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thisiselena.bsky.social
elena perez
@thisiselena.bsky.social
2.5K followers 980 following 4.9K posts

TV writer, top secret poet, short stories, novel
pro bckgrnd: tech / marketing
affable and staffable
a lot curious, a little furious
voted most likely to post about mint chip ice cream
NJ, Philly, NYC, now LA
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13004682/
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thisiselena.bsky.social
Drop something GOLD 🏆👑
A scene from downtown LA during golden hour: the skies are dark and cloudy and low, but the evening sun casts contrasting glowing gold light over the buildings and wires in the center of the frame. Railroad tracks move in horizontal god lines across the foreground. Incidentally, this photo was taken within moments of learning Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
Jenny Holzer's words on the New Amsterdam Theatre marquee, 42nd Street, Times Square, New York, 1993. It reads: TURN SOFT AND LOVELY ANY TIME YOU HAVE A CHANCE
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
get yourself a friend who brings scrumptious chocolate zucchini cupcakes on a mini road trip to see Werner Herzog speak about truth. ❤️
a delicious chocolate zucchini cupcake, topped with a dollop of white frosting and a raspberry. it sits on a blue plate against a green woven placemat
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday #poetry
A poem called "cities" -- there are things people learn and things people don’t learn, like the way cities look under destruction There are edits made on the poem, so "don't learn" is changed to "won't learn" and "cities look under destruction" reads "cities look ALIKE under destruction."
October 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
the poet as a pick up truck in the snow
On a foggy winter day, as seen through a water-dappled car windshield, a white pickup truck cruises along a snowy road framed by tall trees
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday #poetry
untitled poem why do u want God to be a Mean Girl— entitled, omniscient, obeyed— one severely bitty basket of blessings? (by elena perez)
September 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
"personalized updates"
"visual cards"
"each day starts with a new, focused set of updates"

...countdown to Chatgpt ads...
A screenshot from an Open AI postt: Today we're releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar. You can curate what ChatGPT researches by letting it know what’s useful and what isn’t. The research appears in Pulse as topical visual cards you can scan quickly or open for more detail, so each day starts with a new, focused set of updates.
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
which email data broker entered me in the spirit of halloween sweepstakes, i wonder 🤔
A partial screenshot of a Spirit of Halloween email saying "THANK YOU FOR ENTERING TO WIN"
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
should be popping up any minute now
a "captcha' edited so, instead of reading "I am not a robot" it reads "I am not a heathen" and the corner (where it usually says "CAPTCHA" under the reset arrows, reads "RAPTCHA"
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
here you go
a captcha edited to say "raptcha" with "I am a believer" instead of "I am a robot"
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
pbs is punk t-shirt day
a black tshirt with the PBS logo but it has a mohawk and a studded punk-style collar and a nose ring and reads PBS IS PUNK
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
los angeles sky tonight
Downtown Los Angeles at sunset. Looking down on some low roofs in the foreground. In the background, a warm swirl of light disappears behind the downtown skyline
September 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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i mean *buffs nails on shirt*
This is a graphic that shows my Bluesky Alt Text rating is 100%.
September 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
thisiselena.bsky.social
qualifications on a job posting 😆
Qualifications and selection criteria Strong belief that AI is a powerful force for good which will also destroy humanity CV that suggests you are white Our AI recruitment tool filters out people of color — we're trying to fix this but it's difficult to get it to stop, sorry! Expert at using AI to write about AI in a way that convinces other people you are an AI expert Over 20 years' experience researching LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
posting about Something Else™

deeply conflicted about this sign. i am willing to roll with the hyperbole but — the kerning! the k e r n i n g!
A neon sign reads ICE CREAM SOLVES EVERYTHING (with an image of a cone). There is an extra space between the O and the L in "solves"
September 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
TIL that September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! Libraries are beautiful. Do your thing -- if you haven't already:
A cute raccoon snuggles a Los Angeles Public Library library card
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
feeling this message from my '23 strike sign.
a picket sign reads "Value Creatives"
September 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
freeing the bra strap
Madonna in the Borderline video, but from the back so we can see that her black bra strap is peeking out her black tank.
September 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
soon their cars will be yellow
A promo from Uber promoting "a new way to pay: Cash"
September 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
curious how this one holds up
a copy of the DVD of David Koepp's The Trigger Effect (1996)
August 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
A lot of people don't appreciate how difficult it was to lay the foundation of the internet as we know it today. To that end, here is a photo of Richard Dreyfuss, utterly exhausted as he pulls an all-nighter creating an early prototype of the 💩
This is actually Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, looking quite tired as he crafts a real life sculpture of what could be a mountain or volcano (but it looks like a poop emoji)
August 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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one for the "life finds a way" files 🌺
a portulaca flower (aka moss rose) with spiky green leaves and a single flower grows from the cracks of patio paver stones
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
even the fortune cookies managing expectations for creative pursuits these days 🤣
A fortune from a fortune cookie reads: Follow your creative impulses; they lead to self-expression
August 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
thisiselena.bsky.social
this may be the greenest mint chip that ever mint chipped
a cone of mint chip ice cream
August 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
thisiselena.bsky.social
memories of another writing morning
The sun peeks over the horizon, casting a golden glow on a small deck — a steaming cup of coffee, an open laptop and a small table and chairs. The deck sits on the beach overlooking the northern Pacific in the USA.
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM