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Hey, what’s up?

Just realized is overdue.

I’m Erik, and I use he/him pronouns.

I’m 50 something years old and live with my spouse, two teenage kids, two cats, and two dogs. My oldest child is away at college as a major.

For the last 13 years I’ve biked for transportation. I follow the and tags.

I make art, mostly and

I build software in the film industry.

I play in a biweekly tabletop role playing game.

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Part of the reason I’m so adamant about safe streets and local street speeding.

This crushed bollard does little to save any kids. It’s an unenforceable reminder to slow down around a kid unfriendly intersection.

It’s also right next to a barricade to indicate this is a slow street.

Drivers wont slow down and be careful unless you force the behavior with road and crossing design.


A newly installed and crushed safety bollard in front of a newly repaired and painted pedestrian crossing used by children to walk to school. The bollard is bent at a right angle below the midpoint of the sign. The warning is illegible at 90 degrees to the driver of a car. It was clearly ignored. The implication is that this could be a child.
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"I plead everyone to share the reality about Journalists in order to spread awareness about the real plans of the Israeli occupation to target journalists in order to impose a media blackout. Spread the hashtag and talk about us!”
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Being put on a hit list for being a journalist is not great

dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-shab

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In October, the Israeli military placed Hossam and five other Palestinian journalists on a hit list. At the time, he said it felt like he was “hunted.” He called on people to speak out using the hashtag : “
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Drop Site News · Hossam Shabat’s Last ArticleBy Drop Site News
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OTOH I can type something 2 or 3 keys off and it’ll figure it out - like typing offset by multiple keys, with misspellings can be fine

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Is it me or has autocorrect on iPhone become completely unreliable?

I’ll type entire sentences and words will flip and phrases split into nonsensical words

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I love transit, and you should double down and put more money into it.

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Someone got my voter phone polling info and was polling about AC transit and at some point I just cleared my response / exited the poll.

Seemed like fishing to impact / hurt the agency, and one thing that isn't needed is a worse AC transit.

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Am pretty sure the Facebook bulk comment and post delete page I got served yesterday was missing the bulk feature. That is, you would have to click each individual post or reaction to undo it.

Hoping I just found the wrong page because if not it’s account delete time a little early.

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Dang ep 7 of Pixar’s Win or Lose goes so hard. Even with the trans erasure edits, all the rest of it is right out there in the open, and in context is just heart breaking. Grandma’s support, Kai’s trashing the old photos of herself, etc etc

This is the first time I’ve seen it (didn’t see it without the trans erasure) so I have no comparison, but this message would have been so extra.

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I've freakin had it with the keyboard on this thing. Multiple keys hanging on by a thread, and one already lost and broken.

Angry at myself for allowing my spouse to use my newer laptop, and willing to spend the $50 to try and replace the keys on this one finally.

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Trying this mostly because my spouse and some close friends are on bsky and maybe I can lure them over here with my shadow presence

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Looks like bsky bridge is either backed up or has a limit to story-like thread reply depth.

Also my instance’s text limit is way more generous than the bridge / bsky.

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Practical advice on plein air painting and dealing with your kit and spectators. Whether to sit or stand. What friendly places and people are. Ideas for knocking on doors.

And drawing methods.

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What’s inside this book anyways?

Glossy thick color photo pages of different drawings. Photos of technique practices. Frameworks for starting and improving a sketch as you go.

From a survivor and graduate of cal and art center. A master of markers and gouache painting. Who can draw from life and add his own fantastical fantasy stuff.

A photo of the book’s interior.
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And his talk was so good. He went though working on backgrounds for a rotoscoped animated film ? Fire and Ice ? And you can hear a different version of that story on the Bancroft Brother’s pod.

Really glad I got to meet and be inspired by this old time legend of illustration, buy his book, meet his spouse and friend, and reconsider my relationship to my practice.

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Anyways smash cut to work and he and his wife and Kinkade’s widow are at a table selling the new book and his art is up on easels all around.

I just made the cutoff to get a signed book before his talk, but the new book hadn’t arrived yet.

I got an autograph in my sketchbook.

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