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Melissa McEwen

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Software engineer ish, food, textiles, ex ex ex food writer, curlsbot.com

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Playing old school RPGs hits different these days. Used to think the cackling menacing villains were too exaggerated but now that’s like my country’s government…

19.02.2026 18:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just remembering the era when the tech world thought Sheryl Sangberg/Lean In was good… and if you were like idk I’m a wit and this book seems bad you were considered a freak

17.02.2026 00:41 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The woman is always like a mega genius engineer AND doctor AND martial artist

18.11.2025 19:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I time traveled I could… not invent those things

18.11.2025 19:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My fav shows are now Chinese microdramas where the plot is like a modern woman ends up in the Tang Dynasty or something and invents like guns and washing machines

18.11.2025 18:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I do a lot of boring social media graphics which is something you'd think AI might actually be useful for, but Canva's AI is hilariously bad

22.10.2025 17:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For those that don't know, a Ramos Gin Fizz is a really good cocktail that involves A LOT of VIGOROUS shaking.

27.09.2025 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Empathy is carefully trying to determine if the bartender would be pressed before you order that Ramos Gin Fizz.

27.09.2025 14:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The cta survey

26.09.2025 17:18 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’m reading Frankenstein and Dr. Frankenstein is so relatable! Hyperfocusing for months of something that turns out to be a grotesque disaster and then having a nervous breakdown? We’ve all been there, at least I have.

29.08.2025 23:42 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hot air balloon at the end of a two lane road

Hot air balloon at the end of a two lane road

PFF!

21.08.2025 21:05 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I've been told by a reliable authority that I like "candy for sickos."

22.08.2025 01:55 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Many resources are really cryptic to access which would especially suck if English isn’t your first language. Probably 90% weren’t accessible without a car.

21.08.2025 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The stray kitten saga was a sober realization that a lot of the resources for low cost neuter/spay are still too hard to access. Like I’m not sure how someone without a lot of time is supposed to do this.

21.08.2025 19:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We found his owners! He was so cute, sorry to see him go but my cats are happy

21.08.2025 17:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Luckily we found his owners!

21.08.2025 17:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He’s very cute but 3 cats in a 2 bedroom apartment is a lot

21.08.2025 06:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I found a stray kitten I’d like to find a home for and every time I post a pic people are like “it’s your cat now” smh

21.08.2025 06:42 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Someone I know was like “AI is great for bill splitting” and he sent ChatGPT our bill and told it to split it. ChatGPT returned an AI generated image of people splitting a bill…

17.08.2025 13:59 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think the ghosts are more accurate at least they don’t make up sources

17.08.2025 13:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This must be what it was like to live in the heyday of seances except instead of “oh the ghost in my house told me” it’s “ChatGPT told me”

17.08.2025 13:51 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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I’m not sure what data I accidentally shared that caused this glorious instacart ad that features jackfruit, ???? pepsi, a tripe dog toy (I don’t have a dog), and ube queso ice cream (ok this sounds good and my Filipino friend said it’s legit)

17.08.2025 02:44 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Llm coding agents are like if you had a real junior developer except all the parts where its unable to meaningfully learn and there are no consequences for it making stuff up or deleting tests to make them pass

07.08.2025 19:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll never eat tuna, chicken, or egg salad. They just seem like dishes designed to hide something suspicious.

06.08.2025 20:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Like you mean my cashier didn’t genuinely think my purchase of “teeny tiny candy bars” doesn’t mean I have exceptional taste?????

06.08.2025 20:26 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ever since my bf told me that Trader Joe’s employees are REQUIRED to compliment at least one of your purchases, I’ve lost all faith in humanity

06.08.2025 20:25 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Let me just never log in to LinkedIn again

06.08.2025 17:17 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The most important part of every project is spending at least 8 hours looking at fonts not because you need to but because you think they are neat

05.08.2025 20:44 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How can something so small be that heavy

05.08.2025 00:55 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s funny how the whole “every resume bullet point needs a number” thing has become so common even though we all know it forces made up numbers like “lmproved coding by 55%”

01.08.2025 00:41 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0