Ok I feel like I’ve been seeing way more vehicle fires the last few months not sure what that’s about

Got my roller coaster pants on (IYKYK), gonna try a weekend in October because I’m insane

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Admitting liking amusement parks in certain online spaces (Reddit, Bluesky) sometimes feels like admitting that you have a drug problem. Anyway we took the kid to Six Flags today and the crowd was very manageable.

Genuinely one of my main career tricks is the old under-promise and over-deliver, and I REALLY hate it when other people’s fuckery gets in the way of that for me.

This morning indesign is really on my shitlist

Hey guess what we avoided it in August but now it’s going around the school classroom how are we not past this in second grade Health anxiety activated

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oh boy my kid’s friend who was over here on Sunday just came down with Hand, Foot and Mouth disease so I’m frantically googling what the chances of asymptomatic transmission are

I don’t think about this incident a whole lot, but I do wonder if it’s part of why we’ve been very straightforward about death with my kid since very young. The other reason of course being the “cemeteries are part of my job” thing.

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 6d ago

I once babysat some kids (3 of them ages like 4-8) and their CAT DIED (old age) the night I was there. The dad came home and put the cat in a bag outside and then returned to event. The 4 year old kept asking me when kitty would come back. I was like 13.

Someone needs to tell these losers about hobbies

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · last wk.

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

The theme of today appears to be “other people’s preposterous expectations.”

Decorated for Halloween and now my kid is spinning around the living room singing “I’m a demon, yeah yeah yeah.”#parentoftheyear

My favorite college radio station changed their website and I hate it

Anyway this is what I was vagueposting about yesterday. If you’re not in the industry it’s hard to understand the scale, but that’s maybe HALF of the jobs in the industry just POOF not to mention the projects they’re just… abandoning?

Unionizing American Archaeology@unionizearch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yesterday one of the largest CRM employers in the country, Chronicle Heritage, announced that they are dissolving the company and immediately fired and recalled all of their deployed field crews with no notice or severance. Private equity is a disease 🏺🪏

Also a good reminder that the economy becomes insane if one cannot believe that contracts will be honored

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 2w ago

There’s a lot of wild stuff happening but let me tell you, WILD developments in the cultural resources management space today. Wild.

There’s a lot of wild stuff happening but let me tell you, WILD developments in the cultural resources management space today. Wild.

Just saw someone on Reddit say a 40 year old was “elderly,” gonna go die in a cave now

Tree color sighting

My kid is quite the comedian because he’s very much aware that he gets away with more if it’s legitimately funny

Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop@oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 2w ago

I would have so much trouble being a parent because i'd be like "well what do you want me to do, that's hilarious".

Definitely flying too close to the sun in terms of my to-do list today

Reddit city subs be like: Nasty Cold Going Around! As if there is only one cold ever going around

Not a 2 hour “training” this morning

Cooking instructions: add “splash” of water Ok like what the fuck man

Actually, I’m not really a fan of interviews at all, unless the point is to show that you actually understand the things you’re claiming to understand on your CV/resume, which is rarely the point.

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 3w ago

Iced coffee interview discourse is fascinating. Because what is a job interview for? Probably depends on employer/industry. Are they checking to see if you’re a good fit with the workplace culture, or are they checking to see if you know when to be your most polished, conservative self.

*walks into job site* “Hi, I’m the archaeologist.” “Yeah we can tell.” (I mean surely I might also be mistaken for an environmental engineer or the wetlands person)

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don’t know I’m just an archaeologist and everyone expects us to be weird

Iced coffee interview discourse is fascinating. Because what is a job interview for? Probably depends on employer/industry. Are they checking to see if you’re a good fit with the workplace culture, or are they checking to see if you know when to be your most polished, conservative self.

I’m honestly impressed by those of you who manage to keep the top-heavy kind of earbuds in your ears

This gatekeeping question is inevitable: "Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as scientific research?"

My best friend since I was 3 died two years ago, today would have been her 42nd birthday, I just needed to put that somewhere.

Step one: do not hump the furniture. Step two: do become one with the furniture

CT-9902@mindorese.bsky.social · 3w ago

About to go to IKEA, would appreciate your thots and prayers

About to go to IKEA, would appreciate your thots and prayers

"OK so hear me out, the AI industry is controlled by a conspiracy of people who all talk to each other and worship a time-travelling evil AI god called Roko's basilisk. They are trying to be the first to destroy the world so they get to control how it happens."

This is part of the point, I think. This, Project 2025, Epstein, whatever. There’s actual tinfoil hat shit happening, so they invented stupid tinfoil hat conspiracies as cover, so you can’t talk about any of it without sounding crazy.

Andrew: weird and loud@ak0.bsky.social · 4w ago

The sweaty luridness this shit feels like it's protecting the ai apocalypse freaks. I can't say "seriously AI's not gonna kill all people. The humans that believe this shit are all way to into a harry potter fanfic" or explain roko's basilisk without my family being concerned I'm not taking my meds