El :)
@blimby.bsky.social
lesbian husband to @katieaki.bsky.social | they/them | 29 | rva -> roc | what hurts you hurts me! 🏳️⚧️❤️🔥
I think I am the only person in my new lab who does not use an LLM as part of their daily workflow, which is uh, just great. upshot is that I feel like the ubiquity of using ai to reduce friction and effort in my field has me feeling unusually motivated to do hard things (math, writing) by hand
our new rental. not even 1% landlord special!! they said it couldn’t be done.
rat meat before beer? feel a bit queer. beer before rat meat? puke in the back seat.
best data practices were not being followed at the tail end of my phd
new landlord is letting us put our UBoxes in the driveway for a few days, saving us $50/day (!!!!) in permit fees from the city of Rochester to have them on the street
wish I would have tweeted abt it at the time, but while I was at my conference over the summer (in cleveland) I was “”Cleveland Sober”” which is when things are so dire you have not only no booze but also no ice, no diet coke, and no brita filter, so you just drink lukewarm tap water
they should do a behind the bastards on James Fitzjames. or any polar explorer who is a bastard. which I gotta assume is most of em
my life made so much more sense when I realized my mom had me in the role of "husband-eldest daughter" long before I was trans.
Katie Aki ✶@katieaki.bsky.social · last mo.lol today El said goodbye to their old-ass beloved grandpa & when I went to rub their back consolingly, their mom pushed my hand away to put her arm around them instead
this property company might want to re-consider linking their YouTube channel to their rental listings....,,,
my graduation photos with @katieaki.bsky.social came in!! our sweet friend did an incredible job taking these for us 💖
photos of me being walked down the aisle by my mom and stepmom at my feminist lesbian wedding to Dolly Parton’s Love Is Like a Butterfly youtu.be/N057bnM44UM?...
I Will Always Love You Is A Breakup Song Please Stop Putting It On Your Wedding Playlists #art #dollyparton
our ubox facility keeps bringing our boxes out naked, without their little orange cover they are supposed to have which makes them waterproof. and it keeps raining super big!! I am stressin
boohoo cried because I had to rehome the worms with my mom 😭 she was laughing at me but IM NOT!!!
Katie Aki ✶@katieaki.bsky.social · 10mo agoEl is out there in the Real Feel 7 degree weather, digging through the compost for worms to rescue, beaming because they found some…. they literally have the kindest heart of any person on earth…….
why are so many of these from peaky blinders
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 2mo agoHahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
“kind of chic to–“ I do not aspire to be Parisian or to fuck a Kennedy. I want to be a recurring side character in Pee-wee’s Playhouse
the Angel Wormwood Listening Church Convent omamori collection is ✨live✨! katieaki.com/store?catego...
I guess that’s a wrap! I’m all out of runway! Gonna seal it on my very last day next week.
finally some actionable mental health advice that might actually help
The Onion@theonion.com · 3mo agoMental Health Experts Advise Struggling Americans To Try Crying About It Like Little Baby https://theonion.com/mental-health-experts-advise-struggling-americans-to-try-crying-about-it-like-little-baby/
made this plot from my job spreadsheet (as a treat). I put in 46 total job applications to yield one job offer, which I signed today!
entering a beautiful and blessed phase of my life where I have signed the job offer and but not yet started the job…. cheers!
this is me and Katie (I’m obviously the husband)
Butt Praxis@buttpraxis.bsky.social · 3mo agoStill reeling from going to the zoo this weekend and seeing an orangutan, which is basically a person, just sitting there in a hammock. I was tearing up imagining being a sentient creature in a captivity, then looked at my husband, who sighed a troubled sigh and murmured, “I wish I were in a zoo”
how I feel about my success getting a new gig in the current scientific funding environment
