Elsa Birch

Buying toothpaste in SF is cheaper than an escape room and pretty much the same experience

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Stacks of la croix boxes in grocery, there is lime and lemon but also 'pure' and 'sunshine'

La Croix is progressing on the abstraction scale

Screenshot of Google Maps overview of a highway labeled 101 with beach tot he left and mountains to the right. There's a grocery cart icon labeled 'safeway' with the description: 'shrimp with Guinness flavor'

I have questions I am not sure I want the answers to

A small metal container with a plastic basket in it, filled with water and a few soap bubbles floating above two pairs of acetate framed glasses: one clear champagne colored and one black

I cannot recommend highly enough the low stakes drama and catharsis of watching your glasses in an ultrasonic cleaner

If the San Francisco bush man has a good IP lawyer he could make lots of money off the halftime show

youtu.be/yS2IBMQIjDo?...

Cymbidium orchards with two flower stalks each: one a faded maroon and one a yellow with red speckles. They're on a parquet floor in a tote bag in the sun

The orchids

A sidewalk with the shadows of two people: the taller has spikey branches in shadow and the shorter is totally surrounded by the gently curved leaves of cymbidium orchids and some of their bulbous flower stalks

Bouquet Sunday today is branches for inside and orchids for the garden

One of my boyfriends in college always had an emergency cliff bar for if I got disastrously hangry and it was a benevolent gesture but certainly an incentive to not quite get to needing one

got the succession theme in stuck in my head for some reason

A cyanobacteria as Sue Sylvester from the musical television show Glee saying: "I'm going to create an environment that is so toxic"

Cyanobacteria during the Great Oxygenation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, which resulted in the mass extinction of many anaerobic organisms 🧪
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_O...

It really is printers that inspire this reaction - they're so confounding and make all these harsh little sudden noises 🫣

Comic. Standard 16-Part Epoxy. [Epoxy applicator with multiple labeled chambers in different colors: resin; hardener; filler, softener; rosin; stuff that bonds permanently to skin and nothing else; stuff that will turn white and crack over a few days, for decorative appearance; placebo; minced duct tape; acetone Fragrance; powdered bar magnets; polyethylvinylesteracetate; 2-polyethylvinylesteracetate; salt and pepper to taste; blood sample from the Gorilla Glue gorillas; stuff that bonds to every known material except yours]

16-Part Epoxy

xkcd.com/3194/

I just had some leftover from a Halloween project and put them in little packs on a whim!

A greeting card envelope with some size googly eyes at the seal

A tin of fish where the fish on the label has a googly eye applied

I highly recommending giving small bags of googly eyes to each family member in their Christmas stockings as the shenanigans last well into January

I know the car pilled haters won't stop trying but this a welcome reprieve

All seasons are now intern season

It's my birthday on Tuesday and you know this is my wish!!

So I started using fondue pots to keep gravy warm at thanksgiving and I think gravy fondue is the next logical step

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So much this! Like it's fine to acknowledge someone else is super cool in a way that does not decrease your own different flavor of coolness. In fact doing your own thing will probably make you more cool

All positive in my experience because the Waymo's faults are things humans do more egregiously and there's a path forward for increasing safety of AVs over time

The tech isn't perfect, to me being around and in them the bar is about being any amount better, or even just more consistent, than the rather terrifying and deadly drivers here in SF

We have central heating but we loose heat fast enough I'm just laying on the floor in front of the heat vent so it's not just wasted 💸

The focus is on a clear cup of iced tea with the Coupa Cafe logo which is a mosaic of primary colors plus green. In the foreground is a plate of salad and corn arepas and behind the sunshine on the Stanford Engineering quad

a little treat at an old haunt

After The Smiths discography that's already mentioned a lot in this thread probably Ender's Game

Was scrolling down to add this one 😭 there's so much media I've given up because of bad creators but I haven't relinquished these

Anecdotally as a cyclist+ped in a dense Waymo area they do block bike lanes similarly to other vehicles but because they obey the speed limit, adhere to stop signs, and are relatively aware of and deferential to cyclists+peds I feel safer on streets with Waymos than empty ones

Scripted: Dr Finlay