Melanie Sumner Temple

Can you actually sue for emotional distress? Decorated military veteran with a PTSD diagnosis living in downtown Chicago and these fucking blackhawks are not helping. I already leave town during air shows.

My skin has been so weird lately so this was a super huge relief to find NGL

Like, seems sus that my face is just sorta okay?

Makes sense that it doesn’t save well but damn I’ll enjoy it while it lasts & not stock up.

Makes me feel 27, not 47.

It makes me look kinda good so I have no intention to save

I meant he’s at asshat not you, hope that was obvs 🩷🩷🩷

I follow him to keep track of what he’s up to. I’ve known for years he’s a toxic fucker. I’ve yelled at friends when they went to work at Vercel. Asshat.

I tried Tirtir and holy fuck what is this magic.

My building is planning to install Latch today. I asked to opt out, was told no. Anyone have any ideas here? Beyond the “no thank you to yet another app on my personal device”, any way to quarantine the app?

Ok this. I don’t even like them anymore but I cannot in good conscience replace them. Like 15+ years now. 🤷‍♀️

And if you say “no I don’t want ads on this thing I paid for” they say “ok we’re still going to show you ads they are just going to be less useful to you”

I mean, what’s even the point of having this “convenience” anymore. Going back to a paper wall calendar.

Same goes with the tricksy hobbitses who keep turning on AI features every update and I have to turn it off again or re-opt out.

Also FU Amazon for constantly changing where these settings are in any UI.

I think it should be okay for apps to ask me about my user preferences like, once a year.

I think it should be illegal for them to reset my ad or auto-play preferences every update. I am a paying customer who has explicitly gone into settings and changed them. Respect it.

It’s wild that someone else can just decide that you have to be on trial. Is that really a thing? 🥸

I feel like our first cue that society was collapsing is the sneaky shit built into Candy Crush.

I mean, this Naperville joke writes itself 🤷‍♀️

I barely play with the game music on at all (past a first play through), and I definitely don’t let the voice sound come on, like, ever.

I definitely would never for any game I play for multiple years.

“I started playing this game because of the voice over artists” is just such a wild claim to make IMO.

TBQH I was yelling to not change things to be like other people because I saw other people coming around to what we had. I think it’s all swings and roundabouts and it’s all tradeoffs no matter what but sometimes folks can’t see that. 🤷‍♀️

We still have ours from like 10 years ago. (So yes!)

All of her books changed my life & re-reading them on occasion when I feel stuck really helps

One thing Kimmel and I have in common. We’re both back Tuesday night. Live premiere 9pm eastern on YouTube

bsky.app/profile/henr... tho

- How to talk so kids will listen (and listen so kids will talk)
- Start where you are: a guide to compassionate living
- Making work visible

Customs was empty when I got back to Chicago today. It was eerie.

I wonder which tech lord didn’t kiss up _enough_, because they’ve all done it enough to make everyone 🤬🤮

Enough walking. Time for a G&T.

BTW this is one of the coolest uses of Ember I’ve ever seen…used in displays for Museums. Read the whole thread it’s super interesting just in general.

Packing to head home from Brussels.
Brief notes:
- feels more chaotic here than other EU cities I’ve visited.
- I purposefully tried to pack less. There were two things I didn’t bring that I wish I had, two things that I brought that I wish I didn’t.
- my talk seemed to go over pretty well.

I have metrics and success stories but IDK if I can share them yet.

If we’re still on that same Discord server feel free to DM me tho.

Thing is, I don’t feel guilty for not wearing button up shirts that are so buttoned up my cloth napkin can take advantage of the feature.

I’m wondering who wears a button up on flights these days that are buttoned up to that extent that it’s useful. 🤔