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elsabirch.bsky.social
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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Who among us can cook lentils without listening to UK Hun? #bimini
Screenshot from the Uk drag race girl group challenge of the j tied king dolls
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Bike bouquet Sunday
Two large bunch's of flowers, both in the back baskets of a bike: classic yellow sunflowers and creamy light near chartreuse tinged marigolds
October 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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@ whoever tossed gross rottable *whatever that was* into my recycling bin before I returned it to the garage
October 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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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
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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
October 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Bike bouquet Sunday!
Back of a small electric bike with cargo baskets full of shopping bags, produce like a leek stick out. Wrapped in newspaper in the middle are some purple and pink cosmos
September 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Question of the morning is if I should make a shrub with this or just turn the Shiso in my ume up to 11?
Picture down at a sidewalk, part of a figure is there in slate gray overalls and Birkenstocks. The focus is on the grey plastic laundry basket held in hand full of vibrant purple leaves with feathery edges overflowing the basket Trays along a counter in the kitchen filled with freshly washed vibrant purple leaves
September 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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the wreath I made this weekend is now giving a a slightly threatening organically grown Oscar the Grouch vibe
What was a perky oval eucalyptus leaf wreath now droops like a green leaf yeti head of some sort on a brown wood front door
September 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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long week Friday vibes
A worn champagne velvet stuffed chair is fallen over on the sidewalk in the peach sunset light in front of a pink building corner
September 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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There are worse ordering mishaps I suppose though I'm going to try to make a wreath with that second bunch of greenery
A vase with a very large bouquet of blue green oblong eucalyptus arching out in a dense layer with yellow crocosmia in the center
September 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Today's bike bouquet Sunday features me accidentally duplicating my CSA order
The back of a folding electric bike almost entirely obscured by large bunches of blue green eucalyptus with oblong lilting leaves The front basket of a little electric folding bike with three bunches of golden orange crocosmia wrapped in brown paper
September 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Portland policies
A handwritten sign that says: no food, no drinks, no colds, no BO
September 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Portland gonna Portland
A labubu - possibly lafufu - in a Tibetan gift shop in Portland wearing prayer beads and a hamsa surrounded by southeast Asian religious objects and crystals
August 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The nation has bigger problems but ugggghhhhh this is so bad
The decorative elements on a door overhang the surface they're attached onto
August 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Crab CAKES
A small plate with an informally painted crab with a shell that is voluptuous and reminiscent of 🍑
August 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Bike bouquet Sunday
A bike with side and back baskets which are quite full - a bouquet of fuchsia roses are tucked on one side
June 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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new work tote
An LL Bean medium boat and tote with black straps. The embroidery monogram says: "won't fix" and there is a puffy CDG play charm looking frazzled with big eyes on a heart shape.
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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The bluesky elders. always watching.
Classic ceiling cat meme
June 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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feeling a bit guilty about making veggie soup at the moment
a ping pong ball sized turnip sits in dappled sun on a mandoline: two small insect holes stare like tiny eyes from a peeled facet
June 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know:
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Not sure this is entirely flattering, but not wrong either
Olenna Tyrell is a character from Game of Thrones. Dr. Adrian Mallory is a character from Space Force Temperance Brennan is a character from Bones Dr. Strange is a character from Marvel Cinematic Universe.
May 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Ohhh the JSON perf looks amazing in Alexey Milovidov's keynote
A man smiles holding a microphone beneath a large slide on Json performance where clickhouse is very performant and Postgres and DuckDB are least
May 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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in an era of bad scrabble hand brand names some dare to be pronounceable:
A listing tile in google shopping products interface for two mesh racks for drying fruit in the sun. The name is: Goohochy
May 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Juicing out in record time!
A large glass jar of Japanese use plums, golden with hints of chartreuse. Some are snow capped with salt and there are clear glass picking weights on top of them in the jar. The brine of their liquid and salt covers three of the six layers and a finger points to the level of the liquid
May 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Getting salty here!
Japanese ume plums, with a soft golden hue but still some green spots and occasional blush. Some plums are arranged in a single layer at the bottom of a large glass jar set on a dishcloth. There's a light sprinkling of white salt on the layer of plums. Japanese ume plums, with a soft golden hue but still some green spots and occasional blush. The plums are arranged in layers within a large glass jar set on a dishcloth. A hefty mounding of salt is piled on each one
May 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM