for slave wages."
PhDs have the highest employment rate of all degree types? Whelp I'm, yet again, a statistical anomaly.
Better practice the customer service voice, there's big competition for the only jobs in my area: "eating shit for slave wages."
September 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Another degree, another collapsing job market.
PhDs have the highest employment rate of all degree types? Whelp I'm, yet again, a statistical anomaly.
Better practice the customer service voice, there's big competition for the only jobs in my area: "eating shit for slave wages."
PhDs have the highest employment rate of all degree types? Whelp I'm, yet again, a statistical anomaly.
Better practice the customer service voice, there's big competition for the only jobs in my area: "eating shit for slave wages."
Wife (non-religious): As the Bibble says: "if you build it they will come"
Me: That's Field of Dreams.
Wife: No that's Noah.
Our brains explode at pop-culture cross-pollinating with religion.
Me: That's Field of Dreams.
Wife: No that's Noah.
Our brains explode at pop-culture cross-pollinating with religion.
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Wife (non-religious): As the Bibble says: "if you build it they will come"
Me: That's Field of Dreams.
Wife: No that's Noah.
Our brains explode at pop-culture cross-pollinating with religion.
Me: That's Field of Dreams.
Wife: No that's Noah.
Our brains explode at pop-culture cross-pollinating with religion.
Wonder if my imposter syndrome is the result of a father who made sure I was aware and repeated back to him that I was never going achieve my goals because I was never going to be good enough.
September 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Wonder if my imposter syndrome is the result of a father who made sure I was aware and repeated back to him that I was never going achieve my goals because I was never going to be good enough.
Current creative project breakdown:
120 page side-story.
80 pages bodybuilding document.
6 gigs of recordings and notes to compile.
120 page side-story.
80 pages bodybuilding document.
6 gigs of recordings and notes to compile.
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Current creative project breakdown:
120 page side-story.
80 pages bodybuilding document.
6 gigs of recordings and notes to compile.
120 page side-story.
80 pages bodybuilding document.
6 gigs of recordings and notes to compile.
Don't often share I play #Arknights, both because its a gatcha game and because the story is pretty dark at time.
But it's always a joy to read in that way Poe or NIN embody an emotional style. Arknights embodies the cracked, bloody nails of holding onto hope in the face of unending dispair.
But it's always a joy to read in that way Poe or NIN embody an emotional style. Arknights embodies the cracked, bloody nails of holding onto hope in the face of unending dispair.
September 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Don't often share I play #Arknights, both because its a gatcha game and because the story is pretty dark at time.
But it's always a joy to read in that way Poe or NIN embody an emotional style. Arknights embodies the cracked, bloody nails of holding onto hope in the face of unending dispair.
But it's always a joy to read in that way Poe or NIN embody an emotional style. Arknights embodies the cracked, bloody nails of holding onto hope in the face of unending dispair.
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geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI
Another day, another AI induced psychosis/schizophrenia episode in the news.
If only there was a away to realize that a lying machine that causes low grade brain damage might by say whatever you want it and removing critical thinking skills to would cause a mental health decline...
If only there was a away to realize that a lying machine that causes low grade brain damage might by say whatever you want it and removing critical thinking skills to would cause a mental health decline...
September 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Another day, another AI induced psychosis/schizophrenia episode in the news.
If only there was a away to realize that a lying machine that causes low grade brain damage might by say whatever you want it and removing critical thinking skills to would cause a mental health decline...
If only there was a away to realize that a lying machine that causes low grade brain damage might by say whatever you want it and removing critical thinking skills to would cause a mental health decline...
Love talking to someone at an interview and seeing the lights do out when I explain my skill set. Really make me feel wanted to get a "you do sales? we need someone to throw in the grinder" as they flat out tell you no they don't do jobs related to anything in your skill set.
September 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Love talking to someone at an interview and seeing the lights do out when I explain my skill set. Really make me feel wanted to get a "you do sales? we need someone to throw in the grinder" as they flat out tell you no they don't do jobs related to anything in your skill set.
Today's To Do List:
Application #1
Hour bus ride.
Interview at hiring company.
Hour bus ride.
Groceries.
Application #2
Wait for hiring process for job.
Application #4
Try to have fun.
Write for book project #1
Write for book project #2
Application #1
Hour bus ride.
Interview at hiring company.
Hour bus ride.
Groceries.
Application #2
Wait for hiring process for job.
Application #4
Try to have fun.
Write for book project #1
Write for book project #2
September 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today's To Do List:
Application #1
Hour bus ride.
Interview at hiring company.
Hour bus ride.
Groceries.
Application #2
Wait for hiring process for job.
Application #4
Try to have fun.
Write for book project #1
Write for book project #2
Application #1
Hour bus ride.
Interview at hiring company.
Hour bus ride.
Groceries.
Application #2
Wait for hiring process for job.
Application #4
Try to have fun.
Write for book project #1
Write for book project #2
Can tell its gonna be a bad brain day.
Job hunting making me feel like I wasted my life trying to find myself, safety, education, and happiness.
Job hunting making those voices of abusive ring "correct" that I should have just given up, stopped trying, and settled for misery before knowing joy.
Job hunting making me feel like I wasted my life trying to find myself, safety, education, and happiness.
Job hunting making those voices of abusive ring "correct" that I should have just given up, stopped trying, and settled for misery before knowing joy.
September 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Can tell its gonna be a bad brain day.
Job hunting making me feel like I wasted my life trying to find myself, safety, education, and happiness.
Job hunting making those voices of abusive ring "correct" that I should have just given up, stopped trying, and settled for misery before knowing joy.
Job hunting making me feel like I wasted my life trying to find myself, safety, education, and happiness.
Job hunting making those voices of abusive ring "correct" that I should have just given up, stopped trying, and settled for misery before knowing joy.
If there was one aspect of my conditions I wish I could get rid of its the time blindness.
End of the week is so long, but at the same time end of the year is tomorrow.
End of the week is so long, but at the same time end of the year is tomorrow.
September 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If there was one aspect of my conditions I wish I could get rid of its the time blindness.
End of the week is so long, but at the same time end of the year is tomorrow.
End of the week is so long, but at the same time end of the year is tomorrow.
Today is art. And maybe visiting the Work Assistance office...
Also job hunting. Because life is cyclical.
Also job hunting. Because life is cyclical.
September 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today is art. And maybe visiting the Work Assistance office...
Also job hunting. Because life is cyclical.
Also job hunting. Because life is cyclical.
Creative Writing Update:
Setting Document - updating (50 pages)
Chapter 1 - written (32 pages)
Chapter 2-5 - drafted (106 pages)
Time to beat out an ending.
Setting Document - updating (50 pages)
Chapter 1 - written (32 pages)
Chapter 2-5 - drafted (106 pages)
Time to beat out an ending.
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Creative Writing Update:
Setting Document - updating (50 pages)
Chapter 1 - written (32 pages)
Chapter 2-5 - drafted (106 pages)
Time to beat out an ending.
Setting Document - updating (50 pages)
Chapter 1 - written (32 pages)
Chapter 2-5 - drafted (106 pages)
Time to beat out an ending.
You know its bad when applications have a line basically going: "Even if your not, apply with all the confidence of a mediocre white guy."
How about you write a job application that is reasonable so I don't have to?
How about you write a job application that is reasonable so I don't have to?
September 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You know its bad when applications have a line basically going: "Even if your not, apply with all the confidence of a mediocre white guy."
How about you write a job application that is reasonable so I don't have to?
How about you write a job application that is reasonable so I don't have to?
More job hunting frustrations: I have experience in multiple fields (TTRPG, Radio, Games, Engineering) but because I never did a singular focus I don't feel competitive. Doesn't help that each of these fields "died" when I tried to focus on them or I was homeless killing my ability to work in them.
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
More job hunting frustrations: I have experience in multiple fields (TTRPG, Radio, Games, Engineering) but because I never did a singular focus I don't feel competitive. Doesn't help that each of these fields "died" when I tried to focus on them or I was homeless killing my ability to work in them.
Ah yes. Thank you state run job program. I love seeing 75% of the market being AI slop, 15% being "for internal applicants only," and the final 10% being outside my field of specialization.
September 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ah yes. Thank you state run job program. I love seeing 75% of the market being AI slop, 15% being "for internal applicants only," and the final 10% being outside my field of specialization.
Anyone else have multiple degrees but always feel like the dumbest person in the room?
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Anyone else have multiple degrees but always feel like the dumbest person in the room?