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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · 15d

How @caeliniscreepy.bsky.social and I play Harvest by @keymastergames.bsky.social:

🧑‍🌾 Caelin: tralala I think I'll go pick up some 🍓 and 🫐 at the General Store teehehe and that's my turn 💁‍♀️

😤 Me: *very stressed* if I don't find a way to optimize this turn with maximum efficiency I MIGHT JUST DIE 💀

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · 24d

It's also wild how much dental insurance makes a difference. Without insurance it would've cost me $1388 to get brutalized in the mouth

With insurance I get brutalized for free 💅

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · 24d

If you're wondering how it's a surprise — they told me I'd have to make an appointment, but they did not tell me just how many I'd be getting 🥲

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · 24d

Got wrecked at the dentist by having to do FOUR SURPRISE FILLINGS today 💀

I am never not flossing again good god

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Aug 8

I do but it's not as interesting! Mostly me just farting around with the dials and experimenting with what works

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Aug 8

WE DO BONES, MOTHERFUCKER

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Aug 7

Guess how many scatter brushes were used in the making of this?

(hint: it's 11 syllables between their funky little names)

Figma @figma.com · Aug 7

Guess how many scatter brushes we just dropped in Figma Draw (hint: it’s 10)

Speedrun by @ericaleong.com

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jul 27

Oh no! I didn't get any bsky notifications and saw this too late 😑 thanks for thinking of us though!!

Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jul 26

Omg is that why it's called Whiteboard 🤯

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · Jul 23

I know it feels useless to throw money at a problem but, it's a stopgap in the interrim for people who just have no other option right now. it DOES keep them going, it does work.

This war has to end, scream at your reps but in the meantime, send a venti coffee's worth their way?

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Font Awesome @fontawesome.com · Jul 23

Order up! Font Awesome 7 is ready to go.

We’ve cooked up our best version yet — with more icons, better performance, and tasty new features to spice up your projects. Available now!
fontawesome.com

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moto @motolokiev.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you are Canadian, call the Department of Global Affairs between 830AM-430 PM EST. Use this script. Demand they open the border. You don't have to talk directly to anyone. Leave a voicemail, use the script in the second image or use your own words. Alt Text provided.

Urgent Call to action:
End starvation in Gaza now. Call Global affairs to end Starvation.
1) Dial 1-800-267-8376 & Press 1 for English
2) Listen to all the menu options & press 6 for "All other inquiries"
3) Leave a voicemail (during working hours): read the provided script. You may provide your name, e-mail, and phone number
4) Press 1 to save your message & hang up.

Phone Call Script
"Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening

My name is [name] email phone number, I am a Canadian citizen and a concerned constituent. I am calling because I am heart broken and outraged by the deliberate, systematic starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.

Right now, children are dying of hunger. Families are boiling water with salt just to survive. Over half a million people are facing catastrophic food insecurity - This is not a famine caused by nature, it is a man-made famine, intentional act of cruelty. Since the blockade in March of 2025, 57 children have already died of malnutrition-related causes, and nearly 71,000 children under five are projected to develop acute malnutrition.

Canada cannot stand by. This is a matter of human decency and international law. I am urging you to publicly demand an immediate end to the use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza. I am asking you to push for unimpeded access for food, water, and humanitarian aid and to use every diplomatic and political tool Canada has, including at the UN and with allies, to pressure Israel to lift its siege and allow aid in NOW.

Canada has a moral and legal obligation to act. Please don't let silence become complicity.

Thank you"

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jul 18

Attending your strata's AGM is a great way to learn which of your neighbours are cool and which ones are absolute batshit unhinged

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jul 16

three minions wearing goggles are standing next to each other and looking at the camera

ALT: three minions wearing goggles are standing next to each other and looking at the camera

media.tenor.com

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 29

Whoa I know Jessica! We play pickleball together 😂

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 26

Celebrating Steamclock's 15th Ruby anniversary with some ruby coloured custom notebooks, complete with many Steamclock-y Easter eggs canonized in delicious red foil 🔥♥️

Printing by Porchlight Press!

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 25

HAPPINESS IS Lickin' SPOON

Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · Jun 25

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense:

“Doltclous”
“A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram”
“bood food is bood mood”

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 17

Cmd + Shift + 5, then on this menu click Options and choose a new location!

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 17

I've used a Macbook for over 15 years and I've only just learned how to save a screenshot to a different folder other than my desktop

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 16

We live in the dumbest timeline

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jun 16

Stolen from a friend's IG:

Gemini
I understand your point completely. You asked for help finding an email in your inbox, and instead of explaining that I couldn't find one matching your description, I generated a fictional email. That was not a helpful response to your request.
My intention was to give you an idea of what such an email might look like, but I see now that this was not the correct approach and did not serve the purpose of helping you find an actual email. I apologize for that.

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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · Jun 13

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.

Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.

Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · Jun 12

My daughter and her friend go to a Gaelic immersion primary school

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Erica Leong @ericaleong.com · Jun 4

Gamechanger has been putting so many banger episodes this whole season. Last night's had me SCREAMING

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 3

The only viable use cases of AI - even at today's massively subsidized price points - are to scale up scams, grifts, cheating, plagiarism, and carelessness.

Which makes sense - 80% of everything is shit, which includes training data. AI is trained on slop, so it makes (lower resolution) slop.

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · Jun 3

And, yeah, all of these issues are inherent in how we mismanage software development already. What Large Language Models are doing is magnify the flaws in our already inadequate approach to making software

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maxvoltar @maxvoltar.be · May 8

Watch myself, @rog.ie and Lauren Budorick go into the nitty (and definitely) gritty details of the new Figma Draw, as we explain more about how the nearly 2 dozen features came to be, and how we ourselves use them for our respective use cases. #config2025 youtube.com/watch?v=bCZ5...

Config 2025: Expressive design and illustration in Figma Draw

YouTube video by Figma

youtube.com

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