Internship at the geography and maps division at the library of congress
https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/geography-and-map/about-this-research-center/internships/
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics.
My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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1d ago
German tourist sued a New York taqueria for salsa that was too spicy. Judge says ‘the spice is often the point’
He should keep this up and keep suing people, he will become American in no time
I hope he never goes to Thailand
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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2d ago
I’m in a random strip mall in Fremont and it’s got:
- a good Kathi roll shop
- a regional Chinese restaurant specialized in crepes and buns from Tianjin
- an Afghan ice cream shop
- an Afghan kebab shop
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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2d ago
Best thing since sliced bread? A man on a bicycle who toasts and butters and puts chocolate on your bread who will come to your house.
(Indian Muslim bread sellers of Penang, Malaysia)
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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2d ago
I’ve crossed from SF to Oakland / Fremont 4 times this week, all of it for snacks
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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2d ago
35 year old rapper wins landslide #Nepal elections and will be its next prime minister
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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2d ago
Usually by the time I get up to this spot to take a pic I’m tired (bit of a walk / climb)
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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4d ago
As an autistic femme-presenting person I have had a lifetime of frustration with fashion, and the idea of ‘clothes’. I don’t know why I’m supposed to like them, or care for them. They frustrate me and literally make me cry.
I’ve decided I don’t want to feel this way about it anymore. So I will pretend that ‘fashion’ is like any other topic I don’t know anything about and am curious to learn more about.
It helps to no longer be living in places where fashion is super gendered (I also struggle with my ‘gender’).
Just like I like well made musical instruments and electronic devices, I think I can also like well made fabrics and clothes. This means that most fast fashion is out of the question for me: which is fine, I didn’t like them anyway.
I feel like I’m on a new adventure and this is the hardest thing I’ll ever do. Harder than starting a company or emigrating. lol
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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5d ago
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to Gen x and boomer women calling each other their girlfriends in a platonic sense
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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6d ago
Cal matters is hiring a tech reporter
https://calmatters.org/about/jobs/tech-reporter-159/
#GetFediHired #California #Jobs #Journalism
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Mar 10, 2026
“Opportunity for Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to carry out research in the areas of peace and conflict studies, political violence or state repression at the University of Mannheim, Germany.”
“The recipient will be part of my team at the University of Mannheim and carry out their own theory-driven empirical research broadly on the topics of peace and conflict, political violence and state repression. The fellowship may last from 6 to 24 months and can be divided into up to three stays within three years.”
The Fellowship includes a monthly stipend of of 3,000 EUR, moving and travel allowance.”
“To be eligible:
- you need to have a PhD in political science
- you need to have an excellent publication record relative to your academic age
- you are not a German citizen and you do not have a degree from a German university or have previously had a longer research stay at a German institution.”
#Academia #Germany #PoliticalScience #GetFediHired
https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/update/activity:7436850222930100224
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Mar 09, 2026
Rest of World publication is paying $1000 per story for stories about labor and tech
https://restofworld.org/rest-of-worlds-labor-x-tech-reporting/
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Mar 08, 2026
One of the reasons I low key diss the rooster brand sriracha (other than not liking how it tastes)
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Mar 07, 2026
I have #aphantasia so I can’t visualize my cat, who I miss, but I can ‘feel’ the missing weight of her 15 pounds on my chest, and I still expect to be screamed at every morning when I open my eyes.
#Cats
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Mar 06, 2026
Sign of a good taco truck: it’s co-located with a car wash
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Mar 05, 2026
Apparently one of the old WeWorks in mid-Market SF is going to be turned into a place that helps homeless people.
I could not write better sci-fi
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 28, 2026
Mastodon: the social media where everyone has a NAS
Or opinions on NAS
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RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116149727745113480 I worked on a large scale project testing medical transcription. (Maybe one of the largest ones) Hundreds of doctors reviewed the output and calle
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 28, 2026
In fact, I am willing to offer up to five hours of my time — free — to any public sector team or nonprofit (with annual operating costs below USD 2M) anywhere in the world that needs help figuring out what makes sense and how to respond to top down pressure telling you to implement AI.
And if they’ve already chosen something for you, I am willing to help you figure out how to sand down the risks.
email me: adrianna (at) futureethics.ai
Edit: for public servants who technically can’t get ‘free’ things from a vendor, consider this one on one coaching / advice or a pre-sales call
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 28, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116149727745113480
I worked on a large scale project testing medical transcription. (Maybe one of the largest ones) Hundreds of doctors reviewed the output and called out the issues.
It was not, and still is not, ready. Public health teams that roll this out without red teaming and remediation and feedback and a way to influence the weights of models are irresponsible.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 28, 2026
The state of California is hiring an investigative technologist to assist on technical research relating to consumer protection and privacy
Can be based in LA, Oakland, SF or San Diego
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 28, 2026
13 months ago, I printed and dropped off a dossier. It weighed about 6 pounds (I weighed it).
My laser printer more than paid itself off.
It’s been an arduous 13 months, but we are now permanent residents and I never have to check ‘require visa sponsorship’ again.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 27, 2026
One of the best things I did when I got to SF was open a mailbox at a local business near me. They specialize in paperwork and mail stuff. Not only does this help me with package theft (I ship all high value goods there); when I don’t have the spoons to do things like ‘find the right stamps and box or envelope’, I pay them extra to do it for me. Outsourcing ‘how to get something somewhere’ has saved me so much.
Because they’re also a notary, they know a lot about the local paperwork. I almost threw out a doc that looked like junk to me but she knew that it was an important doc from just seeing the back of it.
Also, there are cats.
Edit: cat tax
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 27, 2026
Michelle Yeoh plays several characters in this short film set in Penang.
The codeswitching (language and body language) based on status / environment / character is nuanced and reflects a broad range of the Malaysian Chinese city life experience that I have been a part of.
I also love that most of it is filmed in food places, and now I am terribly homesick.
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Feb 27, 2026
I met someone recently who fosters squirrels as a wildlife org volunteer. They had 16. Eventually they clarified not all at once, but I was imagining life in a home with 16 squirrels and that would be terrifying and awesome
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 27, 2026
I’ve met a few folks from this community!
Singaporean (and Malaysian) Chinese women who were adopted and raised by Tamil families as infants
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 26, 2026
The first things I learned when I woke up today:
- polar bears and grizzly bears can have offspring! Grizzly bear father + polar bear mom = grolar bears
- polar bear father + grizzly bear mom = pizzly bear
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 26, 2026
Not just from SE Asia. A refugee from the Rohingya community that fled Myanmar. In a genocide accelerated by Facebook.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 25, 2026
Top 1% of Singapore households hold 14% of total household wealth; top 5% hold 33%
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 25, 2026
Believing that African and Asian people are capitalist CIA pawns unless they 100% align with your esoteric form of internet leftism
Is also a form of colonialism.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 25, 2026
Relooted: a South African video game about taking back artefacts from colonialist museums
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/21/south-african-video-game-artefacts-western-museums
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 25, 2026
So yesterday my wife and I went for an immigration interview (one of the last steps in a major process for us). They asked her how we met.
She said ‘our exes broke up with us, then we hung out, we’ve been together for 9 years now’
The officer wrote that all down ‘our exes broke up with us and we hung out’
And we had to sign it.
So there is now a record of how super queer we are in the official archives.
#LGBTQ
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 24, 2026
Middle class kids like me can get one throw every decade maybe. I’m about to throw a dart again.
I’m aware lots of things had to have happened for me to even be able to do this. Primarily that my parents without college degrees experienced a once in a lifetime economic growth story in a country that suddenly became rich in their lifetimes. And that I have a passport that lets me go anywhere i want.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 24, 2026
I’ve been surprised to learn that many people on this side of the world (other than Asian immigrants and their families) don’t seem to know the extent of Japanese cruelty and imperialism less than a century ago.
This is a good overview although individual countries’ experience with Japanese war and occupation and massacres also deserve to be studied in greater detail. They killed millions of people. Maybe even tens of millions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ippag3/comment/mcugema/
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 23, 2026
Quietly queer: #LGBTQ meetups in #Oakland for introverts and quiet people that don’t center alcohol
https://www.meetup.com/quietly-queer-meetup-for-lgbtq-introverts-and-allies/
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 22, 2026
My friends and family are freezing back home because temps hit 68F / 20C for the first time in.. ever? A long time. Anyway, sure sign of climate change.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/wet-weather-rain-la-nina-monsoon-climate-patterns-5942351
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 21, 2026
San Francisco as described in this piece is as exhausting as it sounds
But
I’m also glad that I don’t have to live in that version of it
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 18, 2026
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 15, 2026
I would really like it if white Americans would stop fake begging other settler or colonialist countries to invade us. Yes, they have healthcare, but if you truly believe they have their shit together I have a bridge to sell you.
Do they have more of their shit together? Yes!
Will they treat nonwhite people better? Probably not. POC already have enough nonsense to deal with in this country we don’t need another country’s shit because you think it’ll be fun and sophisticated to be (some other country you like but have never been)
I highly encourage you to google all of these other countries you love so much with the terms ‘immigrants’ and ‘detention camp’ and ‘police violence’. All of you have the same shit. It’s not funny.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 14, 2026
I feel like it was an open secret that Rene from Noma was a POS, like so many of the most famous chefs are. I’ve seen posts from around the world by people who have suffered under him
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 14, 2026
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 13, 2026
It’s really impressive how dysfunctional the SF school district is
(They can’t even figure out how to pay teachers. Seriously. Like the salary software literally doesn’t work and they haven’t fixed it really)
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-daniel-lurie/
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 13, 2026
Remember the big blackout in SF? And how we were curious about why the ballet had generators and the rest of the neighborhood was in the darkness for days?
Turns out the mayor personally requested for it for his daughter’s performance
https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/pge-blackout-lurie-nutcracker-opera/
#SanFrancisco #PGE
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 13, 2026
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 12, 2026
I wish I could be back for lunar new year. In the past, no matter where I was I would always make the trek back home. Hopefully this will be the last one that I miss.
I don’t love that visiting during lunar new year also means a lot of my fave foods are not available (lunar new year is the only time some hawkers take time off), but there’s always delicious, non-Chinese foods to eat.
My mum sent a few boxes of my favorite pineapple tarts (from L.E Cafe on Mackenzie road), with a friend who was heading here. So I can at least have the right flavors of lunar new year.
Unsurprisingly, my friend told me when she got here that she’d lived in Singapore for 20 years and had never had such delicious pineapple tarts and now they’re the only ones she wants to eat!
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 08, 2026
I’ve been on a few mushroom forays recently. The advice is clear: if you’re in California (especially north and central coast) do not put any wild mushrooms in your mouth especially this year
We have many lookalikes that look ‘safe’. More than 40 people have been poisoned, 3-4 dead, since Nov. many of them immigrants who are misled by some of our deathly mushrooms looking exactly the same as the ones they know
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Feb 04, 2026
I’m so bothered by all of the people who are supposedly on the ‘good’ side who use these things against their political opponents:
- making fun of people’s accents (make fuck, get green card is not funny even if you are mocking a horrible person)
- making fun of people’s weight
- making fun of people’s body parts and appendages
- using all kinds of ableist slurs and insinuations of mental health issues
- insinuating that people who think differently from you have ‘low IQ’ or developmental disabilities
Do better.
EDIT: forgot one. age
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