Yvonne Lam
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
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"Why do you think more people are applying to art school now?"
"People want to create, not just for the sake of making art, but even just to be able to knit a sweater. There’s this desire to be responsible for smthg in a world where so much of what you buy + participate in is just not up to you."
"People want to create, not just for the sake of making art, but even just to be able to knit a sweater. There’s this desire to be responsible for smthg in a world where so much of what you buy + participate in is just not up to you."
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Why do you think more people are applying to art school now?"
"People want to create, not just for the sake of making art, but even just to be able to knit a sweater. There’s this desire to be responsible for smthg in a world where so much of what you buy + participate in is just not up to you."
"People want to create, not just for the sake of making art, but even just to be able to knit a sweater. There’s this desire to be responsible for smthg in a world where so much of what you buy + participate in is just not up to you."
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OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?
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I’d already agreed not to hack their systems, what the fuck else could they want?
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I’d already agreed not to hack their systems, what the fuck else could they want?
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They* said it couldn't be done! But Mr Rational Amounts of Confectionery Architecture has long left the building, so I present...the Gingerbread Street.
*me
*me
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
They* said it couldn't be done! But Mr Rational Amounts of Confectionery Architecture has long left the building, so I present...the Gingerbread Street.
*me
*me
Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
We need to be more intentional about practicing stuff without automation to make sure we know how to do it.
You should need a special license to drive one of these dumb things, and to renew it, you should have to take a driving test every single year in which you have to drive around without these features turned on in order to show that you can still do it.
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We need to be more intentional about practicing stuff without automation to make sure we know how to do it.
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You know what’s a good start in safe driving? NOT ATTEMPTING SOFTWARE RESETS WHILE OPERATING THE CAR. Have you never heard of a McDonald’s parking lot? Can you not navigate yourself off a highway and out of immediate danger using those big green metal squares with words on them?
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
You know what’s a good start in safe driving? NOT ATTEMPTING SOFTWARE RESETS WHILE OPERATING THE CAR. Have you never heard of a McDonald’s parking lot? Can you not navigate yourself off a highway and out of immediate danger using those big green metal squares with words on them?
Adding to Mount To Be Read
Why am I full of bile and envy and despair?
Right. Okay. Alex Woolf's book on early medieval Scotland is great though. From Pictland to Alba.
Right. Okay. Alex Woolf's book on early medieval Scotland is great though. From Pictland to Alba.
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Adding to Mount To Be Read
Ever since I read Jenny Odell's Saving Time, I think about how capitalism induces time poverty.
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Ever since I read Jenny Odell's Saving Time, I think about how capitalism induces time poverty.
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
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Chag Chanukah sameach from Ozzy
December 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Chag Chanukah sameach from Ozzy
Wanted: someone I can talk to about rigging for rowing shells who won't make me feel unhinged.
December 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wanted: someone I can talk to about rigging for rowing shells who won't make me feel unhinged.
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OH SHIT
👀
👀
March 2026.
In paperback: SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS: HOW EARLY MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS SHAPED THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITER.
www.amazon.com/Shakespeares...
#ShakespearesBorrowedFeathers #Shakespeare #EarlyModernDrama #Literature #BookRelease #History #TheatreHistory #MustRead
In paperback: SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS: HOW EARLY MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS SHAPED THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITER.
www.amazon.com/Shakespeares...
#ShakespearesBorrowedFeathers #Shakespeare #EarlyModernDrama #Literature #BookRelease #History #TheatreHistory #MustRead
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
OH SHIT
👀
👀
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Berkeley has some amazing little free libraries
December 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Berkeley has some amazing little free libraries
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another ICE grab from within our Portland Catholic community. Evelyn is a high school student whose father was assaulted and abducted while she was in the car. My parents have dear friends who know the family and asked for help spreading the word. Please donate and boost if you can 💕
Donate to Justice for Fermin Lara Palacios, organized by Evelyn Lara
Hi, my name is Evelyn Lara Roque and I am the daughter of Fermin Lara Palacios. On Thursd… Evelyn Lara needs your support for Justice for Fermin Lara Palacios
www.gofundme.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
another ICE grab from within our Portland Catholic community. Evelyn is a high school student whose father was assaulted and abducted while she was in the car. My parents have dear friends who know the family and asked for help spreading the word. Please donate and boost if you can 💕
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
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necessary
THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
December 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
necessary
O...shit.
Every day in trauma recovery, wake up & take time to identify what you want to feel. One of our biggest vulnerabilities as survivors is going on autopilot. Our autopilot was programmed by our bullies & abusers, & will steer us toward feeling like garbage.
Take the wheel.
Take the wheel.
December 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
O...shit.
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I am literally an intellectual historian and I hear the phrase "history's great thinkers" as the declaration of an interpretive emergency requiring my expertise.
the phrase "history's great thinkers" strikes me as altogether embarrassing.
December 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I am literally an intellectual historian and I hear the phrase "history's great thinkers" as the declaration of an interpretive emergency requiring my expertise.
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I just want to buy a thing. If it's a good thing and the experience is good, I may want more things. That's it. I do not need and I definitely do not want this many touch points.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I just want to buy a thing. If it's a good thing and the experience is good, I may want more things. That's it. I do not need and I definitely do not want this many touch points.
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It’s not like I didn’t already think this situation was really fucking bad, but I was beginning to think it was way fucking worse.
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s not like I didn’t already think this situation was really fucking bad, but I was beginning to think it was way fucking worse.
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Are they telling me we should turn the heat up in the house?
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Are they telling me we should turn the heat up in the house?
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My late mother-in-law made us Christmas ornaments for years, I think we can agree that this is some of her best work. Miss her.
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My late mother-in-law made us Christmas ornaments for years, I think we can agree that this is some of her best work. Miss her.
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One of my fav part in Latour's ANT is the attempt to make sense of the mess that 'social' generated for us!
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
One of my fav part in Latour's ANT is the attempt to make sense of the mess that 'social' generated for us!