ε manning (he/they)

@esmanning.bsky.social

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Computational Linguist working in Responsible "AI". Currently obsessed with Blood on the Clocktower. aka Emma, Ember, Epsilon

iOS versions of the 'woman elf', 'elf', and 'man elf' emojis. The woman elf has long wavy hair, the man elf has long straight hair, and the ungendered elf has straight not-quite-chin-length hair.
A black and white cat, lying on a bed sorta curled up, with her belly showing, back legs bent forward, front paws curled at her chest. She's looking up at the camera and looking incredibly cute.
Petunia, a black and white cat, lying on a bed with her arms crossed covering her face
Cross-stitch depicting 12 shelves, one for each month in 2024, with one potion bottle or other object for each day. They're color-coded by temperature, so the upper and lower shelves are more purple and blue, fading into green, yellow, orange, and a little red near the center.
Elephant menorah, fully lit for night 8 this time using alternating red, yellow, and blue candles because that's what there was most left of in the box.
Elephant menorah with colorful candles in a rainbow, lit for night 7.
a menorah consisting of a line of stone elephants, lit with a rainbow of candles for the sixth night of hanukkah
A menorah consisting of a line of stone elephants. It's lit for the second night of Hanukkah with a purple shamash and blue and green candles.
pink blob person saying 'oh no', from the comic Webcomic Name
A cross stitch project with eight shelves of potion bottles and occasional other objects like potted plants. Each shelf is a month and there's a bottle or something for each day, color coded by temperature. The first couple months are mostly blue and purple, the shift into more greens and yellows. The last two months are yellow and orange with a few reds.
Poster in a froyo shop window saying: "20 flavors × 40 toppings = 2,794,563,003,870,330 combinations"
A cross stitch of three shelves of potion bottles on black fabric. Each shelf represents a month, with one bottle per day. The bottles are varying shapes and color-coded to match the temperature of the day. January is a mix of a little green, blue, indigo and violet, and one of the bottles is replaced by a small tree to represent Tu BiShvat. February is mostly blue with some green and indigo. March is a mix of green and blue with a few days of yellow, and includes a bottle shaped like a Hamantasch for Purim.
A simple drawn creature with the text "This is a WUG." typed below. The creature looks similar to the wugs familiar to linguists: a simple, blue, vaguely bird-like squiggle shape with an eye and two legs. But this one has a mouth down where the belly would be if it were a bird, making it look more like the whole thing is a weirdly-shaped head with legs.
Grammarly telling me it autocorrected "deprioritized" into "prioritized"
A black and white cat licking from a tube of Churu
A large, colorful cross-stitch project on black fabric. It depicts 12 shelves of varyingly-shaped potion bottles and occasionally other objects, like potted plants. Near the top and bottom, most of the objects are purple, blue, and green; closer to the middle are more yellows and oranges.
LinkedIn screenshot of a WIRED post that says "WIRED REWIND // AI in 2023: Say hello to Barb, Google's answer to ChatGPT." It's linking to an article that has a similar headline but correctly spells the name as Bard.
A plate of potato latkes sitting on a table in front of a fully lit menorah
A menorah consisting of a line of little stone elephants!
Cat sits right next to my legs, staring up asking where tf her food is
Expanding brain meme. Small brain: Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are the same Bigger brain: Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are different Biggest brain: Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are the same
Google Maps zoomed in on the area where Broadway intersects 6th Ave, resulting in two little triangular parks named Herald Square and Greeley Square Park.
Hand holding an "I voted" sticker in front of a brick wall
The potion temperature cross-stitch project described in more detail in the quoted tweet. There's now a tenth shelf added, which features pumpkin, bat, and skull motifs to represent October spookiness. It's mostly yellow and green, but there's one orange bottle near the start of the month, and the very last day is blue.
A black and white cat lying stretched out on a carpet.
A black and white cat sleeping peacefully on an armchair. She's fairly stretched out with her face toward the front of the chair and the camera, front paw tucked under her chin, body and back legs extending back. There's sunlight on part of her body.
A 'scheduled call' confirmation page. It lists me, Emma Manning, as the candidate. Next to my name is a headshot of a smiling blonde woman who is extremely not me.
A colorful cross-stitch on black fabric. There are nine shelves full of potion bottles, and occasional other things like potted plants. The first few shelves are mainly in cooler purple, blue, and green, making way to mostly yellow and then orange. The bottom shelf, for September, starts out mostly orange, then yellow in the middle, and a block of green at the end.
A black and white cat curled up at the foot of a bed.
a black and white cat curled on the edge of a couch resting against a jeans-clad leg
A black and white cat, Petunia, sitting in a cat bed which is itself shaped like a cat head, with a blanket in front of it. Petunia's sticking her head and one paw out of the bed, staring at the camera.