Erica Leong

Erica Leong

@ericaleong.com

Visual product designer, Illustrator, Cat Whisperer. (she/her πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦) πŸ’Ό Currently at steamclock.com 🌐 ericaleong.com

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I took my cat to the vet the other day and it was lowkey kind of disastrous, so I wrote a song verse about it. It goes like this: 🎢 She threw up in my hands 🎢 She got pricked and prodded 🎢 It was a terrible ordeal 🎢 For everyone involved πŸ˜”

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I'm an illustrator, designer & artist looking for contract work and (🀞) full-time employment. If you need graphics of any kind, get in touch: 🌐 jackapedia.design βœ‰οΈ jack@jackapedia.design #portfolioday

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I’m looking for work! πŸ‘οΈπŸ‘οΈ I’m looking for storyboarding or revisionist positions, but I’m also open to work in games! I’m available immediately - I’m fast, funny, and friendly, & I’d love to work with you! Help me feed my cats, they won’t stop screaming!

The dystopian irony of having access to a machine that allows you to create ✨ anything ✨, yet using said machine impairs your ability to be creative

This year I've felt somewhat adrift and untethered. I'm fairly certain it's cause I switched from a bullet journal to a hobonichi techo

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Here is your Saturday read. This week we talk about the failure of AI-pilled design β€œleaders.” β€œIf you are truly β€˜leading’ there isn’t an asshole in front of you to lick. There’s no cornucopia of future funding within your lips’ reach.” Enjoy. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

buttondown.comHow to usher in an era of abundant vengeanceA lot of people on the Internet who I once respected seem to have full-blown AI brain worms. Am I going to get conned like them at some point? Have you ever been conned by something as pervasive as th...

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We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!

A mini Figma Motion review: πŸ‘ Pretty easy to use if you're familiar with AE β€” similar keyboard shortcuts, yee πŸ‘ Pleasantly surprised you can keyframe shaders, but getting to preview it on canvas was near impossible πŸ€ͺ πŸ‘ Seems cool for simple animated spot illos, micro interactions, motion reels, etc.

πŸ₯² Alas, not quite a Lottie replacement until they make a proper Lottie JSON export, nor a Rive replacement til they have state machines πŸ€” Doesn't seem to work together with prototyping unless you get creative with timing, but still need to experiment with this

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No matter how many people are talking about this, it is not enough people talking about this.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jailβ€”11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demoβ€”to meet the Trump admin’s β€œAntifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, β€œThey didn’t like my book club.”

For my birthday, I will be kicking off celebrations with the most epic of starts: an appointment with an ENT doc for my tinnitusπŸ‘‚πŸ§‘β€βš•οΈπŸ’ƒ

I had a dream last night featuring donuts. Then I learned this morning that today is National Donut Day. Am I... Psychic?? Do I have... Powers??

In my dream I was at Tim Horton's trying to decide whether I should have a cookie or a donut. I chose a donut. It could not have been more prophetic

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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

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I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

"delegate your life" I'd rather just live it, thanks

Justin McElroy πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦@jmcelroy.bsky.social

At Vancouver’s giant Web Summit conference, where the opening non-political speaker is telling people they should spend more on AI tokens every month than they do on rent. β€œIt’s really getting important,” he says to some gasps, adding that β€œyou can delegate your life.”

My dad: have you ever heard of this tea? I saw it at the hotel, it was spelled p o b o y Turns out the tea he was actually talking about was: rooibos

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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

New year, new stuff β€” fresh from the oven! πŸ”₯ Earlier last year I got a fun opportunity to make this billboard for @figma.com, and it's finally up! Made entirely in Figma Draw. If you're in SF, go check it out πŸ“Έ

The writing in Stranger Things this season is taking me tf out So I've come up with a drinking game. Take a sip whenever the following happens: 🍻 someone explains the plot 🍻 someone has an epiphany, leading to a risky plan 🍻 someone explains said plan using an analogy, bonus if it's d&d

🍻 someone else (*cough* Will) interrupts said plan to have a long emotional moment 🍻 someone has a slight nosebleed from one nostril then wipes it away dramatically 🍻 a demodog murders a soldier 🍻 the same demodog gets KO'ed by the main cast 🍻 Holly suffers a trauma 🍻 Will cries about being a weakie

We're watching Twin Peaks for the first time and it has been a struggle to stay awake. I keep missing the last 10 minutes of every episode from napping 😴 There's something about that theme song that's lulling me to sleep. It's too dreamy

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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

I simply cannot allow myself to get invested in sportsmen and their sportsballs anymore after getting burned by the Oilers during playoffs But gg Jays, y'all tried

I haven't been a real keen watcher of Critical Role outside of a couple episodes here and there β€” but there's something about Campaign 4 that's keeping me so rapt πŸ‘€ Maybe I should also start watching D20...