Mandi Walls

cungadero Follow Aug 29 i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf trice-the-nobling Follow Oct 26 prev's tags are too good not to save #right??? #it's not even a beast or a creature #a bacterium is at least a guy. a horrible little scallawag of a guy but a guy nonetheless #a virus is just. a mean tiny complicated philips head screwdriver #fuck off out of here. go back to concept town ..• •••

Happy flu season

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Another small kit. Northern Lights. Some of the pieces are glittery.

LEGO lighthouse. It is motorized and has two lights.

Omg. What a fussy build. The buildings are fine, but damn all the bits in the base. About 10 hours over three days.

LEGO gingerbread Star Wars AT-AT build kit

Fast build and cute af 😍

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Scissor Sisters
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Barry Manilow

Working on the build for mom’s LEGO lighthouse. We’re only 3 bags in of 13 😅 lazy Susan essential on this one.

10 foot inflatable Star Wars AT-AT in a suburban yard. The AT-AT a red ball nose and reindeer antlers and holiday lights across the back. It is in a yard behind a fence. The fence has strands of white holiday lights.

It’s that time of year.

Guess it’s gonna be a sailor’s warning kind of day.

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

lol. There are actually some mints in a jar on the nightstand 😂

Mom’s coming for Thanksgiving. I usually have the guest room bed made up kinda fancy but she doesn’t always like the duvet. So we have a menu of freshly laundered bedding to choose from. 😂 she brings her own pillow cause she likes down and I’m allergic.

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

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Some kind of Terminal 9 and 3/4 nonsense. Drive the AirTrain through a brick wall.

Damn autocorrect. Pagey Was Here! Pagey was here all week in plushie and block form. 😂

Pager was Here. #kubecon

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

I might have worries in the present moment.

A fortune cookie slip on a wooden table. The text reads: this Saturday, let go of worries and embrace the present moment.

I dunno man. I am IC on call from 2 on Saturday. 😬

I keep thinking about the Bonne Maman. There is a cheese one haunting my instagram feed but I am away during the delivery dates. There’s always the Star Wars LEGO one.

Read this as “big ‘time-travel’ delays” 😂

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We should all have such admirers.

Teas. Harney and Sons hibiscus ginger loose leaf in a paper pouch. H&S ginger liquorice loose leaf in a metal box. Pukka peppermint & licorice bags. H&S decaf hot cinnamon bags.

Herbal tea season has begun. I like a ginger mix or some licorice or both. the decaf hot cinnamon from Harney and Sons is delish. The Pukka I have to get by the case in the US. 😬

Two potted houseplants. Thanksgiving cactus with bright pink buds and flowers.

My thanksgiving cacti heard that Black Friday sales are starting already and wanted to get in on the early thanksgiving action.

We had ~30% in person turnout in my districts yesterday. One of my poll workers is 89, been doing polls for decades and couldn’t remember a non-presidential election with that turnout. And we didn’t count early voters or mail in ballots. Ima stay off Nextdoor while the racists in Linden freak out.

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