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2025-11-14 07:56:54 GMT

Imagine: you've shared a post that's getting a lot of love and boosts. And then you realize: you have a typo in your alt text. What do you do?

2025-11-14 04:12:06 GMT

In case you could use a timeline cleanse.
#JoyScrolling #waves #ocean
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/546/095/431/749/707/original/82ba9549f4b8b850.mp4

2025-11-08 20:28:43 GMT

One thing I really enjoy here is what I think of as the fedi-follow-dance.
I see post I love. Boost the post. Go to the person's profile, find other posts I love, favorite those posts.
Follow the person.
Then I see in my feed:
:blobpeek:
⭐ Person favorited:
⭐ Person favorited:
⭐ Person favorited:
➕ Person followed you
:blobaww:
#fediverse #SocialPsychology

2025-11-05 16:13:12 GMT

Okay, I know the really important thing is the *content* of his politics, but can we just talk for a moment about the amazing typography and striking use of color in Mamdani's campaign?
I keep lingering on photographs of his victory speech. The visual effect is 🤩.
(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
#USPol #typography #GraphicDesign #Mamdani
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2025-11-02 18:07:59 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-29 14:33:43 GMT

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seems like the kind of thing that SCRAP, a nonprofit in San Francisco that sells donated art supplies and various odds & ends, might host. :thinkhappy:
(https://www.scrap-sf.org/)

2025-10-29 14:14:07 GMT

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let me know when you open that repair cafe so i can come by!
(Seriously, is this a thing anywhere? Because I'd be so into that.)

2025-10-28 04:36:51 GMT

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lovely! I haven't thought to do a luminary but now you're making me think I should!💡

2025-10-26 15:25:08 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-25 15:28:29 GMT

I went for a walk by a neighborhood creek and found myself lingering at the creek's edge, looking for interesting rocks. Then some movement in the water caught my eye; apparently I had disturbed a resident crawdad.
#SuburbanBeauty #wildlife #NaturePhotography
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2025-10-25 05:12:29 GMT

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but really, the lighting you captured makes that shot

2025-10-25 05:11:54 GMT

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nice find! I'm gonna have to pay more attention to the broken glass at all the Muni stations :D

2025-10-25 04:58:27 GMT

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totally - it keeps catching my eye! I'm curious: what kind of window is that?

2025-10-25 01:14:07 GMT

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gorgeous!

2025-01-10 15:50:23 GMT

In case you could use a timeline cleanse.
Rocky Point tide pools in Mt. Tamalpais State Park.
#JoyScrolling #waves #ocean #nature
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2024-12-21 18:38:36 GMT

Day 21: Happy solstice!
This beaded fringed lamp is one of my favorite pieces, with a repeat pattern that I designed of a fiery-throated hummingbird sipping from a flame calla lily.
#ArtAdventCalendar #beading #MyWork #JoyScrolling
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2024-12-21 00:46:14 GMT

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Here's my painted tole chandelier all lit up! Happy almost solstice 🌟
#OilPainting #MyWork
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2024-12-20 19:19:57 GMT

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Before and after photos of the tole chandelier
#OilPainting #MyWork
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2024-12-20 19:12:57 GMT

Day 20: it's the last day before the solstice! I'm getting ready to celebrate increasing sunlight in the days to come. 🌞
This is a vintage tole chandelier that I painted with oil paints after having removed the wiring and primed the metal with self-etching primer. I adore the profusion of vibrant flowers.
#ArtAdventCalendar #OilPainting #MyWork
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2024-12-18 01:20:47 GMT

"It's like the sky is on fire." – my 9yo tonight
#sunset #MyPhoto #UrbanBeauty #SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBayview #BayviewSF
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2024-12-17 22:31:22 GMT

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yes! Thank you; I've been taking pottery classes since this summer and I'm finding a few techniques that I particularly love – like handbuilding with slabs and imprinting them with plants.

2024-12-17 21:24:04 GMT

Day 17: a hand built dish on which I imprinted a palm frond. I love the texture of this one.
#ArtAdventCalendar #TextureTuesday #pottery #HandBuilding #MyWork
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2024-12-13 16:46:37 GMT

Day 13: A Martian sunset.
My kid asked me to make him a stained glass piece. He's super into space, so I decided to make him a Martian sunset.
Did you know that Martian sunsets are blue?
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #StainedGlass #LeadedGlass #MyWork #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/646/518/417/234/310/original/e3cba3d10cf63d94.jpg

2024-12-10 16:51:33 GMT

Day 10: In my pottery class I learned that I love underglazing. It's a process that's more similar to painting than glazing.
This pot was a practice pot, using a bisqued but unglazed donation/cast-off from someone else in the studio. I was inspired by the sky during sunset.
(And now this pot is a home to one of my pitcher plants.)
#ArtAdventCalendar #pottery #MyWork
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2024-12-06 17:17:49 GMT

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yes, this!
(Because how else would we ever have glorious, amazing successes?)

2024-12-06 15:54:39 GMT

Day 6: A larger-than-life fuchsia in stained glass.
For years I'd been wanting to take a stained glass class because I love light, color, and windows. I finally found a great teacher and studio in San Francisco: Dan Gamaldi at Cradle of the Sun. This was my very first piece (my own design).
#ArtAdventCalendar #StainedGlass #LeadedGlass #MyWork #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
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2024-12-03 15:28:48 GMT

Day 3: A beaded phoenix I made for a friend. The design is my own, inspired by several other designs: https://www.pinterest.com/katealamode/beads-beads-beads/phoenix/
#ArtAdventCalendar #beading #MyWork
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2024-12-01 23:47:30 GMT

Leading up to this year's solstice I'm participating in my first ever Art Advent Calendar. It'll be a mix of old and new pieces.
Day 1: a beaded box I made a few years ago for my mom, based on Julia Pretl's pattern in "Little Beaded Boxes."
#ArtAdventCalendar #beading #MyWork
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/580/198/147/915/130/original/4c626684fd346f54.jpg
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2024-12-01 16:59:16 GMT

#SilentSunday #SFBayview
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2024-11-27 21:30:50 GMT

Bold orange. Vivid blue. Strong lines.
#MyPhoto #BridgesOfMastodon #GoldenGateBridge #SanFrancisco #SFBA
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2024-11-07 04:41:53 GMT

"You look like you need kisses." - Chaya, as she jumped on me and stuck her nose in my face.
#CutenessTherapy #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFediverse
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2024-11-06 01:35:07 GMT

A beautiful sunset and moon tonight. I'll take it 😊
#JoyScrolling #sunset #UrbanBeauty #SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBayview #BayviewSF
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2024-11-03 19:16:32 GMT

xkcd endorses Kamala Harris for President. 💙
https://imgs.xkcd.com/news/[email protected] (currently used in the banner image on https://xkcd.com/)
#xkcd #ProHarris #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #USPol @npub1z4k…g27u
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2024-11-03 03:43:31 GMT

Damnala, that was awesomala!
#ProHarris #KamalaHarris #SNL #MayaRudulph #USPol @npub1z4k…g27u
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2024-11-01 04:05:17 GMT

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my great grandmother outlived 3 husbands and started dating her last boyfriend when she was in her mid-80s.
For years, she lied to him about her age because she didn't want him to know she was a little older than him. 😂
... She outlived him too and passed away at 102.
So yeah, I could imagine having a romantic relationship in my 70s – I might have 30 more years of life left!

2024-10-30 15:12:48 GMT

🎵 Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright 🎵
CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#TheBeatles #BloomScrollTheMusical #BloomScrolling #Diffraction #Nature
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2024-10-29 01:44:19 GMT

Hard-ish, Good-ish, Fast-ish, Strong-ish
🤷🏻‍♀️
#DaftPunk
#MakeASongTrivial
#HashTagGames

2024-10-27 02:50:19 GMT

This sunset is on 🔥
(Inspired by Michelle Obama's speech for Harris today? Perhaps!)
CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#ProHarris #sunset #UrbanBeauty #SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBayview #BayviewSF @npub1z4k…g27u
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2024-10-26 18:19:15 GMT

I love these inside-out flowers.
CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman.
#fig #BloomScrolling
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2024-10-26 04:22:36 GMT

As a native Philadelphian, I'm thrilled to see the #PhiladelphiaInquirer show the rest of the nation's newspapers how a proper endorsement is DONE.
"If elected, Harris, 60, would be the first Black, South Asian woman to hold the nation’s highest office. She rarely references her historic candidacy, and instead is laser-focused on earning votes through the substance of her vision, ideas, and temperament."
💥
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/a/endorsement-president-kamala-harris-democracy-20241025.html
#ProHarris #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz #USPol @npub1z4k…g27u

2024-10-25 15:04:20 GMT

A stunning sunrise in the Bayview.
CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman.
#sunrise #UrbanBeauty #SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBayview #BayviewSF #Friday
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2024-10-24 19:20:56 GMT

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Truth!
I don't have a delightful dog photo to show for it, but I'm currently sitting on my back steps, soaking up the sun while I'm on my lunch break. It's glorious!

2024-10-23 23:51:40 GMT

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Welp. I reloaded my search. Magically, the term "Google" now only appears once in the AI results, in a very tame sentence:
"Some say that Google has been affected by enshittification..."
🙄
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2024-10-23 20:00:59 GMT

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Wow. And somehow this is still live (usually by the time I see these kinds of posts, Google has adjusted their results to avoid showing the ones that are problematic for their brand).
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/358/506/763/790/461/original/cb382ca8898041f2.png

2024-10-22 01:29:48 GMT

Welcome to the Jungle
#NoEffort
#AdventureASongOrPoem #HashTagGames
#GunsNRoses

2024-10-21 15:44:57 GMT

A bird in the distance about to break free from the morning clouds.
CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman.
#MondayMotivation #PhotoMonday #Fotomontag #morning #dawn #SFBayview #SanFrancisco #SFBA
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2024-10-21 02:58:12 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2024-10-19 01:58:20 GMT

Sunset and sarracenia.
CC-BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #ViernesDeVentanas #VendrediDeFenetre #CarnivorousPlants #PitcherPlants #Sundews #Butterwort #Sunset
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2024-10-18 16:12:56 GMT

I finally watched #KamalaHarris's full interview on #FoxNews.
🏆 Harris CRUSHED it. 💖 the empathy she demonstrated & her strength & grace in the face of a hostile interviewer.
🔎 Harris provided clear answers on where voters can find all her policy details.
😬 Bret Baier was not interested in hearing Harris. He reminded me of the worst micro- and macro-aggressions I've dealt with as a woman in a male-dominated field.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112
#HarrisWalz2024 #ProHarris @npub1z4k…g27u

2024-10-13 16:20:19 GMT

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I'd be interested in seeing the full version of this one! The light patterns look cool.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/301/014/682/034/806/original/9959a739b05a99fe.png

2024-10-13 16:09:08 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2024-10-13 01:42:34 GMT

Get Out the vote
#MakeAMovieUseful #HashtagGames

2024-10-12 02:19:40 GMT

Oregano Sin
#PizzaToppingASongOrPoem #HashtagGames #INXS

2024-10-12 01:53:07 GMT

Jalapeño Love
#PizzaToppingASongOrPoem #HashtagGames #2Pac

2024-10-12 01:43:22 GMT

Thyme is on My Side
#PizzaToppingASongOrPoem #HashtagGames #RollingStones

2024-10-11 23:07:32 GMT

Love this South-facing window, especially when it starts to get chillier outside
CC-BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #ViernesDeVentanas #VendrediDeFenetre
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2024-10-11 17:14:01 GMT

A furry white mushroom popping its head out of the grass on a dewy morning.
CC-BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushroom #Champignon
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2024-10-11 02:27:04 GMT

I love living in #SanFrancisco and appreciate the extra light I get around here in the fall & winter compared to more northern locales.
But I'll admit I get jealous of places that experience the #NorthernLights.
No hope of seeing it here according to the NOAA's #aurora dashboard 😞 https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

2024-10-10 15:38:35 GMT

Chaya is very happy to have received a brand new ball with an intact squeaker.
CC-BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#WorldDogDay #Welthundetag #DogsOfMastodon #dogs #hund
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2024-10-05 19:26:06 GMT

Nyx the cat is on the alert.
CC-BY-SA Kate Zimmerman
#Caturday #Peturday #StrikingSaturday #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-10-02 04:24:09 GMT

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Vance: cringe
Walz: decent

2024-09-29 17:38:04 GMT

"Kamala Harris—who has shown herself to be sensible, humane, and liberal-minded—is our choice for the Presidency." - The New Yorker
💯💙
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/kamala-harris-for-president-endorsement
#KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #ProHarris #TheNewYorker @npub1z4k…g27u

2024-09-24 02:36:43 GMT

The sunsets at this time of year in San Francisco are reliably spectacular.
#PhotoMonday #sunset #SanFrancisco
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2024-09-23 02:35:32 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2024-09-22 14:48:04 GMT

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💯
I *hated* memorizing the addition and multiplication tables. Every summer I forgot them. 😭
But later in life, I realized there were ways to reason through the harder combinations. Now that I have a kid of my own, we talk about how to figure out math problems. Sometimes it's like a game, using the easier combos and finding a path to the harder question.
Like, what's 8*9? Well, 8*10 is 80, subtract 8 once, and you get 72.

2024-09-21 18:08:35 GMT

🎓→👩🏻‍💻 Left academia for tech 15 years ago
🏗️ Built data teams from the ground up
💁🏻‍♀️ Hired and mentored awesome data scientists
🏆 Championed ethical data practices
🌈🎉 LIVING the change I want to see in the tech industry
#Introduction #Introductions

2024-09-21 17:39:23 GMT

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Also, for the last position I hired: two people who reached out to me on LinkedIn (in response to a post I made about the job) made it to the final interview round. They had sent relevant messages that resonated with me. So I made sure to look for their applications.
It can be a good approach if you're thoughtful about it and see something in the job posting that inspires you.

2024-09-21 17:32:24 GMT

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As early as you can get it in while still making sure it's tailored to the job posting. It's a good idea to revise your resume so that it highlights the experience and responsibilities that are emphasized in the job posting.

2024-09-21 17:27:31 GMT

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As a hiring manager who has sifted through thousands of applications, in this market: I'd recommend getting your application in early and not waiting for the "right" day of the week.

2024-09-21 16:39:03 GMT

# TextureTuesday is distinctive, # SilentSunday is sublime, and I just unearthed the funky # FungiFriday.
But I haven't yet found a satisfying #Saturday #hashtag. Suggestions?

2024-09-11 02:27:24 GMT

"We see in each other a friend. We see in each other a neighbor. And we just want to invest in the aspirations of our country." - Kamala Harris
💖
@npub1z4k…g27u #HarrisTrumpDebate #HarrisWalz2024

2024-09-11 01:56:07 GMT

"Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people." - Kamala Harris
@npub1z4k…g27u #HarrisTrumpDebate #HarrisWalz2024

2024-09-07 21:20:05 GMT

🎶 What I lichen 'bout you, you keep me warm at night
Never wanna let you go, know you make me feel alright, yeah! 🎶
A spiral lichen "bloom" grows on a branch at Point Reyes National Seashore.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/lichen-and-our-air.htm
#BloomScrolling #BloomScrollTheMusical #Lichen #NaturePhotography #NatureUpClose #TheRomantics
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