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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 15:44:37 JST Adrianna Tan

   There’s not a whole lot I can about the world. But I can give someone on the street who’s struggling some help. I can tell someone a nice thing. I can show up to book clubs online and have meaningful conversations with people I care about. I can offer to call a friend I haven’t spoken to in a while. If you can’t, that’s okay too. I can do a bit of that for you.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 15:51:17 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I’ve been reading more fiction. I’m incredibly lucky that the San Francisco public library, just minutes away on foot, has all the books I’d ever want to read. We have dozens of books at a time. In times like these, I’m not interested in productivity or self help (never was, but they’re increasing distasteful right now. Productivity? In these times??)

     I’m interested in stories about humans and societies and hopes and dreams and fears. Love and betrayal and murder and everything. It’s a scary thought that even as careless people rampage about, I wonder if they’ve ever had a moment of care and tenderness, of the sort you feel so much of if you read a lot of fiction.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 15:51:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     @skinnylatte Sounds like a hell of a lot to me. We don’t need Superman to save us. We just need as many of as possible to be doing the kind of things you’re doing and being the kind of person you clearly are.

     💕

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 15:56:19 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Even though I spend most of my day on a computer, I want to stop and be thankful for all of the natural beauty around me. We took a long walk from the Inner Sunset back to downtown, through Golden Gate Park. We stopped to look at ducks and geese. I pointed out all the different art projects along JFK drive. I stopped at a laundromat whose name makes me laugh for some reason, its name is ‘Wishy-Washy’

     I spend half my time in Monterey, which is obviously an incredibly beautiful place. I am known at work for having a Polaroid camera I bring everywhere with me. I have a good eye for capturing candid moments of people. If they want a photo, I take it for them. And give it to them.

     My coworkers’ desks are increasingly filling up with instant photos I’ve taken of them. My goal is to give them so many.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 15:59:38 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I only got into instant film not too long ago. It’s not the sharpest or most beautiful, but that’s kind of why I like it.

     A few months ago I was at the ferry building taking Instax photos of my friends. A man came over to me and asked, ‘can I pay you for photo?’

     He told me he was spending time with his 6 year old daughter. She had to leave and return to Guatemala tomorrow. He would not see her for years.

     I gave them many photos (for free). The little girl initially didn’t want a photo, because she was crying, but she found my instant film contraption so amusing (a 50 year old camera strappped to a 3D printed film printer) that she started laughing, probably at me.

     I think of them sometimes when I read the news. I’m glad they have the photos.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 16:05:27 JST Adrianna Tan

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     What else is there, really? Other than how we are with each other, including strangers? I find it so puzzling that people choose to inflict pain and hurt upon the world. I feel powerful knowing that I never have to do that.

     They remind me so much of the emotionally hurt people I knew who rampaged about flinging all of their pain and shit upon the world. The sorts of people who said things like they are ‘strong’ and you are not.

     No matter the time, or place, or person, it’s all the same. Strength to me is kindness.

     This is what I choose to do with my time here.

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 16:09:46 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     @skinnylatte Our SF laundromat was the "Little Hollywood Launderette" on Market Street which closed a few years ago after 52 years in business. A laundry trip was a little two-hour excursion together.

     https://hoodline.com/2017/08/little-hollywood-launderette-spins-down-folds-after-52-years/

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     Nick Silkey 🪓🪵 🪣💧 (nicksilkey@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 22:15:13 JST Nick Silkey 🪓🪵 🪣💧

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     @skinnylatte nailed it, Adrianna. Use that free will! You've found your inalienable and only way to spread joy in this universe to your loved ones and other people. Also it's how to live your values and make them real in this world. Rad - thanks for spreading the good word! 💃✌️💙