Elin

@hejelin.com

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Hej, I'm Elin! 👋 I do research for @pragmaticengineer.com, take pictures of fancy ducks, do various naturey and crafty activities, and think many random thoughts about life, the universe and everything! 🐢🪴

The results from a game of the card solitaire Klondike. It's four aces in a row, except that the Ace of Spades (🎶 the ace of spades 🎶) has the Nine of Spades on top of it - meaning it's as close to a successful game of Klondike you can come to without actually winning it.
Two male and one female mandarin duck, e.g. fancy orange ducks 🦆 one is swimming and two are sitting on a tree branch that goes into the water
A dark gray beetle, about 20-25mm long, sitting on the armrest of a wooden chair. It has the meanest-looking eyes you can imagine - black as tar. It's staring into your soul, and judges the very core of your being. It's giving "I will haunt your dreams, shit on everything you hold dear, and if I had the required body mass, I would beat you until an inch of your life".
New York times mini crossword from July 12 2025, with the clue "Left-leaning social media site" and BLUESKY as the answer. The rest of the mini is covered up to avoid spoiling the mini for anyone playing
Snowdrops blooming amongst the grass of last year
Male mandarin duck swimming about, looking dapper
A crocheted sweater from the back
A hand attempting to put a tall bottle onto the top shelf of a fridge, but the cork is hitting the roof of the fridge so it doesn't fit
A waddling of mandarin ducks, sitting atop a partially snow covered bank next to some open water - four males and three females. There are mallards swimming around them. Three of the males are gazing to the right so you can see their colourful head plumage, and one is looking towards the camera.
Two side-by-side posts from the Instagram discovery feed. The left one is saying "things your therapist *probably* thinks while working with you" with an arrow pointing to the right, indicating it's a multi-page post that you should swipe on. On the right, a stick figure is holding up a cinder block over its head, with the text "come here" above it, as if it's preparing to smash something with said cinder block. This was random/chosen by the algorithm, and the combined effect is that the Instagram algorithm is telling me that what my therapist is *probably* thinking while working with me, is that they wanna smash my head in with a cinder block. Rude Instagram, very rude.
Video of ice skating on black ice, and in the background the sound of it singing as a group of other skaters passed the other way
A frozen lake under a clear blue sky, with a low sun, and an ice skater going across it
A square crocheted owl peering into your soul with his dark teal eyes
A crocheted arm of a sweater
A mandarin duck standing on the shore with his mate, fluffing his orange plumage and looking out over the water and the common mallards swimming there
Ribbing and 4 rows of crochet on a back piece for a crocheted sweater pattern
A crochet project, it will be a sweater, here it's just bottom ribbing and part of one section
Title and preview text of something I wrote on my substack
A desk with three drawers, except the middle drawer is gone and in its gap there are two notebooks instead. The top of the desk has stuff on it but its NOT MESSY 🤯
An IKEA step stool
Two crocheted dragons that want names! One is pastel blue/green/pink and the other a speckled gray with green wings
Two crochet dragons, one gray with green wings, and one a wingless multicolored in pastel blue/green/pink. They're loooong and have little eyes and nostrils!
A4 paper zine with 8 pages on the basics of embroidery, laid out so you can see all pages
A pair of mandarin ducks in the water - the male with orange, dark and white plumage, and the female in brown but brighter details, including a white stripe under the eye and light brown specks on her... Belly? Chest? Underneath her.
A lizard in a tub or bowl, peering over the edge with what looks like a happy smile. Below, the same lizard but with its tongue sticking out, in a happy grin 😋🦎
Ducks/mallards and fancy ducks/mandarin ducks (orange and with fancy feathers/patterns) swimming around
A yellow plastic climbing hold with googly eyes. It looks like it's in deep contemplation of important philosophical questions, or just remembering an incredibly embarrassing moment from its childhood.
Some geometric math formulas written in very pretty calligraphy
A huge lightbulb with a fancy star/fireworks effect (the bulb looks dark and like there are stars/fireworks coming out of the center of it in a 3D way), and the wall behind it where it reflects as in a rainbow-like gradient of colour going from blue/purple to yellow/green at the very top
An autumnal mobile with leaves and tiny pinecones hanging from the ceiling
A plant in a big pot standing on a wooden pedestal
A lamp with a lightbulb which is wayyyyy too big for it
A work-in-progress zine about embroidery supplies and floss
The cute lil van, a gray Renault Kangoo, with a matching roof box and a green tree sticker on the back
A bunch of dried leaves in various shades of autumn laying on a laptop table
A picturesque textbook example of a fly agaric 🍄
The ground covered in yellow leaves and a round tree stub poking out of them