Alex Powelson

January 3, 2026

retro

at the end of a scrum sprint we would do a retro. wow am i glad those words don’t mean much to me now because i’m not a software engineer anymore. look at those words bro!!! so now i’m gonna make the 2025 retrospective list of things i did: happy new year!!!!!!!!! don’t use AI…

Uncategorized
July 24, 2025

whats up

it’s summer! here are some music videos that i have been watching almost every single day:

music
February 15, 2025

some videos and an article

here are some videos I enjoyed recently

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January 31, 2025

Beans and Soups

food
December 31, 2024

movies!!!

movies that came out this year (most favorite to least favorite)

movies

1, movies
November 30, 2024

Reading list Nov 2024

Articles (and one book) I read this month and recommend:

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books, feminism, politics
November 17, 2024

Heretic

I got to go to an early screening of Heretic hosted by the reality TV Whitneys; me and my friend who got tickets for us wanted to go to the TikTok Whitney one, so we picked “Belief” over “Disbelief” (the RHOSLC Whitney is ex-Mormon). I was more excited about seeing the movie early and for…

movies

a24, heretic, movies
October 31, 2024

Spiders

I’ve never been afraid of spiders, with one pretty reasonable exception: black widows. As a kid, I put my hand in a black widow web that was nested inside of an outdoor toy, and I remember feeling like my field of vision just zoomed in on that red mark on her belly and it was…

gods creatures
October 30, 2024

Songs about being a 33 year old woman

so yeah i’m thinking 33 is going to be my year

womanhood

music
August 29, 2024

Alba de Cespedes

After finishing all of Elena Ferrante’s novels last year, I started looking into who some of her inspirations were because I wanted more. So far, this has led me to Alba de Cespedes and Elsa Morante (and Simone de Beauvoir, but I’ve already read a couple of her books). I saw that two of Alba’s…

books

books, feminism, literature