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Larissa

@ladylanyc.bsky.social

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I'm a designer & design educator. I love ballet, sustainability, fashion & fashion history. #vegan 🌱🩰 I speak for no one but myself. she/her

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 2d

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 6d

THANK YOU. It’s a Major Award!

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 6d

After over 200 hours of gameplay, I finally made it to Act 2 of Hollow Knight: Silksong 🥹 Someone please congratulate me on this major life achievement. Also why do I love a game I am so objectively bad at?

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so tired.

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 9d

Sherma must be protected at all costs 🥹

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 9d

And Hornet is nothing if not elegant 🤩

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · 9d

An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

Crystal Carter went to tour an apartment. Rent was $1,500 a month.

“I’ll be paying with a Section 8 voucher,” she said.

“Yeah,” the landlord said. “I don’t do Section 8.”

This is what housing voucher discrimination looks like 👇

(Published 2020 w/ @ctmirror.org)

How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out

Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach lea...

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Ginny Messina @theveganrd.bsky.social · 14d

A tireless advocate for animals and the planet -- Jane Goodall's life was a gift to us all.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18d

there are two kinds of people:

either you read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in high school and it lodged into your brain forever, not just because it has the best opening paragraph in the history of literature but because Tea Cake's death from rabies is so FUCKING horrifying, or you did not

👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 18d

HOW is EVERYONE not epically terrified of rabies? Do they just not know about it? Like if you know about it… it kinda sticks with you…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 12

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free

The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Sep 11

I don’t get the hate/complaints about Silksong. It’s a beautiful, worthy successor to Hollow Knight and yeah, it’s hard AF, but that will just make it last longer. I’m in no rush.

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Sep 9

MOOPSY!

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Definitely wasn’t me forgetting my apple watch and waving my wrist fruitlessly at the OMNY sensor this morning. 😳

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yesssssss!!!! Also this game is beautiful and amazing and I love it already.

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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Labor Day! This holiday was established in 1894 to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the contributions of working people. Celebrate with us with some thematic reading, pictured below.

A stack of books displayed in front of the Harvard Book Store window. The titles are, from top to bottom:
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by By Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
- Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse
- A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
- No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
- Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do by Studs Terkel
- Fight to Win! by Kim Kelly
- Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights by Alan Reuther
- Trouble! at Coal Creek by Austin Sauerbrei

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 31

I regret to inform you all that the muji oscillating fan is worth the $$$.

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 31

Found it!

www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-...

Southern Nevada data centers used 716 million gallons of water in 2024 | Local Las Vegas | Local

Google’s site in Henderson had the highest estimated water use in 2024 at roughly 352 million gallons.

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yikes. The writing & speaking studio at my college has really thoughtful guidance on AI.

AI text generators like the publicly-accessible ChatGPT and Bard produce concise, generic writing. Most of our students don’t write as concisely or as generically. Invite and appreciate students’ accented writing and unique perspectives on course content, and you are more likely to see their authentic work.

Acknowledge AI and speak honestly about it in the context of school. Whatever benefits it may offer now or in the future, it may be helpful to point out to students that using tools like ChatGPT uncritically to think through course assignments for you means you may not experience and learn what you came to FIT to experience and learn. Further, students should know that AI-generated text will often be inaccurate, especially when asked to cite authentic examples or source material.

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 17

You should play the lotto or something—you’re clearly extremely lucky today!!

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 15

I can’t believe i voted for this guy ~20 years ago just because he was standing outside the Franklin Ave subway stop and shook my hand. I’m sorry everyone.

Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Those inserts are called godets.

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