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Erika Hall

@erikahall.bsky.social

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I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur. Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research. Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break. San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 2d

Next week, Mike is doing a workshop about talking to people about your work. It's a small group. It's intensive. People call it transformative or whatever.

If you have professional development budget, direct it here and skip a few annoying meetings.

www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

Presenting Work with Confidence!

It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.

www.eventbrite.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25m

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 3h

are we gonna restart the web from first principles?

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 3h

maybeee

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 3h

might be in my run a coffeeshop era

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4h

I'm just going to have to start that peripatetic school.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4h

no, dan

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4h

To clarify, I meant just fully offline because staring into a glowing rectangle is getting to me.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4h

I wish there was a place we could all hang out and shoot the shit that wasn't just here in the Phantom Zone

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4h

Dartmouth does have that whole standing up to government overreach thing as a load-bearing part of its lore.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna Phineas Gage myself with chatGPT

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 5h

get yourself a pet that's the little boy from The Grudge

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5h

Fungal Wall, hand-tufted rug by Lizan Freijsen #sciart

Wall mounted rug based on fungal shapes

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 5h

This has become a load bearing tweet to me.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, so easy to add a beard, some eyeliner, and a necktie:
www.walmart.com/ip/Inflatabl...

adult sized giant white baby costume

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

I miss Rupert dragging me up the hills on walks and hopping up on all the things, but his primary functions of comedy and cuddling and being a little jerk remain strong.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

aww, what a sweet face

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

dogs, man.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

Of course I was too slow making his dinner afterwards.

A blurry photo of a salty chug with opinions in the kitchen.

This isn't even the scariest frame of the live photo.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 6h

Whenever Rupert gets slow and mopey for a couple days I think well, that's it, he's just an old tired doggy now. And then I take him to the park in the evening when all his friends are there and we stay an extra long time, and he scampers all the way home.

There's a lesson there.

A salty chug's face smush into the cushions because he's cashed out after going to the park and running around the flat a maniac before dinner and then eating a succulent chicken meal.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me so happy! 🐢

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 4d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

You wouldn’t steal a car

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17h

Bad good, not good good

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18h

I think we had drafting class together.