Yvonne Lam
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Platforms have made it weirdly harder to do this kind of thing.
A very niche and difficult problem: a personal tool on phones to organize your GIF and meme collection that can be used as a keyboard to auto-insert images on use.
So I can make my smol collection of memes from The Morning Show and just type them in when I want. No more GIPHY or Tenor, lol
So I can make my smol collection of memes from The Morning Show and just type them in when I want. No more GIPHY or Tenor, lol
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Platforms have made it weirdly harder to do this kind of thing.
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Interesting to reflect that OLPC hailed from a moment when SV orthodoxy maintained tech should “change the world for the better.” That pretense, of course, has fallen away. But SV’s model of improving the world had a tendency to be damaging in itself.
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Interesting to reflect that OLPC hailed from a moment when SV orthodoxy maintained tech should “change the world for the better.” That pretense, of course, has fallen away. But SV’s model of improving the world had a tendency to be damaging in itself.
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"false emergence is equivalent to the false goalpost of easy arrival riding on the wings of ersatz hope rather than hard-won care, and it is in caring that a future may arrive."
today in pocket theatre, i write abt playwriting at the end of a world. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
Playwriting at the End of a World
Capitalism's Folly
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"false emergence is equivalent to the false goalpost of easy arrival riding on the wings of ersatz hope rather than hard-won care, and it is in caring that a future may arrive."
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Wow, it's a baked and then fried croissant stuffed with a Catalan custard similar to creme brûlée.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Wow, it's a baked and then fried croissant stuffed with a Catalan custard similar to creme brûlée.
Saving "Playmobil approach" to describe how the software industry thinks of work.
Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Saving "Playmobil approach" to describe how the software industry thinks of work.
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a lot of these techbro libertarian guys, when they open their mouth, all I hear is "I can't wait to be converted into a paperclip!" no matter what they're actually saying
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
a lot of these techbro libertarian guys, when they open their mouth, all I hear is "I can't wait to be converted into a paperclip!" no matter what they're actually saying
At this point, I would vote for the microwave.
"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
At this point, I would vote for the microwave.
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Yes! I love this. More of this energy.
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yes! I love this. More of this energy.
Right after reading this post, I saw a fantastic clump of threads about taste, class, and wealth in my feed.
bsky.app/profile/arri...
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The workshop began by tackling less fraught issues: How founders look and smell. Each attendee received a gift bag containing a comb, 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, mouth wash, a lint roller and a discount card to Wilkes Bashford, a local high-end clothing boutique.”
Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Right after reading this post, I saw a fantastic clump of threads about taste, class, and wealth in my feed.
bsky.app/profile/arri...
bsky.app/profile/arri...
@thelasttheorist.bsky.social @bakerdphd.bsky.social in case you know someone who'd be interested in pitching/writing this
Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
@thelasttheorist.bsky.social @bakerdphd.bsky.social in case you know someone who'd be interested in pitching/writing this
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This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I Love You To Death
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I Love You To Death
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So true 😂
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So true 😂
This is lovely!
"Implicit in the bargain was permission to do with that time whatever the kid saw fit. No educational goal had to be attained. Nothing had to be learned... The exchange itself carried value for having happened. It taught that kid a lesson in the nature of generosity."
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is lovely!
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do pottery, they said, it'll be relaxing, they said 🥲
December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
do pottery, they said, it'll be relaxing, they said 🥲
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Have you read the (originally Reddit, I think) post and webcomic based on it, where Mr Rogers meets Thor and Mjolnir? (The original is at the bottom of the page.)
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Thor Meets Mister Rogers - Comic
This is so wholesome! ❤️ Twistwood illustrated this wonderful comic of a little story about when Thor meets Mister Rogers:
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December 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Have you read the (originally Reddit, I think) post and webcomic based on it, where Mr Rogers meets Thor and Mjolnir? (The original is at the bottom of the page.)
mediachomp.com/thor-meets-m...
mediachomp.com/thor-meets-m...
Coffee blondies are in the oven. This time, I was in less of a hurry and let the melted butter/brown sugar mixture cool more thoroughly.
www.thevanillabeanblog.com/coffee-blond...
www.thevanillabeanblog.com/coffee-blond...
Amazing Coffee Blondie Bars | Sarah Kieffer
A blond brownie, enrobed in a magical trio of coffee, chocolate, and pecans. Brown sugar and butter lend notes of toffee. No mixer needed!
www.thevanillabeanblog.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Coffee blondies are in the oven. This time, I was in less of a hurry and let the melted butter/brown sugar mixture cool more thoroughly.
www.thevanillabeanblog.com/coffee-blond...
www.thevanillabeanblog.com/coffee-blond...
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Me erging
I hurt too much to pay attention to anything with a story, but the friendly noise would keep me company.
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Me erging
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Take a look at my work, consider what it took to build a lab from scratch all open access + generate public-facing evidence that includes inequity, gender and racial disparities in experience w/AI, arguing for rehumanizing tech, *in this era.* I can help you fight dirty for good culture. :)
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Take a look at my work, consider what it took to build a lab from scratch all open access + generate public-facing evidence that includes inequity, gender and racial disparities in experience w/AI, arguing for rehumanizing tech, *in this era.* I can help you fight dirty for good culture. :)
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mewnitary executive theory
the cat has made the unilateral decision that she is now allowed on the kitchen table, & is ~most~ indignant at resulting dissent
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
mewnitary executive theory
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I love that Charles tracked down the actual special effects guy in the background
Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real
Mad Men’s special effects foreman hasn’t seen the infamous 4K remaster
“I had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting.”
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I love that Charles tracked down the actual special effects guy in the background
the most disinterested people becoming the arbiters of what is prioritized for everyone else is a motif I've noticed a lot recently
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
the most disinterested people becoming the arbiters of what is prioritized for everyone else is a motif I've noticed a lot recently
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You will never persuade me that @tricksterprince.bsky.social wasn't cackling when he wrote this sentence. I NEED THIS STORY FFFF
(From Songs of Seven Dials)
(From Songs of Seven Dials)
December 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You will never persuade me that @tricksterprince.bsky.social wasn't cackling when he wrote this sentence. I NEED THIS STORY FFFF
(From Songs of Seven Dials)
(From Songs of Seven Dials)