Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 06/05/2026So I get blue (some years more reflective, some years more depressive) around May every year. It always passes by June. Two years ago, I decided to write through it, via daily private journaling till I felt better. This year, well into my funk, I decided to read through some of my 2024 writing. 310
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I interacted with an AI chatbot for maybe the first time ever today — my freaking dentist’s answering service — and was profoundly turned off by how performatively cheerful it was. Between that and the obsequious replies I see to people’s ChatGPT requests, I just want to run for the hills. 230
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 10/02/2026fun fact: the big air snowboarding ramp at the winter olympics is only 5° steeper than the cheese rolling hill. 8410119
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Much to everyone's surprise, L.A. played a big part in the Super Bowl. The co-owner of empanadería Fuegos LA designed Benito's casita, the couple who got married are residents of the San Gabriel Valley, and more. The full story: lataco.com/super-bowl-e... By @janettev.bsky.social 023167
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The horrors of authoritarianism are occasionally funny. 020
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)miren.dev @miren.dev · 30/12/2025The presents have been unwrapped, the candles lit, the big meal eaten... now's a great time to play with Miren! Whether it's that holiday cookie app you vibe-coded or something more serious, give Miren a spin! After you've had your fun, come let us know how it went in Discord (miren.dev/discord)!miren.devMiren - Modern Infrastructure Platform 044
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 10/12/2025It’s been such a fun 24 hrs, even for me: a person who can’t actually meaningfully engage with the feedback we’re already getting. But what I *can* tell is how excited & helpful our nascent @miren.dev community already is — if this is something you might want to check out, we’d love to have you! 🎉 000
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)miren.dev @miren.dev · 09/12/2025Today’s the day! We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it! Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.miren.devMiren - Modern Infrastructure Platform 32011
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 09/12/2025🤗media.tenor.comthree women sitting on a beach with the words hold on for one more dayAlt: The three women comprising the band Wilson Philips on a beach belting out with the words to their hit song “Hold On” with the lyric at the bottom: “Hold on… for one more day” 040
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)Evan Phoenix @evanphx.dev · 04/12/2025“Workflows over Technology” was probably the biggest lesson I learned at @hashicorp.com. People can get excited about specific tech, but it’s really how you use it day-to-day that matters. 073
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I live in LA but am not a person who puts much credence into star signs or crystals or manifestation. The most woo-woo thing I do is — when leaving the gym after my workout’s over — I whisper to everyone still on a machine, “great job!” or “you’re killing it!” and I somehow think it helps them. 100
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 11/11/2025One BIG plus with remote work is that — assuming you and your coworkers are adept with the mute button — you don’t have to listen to people sneeze and cough and sniffle in meetings any longer. Also, the lack of germ-spreading. But sometimes the noise of sickness itself was almost as bad?! 🙉 110
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Elections matter. Your vote MATTERS. A tidbit from yesterday: my parents’ city council ward election is currently* being decided by 7 votes. A person who makes real decisions that affect your daily life! 7! *they’re now awaiting provisional ballots and depending where those land, maybe a recount. 020
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 04/11/2025As one of the handful of people who saw the recent Kiss of the Spiderwoman movie adaptation, I have to wonder if its marketing & release were deliberately mismanaged to bury it? 120
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Freddy Freeman freeing us from the tyranny of more innings! 000
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Do the poor hot dog vendors have to just stoke their trays of bacon-wrapped treats out there for hours, waiting for the crowds to arrive when the game ends… eventually…? And all those parking attendants who are now working three hours over expectation?!? 000
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Lowest possible bar, but thank goodness I don’t have to disavow my USC degree today. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comUSC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the rightUSC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer. 130
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Tonight, we revealed the *shocking news* to our teenager that when we were in high school, no one carried around their own water bottles. “What about when you had PE?!?” “Water fountains? But we also were probably just more dehydrated??” 110
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 03/10/2025A parenting phenomenon I wasn’t prepared for: how to confront what you most dislike in yourself when it manifests in your child. In my case, an intense tendency towards procrastination. I’ve worked out how to deal with this in myself after 40+ years but to have to go through it again with a kid? ☠️ 130
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)goodney.bsky.social @goodney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025And we’re updated: isthefederalgovernmentrunning.com I was 11 minutes late because I forgot it happened at 9pm here. Sorry to the one person who checked before I fixed itisthefederalgovernmentrunning.comIs The Federal Government Running? 021
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story! 6564924615333
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The eternal outdoor concert question: does someone have a s’more-scented vape, or literally s’mores???? The aroma is making me crave toasted marshmallows… 020
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 26/09/2025“Grown Ups” is Pulp’s most LCD Soundsystem-coded song and I am so hopeful they play it tonight. Very excited for the Aging Millennials Show that it’s sure to be!! 010
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 23/09/2025“That girl looks like Megan,” remarks my 10yo. “The killer robot?” I clarify. “Yup!” And somehow, that makes perfect sense to me, because my kids don’t know one human Meg(h)an who’s within two decades of their age. 110
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 21/09/2025An easy way for me to suspect someone and I are *not* simpatico: they think most choices others make are 100% fueled by money. I’m not saying that people don’t get paid to do things, but someone who thinks everyone acts for money only is just too sad & nihilistic for me to engage with meaningfully. 230
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Part of the last election’s heartbreak for me was my (childlike) hope of electing people whom I knew to be smarter than me, policy wonks who’d excitedly pore over legislation. Every day now, I still mourn how those driving this country are SO DUMB. They’re awful, cruel, & JUST SO ASTOUNDINGLY DUMB. 100
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 19/09/2025My mental health right now is so dependent on doing my little puzzles (almost all the NYT ones, plus a few extras) and coffee. Humbling to recognize the dependency, but also: I’m so glad I have them both. We need to clasp hard to our sanity and not let go; every tool is necessary. 020
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Kicking off the day before the #TSITP finale with @evanphx.dev declaring, “I just can’t respect anyone who lets people call her Belly. BELLLLY?!?!” 🤣 011
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 14/09/2025At this point, I can only assume USC Athletics is paying off the AP to specifically disrespect the football team to the level where it motivates them to play with the world’s biggest chip on their shoulders. Let’s hope the maneuvering pays off! ✌🏽 010
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Apparently USC football is all I post about now. Fine by me!!! Maybe I’ll drop my TSITP thoughts soon too? 😆 If I feel like pushing it. 020
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The second perfect weekend of the season (and it could have been the third if ND had played last week!): USC wins + UCLA loses + Notre Dame loses. ✌🏽✌🏽media.tenor.coma man with long hair and a beard is smiling with the words it just feel so good behind himAlt: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling with the words “it just feel so good” behind him 020
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)USC Trojan Marching Band @usctmb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It's a Perfect (Opening) Weekend! 0207
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Everything is so much, but: we spent our evening ordering in Thai (unsurprisingly great here in Australia) and showing our kids Star Wars for the first time. I severely underestimated how fun it’d be to watch it with them — and good news, we have approximately 2,623 more movies and shows to go! 000
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Just woke up in Australia from dread-filled half-dreams of what U.S. news awaited me, since most No Kings protests happened while we slept. So relieved to hear of no big state violence. I’m now just delighting in the astounding number of beautiful protests. Breathing easier… thank you, protestors! 000
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 10/06/2025We had a lot of choices in 2007 about where to move to, live, put down roots, raise a family. In the 18 years since, I pick LA over and over again — it’s the only American city I would live in, and it’s not even close. 250
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Today, @evanphx.dev ran some slang by the kids, saying, “so does anyone say this?” Our 10yo, after the full-body cringe of hearing her dad say it passed: “…WELL. NOT. ANYMORE.” 😅 181
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I just told my kids they can call me whatever they want (within respectful reason) and they’re now workshopping “Crabs” and “maternal unit.” 😆🤷🏻♀️ 050
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 18/04/2025My highly secular 10yo: “is Easter on Saturday or Sunday?” Me, steeped in 10 years of Catholic education: 🤯😆🤯 120
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I try not to be too smug about “the good old days,” so I’ll just say that our Coachella experience in 2009 was ideal: we stayed at the just-opened Ace Hotel in Palm Springs for $129/night and spent every day lounging at their swim-up pool before driving over to Coachella to see this insane lineup. 150
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 08/04/2025So many awful things feel immediate and achingly real right now. Simultaneously, it’s been a very joy-filled time inside of our family — the emotional dissonance is stark. 110
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Can’t wait to head upstairs and find out what THIS means. 👀 Highly recommend choosing to live with your favorite vague-poster. 😆😘 140
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I think it’s a great show of faith that I’m checking a bag on this trip to NYC, even after the summer of 2019 when Delta lost my bag and I roamed the 95°F muggy NY streets with only my purse and the clothes on my body for five days. ⚡️🥵 020
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Really just sharing to note this moment of idiocy for myself: I cannot BELIEVE it took me almost all day to figure out the Spelling Bee pangram when it is… my Confirmation name. 🤦🏻♀️✝️🪻 010
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 19/03/2025After a raucous family conversation about eating electronics, culminating in serious consideration of “what would happen if you ATE! AN AIRTAG?!?” Me: @evanphx.dev, this is exactly what I imagined it’d be like to have kids with you. 160
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I just gave my 13yo my copy of The Crucible to read and I’m on the verge of tears now, both from the sweetness of sharing a recommendation from my own teen years and the bitterness of how it’s more relevant now than it was in my youth. 021
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 21/02/2025For our 19th wedding anniversary last night, LA gifted me and @evanphx.dev a car chase that ended super dramatically basically on our doorstep. www.foxla.com/news/la-poli... (our place is briefly visible in this vid, but the news misidentifies the intersection, so… 😉) What will it do for 20?!?foxla.comLA police chase ends in crash, shooting 061
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 09/02/2025What’s your crutch word that you lean on most when traveling? I’m in Colombia rn and am constantly saying “sí”/yes. At the end of a sentence, “¿sí?” to make sure they understand/agree. As a response to anything anyone else says, “ahh, sí, sí.” And of courses, a drawn-out “sííí” for “sure, why not?” 120
Abby Phoenix (she/her) @aphoenix.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I’m so excited to finally get to talk about what Evan and I have been cooking up for the last few months! It’s been so fun already, and there’s so much ahead. Wanna follow along on the Miren journey? Sign up for updates at miren.dev 0122
Reposted by Abby Phoenix (she/her)Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I feel a lot of clarity. That we are living in a terrible world with terrible systems and a terrible ruling class grinding us down. AND I feel so much intense affection and gratitude for all the human beings making their way through, forming communities, trying so hard to care for one another. 317239