Adrienne
@adriennehw.bsky.social
the reason weird hilarious shit shows up in your “popular with friends” feed. senior dir of design in edtech, they/them, views are my own 😌 🏳️🌈
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billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something
December 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something
grateful for 13 years with my partner, none of this is possible without avian so if you ever get anything out of like working with me or asking me for advice, tell him thanks
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
grateful for 13 years with my partner, none of this is possible without avian so if you ever get anything out of like working with me or asking me for advice, tell him thanks
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maybe I could get into pottery
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
maybe I could get into pottery
the two genders
should I start doing little video things talking about science or should I disconnect from the internet forever and melt down my phone and invest in fountain pens and fancy writing paper
December 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
the two genders
longtime fan who had no idea she did christmas albums till @jordonaut.bsky.social told me!!! A+ no notes
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
longtime fan who had no idea she did christmas albums till @jordonaut.bsky.social told me!!! A+ no notes
mine: fixing home internet speeds
husband: cutting trees down
husband: cutting trees down
not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
mine: fixing home internet speeds
husband: cutting trees down
husband: cutting trees down
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I make more money than either of my parents ever did and it all goes to rent, healthcare, and debt
It's unquestionable that young people today are richer than their 1960s counterparts, but the big difference in precarity. A good job requires living in a metro area with a housing shortage. A child requires an even more expensive home in a functional school district. A college degree requires debt.
These Young Adults Make Good Money. But Life, They Say, Is Unaffordable.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I make more money than either of my parents ever did and it all goes to rent, healthcare, and debt
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Reader Tom B. from Seattle is matching gifts to his GoFundMe for ProPublica up to $15K.
We’re just over $4K so far. Help close the gap:
We’re just over $4K so far. Help close the gap:
Donate to Help me raise an extra $15K for ProPublica, organized by Thomas Ballard
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December 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reader Tom B. from Seattle is matching gifts to his GoFundMe for ProPublica up to $15K.
We’re just over $4K so far. Help close the gap:
We’re just over $4K so far. Help close the gap:
This is a designer’s versions of disrespect. Saturated magenta over saturated blue (painful to look at) and colors with no contrast so it’s hard to read. “Brought to you by” is so small it’s illegible. And NO styling for the tagline???? They hated this project
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a designer’s versions of disrespect. Saturated magenta over saturated blue (painful to look at) and colors with no contrast so it’s hard to read. “Brought to you by” is so small it’s illegible. And NO styling for the tagline???? They hated this project
i am one chapter into Moby Dick and i’m already like, this guy wants to put his dick in the sea
December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
i am one chapter into Moby Dick and i’m already like, this guy wants to put his dick in the sea
Building up context and empathy when your job is solving problems is REQUIRED. So many AI-preaching Linkedinpilled techbros don’t understand that. They hire teams like mine because they don’t know how to build something that many people want to adopt and they’re desperate for a shortcut.
When I sit down to write I'm not consciously pulling from my notes, I'm drawing on the 6 months I spent reading biographies, watching hours of interviews, etc. There is a volume of research, of effort & time that is required to create something meaningful to draw from.
December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Building up context and empathy when your job is solving problems is REQUIRED. So many AI-preaching Linkedinpilled techbros don’t understand that. They hire teams like mine because they don’t know how to build something that many people want to adopt and they’re desperate for a shortcut.
We need this period of discovery in order to design effectively and truly innovate beyond what exists today. This is precious time, even if you only have a couple of days for a small feature you still need to explore the solution space, as we’d say in Design. One of the best parts of the job!
Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We need this period of discovery in order to design effectively and truly innovate beyond what exists today. This is precious time, even if you only have a couple of days for a small feature you still need to explore the solution space, as we’d say in Design. One of the best parts of the job!
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I’ve had trans friends for many years and my own journey with gender has led me to land somewhere on the nonbinary spectrum. If you want to enforce rigid gender norms on yourself that’s fine, but leave the rest of us (and especially kids) out of it! We all deserve bodily autonomy, every one of us.
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I’ve had trans friends for many years and my own journey with gender has led me to land somewhere on the nonbinary spectrum. If you want to enforce rigid gender norms on yourself that’s fine, but leave the rest of us (and especially kids) out of it! We all deserve bodily autonomy, every one of us.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hey artists following me! Willie is legit and this study is worth your time
this was my journey, personally
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
this was my journey, personally
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
the graphics are the art and the gameplay is the marketing, and here we’ve been stuck for going on 40 years
graphics > gameplay is a plague on this world
Yup. I want shorter games and I don't care about complex textures where you can count their pores. I want tiny dudes where I can count their pixels.
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
the graphics are the art and the gameplay is the marketing, and here we’ve been stuck for going on 40 years
what in the hitler is this speech though
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
what in the hitler is this speech though
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Why must we live through the early 2000s a second time
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Why must we live through the early 2000s a second time
I’m not in Texas but whew someone get this man on some podcasts
James Talarico: These predatory social media algorithms elevate the most extreme voices to provoke our outrage.
Billionaires are engineering our emotions so they can profit off of our pain.
These platforms want us at each other's throats because those billionaires benefit.
Billionaires are engineering our emotions so they can profit off of our pain.
These platforms want us at each other's throats because those billionaires benefit.
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’m not in Texas but whew someone get this man on some podcasts
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this is the realest shit ever posted and when you become a parent you spend a lot of time internally screaming about it
People who argue "who cares it's just for kids" all I can say is fuck right off. Kids deserve thoughtful, well-made movies that challenge them just as much as adults do. Kids aren't stupid, and they remember how movies affect them basically forever.
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
this is the realest shit ever posted and when you become a parent you spend a lot of time internally screaming about it
good design content
December 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
good design content
1) openly drinking cosmopolitans in martini glasses with my best friend at the premiere of Sex and the City
2) hootin and hollerin at the screen during 300 with eight drunk male coworkers
2) hootin and hollerin at the screen during 300 with eight drunk male coworkers
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
1) openly drinking cosmopolitans in martini glasses with my best friend at the premiere of Sex and the City
2) hootin and hollerin at the screen during 300 with eight drunk male coworkers
2) hootin and hollerin at the screen during 300 with eight drunk male coworkers
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
planning a trip that includes driving through AZ, any ideas for where to stop and sleep for the night? preferably out where we can see nature or the night sky. I love bisbee but it’s too far out of the way this time :(
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
planning a trip that includes driving through AZ, any ideas for where to stop and sleep for the night? preferably out where we can see nature or the night sky. I love bisbee but it’s too far out of the way this time :(