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fighting to make better worlds. interested in complexity, justice, knitting, books, and so much more. i have a lot of feelings, and curiosity. vulgar as fuck.

job: Principal Technical PrdMgr
site: winstonhearn.com
catching up on anthropic's breakdown of the way their agent was used for hacking and this annoys me so fucking much www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
i do hope our paths cross! i seek community in this town, and i love books. here is where i sit as i type this skeet lmao
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
it's ok, i get to make cozy things for my loved ones. kinda worth the energy. i am about to do my first custom pattern for alyssa!
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
my writing process looks like this now. long form drafting in one notebook. outlining and meta thinking in another. lots of marking up. all for a thing no one is asking for and i may never even publish lmao.
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
also
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
on the left, the smol in progress stack, on the right the current options available (until the 4 i ordered this week arrive look i make no apologies everything sucks and learning brings me joy)
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
today in being competent at work
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
this year we built ourselves shelves and we built enough extra to cover 1, maybe 2 years of continued acquisition
September 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
i am personally still not over the fact that James C Scott and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing were partners so i'm making memes about it as you do
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
hello from the fashion show at the great minnesota get together
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
had friends over for dinner and they are book people so our shelves got all sorts of love and attention, as is right
August 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
oops i did it* again

*lost track of time in the James Turrell installation
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
too bad i'm taken for good because this would be a great dating profile pic for the meat market
August 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
alas, a migraine took down a team member so we are sitting out the event. but here's some photos of what we made! sorry @blackhartstp.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
my problem these days is i get like maybe 8-10 hours a week when i could read if i'm lucky, and here's my in progress and next up stacks. all interesting!! why can't i read them all?
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
allie brosh has a panel that represents the political awareness dems in congress seem to be actively resisting
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
convinced my oldest to sit and build a tower with me. hers is the taller one. love every day that she's not yet too cool for me.
July 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
finally at the point where i can text dumb shit to my kids and confuse them
July 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
tfw you surf your bookshelf to find some potential references for a "simple" blog post you're drafting
July 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
let me be the thousandth person to recommend the conversation with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the Money With Katie podcast. Here is the quote that I'm going to be sitting with for months (text in alt), what an incredible framing.
July 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
my current stack is all bangers no skips and it's making it difficult to focus and finish anything
July 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
i found my kids' box of wooden blocks and guess what is super fun for me to do in the evening. the kids never touch them anymore!

i used to build massive towers for them to knock down. entertainment for all of us!
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i accidentally booked a 10pm flight home instead of 10am, but i was able to get late checkout so i have turned today into my own personal heaven: reading alone in a hotel room and then at the airport. look at my stack!
July 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
happy holiday fuckers
July 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
have i bragged about our bookshelves enough? i am so fucking proud of the (my partner and i designed, built, and styled them, and uh also we obviously bought all the books)
June 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM