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hedgefruit.bsky.social
camille butera ✨🪻
@hedgefruit.bsky.social
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stationery afficionado, grumbler, big fan of cities — info sci phd student @ cu boulder (she/her).
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summer crafting update: finished the body of this sweater (the lighting + my camera don't capture the color of this at all rip) so now it's arm time
July 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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‼️ Do you have accounts you no longer use? I'm a researcher at CU Boulder studying how and why people stop using accounts to improve technology design!
💬 30–90 min interview (via a video communication service like Zoom)
💰 $30 Amazon gift card as compensation!
👉 Sign up: bit.ly/AccountAband...
Account Abandonment Personal Experiences - Do you have accounts you no longer use? Maybe an email address you made as a teen that you’ve half-forgotten about? A Facebook account gathering dust? - Receive a $30 Amazon gift card for participating in a 30-90 minute interview about your experiences! Who am I? - Camille Butera, Information Science PhD student at CU Boulder If you have any questions, contact: camille.butera@colorado.edu
June 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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pants: bested

(not quite as tidy as I'd like, but for my first pair of pants, I'm pretty happy)
June 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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and now: a dress!
May 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
hedgefruit.bsky.social
time is a flat circle (i am halfway through war and peace)
May 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🥰 shirt!!
May 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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my DEEPLY optimistic summer reading pile (not pictured: queer technologies + purity and danger)
May 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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like i'm sorry but the cooking set where the box everything comes in also doubles as a stove is so important to me
tiny toy kitchen set featuring a cardboard stove and various pots and pans
May 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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important tasks on my to-do list for tomorrow
May 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Thus, what I say about the crisis of the left is a sort of mirror-image of what I say about Thatcherism. The only way of genuinely contesting a hegemonic form of politics is to develop a counter-hegemonic strategy. But this cannot, in my view, be done if we go on thinking the same things we have always thought and doing the same things we have always done only more so, harder, and with more 'conviction'. It means a qualitative change: not the recovery of 'lost ground' but the redefinition, under present conditions, of what the whole project of socialism now means.
April 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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been revisiting this zeynep essay from dec 2020 a lot lately and just keep vibrating with how clearly she anticipated some of the trajectory that got us here

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It’s not enough to count on our institutions to resist such onslaughts. Our institutions do not operate via magic. They do not gain their power from names, buildings, desks, or even rules. Institutions rely on people collectively agreeing to act in a certain way. Human laws do not simply exert their power like the inexorable pull of gravity. Once people decide that the rules are different, the rules are different. The rules for electoral legitimacy have been under sustained assault, and they’re changing right before our eyes. We’re being tested, and we’re failing. The next attempt to steal an election may involve a closer election and smarter lawsuits. Imagine the same playbook executed with better decorum, a president exerting pressure that is less crass and issuing tweets that are more polite. If most Republican officials are failing to police this ham-handed attempt at a power grab, how many would resist a smoother, less grossly embarrassing effort? Adding to the crisis is that many of the 74 million people who voted for Trump now believe that the election was outright stolen. They believe that they were robbed of the right to vote. How many of these supporters will be tempted to carry Trump’s claims about being cheated out of an election victory to their logical conclusion? Meanwhile, millions of people around the country are repeatedly experiencing that being a majority is not enough to win elections, or even if one does win, not always enough to be able to govern.
February 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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🚀 Ever used a throwaway or alt account? I'm a researcher at CU Boulder studying multiple account use to improve social media design!

💬 30–90 min interview (Zoom, Google Meet, etc.)
💰 $30 Amazon gift card as compensation!
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Below contains the text of a flyer: Alternate Account Personal Experiences - Have you ever had an alternate or throwaway account? Or maybe you juggle multiple accounts on the same social media platform? - Receive a $30 Amazon gift card for participating in a 30-90 minute interview about your experiences! Who am I? - Camille Butera, Information Science PhD student at CU Boulder If you have any questions, contact: camille.butera@colorado.edu
February 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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this is the same image, to me
the bandcamp page for the song future shock from the album bad time zoo (2011) by sims the cover of kenneth gergen's "the saturated self: dilemmas of identity in contemporary life" (1991)
February 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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i’m moving soon!! which means that i’m officially opening these up/promoting them to help cover and deal with some travel costs!! i’m available by email (hedgefruitcommission@gmail.com) and i cannot wait to draw some little guys !!
July 31, 2023 at 8:10 PM