I’m fighting the same battle, because I am in a quasi-leadership role now, and I have to say the examples of positivity and optimism, when my instinctive reactions to most things are rolling my eyes and sighing because “Ugh, not this shit again.” Is going to be an uphill battle. The funny part is, I’m never actually upset. The more problems get thrown my way, the more excited I get to solve them. Unfortunately I have this very odd habit of presenting my excitement in a way that everyone else in the world understands to be frustration and negativity.

We DO have the spear of Longinus available, right? RIGHT?

Lube

My understanding is that they didn’t really work to begin with

At least in the current political environment, they can continue with the original’s themes of bullying, racism, fat-shaming, sexual assault, and generally treating people terribly.

I’m still trying to figure out Microscope Loops; stop confusing me!

And with 900 million dollars, I feel like I could have done some actual good in the world.

The advertisers can flock back all they want; I’m still not going there.

I must say the uselessness of Apple AI for me so far does not make me optimistic that this will improve anything

Yeah, the Roku OS is REALLY baked in there and REALLY wants your data, and they recently updated it to make it even harder to circumvent. The trick is to just block its connection at the router level.

I am part of a new team created to bring order to the chaos that resulted from a disorganized wellbeing company merging with an even worse health plan administration company. I am in a constant battle to help people understand the byzantine complexities of the systems powering our stuff, and encourage and facilitate open communications between teams and departments that until now have each had their heads buried in the sand, with zero interest in understanding how their work contributed to the whole. Also I come up with better ways to do all these things. I think businesses Analyst position responsibilities probably vary widely by team and company though.

Engineering Business Analyst. I need to learn SQL though

I did!

Elastic shoelaces. Game changer.

How did you make it?

I’m going to pretend it’s an emergency vial of ricin, for your enemies

I’m guessing the light is plastic? Would the mill have worked on glass?

I love this so much more after staring at it for 10 seconds than I ever thought I would at the outset

My latest: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32308080

I would be happy to include updates on whatever electronic doohickies I am fiddling with. Usually it’s mechanical keyboards, but not always. I wanted a new weather clock but then I just repurposed a 12 year old ipad instead. I was very proud.