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Elsa Birch

@elsabirch.bsky.social

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Living in the SF cloud and engineering in the data cloud. Also: plants, coffee, cooking, a chemeng microbio phd, she/her, via Portland and Boulder. Are these views even mine? We just don’t know. Same handle most other spots.

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 1d

it just hits different

The setting is a cluttered garage pegboard and wire shelf, in the center is a portable spaceship shaped tape and CD boombox labeled Toshiba with a glowing lcd counter

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 3d

@ whoever tossed gross rottable *whatever that was* into my recycling bin before I returned it to the garage

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 4d

Ohhhh Vienna sausages!

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 4d

Musubi are too much a labor of love, but uncooked slightly slimy spam maybe?

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 9d

Personal style goals+inspo:

Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 9d

SPRUCED UP FOR DINNER ... an American three-toed woodpecker forages for grubs hidden in the bark.

#woodpecker #birds #nature #photography

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 9d

When we first bought this place I was in a full spiral till I figured out there were actually different colors of nearly identical light beige on different walls within some rooms

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 9d

That's some well treated anxiety you've got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it... like say trying to color match the white ceiling paint in your old house

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 9d

Bike bouquet Sunday

Back of a bike with baskets containing various bags, a jug of foggy fresh apple cider, and wrapped in brown paper intensely red orange crocosmia in full bloom

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Brooke Jamieson @brookejamieson.bsky.social · 10d

Huge PSA: framed art cat beds are a thing, and you can just swap out the art to make it into the best wedding photo display of all time

Harry the cat in a wedding photo frame bed

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 10d

Oh this could be wonderful organizationally for some distributed data systems I work with 🫶🏼

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social · 12d

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

discuss.python.org

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 11d

Oh man I have not tried this and will definitely next time

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 11d

Spooky Season 🤝 Soup Season

Looking though water in a stainless steel pan to see lightly roasted chick feet which are the first ingredient added to this batch of broth

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 14d

The little pinwheels that spin in the interterminal train tunnel are mine! (a joke for folks that know I'm not nearly that cheerful)

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14d

today is the last day for AOL dial-up. 90s kid chris can finally sign off. he's now free to roam the earth offline

*extremely aol voice*: goodbye
youtu.be/F2Z2CklSxM0?...

Me as a kid at a computer taking a selfie with an old camera, shaved hair and glasses, blue striped shirt, computer style suggests mid 90s.

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 20d

No, there was no explanation or response at the time - eventually KQED picked up on the Reddit thread www.kqed.org/news/1205746... The whole thing certainly seemed like a very near miss of a much worse outcome

SF Muni Riders Say Morning Train Barreled Through Stop, Felt Like It Could Derail | KQED

San Francisco’s Muni is investigating after riders on an eastbound N Judah train said it sped through the Sunset Tunnel, missed its station and then came to an abrupt stop.

www.kqed.org

Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 20d

There's a Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...

From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the sanfrancisco community

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 20d

Anyone else on the N Muni that roller coaster exited at Duboce and Noe today and couldn't stop for a few blocks?

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 22d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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