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Adrianna Tan

@skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Southeast Asian in California. By day, I run a product management team at the world's best aquarium (Monterey Bay). By night, I work on AI ethics and policy […] 🌉 bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4m

Mila just sits on my lap and stares at me. It’s very lovely but sometimes unsettling haha

#cats #catsofmastodon #torties

A large, elderly tortoiseshell cat sitting on my lap and staring at me with big eyes

Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5h

I would use this to tone down the sugar in American food by about 90%
https://social.coop/@brainwane/115338961801483264

Innovative and terrible product idea: A mouth implant that automatically senses food/drink intake and releases flavors to optimize for your palate; it learns from your saliva production Never again have to manually add salt to your food or sugar to your coffee, possibly in front of other people Sensory sovereignty Flavor cartridges are a subscription service; dentists sell/install/maintain, like Invisalign We start off with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami; version 2 includes capsaicin

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Happy first-full-live-performance-of-Huntrix to those who celebrate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-ViyUk7Dk

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Tonight's #sfbayarea #wikipedia presentation went well, with good conversation topics and Q/A. Here are the slides for anyone interested:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Life_of_a_Wikipedia_Editor_-_BAWUG_presentation_10_7_25.pdf

File:The Life of a Wikipedia Editor - BAWUG presentation 10 7 25.pdf - Wikimedia Commons

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 19h

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21h

It was fun, and dim sum
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40 years old today! I’ve always wanted to be forty. Now I am here.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Is it just me or do the recent Assassins' Creed games feel.. clunky? Like it's beautiful like any AAA game but so much of it just isn't.. fun. ;/ I used to really love this game. (I'm playing Shadows right now. It's very pretty but I am not having fun.)

#videogames

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

40 years old today! I’ve always wanted to be forty. Now I am here.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

We saw her in a little box at a Petco 7 years ago, around this time. She was 11. They said if we didn’t take her she would most likely be euthanized. We thought ‘wouldn’t it be nice to give her a home for the next year or two’.

It’s been 7 years and she’s still […]

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A photo of Mila the tortie standing between me and a sofa

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🎃 U.S. Elaine 🎃 @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

#kelpfest on the #mendocinocoast has been great. Indigenous food and craft at Xa Kako Dile farm was inspiring.

Paper cup with a sprig of ripe wild grapes beside a smaller cup filled with creamed acorn paste.

A native child’s hands peel a hard boiled quail egg over a basket full of discarded shells, and next to a full white bowl of more brown dappled eggs.

A wide basket on an outdoor table is probably full of dried bay nuts, because the empty glass pan has crumbs and a small spatula in it, with a sign below saying “pepperwood (bay nut) shortbread”. I missed out on.

A tabletop with various baskets containing acorns and meal, alongside some stone tools for processing.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I’m at a gay Singaporean food event. Literally

Of course I got a special table

#singapore #sanfrancisco #food

A photo of a menu that says Queer Joy, with a list of Singaporean foods

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

6 days of messing around with my guitar: things are starting to click for me. The Spanish ‘pima’ system for the right hand as well as how to do free strokes and rest strokes; how to position both hands.

There is a wealth of good classical guitar videos on YouTube, but I mainly use them to check […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Folks with EBT get their tokens doubled (up to $30) and the best deals are after 2pm, when they’re about to leave. You can get $1 bags

Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The Heart of the Farmer’s Market in Civic Center next to the San Francisco Public Library is my favorite farmers’ market. Not only is the stuff cheaper than many of the other markets (it is actually cheaper than a grocery store; not every farmers market is like this), it also has more of the […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 4d

New York is not a dangerous city.

It's a very silly place filled with people who think they are very mean and touch but who aren't really good at being mean.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I like Toni Colette and I like Mae Martin so I really liked this.

Mae’s character as a trans man in 1990s Vermont really lent itself well to the hippie dippie culty vibes of the show

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Toni Colette is terrifying as a cult leader in Wayward on Netflix

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

A cat who can’t imagine why someone would eat a piece of bread and not give her any

#cats #catsofmastodon #torties

An elderly tortie cat sitting on a couch very elegantly looking quizzical

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Library haul

#publiclibraries #sfpl

A photo of a dvd of the movie, ‘all we imagine as light’. And the classical guitar book ‘the Christopher Parkening Guitar Method’

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

As an #actuallyautistic cook, i used to find it hard to intuitively know when something was ‘done’. I couldn’t do that just by look or taste (I have black and white thinking around if it says 7 min, 6 min makes me feel weird). But the one thing that works for me: the fork or chopstick test […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I drink mostly Chinese #tea (mostly various oolong and pu-er), but among the western tea types I like Sam Smith more than I like the classic English brands.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Mila in the sun

#cats #catsofmastodon #torties

A photo of Mila the 18yo long haired tortie basking in the sun

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

A pair of books to read together:

- Dreaming of Home, by Cristina Jiménez: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250388377/dreamingofhome/

- Unassimilable, by Bianca Mabute-Louie: https://biancaml.com/book-unassimilable/

Two very different takes on the same issue, #immigration.

Jiménez is a […]

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Someone needs to make a fridge for vegans where it’s nothing but crisper drawers

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Why are all the horror / cult movies set in Vermont or Maine? There are scary things in California too. Like dudes in Patagucci