alyssa mercante
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- The amount of solidarity I have seen from industry people who work incredibly hard and haven’t had full time jobs in far too long is so inspiring. You are all stars.
- valnet offered me a contractor position at polygon, roughly a week after it laid off most of the team. if you know me at a personal level, you know how much i've wished for an email like this for the past decade. but this isn't the polygon i fought for. i didn't think twice about declining the offer
- Moving cats is a pretty tenuous situation as they’re so territorial and can get easily upset from changing house, which can also upend their dynamic/hierarchy if you have multiple. Luckily I’m neurotic and have a ton of rescue experience so I prepped well and the babies are thriving 🥹
- Absolutely wild that Facebook Marketplace remains god tier for getting furniture but Facebook itself is AI garbage and reactionary shit and sketchy surveillance
