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Laura ✨🎨

@alicetragedy@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06

Designer & two-trick pony. Formerly Travis CI/Travis Foundation, Rails Girls Summer of Code Lead & Vienna.rb organiser. ❤️s owls, music, Design Systems, NASA trivia, Ruby & Taekwondo ✨ Newbie knitter 🧶

731 Followers

138 Following

42 Posts

Joined October 28, 2022

personal website:

https://alicetragedy.org/

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Here’s a thought on the current heatwave that is absolutely destroying humankind across Europe atm: maybe we should push for a regulation to allow people — ALL people — to stop working in temperatures above 30C. The economy would collapse and finally politicians would take fighting the climate crisis as a priority, rather than leaning into the bullshit narrative that “summer is summer” from their air-conditioned ivory towers.

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social and while I agree that parts of the southern regions are more used to higher temperatures (and I still remember as a kid hearing on the news that people were dying in the heat every year) the temp average rising year by year still takes a toll on the population, and governments aren’t doing anything about it.

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@david@social.piconet.work yeah this is what my dog does each day every day 😭 he’s absolutely destroyed by this heat.

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social sure. I’m Italian, and in my childhood it still wasn’t common to have 40 degrees in the middle of June though, even in Rome, where my family has lived all their life. ✌️

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@katafrakt@ruby.social I had no idea about that regulation forbidding work in offices *under* a certain temperature! TIL And yep I totally agree with you. It also seems a bit easier to counter cold temperatures indoors (by wearing thicker clothing, using blankets, hot water bottles, etc) than hot temperatures. Past a certain temperature my brain just doesn’t want to think anymore 🥵

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

I was in a design systems meeting with the CTO and a couple of the developers yesterday and I was.. just given ownership of the component library & design system which is literally like.. my dream. What do you mean I get to sort things and find inconsistencies and, like, fix them?!?!???

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social agreed!!!!!! It’s the same here in Austria — with every heatwave, you get happy pictures of women in bikinis on the front page of newspapers 🫠

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social I know what you mean though, my original post didn’t take that into account at all, obviously the “baseline” should be different from country to country and as someone else pointed out, temperature can be very subjective based on location and external factors. Nevertheless there has to be something we can collectively do 😩

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@pointlessone@status.pointless.one 🫠🫠🫠 anything to please capitalism 🙃😩🙈

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@tante@tldr.nettime.org 🫠🫠 But on the upside they are recognising that 7 layers of management is too much management 🙈 🙊

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jerrej@mastodon.social people are already needlessly dying, though. See: heatwaves, forest fires, floods. Mostly due to inaction from politicians & governments — there is only so much individuals can do. (Needless to say though, I understand your stand and respect it.)

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de I don’t disagree 😅😅😅

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@commonst@social.vivaldi.net that sucks so much, I’m sorry 😭 I agree, execs would very quickly change their minds if it impacted the business.

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@jerrej@mastodon.social I get that and truly understand it and understand your perspective ❤️ I mean, the pandemic has shown us how much our system relies on essential workers, and how much governments counted on those people to keep showing up to help and support most of society (while putting themselves at risk). 😞

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@PragTob 😭💔 Thank you for these words. He was the best of us 💚💚💚

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bitboxer@mastodon.social talk to the awesome folks at @VillageOneCoop@toot.village.one 💛 like @harryfk@mastodon.social

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

Birthdays are a big, emotional thing for me. I don't really want to make a big deal out of them, because “it's just a birthday”, but I love celebrating other people & making them feel special. When I was a kid, my parents forgot my birthday once and I never thought it was a big deal (they laughed it off) until I became a mom and realised that I would never in a million years forget my child's birthday. So this year I wanted to do something spontaneous with my daughter but also...I'm tired

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@dgar@aus.social every millennial’s childhood trauma 😭😭😭💔

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sk@catcatnya.com I’m more interested in the “bird hub” 🤣

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@michal@spondr.cz 🙃

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@Robotistry@fediscience.org @edgeofeurope@mastodon.social I agree and know that this is a grey area. I remember being in the Death Valley years ago, and the air was so dry that the heat, even in a van with no AC, didn’t bother me as much as the sticky asphalt heat of New York or Vienna. Generally also being by the coast, while humid, can also be “refreshing” because of the wind. :)

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io @fee_fi_fo_fum@aus.social @evan@cosocial.ca *I* am Spartacus

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@flaki clearly the big problem is giving women rights, and not the fact that no person can actually afford raising children in this dumpster fire of an economy, while our planet is burning because we put profit ahead of everything else. But sure by all means put the blame on women wanting to have agency 😂

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

I just tried to explain to my husband that one of the reasons why I love knitting so much and why it feels so natural to me is that it's not just creative, it also appeals to the analytical / systems thinking part of my brain.

And then I gave the example of how the knitting pattern I'm using is somewhat badly written (no shade, it's fine, it's a free pattern): “like very verbose code, basically written out line by line instead of refactoring it with if statements and while loops” 😂 😂 😂

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sk yep I get you 🤍 as a Taurus who likes the comfort of her home I *have* to plan in advance otherwise I’d never leave my house 🙈🙈🙈

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@eljojo yes! This! I also think that some types of people (don’t know if it’s a neurodivergent thing or a perfectionist / type A personality trait) feel the need to find “the perfect route” and optimise (stuff like time of arrival, proximity to places / a specific area, etc). Planning trips is an absolute nightmare for me for that reason bc I’ll spend literally hours rethinking my choices and wondering if it was the best choice I could have made or if there was a way to optimise it 😭🥲

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@sk@catcatnya.com 😍😍😍

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@me sorry to hear your employer is exploiting your passion, that sucks 😞 I hope your work gets recognised (and rewarded)!

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@bitboxer I don’t know a single person who has met him and doesn’t have a sweet anecdote like this to tell. 😭 ❤️

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@alex ohhh congrats 🥳 and I’m so curious to see it in action!! But also: I have been using Streaks for years now, afaik it’s free and doesn’t have any kind of subscription. Too late now for this suggestion I guess, haha

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@erioldoesdesign 💜

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

@VillageOneCoop team Tortilla de papas over here 🙋‍♀️ 🥔

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@tomash 💔 💔 💔 I'm so sorry for your loss. He was such a kind and funny human.

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@flori @matuzo came here to ask this 😂

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@Damiano_Chech@techhub.social yeah right? 🫠🫠🫠

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sk@catcatnya.com yessss minicabin but also the feldkirch route is so pretty during the day ❤️❤️❤️

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@Dianora@ottawa.place that’s awful, I’m sorry 😞

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Laura ✨🎨 @alicetragedy@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@matuzo actually I didn’t read the brief — if it’s gonna be just one, it has to be Verdena, bc it’s one of the best Italian albums ever and more people should know about it

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