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Whitney Drake

@whitneyd.bsky.social
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Writer, geek, living with Crohns, hockey loving despite the fact that the sport doesn't always like me back. She/her whitneydrake.com/linkme

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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love you all, but you need to make sure your website has a responsive theme. Meaning it has a mobile layout. The majority of your traffic comes from mobile devices, so if you don't have one you are missing out. You're also being penalized by google in seo rankings.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last night I dreamt I was with a group of people with superpowers. Mine were dormant. A friend asked if I had felt any of my powers. She then started to describe my dream, which I had apparently pushed into the minds of everyone there. (Not unusual for me to make myself be a telepath)
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
But that's the adhd brain for you. You'll either never start a project, or think it's going to be simple and start it with nowhere near enough time. I know what my evening is like, at least.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I decided to swap out a surge protector after I was sure it had been damaged. This led to me pulling out a container I had dumped things in for later, and made a big mess. 10 minutes before my work day starts. (I did get the mess mostly contained for me to clean up later.)
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Does anyone remember during the pandemic that people taking about how washing your hands should last as long as the chorus to Jolene? Anyways, my shower today was 1 1/2 "9 to 5"s. I'm just going to keep measuring time in units of Dolly Parton songs.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A dog a couple streets over got loose and we watched him until we found his owners. That was Tuesday. He showed up here today. Yes, he's at least part husky. No, nobody has picked him up yet even though we texted. I wish we knew his address. I just know the street he's from.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You could tell the New Yorkers because they were saying "I hope the trump tower is next" after confirming workers in the building were safe.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Today in people from the UK are gross online... Stumbled on a live feed from the fox channel on NY (local news, not fox news itself). A building in Manhattan structural issues. Lots of British flags next to people asking if a plane hit that building too, and other 9/11 jokes.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you think the fault of the red card reversal is only on Trump, the actual blame is FIFA. If you want to say that anyone is undermining the integrity of the sport, it's FIFA. And it always has been.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Nothing quite like being a text from what you think is a doctor's assistant, but it's actually just AI.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Apparently this woman thought these were just like backyard orchards. Not actual commercial orchards. I got her to admit she didn't know those were a thing.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
On a video taking about the California orchards affected by Martinellis not renewing contracts, a woman asked why the orchards were treating down trees and "couldn't let it just return to the wild" I'm sorry, what??
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The stands are honestly the best!
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Every single time I see a white person complain about Mexican food in LA, they went to a chain in West LA. Go East of you want the real deal. Easy at a hole in the wall. Buy from the stand on the street.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
To celebrate our grad, I made a strawberry tres leches cake. I added strawberry syrup to every single stage of the cake. Cake? The milks? The whipped cream? I adjusted the sugar for all of it, and the end result was still a little bit sweeter, but a big hit.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Or very pregnant. Those are the two options, I think.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
AI companies having IPOs is not a sign they're profitable. They're pushing the loss onto the public to let those private investors walk away without losing everything. In short, do not invest in AI IPOs.
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 03/06/2026
CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this
Kermit the frog on a bike, looking happy and joyful
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's 2026 and I'm still tired of non Latine yt ppl's opinions about Encanto. You don't get why Mirabel forgave her family? Cool. You missed a major party of the story, because you don't understand that kind of generational trauma.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I always come up with fake bands names based on things I've said. Today's fake band name is Disappointing Matcha, after the strawberry matches I treated myself too that was 100% too oxidized (it was dark green)
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A Disney fan was complaining that the Muppets version of Rockin Rollercoaster is all wrong. That instead of Kelly Clarkson, they should have used a "Disney girl" I pointed out the wider appeal with Kelly, and they already got a former "Disney girl" to relaunch the Muppet Show and it was perfect.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today I watched a video about pruning back lavender and realized ours had grown too woody and weren't really salvageable. So we'd need new plants. And then I found the gift card!
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sometimes, forgetting about gift cards is awesome. Work had gifted me stuff to a local garden center. I spent this year's, and couldn't find last year's gift card. We bought potting soil, some peppers... And realized we didn't get enough potting soil.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Oh. I'm still alive.
Photo of a woman with dyed blonde hair, glasses. She's smiling at the camera while light streams in through the car window next to her.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And you can feel anyway about those creators working with Chorus while not knowing who was funding it. But it still doesn't make it a 1:1 situation.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Should the people in Chorus have disclosed they were in it? Maybe. But it isn't legally required because the payments and seminars weren't about specific content. The idea was to allow them to create The people being paid to post about Steyer? Absolutely should have been downloading it and weren't.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The number of people I've seen who think that the creators being paid by Chorus are the same thing as the ugc creators posting pro Tom Steyer content without disclosing it? Yikes. One is a patronage type situation to let creators work. The other is a paid influencer gig.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I did not realize how live the Monterey Bay Aquarium Moon Jelly feed is. Their relaxing music was just interrupted by an announcement that the aquarium was closing soon. 😂
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
For the record, I hate this feature anyways. But it is deeply hilarious that we cannot opt out and they are this bad.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Tiktok's AI overviews are so useless and inaccurate. A kitten being rescued from a wall "This video shows a mesmerizing, almost hypnotic animation of swirling, colorful patterns." A woman asking about good romCom sequels "This video shows a person repeatedly striking their head with a hammer"
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
So. The Stars are out, but at least the Oilers are too. And the Wild have to beat the Avs next. So good luck with that.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Many would consider him a white latino.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'd gotten a call from a local activist group on Fri trying to get people out to vote, bc less than 10% of registered voters had dropped off ballots or shown up for early voting. If you ever feel like your vote doesn't count, it absolutely counts on local elections. You can affect local politics!
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So we have a local election. D and I went to drop off our ballots at City Hall where we were greeted like royalty bc nobody turns out for local elections. I brought Ronnie back later that day, and they were so happy to see me again! Always, vote in your local elections.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
There is nothing quite like discovering that one of the onions you needed for dinner is actually moldy. Ew. Ok,we will do French onion soup another night.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
That said a lot of people who hired stylists, seem to have had stylists that confused Coachella with Stagecoach. Or a Halloween party.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Not that I would go to Coachella (the man who owns the company is a big ok Trump supporter), but I feel like the best Coachella outfits aren't the ones that are super trendy... It's the one that fits the wearer. Sad beige influencers suddenly going maximalist are going to look silly.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I love my dad, but I need him to stop sending me AI videos and brushing it off when I tell him he needs to stop supporting those accounts. Someone created a whole AI Rabbi. Idgaf if any advice is good, if you don't know who's behind the account, you don't know what you're supporting.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What a wild day for the Artemis crew. To go from being woken up by a message Jim Lovell recorded before his death, setting records, documenting the moon, to Trump trying to make your accomplishments about him.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If anyone wants to know who the biggest need about space travel is in this family, I've been worrying with the Artemis livesrtream on all day.
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. These dragon convertible bags can be worn as a backpack, crossbody bag, waist bag and can be hooked up to a wheelchair & other mobility aids!! They are high quality! Get them now! Store: Bibipins.com
Red and Green Dragon Convertible Bags
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"And then he told his family he loves them to the moon and back" - me, probably, to my therapist this week about the Artemis crew. Can you imagine getting to say that and mean it?
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
(My FIL had a second floor built onto the house for us when the economy tanked. It's helped us weather my Crohns, and a variety of other issues)
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
For Easter, we make pot roast. It's emeril's garlic studded pot roast in food network's site. I made it the day after we moved in to the house and I wanted something delicious that was low touch, since we were still settling in. It's become a yearly tradition.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 05/04/2026
This is the most breathtaking image I've seen yet from the Artemis II crew: Earth as a tiny, fragile sliver.
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Lather, rinse, repeat. That's what happens in hockey with head coaches. Drop one that doesn't get you to the playoffs, and hire a coach who was fired by their last team for the same reason. There's a distinct lack of space for new coaches in any sport, but hockey feels especially bad.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My boss texted me because she went to her first hockey game and finally understood why I loved it so much. 😂
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Whitney Drake @whitneyd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I just blocked a woman who is creating videos to help people build cyberdecks, but she is a big AI advocate. I know I'm going to forget why I blocked her in the future. (I do like being on cyberdeck tiktok, but the majority of people are trying to get devices that have no AI! )
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