Paulie Ann-Marie Cromatic

Five minutes after my mom confidently asserting that the job market is skills-driven and not about what degree you have, she asked me how the job market is. And when I said "bad" she asked why. I didn't have the energy to get into how private equity impacts things, but touched on genAI & layoffs

The idea of getting an MLIS and working in a public library is deeply attractive to me. Financially, though... I am seeing so many roadblocks.

Is it a joke? Is there a punchline on the back?

Photo of a hand extended to show nail polish. A black cat is immediately behind the hand, making intense eye contact with it. The pinkie and ring finger nails are painted a shimmery bright green, the middle finger is a deep navy, and the index is a royal purple.

Photo of a hand petting a black cat's head. The petter's thumb is visible and the nail is painted in a shimmery plummy grape shade.

Nail polish feat. Fern

And again today

A landscape view of the Wisconsin Capitol building in dense fog

Foggy in Madison tonight

Recent fuckery: AB446 and SB445 seeking to "define antisemitism"
Speaking out against Israel for committing a genocide is not antisemitism, but if the authoritarian state gets to legally define it, you bet it will be
legiscan.com/WI/bill/AB44...

Hey WI legislature: knock it the fuck off with the attacks on free speech!!

What for? That's so much at once!

Had a PT eval this morning and had a laughably short Roos test to confirm my thoracic outlet syndrome. Time for new exercises

Dreamed that I was having a phone conversation with someone but also transmitting things as I saw them to him. I was wearing heels of an unspecified height, which I didn't think about until I was looking down at the top of a door and laughing. But there was nothing above the door like a frame? Open.

I can do both

A white person poses in blue briefs with a black waistband under a gray tank top that says "BI AND AWKWARD" with a cartoon unicorn head in the center.

Finally tried out a new-to-me pair of packing underwear today and I'm feeling generous so y'all get to see

Listening to Sk8er Boi and thinking about the shared theme of loss from choosing to align yourself with the existing power structure and status quo, though with a wildly different tone and narrative...

Watching this with my partner. Neither of us have read this book nor seen any of the adaptations. We are *here* for Princess's analysis, as always

Logic is my comfort zone and working in tech support reminds me how that's not true for many people

This game is not yet funded but there are 5 hours left in which we can change that!

Oops!
I'm in "need to eat but nothing looks good and I don't want to spend money or make decisions"
We'll get through this 🫂

This sounds like such a fun concept, and it's *so* close to funding. Who among us has NOT lamented being on the phones during a full moon?

Three days left in the campaign?????

Go to horny wizards dot com pls and help us hit that last stretch goal!!!

That's a ways off from how the rest of the dream went, unfortunately ... Though it didn't go so badly that I'd call it a nightmare, I still need a shower to wash the fear off before work.

I dreamed that I went to Minneapolis and for whatever reason, needed to change clothes in a grocery store that then got raided by ICE. My dad and cousin were there and being crappy in different ways. Ugh

Trying out a new brand of toothpaste tablets (my previous brand decided to reformulate and I'm annoyed about it because it's weirdly difficult to find with fluoride and non-mint flavors) so I got the many flavor sampler to try everything. I did the riskiest flavor first: neem. Incredibly soapy 😫

Updated my display name to another spelling that I like the gender fuckery of better

These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

Watched Predator Badlands with two of my partners tonight in celebration of one of their birthdays. Absolutely a romp.

Final update: IT IS HERE AND IT WORKS!

The thing is, we elected a Democrat in 2020 in no small part due to the Trump Administration's horrific mishandling of the pandemic, and then the new administration just accepted the rightwing framing of the issue in a way that made it acceptable for liberals.

there aren't any jobs with some fucking dignity left. if you're not an engineer or a C-suite douchebag, your options are call center, AI trainer, night janitor, or children's amusement park ride operator

I love Hernando. And Neets.