PurpleMarsAlien

@purplemarsalien.bsky.social

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PNW software engineer, but still a Chicagoan. Pronouns, she/her. 40-something in tech. I like knitting, enjoy dogs and have a happy teenager.

A picture of a mural saying Roslyn Cafe: An Oasis, with palm trees and a camel against a backdrop of the Cascade Mountains.
A messy desk with a fiddle toy in the center.
Lego Enterprise and Lego shuttle.
Email from Lego saying they will be in touch to confirm the order soon.
A seagull standing proudly on top of a statue many other seagulls have obviously also stood upon.
A young Border Collie and older Saint Bernard waiting for a walk on a rug.
A large pantry with many different types of items.
A green Ikea plush alien wearing a striped sweater.
A silver cup, 4 napkin rings and some earrings.
A tarnished silver cup in a bowl with foil.
A very silver cup.
A extremely tarnished silver cup.
A very large pile of veggies on a kitchen counter, including carrots, peppers, tomatoes, and various greens.
A seal underwater.
A reddit screenshot showing 589k in 5y, 10m.
A fuzzy green bush that looks vaguely like Oscar the Grouch.
A patch of happy green grass which is definitely more than six inches tall.
A spatchcocked chicken and four foil wrapped beets on a cookie sheet.
Baked ratatouille with melted cheese on top
A tiny little Japanese Maple in 2014.
A Japanese Maple in the sunset.
A big bag of Tyson chicken tenders. From Costco.
Two rainbow colored block fidget toys and two small articulated critters.
Three ripe raspberries on a hand.
A raspberry bush in a large blue pot, with some ripe raspberries.
A Libby screenshot, showing I am the 15th hold.
Two balls of yarn, one half complete bottom up sock with alternating gray and rainbow stripes.
A Libby search on I Think I'm in Love With an Alien
A pink and white striped sleeveless knit top
Three almost ripe strawberries on their plant.
A swollen arm from a bee sting.
Beautiful blue flowers, growing between sidewalk and street.
A clean, exposed aggregate driveway.
Sliced beets and goat cheese on top of a sliced steak.
Ferns from as seen when seated on the bench in the corner.
A garter snake on a gravel patio h.
A red and white bumblebee, tucked into a raspberry flower.
A red and white bumblebee on raspberry leaves.
A bumblebee clinging to a flower.
A red butt bee on a raspberry flower.
A video of a whining dog who gets embarrassed when she burps.
An old frame house on the south side of Chicago with a large front porch, and cedar siding on the second floor.
A partly filled in page from an adult coloring book with two flowers.
A Sesame Street muppet cast photo with Big Bird, the Count, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Oscar, Elmo, Grover, Bert, Rosita, and Abby.
A list of all the beef and pork in my house, when it was delivered, and whether it is in the deep freezer.
A small and big ball of purple yarn.
A very small ball of pink yarn.
A knit pink baby blanket with mock cables, pinned out for steam blocking.
A pink baby blanket laying on a blue background.
A pile of three Girl Scout cookies.
A picture of an oven claiming it's heated to 450 degrees and a remote probe showing 390.
A devtools console showing that a null new Date produces unix epoch (Dec 31, 1969).
Swimsuits with annoying boob cups.
Chicken stock in a bowl
A pink baby blanket.
A screenshot of Google with the question "will water be frozen at 25 degrees fahrenheit," with the highlighted answer "No, water will not be frozen at 25 degrees Fahrenheit" and at the bottom "Key point: at 25 degrees Fahrenheit, water will still be liquid as it is above the freezing point."
A screenshot of Google's AI with the question "will water freeze at 25 degrees Fahrenheit," with the highlighted response "No, water will not freeze at 25 degrees Fahrenheit: water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). So if the the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, water will begin to turn into ice."
A Gryffindor scarf and blue winter coat.
A Dyson.
A doggo laying goofy.