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Erin @biscuit.quest · 05/07/2026

This movie is extremely perfect and should be on the list of definitive films that capture America www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/m...

Still from the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous. A pageant contestant dances with a dummy Jesus on a cross with wheels

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 05/07/2026

Celebrating the fourth in our basement with our visitors from DC, watching Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), grateful for the rain that is keeping our neighbors from further terrifying our dogs with their fireworks

Photo of a still from Drop Dead Gorgeous. Kirsten Dunst’s character, Amber Atkins, explains why she is proud to be an American.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 17/06/2026

Can I get a +1 on this Ort shirt? We go way back.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 23/05/2026

After about a year of lurking around on review websites, debating pros and cons, and wondering if I *really* needed it…I am now that smug “we got a second e-bike” guy

A small e-bike with a white step-through frame, black handlebar stem and seat post, and yellow pannier bag leans against a wooden picket fence

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 15/05/2026

Tag yourself. I’m this guy

A wide-eyed white and black cat stares into the middle distance

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 15/05/2026

20 years of friendship with @lecagle.bsky.social in 2 pics! 2002/2022 Older, wiser, hotter, queerer, and obstinately still From Alabama-er And one of us (it me) has a family made possible by legal, safe abortion access in the South. Donate to support abortion access in AL/MS! fund.nnaf.org/expats

Cagle and Erin, both with long hair and baby faces, in a black and white 2002 yearbook photo

Erin and Cagle, both with glasses, Erin with short hair and Cagle with a ponytail, hugging and cheesing for the camera in 2022

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 30/04/2026

Oh, these? These are my Croissocks™️

An ankle, a boot, a cuffed jean, and light blue socks with embroidered croissants on them

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 15/04/2026

Sneak preview of a bespoke meme for said talk. 👀

Meme of a horse drawing - one end is drawn in fine detail and has the title “Website.com”. The other end is a stick figure with a title that represents the rest of the URL: “/complete-vital-task”.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 28/03/2026

And that’s why you *always* check your spam folder (The notice that you are part of a class-action lawsuit will inevitably go there and your payout will either be $4.32 or SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS)

Screenshot of email:
Kamel et al. vs. Albertsons Companies Inc Settlement paid you $753.62.

Your Kamel et al. vs.
Albertsons Companies Inc
settlement payment is now available in Venmo.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 18/03/2026

Ah yes, the two Lowe’s genders

Stacks of 5-gallon Lowe’s buckets in Lowe’s blue, and pepto-bismol pink

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 18/03/2026

A PSA for southerners in New England: you can reliably find Zapps and Golden Flake potato chips at Ocean State Job Lot. We love a regional potato chip!!

Shelves with boxes of several varieties of golden flake and zapps potato chips

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 07/03/2026

The dogs are demanding my penance for being gone all morning

Two muppet-like shaggy dogs lie next to each other on the couch, right next to me (out of frame). The fair-haired one is on his back asking for tummy rubs. The dark-haired one is looking over her shoulder. Both are staring into the camera expectantly.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 03/03/2026

Bic Clic Stic and it's not even close

Retractable ballpoint pen with a simple cylindrical barrel and a pocket clip

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 20/02/2026

On the change log for the USWDS guidance page for sex, you can see exactly when and how the gender identity pattern and non-binary sex options were removed. designsystem.digital.gov/patterns/cre...

Screenshot of changelog for the USWDS Gender/sex guidance.

2025-02-11: Breaking, Updated sex pattern to include only options for "Male" and "Female". Updated content related to the January 20, 2025 Executive Order, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government". More information: uswds-site#3099

2025-02-11: Breaking, Removed gender identity pattern.
Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 Executive Order, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government". More information: uswds-site#3099 c

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 20/02/2026

In early 2025 the guidance from the US Web Design System, a standard design guide that many federal government websites use, had best practices for asking for Gender identity and sex. It's now been replaced with guidance for "Sex" which includes only binary options

Screenshot of archived version of USWDS website from January 2025. The page title is "Gender identity and sex"

Screenshot of current version of USWDS website from February 2026. The page title is "Sex"

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 06/02/2026

Tapping the sign... erinrwhite.com/what-it-mean...

Screenshot of an excerpt from a blog post:

Academic and cultural heritage institutions thrive when employees believe these falsehoods:

- This work is a vocation, a calling – not just a job.
- You are your work. Your work is you.
- You can’t be useful in any other field.
- Overwork is a virtue. (And often, a requirement.)
- If you do a good job, the reward is more work.
- A vacancy is no excuse not to do the work.
- If you don’t do it, no one will.
- You can always do more with less.
- You’ll need an outside offer if you dare to ask for a raise.
- If you just follow the right administrative process, justice will be served.
- The institution cares about you and will protect you.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 30/01/2026

Checking up on the modal situation at meetup dot com. Today's count: 3, but only because I was already logged in

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 27/11/2025

Time for the annual Thanksgiving watch of Addams Family Values: or, the first time we heard a contrary story about Thanksgiving and learned that Malibu Barbie ain’t all that

Screen cap of Addams Family Values. Debbie, crazed, says “Malibu Barbie”

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 08/11/2025

A very nice November day for a ride on the East Bay Bike Path. Rhode Island in the fall.

Water on the left, bike path to the right, Providence skyline dead center

Deep blue sky, cotton ball clouds, fall foliage and a bike path

A cloudy nitro cold brew coffee in a glass with a brick building in the background

Light blue bike resting on a railing of a bridge, Providence skyline in the background

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 12/10/2025

Great news! Glistening Meats™️ AND cheeses from the second half of the game

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 12/10/2025

It’s a Saturday night in October, which means it’s time for the Glistening Meats™️ of SEC football commercials

Super close up of a glistening cheeseburger on a TV

Super close up of what appears to be a glistening barbecue sandwich

Super close up of a fried chicken sandwich with cheese and bacon. All glistening.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 26/09/2025

Today in Facebook AI slop: Shostakovich, boy wizard

Text “Born on this day in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich” over a black and white photo of actor Daniel Radcliffe (born not-on-this day in 1989)

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 25/09/2025

Today in Facebook AI slop: ah yes, the Oscar-nominated 1967 classic film Titanic, a tale of gender transition

Photo of Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart at the 1997 Oscars. Extremely incorrect caption on the photo: “TIMELESS FACTS:
In 1967, the film Titanic made Oscar history: for the first time, two actors Cathy Burns and Michael J. Pollard received Academy Award nominations for playing the same character at different ages.”

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 13/09/2025

Biking to the beach never gets old and this beautiful September weekend makes it extra sweet. Ocean State, baby #RhodeIsland

Towel, book, water bottle, bag in the foreground with sand and water in the background

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 07/09/2025

Second most upsetting thing is the very obvious art swaps for a few of the featured news items. For example, swapping out a photo of two dark-haired olive-skinned folks for a picture of a blonde white man and three blonde kids, all white, all wearing white, is a choice

Before: DOD website image about “value of service” featuring two people of ambiguous race/ethnicity

Department of aware website “value of service” image featuring a man and three light-haired children, all white, wearing white

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 07/09/2025

The thing that upsets me most about the design changes from defense.gov to war.gov is that the Veterans Crisis Line has been removed from the footer of the site. Every design choice is a values statement. (Screenshot from DoD website is from September 4, courtesy of @archive.org)

Department of War web page footer: no mention of Veterans Crisis Line

Department of Defense web page footer: sizable link to Veterans Crisis Line

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 04/09/2025

Fancy Audio Technica turntable that I got for $20 at a yard sale is LIVE with a 75-cent RCA to stereo adapter, a Bluetooth transmitter and a speaker. Enjoying a moment of much-needed joy

In the foreground, a heavyweight turntable with some knobs and sliders. In the background, a USB speaker, transmitter, and a Cocteau Twins record sleeve

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 25/08/2025

Also noting for the record that the "National Design Studio" logo includes a US flag without the stars. TBH, removing the symbols representing individual states is a little too on the nose for this administration

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 12/08/2025

Bringing you the freshest-hell updates from over on LinkedIn

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Workday advertising its AI agents. Paul Stanley of the band KISS wears full KISS makeup, long hair, and business casual clothes. "Rock your business forever forward," the ad says, as Peter Stanley shakes a container of salad alongside a coworker and stares desperately into the void

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 26/06/2025

[Werner Herzog voice] The dove does not know its fate. The dove only knows the hollowness of the cage. Its inelegant pecking belies its deep sadn

A dove sits fully inside a clear plastic bird feeder attached to a kitchen window. It stares directly into the camera.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 05/06/2025

Meeting a pug puppy in two pictures

A very tired tiny dog is being held in a human’s arms. His legs are dangly. He’s staring into space.

A close-up picture of a tiny pug who is on his back, wall-eyed and wild, with his tongue sticking out of his mouth. On the edge of the frame, the noses of two larger dogs take turns pawing at him playfully

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 01/06/2025

Yesterday it was Celine Dion’s queerbait-y transformation. That was…unexpected Favorite comment: “Twink Dion could ruin my life and I’d be grateful” Friends, this person is 57 years old and I salute her

Photo of a short-haired Celine Dion wearing a tight t-shirt and jeans sitting in the back of a truck with a very masculine pose. Her arms look thin but toned. She might be wearing a chest binder?

Photo of a short-haired Celine Dion wearing a tight t-shirt with her arm up over her head, looking away from the camera. Her arms look thin but toned. She might be wearing a chest binder?

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 01/06/2025

Once a day or so I fire up Instagram to check in on my friends’ posts and see what cursed content is being recommended to me by the meta-verse Today it’s fitness content for preppers

Image of a person in exercise clothing against a backdrop of what appears to be fire and destruction. Headline says “Make it a habit - 10 minutes of Survival Calisthenics every morning.
No excuses. We go till June.”

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 25/05/2025

We are watching Fast X and they just rolled a giant death-star shaped bomb through the entirety of Rome

Screenshot of Fast X. Dom is driving a fast car chasing a giant bomb across a bridge in Rome

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 20/05/2025

Using my new (human-made) profile photo to educate my cis coworkers about the reductive nature of generative AI

Message from me on slack: “AI would be like, “u want to look like beautiful woman yes? here u go. Handsome man? No?””

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 17/05/2025

Wow shoutout to Charlize Theron’s new extremely gay haircut and her expertise in family dynamics

Charlize Theron’s character has a new extremely gay bowl-cut

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 17/05/2025

More like ridiculous and ridiculouser amirite Respect for how absurd the plots/stunts have become over the course of the series to get us here, to “car jump off cliff and get picked up by plane”

Still from Fast and Furious 9. A car is sailing over a cliff and across a body of water

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 12/05/2025

Yep. It got us to Web whatever-this-is and I want out

Screenshot of the Panasonic e-commerce website. There are five different overlays on top of the page, two of which must be closed before you can even see the page

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 10/05/2025

Welllll time for FATE OF THE FURIOUS (2017) …which, it turns out, is actually a horror movie about networked devices

Screen grab of Fate of the Furious. A pile of cars that have been hacked have self-driven themselves into a fiery pyre.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 07/05/2025

Figma Sites, like its paint-by-number web design tool predecessors (and peers!), just ain't it. Every accessibility/content/IA person in my life is sighing audibly right now

Scooby Doo meme of Figma Sites being unmasked and revealed as Microsoft Frontpage 97.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 26/04/2025

“This is fucking stupid. I love it” - @courtniewolfgang.bsky.social

Screencap from FURIOUS 7. Several cars are flying through the air at high altitude above some mountains. Their parachutes are not pictured

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 26/04/2025

Time for FURIOUS 7 (2015) Once again starting with two baldies punching each other #bald4bald #b4b We know that Paul Walker died during the filming and are bracing for lots of feels

Screen cap from the FURIOUS 7 movie. The Rock is punching Jason Statham. They are both bald.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 19/04/2025

It’s finally time… …for TOKYO DRIFT (2006)

Screenshot from Tokyo Drift: young southern hero winces while learning the hard way how to drift

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 04/04/2025

Another week, another group of hard-working colleagues losing their jobs with less than a day's notice because of DOGE contract cancellations.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 25/03/2025

I don’t know if this is malicious compliance or not, but I appreciate this post on our neighborhood Facebook group shortly after the one announcing that the group has been renamed to include “CRIME WATCH”

Screenshot of a Facebook post in a group called “neighborhood group and crime watch” with 3 photos of a large bird on a sidewalk. Text of the post says “Anyone missing a pheasant? There’s one in my garden just walking around.”

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 25/03/2025

The X-Files season 1, episode 5: Jersey Devil Chris Carter, 1993: Yeah, this’ll creep ‘em out. ACTION

Photo of a still from the X-Files. It’s two hands holding a very amateurish pencil drawing of “the Jersey Devil”

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 11/03/2025

It’s 61 degrees in Rhode Island today. I have given myself the afternoon off to enjoy a book and a beverage in the sunshine!

Photo of a library copy of Neko Case’s new memoir and a pint of golden ale on a red table. The shadows are sharp and the sunlight is strong.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 28/02/2025

Yes we’ve named our chromecast FART LOUDERDALE and no we will not be taking questions at this time

Photo of an IPad screen with the “Connect to” dialog box open. “Fart louderdale” is the single option.

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