Betsy Langowski

@superbetsy.bsky.social

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Director of Software Engineering. Apple alum. Star Wars, Math, Video Games, Books, Knitting, Spinning Wheels, Rowing, Dog Pictures, Minnesotan. My hair was weird before weird hair was cool. I’m cross-posting from Mastodon, find me there!

Toby perches on my knee and makes me hold up his rear end so he can look out the window.
A small waterfall, the namesake for Minnehaha park
I’m taking a photo of ice cream piled at least three giant scoops over the top of a cup, a big grin on my face and a plastic spoon in my mouth
A picture of Andrew Tate being arrested with a close up of his shoes. The caption is “yeah I’m in jail.” Then an acrostic “jaunting around in little loafers”
Dashboard Confessional on stage at the MN Yacht Club Music Festival
A music festival app runs in Bitrig with placeholder data. A window is opened and the app is submitted directly to App Review
Two bingo cards labeled “Plingo” sit near a glass of kombucha and a small air plant in a homemade crab container.
The top image is of cheese cubes with the caption: “Are you storing your cheese in the fridge! Experts say you should be leaving it on the counter” The bottom image says “experts:” with a dog looking shiftily at the camera.
A placid blue lake reflects blue sky and storm clouds, along with the green of trees at its border
I stand with water from a waterfall cascading near me
A book is open and I have my feet up on the wall that overlooks Lake Superior and the Lift Bridge.
A painting of the midnight ride of paul review. Paul yells “the British are coming!” A guy sticks his head out of a house window in a nightcap and says “unlike your wife.” Paul says “fuck you, Nathaniel.” The guy says “well don’t fucking wake people up paul.”
My hand extended, each fingernail is a light blue, dark blue, or ombré of white/blue.
A cadre of boats, most of them 8+ racing shells, surge down the Mississippi River on blue water and below blue sky.
Toby wears a red bandana that says “I pee on fascists”
The sun sets over the Mississippi River with the Minneapolis skyline
A flyer for the Minneapolis Buckthorn removal singles club. “Are you single? Do you like habitat restoration? Come to the buckthorn removal singles club for weekly buckthorn removal social events! Open to all!”
An action shot of me on a baseball field catching a baseball with both hands
A tray of 35 Jell-O shots, some dark burgundy, others more rosy red
An upright castle style spinning wheel with two treadles that has red wool started on it. In the background, a large saxony wheel sits.
A scene from a lake with blue sky, white fluffy clouds, and docked small boats
A group of people celebrating women at WWDC smiling and making a “W” sign
I’m laying on a chair reading a book by a pool
A group of four women wearing colorful dresses smile
Toby watches carefully as I hold a donut that has been given frosting eyes and a cookie mouth.
Toby dozes near my laptop, his head completely covering the tab button.
About a minute of me spinning a cream colored fiber on my saxony style spinning wheel
A group of five playing a game called “Mosh Pit” at Activate, where you are assigned a button color and run around the room to try to press it.
I’m hunched over a giant “cannon” that is pointed toward rusted out cars
A meme featuring a plateau. It says: “plateaus: the highest form of flattery”
A close up of Toby looking very worried as he sits on my chest practically nose to nose with me
A flow chart for Bluetooth troubleshooting. It says “is the Bluetooth working right?” With an arrow to “no” and then an arrow to “yeah, sorry, Bluetooth just kinda sucks”
An art deco theater with a marquee that says Highland showing the films “Michael” and “Sheep Detective”
A part of the chart to knit the famous wolf sweater from project Hail Mary, along with the first few inches of the sweater back, which is a mess of tangled yarn.
The cover art for the SNES game Earthbound, famously originally released in Japan as “Mother 2”
Luke Skywalker stands in front of the burning remnants of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s home and says “who cant pick up power converters now?”
I’m wearing a straw hat with flowers and a blue floral dress. I’m holding a metal cup filled with ice and topped with a mint garnish.
A still from a MN Wild game. A man in a jersey smiles and the overlay is, “MARC-ANDRE FLEURY 2ND WINNINGEST GOALIE NHL HISTORY PLAYED FOR MINNESOTA FROM 2021-2025”
A meme with the caption “I’m passionate about English literature.” It shows a book with a picture of a boy holding a ball. The text reads “Here is Peter. Peter has a ball. Peter also has a terrible haircut. Fuck sake Peter, have a word with yourself.”
My right hand covered in bandaids.
A scene from the sound of music when Julie Andrews is singing to the von trapp kids in the alps. But instead of “do-re-mi” in the text bubble, it says, “Straight outta Compton crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube”
A boarded up storefront in St. Paul with an AT&T sign that says “we’re open”
A small purple garden flag that says, “my mom says we can start a revolution if it’s ok with your mom”
A calendar shows the month of April. The character stares at it with sudden recognition. Zoom in on the 20th with the text bubble “it’s 4/20!” The character does a dance wearing sunglasses and says “ha ha. Niiiiiiice!” A rabbit near by says “you have literally never done a single drug in your whole life.” The character continues dancing and says “I know”
The cover art for the game Myst. But instead of the title written as a stylized “MYST” it’s written as “WHAT” with the subheading at the bottom saying “The Fuck Does This Lever Do I've Been Stuck Here For 3 Hours”
Stock art from the game Guess Who. But over one player’s head, Samuel L Jackson from Pulp Fiction is pasted, with the text bubble “does he look like a bitch”
Toby stands next to my computer, staring intently
A photo featuring a bunch of chocolate chip cookies all with different looks. It says, “oops you added too much….” And then next to each cookie is something like butter or baking soda. The last cookie is the one ring, and you added too much “cruelty, malice, and the will to dominate all life”
A standard street sign showing a person flying off a bicycle that has someone lost a wheel.
The fool tarot card with the young person dreamily stepping off a cliff while a dog tries to intervene.
An image abbreviating this scene from Parks and Rec. April: So you know how you love me because you haven't had A single meeting with anyone since I became your assistant? That's because every time someone calls And requests a meeting with you, I always schedule it for March 31st. Ron: Why? April: Because I didn't think March 31st existed. ♪ 30 days has September, April, March, and November ♪ Ron: June and November. Today is March 31st. April: I know. Ron: So then how many meetings do I have today? April: 93.
Bruce Springsteen on the stage singing, and then panning around the rally.
I’m holding a sign that says, “Jack said: l'm King of the world? Rose said: No room on the Door!!"
A picture of a cozy looking house in the evening with a full moon over it. Then a close up of the moon. Then back to the house with a text bubble that says “oh no!”. Then a picture of a warehouse under the moon.
Toby sits on a blanket with a giant rawhide clamped in his mouth
Harrison Ford in a still from The Fugitive, walking in the St. Patrick’s Day parade looking deeply uncomfortable.
Two white rocking chairs sit outside, each with about a foot of snow on the seat.
A colorful marketing image from Tropes and Trifles. It says “Happy snow day! Due to the winter storm, the store is CLOSED today, Sunday 3/15. Use code GETPLOWED for 15% off all online purchases through midnight! See you back in the store Tuesday, 3/17!”
A view through a window of a crew of men wielding shovels and snow blowers unloading from a truck.
A snowy street, trees sagging under the weight