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 # howdy!
 
-![me](img/me.jpg)
+![me](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/me.jpg)
 
 i'm elizabeth but my friends call me lizzy or liz, so you can call me that too! since we're friends, right?
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ the vast majority of code i write is not helpful to society. nevertheless here a
 
 though it's not something i _own_, this is the magnum opus of my work at utah state.
 
-![gul](./img/gul.png)
+![gul](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/gul.png)
 
 [gulv4](https://github.com/utahstate/gulv4) is a distributed system for data aggregation from thousands of networking sources.
 
@@ -28,19 +28,19 @@ though it's not something i _own_, this is the magnum opus of my work at utah st
 
 certainly my most complex side project.
 
-![chessh](./img/chessh.png)
+![chessh](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/chessh.png)
 
 [cheSSH](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/chessh) is a horizontally scalable game of chess over SSH with lots and lots of features. it was initially deployed on a cluster of 5 raspberry pi's behind a NAT.
 
 ## cminus
 
-![cminus](./img/cminus.png)
+![cminus](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/cminus.png)
 
 [cminus](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/cminus) is a compiler for a subset of C targeting the MIPS architecture as my tryhard magnum opus for CS5300 - Compiler Design (fav class btw).
 
 ## static.simponic.xyz
 
-![simponic.github.io](./img/simponic.github.io.png)
+![simponic.github.io](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/simponic.github.io.png)
 
 [static.simponic.xyz](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/static.simponic.xyz) is more like a collection of projects than one. they're small static web projects on computability and mathematical "toys", games, animations, and other fun stuff.
 
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 (not to be confused with gul haha) [gol](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/gol) is a GPU-accelerated and multiprocessing game of life implementation with timing studies on several input sizes.
 
-![gol](./img/gol.png)
+![gol](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/gol.png)
 
 small side note: i had the worst experience of my life (worse than the time my apartment got broken into while i was in it) while writing this! don't ask me about it though lest i spiral :3
 
 ## lizfcm
 
-![lizfcm](./img/lizfcm.png)
+![lizfcm](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/lizfcm.png)
 
 [lizfcm](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/lizfcm) is a unit-tested static library in "immutable" C for computational mathematics. [read the software manual](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/lizfcm/src/branch/main/doc/software_manual.pdf) for my tryhard MATH 4610 finale.
 
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 like most game devs i made an engine and put the game on hold indefinitely.
 
-![jumpstorm](./img/jumpstorm.png)
+![jumpstorm](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/jumpstorm.png)
 
 [jumpstorm](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/jumpstorm) is a realtime engine with client prediction (as good as i could get over WebSockets) for a doodle-jump like game using ECS from scratch to explore Bun.
 
 ## linux.usu.edu
 
-![linux.usu.edu](./img/linux.usu.edu.png)
+![linux.usu.edu](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/linux.usu.edu.png)
 
 [linux.usu.edu](https://github.com/usufslc/linux.usu.edu) is a full stack web app in Common Lisp with an almost posix-compliant shell in JS (/s), a multi-user RTMP stream handler for meetings, and custom authz/authn with contexts.
 
 ## lispruns
 
-![lispruns](./img/speedruntimer.png)
+![lispruns](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/.profile/raw/branch/main/img/speedruntimer.png)
 
 [lispruns](https://git.simponic.xyz/simponic/speedrun-timer) is a real TUI speedrun timer in Common Lisp.