Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, and help governments and healthcare figure out ‘how do we know when AI is wrong?’
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Last Notes npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I can’t eat a donut but I can eat a vada for breakfast. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Reading about bland food on Reddit. In four decades of life I think I can count the number of times I have had food that might be considered truly bland.. with one hand. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Indian Supreme Court rules that cancer drug markups are extortionate, orders them to drop npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Riding the Chennai metro npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan It’s pretty incredible that one can get Din Tai Fung xiaolongbaos at Kuala Lumpur airport at 3:42 in the morning npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan White evangelical protestants in the US are the only religious group 'in which a majority says empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from a society guided by God's truth' npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Chinese man gets married at venue; at the same time, hosts a 100-day baby celebration with his ex-girlfriend upstairs (a bigger event than a baby shower) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan New York City is hiring someone to lead their product management team. I know them personally, good team npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I think I learned to be a project manager by being repeatedly subject to 150 food options at US$3 each, every meal for all of my life, and then having to prioritize the truly important and interesting things npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The San Francisco apartment we lived in for 6 years just got rented for 4.5 thousand dollars npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Nothing like landing at Changi airport (SIN), I never tire of it. I miss having it as my home airport npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Proud of my local dyke bar for taking a stand against transphobia npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I would say that multilingualism became less of a thing in Singapore when we decided to min-max everything including subjects that we study. By my generation we were made to feel that there was no point doing or learning anything unless you could get an A in it, whether it’s Malay or Hokkien or music. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Honestly I will eat anywhere except anyplace that specializes in ‘healthy food’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When I was younger, I became quite known in my country for being an avid backpacker. I was sometimes in the newspapers, with pictures of me on camels or in auto rickshaws. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I think the people who have the best jobs are the ones who have to sneak around to weigh baby albatross chicks and kākāpō chicks when their parents are out npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I mostly thought my sexual orientation was settled fact, but I am wildly attracted to Ethan Peck’s Spock. So, women, and Spock is my sexual orientation npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Homeless people don’t have homes. Apparently charging them with a felony so they can’t have homes again is the solution? npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan First meal in Geneva: someone really wanted me to try this Somalian ginger hibiscus lime juice! It’s amazing npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan As a person from a nationality and society that is deeply anxious, I get deeply anxious around people who are decidedly not npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve come to believe that the vast majority of recipes on the internet are bad and physical cookbooks are more important than ever npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan A really good article about borders, passports, visas from a former consular office who now works on immigration justice npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan These expats are also very upset when the local population no longer treats them as gods (there used to be far more ‘white worship’ a while ago). Now people are like, oh, poor white people are here to take our housing and they don’t have jobs beyond being YouTube influencers and teaching English badly npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Why aren’t more people on Mastodon? npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I read someone say they were interested in coming to San Francisco to go swimming in the ocean.. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I posted something about a homophobic thing yesterday. A few people replied that they wish people would get more angry about more important things like how billionaires suck. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Ahahahahaa WaPo npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan 'What the fuck happened to M.I.A' npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m surprised whenever I learn that most people don’t have at least 25 types of hot sauces and chilli sauces from around the world in their pantry at all times npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan ‘Make a decal of American stereotypes on the side of a truck’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The languages are from entirely different language trees. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan In many Chinese families it’s pretty common for people to talk to each other in completely different languages. My New York speaks to me in Mandarin / Hokkien. She speaks to her husband in Toishanese. They speak Cantonese to other people. We all sort of understand each other when we are speaking different languages, but respond in our own language. From time to time we might dip into about language to illustrate a point. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan If a young person were to ask me ‘what’s the most important thing you’ve learned’ I’m going to say, ‘whenever you feel you have to pee, go.’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan “Follow me”, said the cat. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan New Mexico is the fifth biggest state in the USA, and its entire population is 2.1 million npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Scientists documented whales in a group assisting in the birth npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sunset in little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Next to the metro station there. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan It’s almost impossible to book any local camping spots because all of your competition has built or set up some kind of scraper to do it for them. (This was happening even before Open Claw and stuff) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The answer to this question is ‘France’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan 2. MacArthur BART station has a bunch of free shuttle buses. The one I use most is the EmeryGoRound, primarily to the Amtrak station in Emeryville. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Taking a series of trains, buses and fun facts about them npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @nprofile…ru8t yep npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I hope everyone who works on data analysis for dynamic pricing for anything gets bed bugs. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Dynamic pricing is such a scam. I was at Best Buy looking at something and in 10 min it jumped $200. lol npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @nprofile…l7em USA public sector budgets are huge and software projects massive and convoluted.. other types of problems npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I also generally feel like when someone says ‘American immigration is awful and inhumane’ the vast majority of Americans are like yep absolutely I hate it and I’m sorry npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan This article talks about them using a spreadsheet-based decision-making tool that doesn’t look much different from Excel. It looks extremely basic and not very good and I’m willing to bet it’s responsible for a lot of pain in the system. Most immigration governments have much more advanced software for their specialized use case. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Canadian immigration appears less evil to me but also a heck lot more incompetent and confusing to deal with npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan There’s a Korean tea my wife likes. In Korean it says ‘tea for men’. In English it says ‘oriental raisin tea’. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Indonesia has so many excellent female music groups that it seems pointless to even call them a female music group npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Many things suck but I can’t believe I exist on the same planet and timeline as baby manatees npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve been thinking a lot about work, energy, moderation. As a person with ADHD I find it challenging to get a true sense of what I’m really feeling; until it’s too late. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Apparently one of the old WeWorks in mid-Market SF is going to be turned into a place that helps homeless people. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan i have incorporated a PBC... (a public benefit company..) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan If you want to use #Ghost and you want to support a European small business hosting service that hosts Ghost and has excellent support, Magic Pages has launched a new lifetime hosting plan. For $460 (not sure about EUR price) you get a Ghost site hosted forever. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When playing trivia I get all the American questions terribly wrong and almost all the world questions right npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My mom sent me a list of what she is planning to eat, and what transit she will utilize to get to those places, on a specific date in April in a country she doesn’t live in. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan 13 months ago, I printed and dropped off a dossier. It weighed about 6 pounds (I weighed it). npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The term for ‘road’ in most forms of Chinese is still ‘the horse path’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The first things I learned when I woke up today: npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Posting a story about mushroom poisoning is just like posting a story about scams. Everybody thinks it won’t happen to them, they’re so smart, unlike all the victims npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan From a 2023 story about immigration detention in Denmark: npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan i read a western buddhist chide another western buddhist, that race isn't really a thing in asia npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Principal who was fired for reading a book called ‘I Need a New Butt’ can get his job back. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Surprised that no one’s done a time travel cooking show where going back in time with your spice rack items makes you the richest person in the world npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve been trying to understand the love of In N Out for a while. The best I can do is: someone explained it as ‘the best CA burger you get for five bucks without leaving your car’ and I guess that’s right. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Some days I feel fully integrated as a Californian. Other days I am almost run over by cars slamming it to try to get the most aggressively mid burgers run by evangelicals npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I was happy to be able to help these incredible journalists doing amazing work at the border, move from Substack to Ghost. They relaunched today and it’s easier than ever to give them money to help support the essential work that they do. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan A parrot living in SoCal with its British owner went missing, and showed up 4 years later speaking Spanish instead npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Had a hilarious moment with my LA rideshare driver. We drove past Jollibee. I was commenting on how great Jollibee was, and sharing a factoid with my wife ‘in Malaysia, Church’s chicken is Texas chicken, coz church, haha’ and the driver was like OMG YOU SOLVED A MYSTERY FOR ME npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Maybe I don’t want to move to New York anymore (coz this is a SoCal winter) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Train journey! (Coast Starlight going south) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Marine mammal naturalist program for adults. Held over 4 weeks in Santa Cruz npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan First day without Mila. Feels weird. Losing Cookie was like losing a phantom limb. Losing Mila is like.. everything feels quiet. She was a highly interactive cat who made her presence felt in every room. I miss her so terribly npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Went to pick up mail and found a little tortoiseshell cat who came to give me kisses npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Goals npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan AI Metrology (measurement science of ai) is a rapidly developing field and here is an interesting research opportunity npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Yarnspinner has a pretty good take npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Someone on a call told me they liked reading about my info dumping about #Food even though they don’t love food as much as I do. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sometimes I read people say they need help moving to SF, and I’m so excited to help them, then I read ‘do not care about nearby food’ or ‘prefer to be near straight people’ and then I close the tab npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m not worried about the zombie virus from The Last Of Us, I am already part cordycep (it is a very common ingredient in our soups) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I find many of the northern styles of biryani to be very good technically, but also 1/10th the flavor in terms of spices. If I’m not feeling the warmth of a ton of pepper and cloves riding through my biryani while I eat it, I’m most likely not wanting to eat it npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Tiny bat npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I also have a video somewhere of me chewing qat in Sana’a. I no longer put random plants in my mouth npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan "Bali’s water is disappearing. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post: npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Was not expecting to hear super effusive yelling of my name while walking along Van Ness but turns out it’s my least online and most favorite friend who had lost his phone and thought he had lost me forever (we are not on any socials) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I think sometimes of how my mom’s side of the family probably lived in dwellings like these in Fujian, at least until they left for the ‘southern seas’. You were probably never lonely, but you were probably also overwhelmed sometimes. That feels like the push / pull of both models to me. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan It’s hard to generalize of course, northwest and south asian cultures are very different. Even in talking to south asian friends, I think the idea of greater female independence in some East Asian cultures is fascinating. Unless you’re from a super trad family (and I would honestly be surprised to meet someone like this in Singapore / Taiwan / HK / China), I feel like gender in almost all Chinese cultures is just ‘if you make your own money, go to town’. There’s still other shitty things, but less expectations around what you’re supposed to do as a woman. We over index on education and money, more than.. I dunno, serving a man? I think it’s different in Korea and Japan. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan There’s an interesting model emerging in China where hetero single women, are opting out of marriage completely and settling down with each other in a platonic way. Divorced women are joining them too and co-parenting: https://youtu.be/7r-4OiXcLGY npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m very thankful that I like and adore my parents, because I know it is my ‘duty’ to return and provide elder care in a decade or so. There is just no other way around it. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I work on AI adjacent stuff. I like computers. I don’t understand what an AI PC is supposed to be npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My wife: are you really going to make meatballs from scratch for spaghetti and meatballs in 30 min? npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan GOOD MORNING npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @nprofile…7ppx that sounds traumatic. So sorry you experienced it npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I like to sneak up on her when she’s sleeping to give her surprise cuddles. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Saw a CyberTruck carrying a pitiful amount of cargo and thought ‘bet a Honda Fit could fit more’
