✨🦝 their noodleship, astrid 🦝 ✨

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astrid rowland, based in the frozen tundra they call st. paul, minnesota. chaotic good arcane trickster with entertainment background, fandom goblin, shitposter extraordinaire. bard school dropout in a piano shop, occasionally very computer. non-binary demigal or whatever idgaf. they/she, she/they.

someone once told me i was their favorite fil-am piano techie hacker in the twin cities and i went "huh".

in between cyberwitch jobs, looking for work. am very funny and occasionally very professional. last gig was converged, what up!

i’m just a chaotic raccoon with a clown nose and a wizard hat that i stole from a flaming dumpster. i don't know what i'm doing more than half the time. all views are my own, i only represent my elderly cats <honks nose>. 🌈✨

birbhttps://twitter.com/colborkmundus
sad githubhttps://github.com/colonelborkmundus
hut in the wildshttps://colonelborkmundus.neocities.org
pronounsthey/she, used interchangeably
graphic designers learn basic readability principles challenge 2k23

job interviewer: what's your greatest weakness?

me: that I have no money and need to be here next question

Today’s gorgeous weather has me absolutely convinced that I’m solar powered, like the tropical flower I am 🌺✨
@malwaretech nimay is a grab bag of the best kind of insanity.
Hear me out: A giant pill bottle filled with medicinal nachos

Me: Electronic calendars, whether on my desktop or on my phone, can’t replace my good old-fashioned paper calendar with my specific notes and annotations keying my memory to essential issues

Also me: who the fuck is Joel and what am I doing to or with him at 11

There’s nothing like the sound of a child’s laughter to remind you that your house is fucking haunted.

New: Data brokers are selling extremely sensitive info on Americans' mental health. One company advertised the names and home addresses of people with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or bipolar disorder

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/

Now for sale: Data on your mental health

For years, data brokers have collected and resold Americans’ personal information. But the pandemic-fueled rise telehealth and therapy apps has spurred an even more contentious product line: Americans’ mental health data.

The Washington Post
Morale is low. Currently struggling to find the energy to study or play with the projects I've been getting into this winter. Good vibes please my crops are dying

Today is the day Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch published their findings and first used the term fission to refer to nuclear reactions.

She never received her Nobel Prize she rightly deserved for realizing what was happening in a laboratory hundreds of miles away described through letters, as Meitner had fled the Nazi regime in Germany.

Otto Frisch then went to the UK to alert the Allies to what the Germans likely discovered.