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(she/her/they/them) editor, writer

SF
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@mai
Mai
8 years
Actual boardroom in my office building in the FiDi.
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18 years
fun weekend means another run on the henry street stairs.
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@mai
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10 years
Coined new term last night, "to don't". (Running list of things you don't want to do.) Usage: "That's going on my to don't list!"
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@mai
Mai
6 years
Dude: “Looks like you dropped your smile, you might want to pick it up.” Me: “Seems that your a$$h*le is showing, you might want to cover it.” Dude:.. Me, to myself: 👋🏻
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@mai
Mai
18 years
at camera obscura show: at the end of "let's get out of this country" they segued into a cover of paul simon's "you can call me al"...
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@mai
Mai
3 years
I'm not the hiring manager, but my team is looking for a senior writer. Looking for historically ignored journos to make the jump to tech. Salary is low six figures. Pls. RT @WritersofColor #buzzfeednews (Ask to DM.)
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@mai
Mai
2 years
My Instagram account (fashionist) was hacked. After all these years. Yes, I am going through the rigamarole of trying to get it back. But friends, ignore it for the time being.
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Mai
6 years
Legit ran into Bjork at a show and had a convo with her about our shared birthday and different, but complementary lunar signs. #Airwaves2018
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@mai
Mai
18 years
seesm like the majority of people using computers @ apple store are looking @ myspace.
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@mai
Mai
4 years
When I have a bad day I text my friends and today I also ordered take-out ramen as a treat. #StopAAPIHate #StopAsianHate #Atlanta
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@mai
Mai
6 years
@annehelen 🤔 Wait, does she have two apartments? One in SF and one in Palo Alto? Or does her boyfriend live in Palo Alto?
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@mai
Mai
5 years
@burritojustice This morning I saw a car following a bike in the bike lane and then honking at the cyclist, presumably because he was biking too slow in front of the car. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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@mai
Mai
4 years
@MattHaneySF I'd like to see additional rent support for SF residents beyond the CA Housing Is Key program.
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@mai
Mai
4 years
Everything felt a bit tougher than usual today. 😥
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@mai
Mai
8 years
So, I mostly promote and retweet these days... here's a confession, I want a 🌮. (Gonna make my dream come true right now.)
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@mai
Mai
11 years
If you live/work in SF & have a bike, but are nervous about bike commuting, I will bike commute w/you. @ me. cc: @revolights #BicycleBuddy
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@mai
Mai
10 years
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@mai
Mai
6 years
In personal news, I successfully took a pretty large (gallon container) Monstera Adanosii (Swiss Cheese Plant) as a carry-on on a @SouthwestAir flight earlier this week. This new development will take my plant collection to new heights.
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@mai
Mai
4 years
It's funny how we take things like "breathing fresh air" for granted. (I love you fresh air.)
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alicia
4 years
FRESH AIR how I have missed you
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@mai
Mai
10 years
Hey Twitter, I'm looking for work in content strategy/marketing and/or relationship management. #sf hit me up! #work
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@mai
Mai
4 years
@MerriamWebster Got a USPS package yesterday from one of my favorites @AdobeBookShop a coop bookstore in SF's Mission District.
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@mai
Mai
18 years
free vodka shots are being offered at the diesel store on castro/mkt. also! cw is home. :)
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@mai
Mai
10 years
"Nothing is gonna change if we don't come together as sisters and brothers." - @Kevin_Powell #MikeBrown #Ferguson http://t.co/J2gTElE8Ol
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@mai
Mai
7 years
You belong and you belong and you belong too!
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@mai
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7 years
Today, 4-6pm PT on @BFFdotFM , Icelandic Christmas music on ‘Mai + Charlie.’ Tune in:
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@mai
Mai
6 years
Last Saturday of the month! So, listen in to hear Icelandic music and my raspy voice at 4-6pm PT on @BFFdotFM ! And, because I was looking at my flickr account, here's when I met @sinfanggg at @sxsw in 2010!
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@mai
Mai
10 years
If you're a fan of @Rhyemusic -gorgeous (new) song to wake up to c/o @miloshmusic
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Totally forgot that yesterday was my 21st #sanfranniversary ! If my #sanfranniversary was a person, she could legally drink.
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Walking, no watch/phone out. bro to me: "Do you know the time?" me: "No" bro: "You Don't Know The TIME?!!" me: "Look dude, neither do you."
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Right now, SF is pretty much a set-up for a Cold War-era USSR-invasion film. Thousands in GG Park for #HSB and Blue Angels flying above.
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@mai
Mai
7 years
The sadness 😐 of Young Air Purifier.
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@mai
Mai
6 years
My friends: @TheSecretAlley and @thegalallery are having a fundraiser to build out their immersive space! Donate now and I'll celebrate with you in July!
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@mai
Mai
8 years
Reppin' @Meltwater and hanging w/Yariv & Sita at @newscred 's #ThinkContent Customer Summit. #OutsideInsight
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@mai
Mai
3 years
Caffeine is no joke. After quitting coffee in February, I had it yesterday and today and wow! I MEAN WOW. 😳😳😳
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@mai
Mai
6 years
When I was in my 20s, taking a nap in the evening was a guarantee I’d make it out. Now it means almost the complete opposite. 😴
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@mai
Mai
3 years
Here's another open remote content position, writing for big tech, via Aquent. Not my team but we work closely with them. If you're a journo who wants to make the jump: salary will be low six figures. Pls rt. @WritersofColor
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@mai
Mai
5 years
Is it weird that this is making me emotional?
@burritojustice
Burrito Justice
5 years
a much calmer ride down Market St
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@mai
Mai
9 years
Okay @kiasmos_ made me blush by letting me interview them on @BFFdotFM . (See them on 12/09 @mezzanineSF !)
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@mai
Mai
4 years
Rewatched @BarackObama 's 2004 Democratic National Convention speech so I could have a good cry. How's your day going?
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@mai
Mai
2 years
Honestly, wtf. 💔
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Is there a phobia that entails not wanting to leave your apt. because you live alone and your lock is jacked, so it took you 25 minutes and a neighbor's help to get in last night? If so, I have that.
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Last Saturday of the month! Icelandic Music Show 4-6p on @BFFdotFM w/ @fmbelfast @jfdrsound @sinfanggg . Tune in: !
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@mai
Mai
4 years
Monthly Icelandic music show with all the favorites @sinfanggg @fmbelfast @iamjonsi ! Listen now.
@BFFdotFM
BFF.fm San Francisco
4 years
ON AIR: @mai + Charlie- musical variety show. TUNE IN:
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@mai
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10 years
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@mai
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8 years
Listening to @quonky on @BFFdotFM right now and she's passing along info about getting involved in between jams! Go, lady! 👊👊🏻👊🏽👊🏿
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Today I'm at @thebaybridged #phonodelsol , so pls. enjoy this M+C rebroadcast, 4-6pm on @BFFdotFM ! Keep it locked: .
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@mai
Mai
5 years
Thanks for the memories @witchradio ! 💖
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@mai
Mai
4 years
Refreshing this @NPR graphic as if I could coax GA and PA to turn blue like I coax stray cats so I can pet them. "Psss ... psss, that's right, come over here you beauty ..."
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@mai
Mai
10 years
When I see Alexa Chung at #nyfw , I'm like "no bigs". I see her in the LAX security line and I'm all, "ALEXA CHUNG!" http://t.co/1bO25HX4El
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@mai
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7 years
Me as jumping spaz (wearing my @prismofthreads caftan) as @yariv_r looks on. #CMWorld2017 #cmworld17
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Drank 3 ☕️, including 1 an hour ago. Am now at an experimental film event. Possibly made some mistakes today.
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@mai
Mai
6 years
London self-realization, if a city is not grid based, I will get lost. Repeatedly.
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7 years
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@mai
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4 years
@kylegriffin1 @ScottWalker @POTUS @realDonaldTrump One didn’t have to tear gas the crowd in fear.
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@mai
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4 years
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@mai
Mai
10 years
Trying to remember that I'm more likely to be successful in getting what I want, if I ask for it.
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@mai
Mai
9 years
Madonna turns 57 on Sunday, tempted to do an all-Madonna 'Mai + Charlie' show tomorrow on @BFFdotFM .
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@mai
Mai
8 years
Friends in Brooklyn. (Catching up w/Neil & @concernedpanda .)
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@mai
Mai
7 years
5th day of #Airwaves17 and I walk into breakfast in PJs and the Europeans look at me like,”wut?!” And my deal is that I��m awake and here.
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@mai
Mai
10 years
Ran into @giantroboteric ! Chatted about @CAAM and how rad LA's art and culture scene is. (I gushed a little.) http://t.co/ZpMuvRKHG8
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@mai
Mai
10 years
Me to box office @indysf : "how is there no line to buy @gangof4official tix?" cc: @Lulu @ZakMcc yay! http://t.co/8wuolFbjb6
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Last Saturday of the month means all Icelandic music at 4-6pm PT on @BFFdotFM . Tune in:
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@mai
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10 years
This low vegetable, high licorice diet is going great! #reykjavik #Iceland
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@mai
Mai
5 years
Playing sun and moon songs today 4-6pm PT on 'Mai + Charlie' on @BFFdotFM ! Tune in:
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@mai
Mai
7 years
So, I'm an atheist and dealing w/death grief was easier when I was a practicing Catholic. Besides regular stress-stuff how does one cope?
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@mai
Mai
7 years
There's still time to give to our annual fund!
@BFFdotFM
BFF.fm San Francisco
7 years
Check out our 2017 End of Year Fundraiser video and see how attractive we all are...for people on the radio. Donate today and earn some cool rewards:
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@mai
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8 years
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@mai
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15 years
wish i could make things by just obsessively thinking about them.
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@mai
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10 years
Great day of photo-taking in #Ferguson . http://t.co/hMrX3equC8
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@mai
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7 years
OH: 🙎🏼‍♀️: “I mean I go to Burning Man every year, no one goes to Iceland every year.” Me: 🙋🏻‍♀️
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@mai
Mai
9 years
My new gig! Yay!
@Meltwater
Meltwater
9 years
Our CEO @jorn_lyseggen named as one of the 25 Marketing Influencers Who Will Help You Dominate 2016 by @Inc Magazine
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@mai
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11 years
A 6 year old MacBook Pro is something like 15 in dog years. (Time for me to let it go gently into the night.)
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@mai
Mai
4 years
Seriously, WTF?!! Trump's like the dinner guest who clogs your toilet and just leaves without telling the host. He's the worst.
@Yamiche
Yamiche Alcindor
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CONFIRMED: There was no contact from the Trump campaign or the White House to alert the Biden campaign of possible exposure. The campaign learned of the situation from the news reports, a Biden campaign aide tells me.
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@mai
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6 years
With special guest Truc Nguyen!
@BFFdotFM
BFF.fm San Francisco
6 years
ON AIR: @mai + Charlie- musical variety show. TUNE IN:
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@mai
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4 years
Thanks for voting. Took BART, nerve-wracking in anticipation, but overall - fine.
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4 years
I need to go downtown. I usually bike, but it's a pandemic, the air is filled with smoke at dangerous levels (I have asthma) - what should I do?
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@mai
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9 years
Roads were not built for cars, they were built for bicycles. (h/t @CalBike )
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@mai
Mai
10 years
You know who never disappoints on rainy days? Elliott Smith.
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@mai
Mai
7 years
Same
@juliaioffe
Julia Ioffe
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I didn't speak English when I immigrated to the United States. Now, I get paid to write in it. Just saying.
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@mai
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8 years
Tonight I am Yayoi Kusama. Happy 🎃Halloween!
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@mai
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10 years
Remembering I heard Elliott Smith at PDX while waiting for a 7am flight this morning. (Cinematically perfect.)
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@mai
Mai
8 years
Bike recovered! Thank you to everyone who liked or reached out to me.
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@mai
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8 years
iPhone sitting in a dry box for 5 days because of condensation. Not having an iPhone has been more freeing than anxiety producing. Big ups!
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@mai
Mai
9 years
W00t - happy all the hard work of @quonky , @theguestaround and fellow DJs has paid off! Congrats @bffdotfm !
@BFFdotFM
BFF.fm San Francisco
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For the second year in a row BFF.fm was voted Best Radio Station in @SFWeekly 's reader's poll! Thanks everyone! http://t.co/rEXOrKQZt6
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@mai
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1 year
So, how do people write an Airbnb review after an active rat 🐀 infestation? Don’t write it or be honest? (They were running around as I sat on the couch.)
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@mai
Mai
7 years
A lesson from biking in the rain (today): that "cozy" maxi dress equals 10 lbs of extra weight to carry while biking home, slightly uphill in the rain and wind. :|
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@mai
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7 years
Friends who bike in the Bay Area, this Thursday is #BikeToWorkDay , let's be patient with each other in the bike lanes.
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@mai
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8 years
For fellow lovers of @gucci , an FYI. #Debates2016
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@mai
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9 years
@tessevans maybe, but tired. It's great though! Really love it.
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@mai
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4 years
Not gonna lie, it's disheartening that not all 50 governors signed their names to this letter that supports the AAPI community and condemns anti-Asian sentiment.
@NBCAsianAmerica
NBC Asian America
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A bipartisan group of governors released a letter in solidarity and support for the AAPI community. "We condemn all expressions of racism, xenophobia, scapegoating, and anti-Asian sentiment," the letter says. - @NBCAsianAmerica
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@mai
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3 years
My small talk skills were challenging pre-pandemic, it’s now worse. At a get together this weekend someone bragged about how many times they’ve seen the Violent Femmes. I hate the Femmes and let them know what they described was a personal nightmare. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🙊
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@mai
Mai
2 years
@SharonZJewelry @BrokeAssStuart "At the Mission" Only works if they use a photo of the Mission Dolores. Otherwise, "In the Mission" or "At Dolores Park" (the latter doesn't work as a neighborhood designation, but I'm only thinking of grammar here).
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@mai
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9 years
At a fashion-thing. If you want to stand out in SF, right now: wear color. Better: wear color & mismatched patterns.
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@mai
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1 year
I’m at a conference and one of the breakout speakers (for a consumer product) showed an image of an all-white team around a table, listing their different job titles—the takeaway was: “it’s important to have the right people in the room.” 🤔🧐
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@mai
Mai
10 years
#50ShadesOfGrey marketing swag is all encompassing. http://t.co/gE1e1FTMMN
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@mai
Mai
3 years
Tonight I had drinks with a white woman friend I’ve known for years, but haven’t seen for months. She asked me if I knew Vietnamese spring rolls weren’t fried. (I do.) 🙄 #pandemicbrain
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@mai
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10 years
Congrats to @GarethSpor who's going to see @ToroyMoi as Les Sins c/o @BFFdotFM and @1015sf !
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18 years
chaos is a friend of mine.
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@mai
Mai
8 years
Unpacking remnants of a previous life: 1" rounds of #Deerhoof , #Enon , and #GoogleReader .
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