Melissa @[email protected]

Edit time! Old intro still true except now I'm an environmental engineer working as Director of Ops at a startup in Rocket City AL.

Still obsessed with climate change as a justice issue. Thankful I get to use that (& my education, I guess) in my new job.

Still a heretical UMC member but don't know how long that will last.

What's new w/ y'all since your introduction?

34 y.o. mother of 2 tiny humans & 1 problematic Corgi in a constant state if existential crisis. Ex enthusiastic Southern Baptist, ex environmental scientist. Now I'm a climate change & environmental justice activist + heretical Methodist. I have about 3 days per week of atheism & the other 4 I'm an Ecofeminist Christian mystic? 4w3 which is REAL TIRING Y'ALL. I live in Alabama. Happy to be here, you beautiful weirdos ❤️ #Enneagram4 #theliturgists #introductions #climatechange

@JennyBee I thought about you this morning as I debate w myself about church attendance tomorrow.

I hope you are well, or at least hanging in there.

Edit time! Old intro still true except now I'm an environmental engineer working as Director of Ops at a startup in Rocket City AL.

Still obsessed with climate change as a justice issue. Thankful I get to use that (& my education, I guess) in my new job.

Still a heretical UMC member but don't know how long that will last.

What's new w/ y'all since your introduction?

She tried to integrate but it didn't make any difference.

Teeheeeeeeeee

I need to do better folks. My husband is a super nerd & so are his friends.

Science or engineering jokes also sought.

Or just jokes really.

Anybody have any good math jokes? I have only bad ones.

E.g.

Why was the exponential sad at a party?

@mike @vishnu y'all live there duh, any tips?

Hiya friends! I think a fair # of y'all are from Cali?

I'll be in LA in early summer on a M-F tagging along with my hubs (who has a NASA work conference so he will be occupied & also busy hanging w rocket nerds in the evenings, & I love them but they don't need me for their math jokes).

So I have a free solo week in LA! Where should I go, what should I eat?

I've been to LA once before & saw Griffith Observatory & the Getty but that's it.

Help an Alabama girl out!

I honestly can't figure out why I enjoy TAATR so much. It's a relaxing ritual at this point; feels like checking in with friends to see how you're doing, if you're ok.

@mike Heat death of the universe bitches 🌏 bless your hearts♥️💚 now & always. @vishnu your course sounds wonderful.

Today I was surprised for the infinity-eth time that not everybody is interested in what fascinates me.

But my interests are so interesting, how can this be? Wait this feels familiar. 😆 Someday I'll learn. Different kind of ego shit I guess...

The other idea is that there's "no money."

There is money. Right now. In this administration. I've been in rooms where people talked about billions with a B without blinking for weapons development. Imagine if we stopped using money to hurt people & used it for societal good in every single sense of that phrase. There's money.

IT AIN'T OVER, that's all I'm trying to say in my jumbled way. The end.

I understand the problems w capitalistic mindsets and w tech savior mentality - they're not the answer long term; we've got to rebuild our economies fundamentally a la Green New Deal.

But there's this idea out there that we don't already have what we need to draw down carbon emissions or even go negative. And it's just not true. We have it. We have to make it possible, and we can.

The end to my nerdy engineering monologue.