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Erin Rose

@erinrose.bsky.social
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hi I make neat things occasionally! industrial designer (freelance) | "dfma-witch" | artist sometimes | meows at engineering problems she/it sometimes goes by Terra chaos.social/@ErinRose sleepy.computer/@erin

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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 5h
hell, I think trans women should be allowed to be weird and unlikeable without starving, but I can’t even quantify just how far outside the overton window that view is..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 5h
I hold the extremely radical opinion that trans women should be allowed to be professionally mediocre without starving
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 7h
It’s why I feel more secure as a freelancer, my clients hire me because of my reputation for being extremely good.. but it’s exhausting, and I desperately wish just being “pretty good” wouldn’t mean being disposed of by society…
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 7h
I see people joke about transfem engineers all being talented, and there is truth in that, but the reason is that gaining a reputation for hyper-competency is the only form of job security we can get.. also survivorship_bias.png
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m actually excited about touching a computer again?? it’s been 25 years… (a silly little bricked DECT phone that runs android 4.3 I’m going to try and fix, and then do silly mods to)
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
slightly eccentric old women are so cool, I’m excited to be one someday
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it’s Missile Locktober *shines my ranging laser at u*
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
oh you’re under an NDA? well I’m under a cosy weighted blanket
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I should really read that…
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
💭 spaceship named: Our Lady of Posting Through It
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
submissive? no no, subsurface-emissive, my boobs glow from within
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol
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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
cat holding 1 monster thinking of cat holding 2 monsters
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
procrastinating doing proper research on FCC certification for Witch Staff because I think there’s a 50% chance the FCC no longer meaningfully exists by the time we’re at that stage..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
good thing it’s also “the weight Ashley is Autumn”
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
now I really want pink sparkly swarfega gel…
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Natalie Gray @natgrayy.es · 29/09/2026
Ah yes the two genders
A bottle of Swarfega industrial hand soap next to a bottle of “Marshmallow Skies foamalicious marshmallow hand wash”
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
hmm, even more good to know, I’ll be sure to look for flats with nice baths then (we’re planning on being flatmates)
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
baths that you can fit two (one very tall) trans women in are kinda rare tho
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
messily eating a mango because I was too lazy to cut it up and in doing so reminding myself that a friend is getting bottom surgery soon..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
an evil woman named Autodesk Fusion 360 is messaging me trying to extort me for £600 :(
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
one too many days re-setting up my phone after I broke something on my custom android install caused me to snap and I got an iphone, I’m pretty disappointed in myself at how little I miss touching computers..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wonder if proprioception is good enough to prevent that??
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
presents (and counts) them one by one for something like this assembly line torque driver to pick up
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m assembling the first few batches of a series of devices I’ve designed for a client, also it’s quite small (about 15x20cm)!
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ehehe, I have wanted one of these since I was 13 years old… :3
the inside of an automated screw feeder filled with m3 countersunk torx screws
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
every year my dislike for Raspberry Pi grows deeper and more justified, even Apple doesn’t prevent RAM chip replacement like this.. (consumerrights.wiki/w/Raspberry_...) (forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.ph...)
consumerrights.wiki
Raspberry Pi locks RAM upgrades
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
but I want to pet the strange dogs…
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
weighted blankets are not enough, I need to sleep under at least 2G of acceleration, I must become the weighted blanket someone invent fusion torch ships for this purpose pls
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
neurotypical people who don’t remove their in-ear wireless headphones while talking out of laziness have unknowingly done so much for autistic people who wear them all the time for the noise cancelling.. thank you for your service 🫡
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you ever see me irl and I’m wearing a bra that’s NOT me, that’s my evil clone and she’s kinda annoying
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it definitely is my healthiest pothos so that makes sense!
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wonder if my pothos enjoys being wobbled by the 3d printer..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the t in tgirl stands for transistor
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
bambu could do the funniest possible option and buy stratasys…
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
so Stratasys won their lawsuit against Bambu for infringing patents that cover basic 3D printing techniques every modern printer firmware / open source slicer uses… the 3D printing industry is going to get pretty interesting for a while!
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
yes, that’s what I’m referring to - horribly over-sexualised and unrealistic main character, and then for seemingly no reason bringing up that paedophilia is legal in that society and having no pushback? major libertarian incel vibes.
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really liked Project Hail Mary (book and film), but it is basically this… and if you read the author’s prior book you’ll realise the only reason he’s not extremely weird and creepy about women in PHM is because there aren’t (m)any in it..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a lot of men seem to have a definition for “hard scifi” that can mostly be summed up as “almost all the characters are men, and said men get to feel smart about solving engineering problems” regardless of how realistic the technology actually is..
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
as a workshop safety officer you should be mindful in using environment-appropriate language: "awww did you have a little booboo?" ❎️ "awww did you have a little industrial accident?" ✅️
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I stopped buying devboards soon after because I felt bad about not making use of them… so, sorry future Erin 6 years from now, suck it, wait a week
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hell yeah !
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
that one devboard I bought on a whim 6 years ago because the feature-set looked neat saved me a week of waiting for parts on a project today.. it can actually happen!!
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
entropy would be a beautiful name for a woman
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've been informed Dyson have now recalled the toothbrush (less than 2 weeks after launch) ..because it wasn't waterproof.. lol
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
when you verify a friend’s signal safety number in person you have to give them a little kiss on the top of their head after, it won’t work properly if u don’t
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
nobody told me that intellectualizing yourself into a small steel cube to get through early transition has long term consequences?? wtf!
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
incredible :3 and yes that is our plan too
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
woah those are very cool, makes me even more sad that none of the non-fdm transparent printing materials are actually durable enough for real world use
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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
(the kittycats are a WIP logo for mine and a friend‘s (not on bsky) hardware project “group”/“company”/“whatever” - Tinned Whiskers)
the two cats now high resolution and not on an e paper display! 

the left one has shiny whiskers, as if tinned
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