Andy Welfle 🛰️

@andy

Co-author of “Writing is Designing”. Content design + product UX in San Francisco. Pencil podcaster, zine maker, cat petter and Star Trek watcher. Red hot like pizza supper. Black lives still matter. He/him.

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Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir andy.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· 7d

Also, gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson can fuck themselves in several different ways, but one specific way is that they're suing FWFC over a trademark infringement because they think the logos are too similar. That's bullshit, Smith & Wesson. Eat a bag of dicks.

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· 7d

I don’t care that much about soccer but BY GOD I will buy a hat from a sports franchise from my hometown. Especially when it looks as good as this from the @fortwaynefc.bsky.social. TWO hats, even.

Selfie of a man with clear-frame glasses and a short beard wearing a black dad cap with an orange gothic monogram embroidered on the front, over a plaid flannel shirt, with a full bookshelf visible behind him

The same man wearing a yellow version of the same dad cap with a black gothic monogram, looking down slightly with a slight smile, bookshelf and plant softly blurred in the background

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· 22d

Sitting in a poolside cabana with my nieces at a hotel resort in Orlando, with a spicy marg and jimmy buffet playing It doesn’t get much more Florida than this

A margarita with a chili-salt rim is held up in the foreground at a poolside cabana. On the table behind it sit sunscreen, coffee cups, a soda can, and snack bags, including one for Strawberry Shortcake fruit gummies. A child sits at left eating a snack, and a teen at right takes a photo with a phone. Beyond the cabana, a resort pool area with blue umbrellas, lounge chairs, and palm trees stretches under a partly cloudy sky.

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· 24d

Don’t tempt me, @sfchronicle.com

A Washington Post push notification from 2 hours ago, headed "Coffee drinking," reporting that the American Heart Association says many adults can safely drink more coffee than they might expect — but there are important caveats

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· 25d

Maybe I’ve never noticed it before, but my little neighborhood market has started selling large, grape-sized blueberries and I am here for them.

A ceramic bowl with a blue rim filled with freshly washed blueberries, water droplets still visible on their skins, sitting on a speckled gray countertop

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jul 9

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jul 7

It's even loaded up with some old headline matrices, I'm guessing.

A handwritten label in a brass card holder on a dark metal type drawer, reading "24 pt Century Bold Condensed"

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jul 7

I'm in Anmore BC (just outside of Vancouver) and tucked away behind the community center, there is a _beautiful_ old Intertype machine (a Linotype competitor) just... sitting there. Belonged to a prominent BC journalist. Be a shame if anyone were to just... take it

A vintage Intertype hot metal typesetting machine on museum display behind glass, with a placard identifying it as belonging to Margaret "Ma" Murray, a pioneering British Columbia newspaper publisher

Cast iron manufacturer's plate on an Intertype machine, listing patent dates from 1914 through 1925, the sales and machine numbers, and identifying it as manufactured by Intertype Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.

The keyboard of an Intertype hot metal typesetting machine, showing three color-coded sections of square keys — black lowercase letters, blue spacing and punctuation keys, and cream uppercase letters — arranged in diagonal columns

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jul 1

Apparently the costumers for the original "Alien" movie kitbashed two of these watches and a red bezel into a very high-tech looking wrist computer! I'm embarassed to say I've never noticed this before.

Promotional still of the character Ellen Ripley from Alien, wearing a gray Weyland-Yutani crew jumpsuit with mission patches on both shoulders, a Casio F-100 digital watch with a red bezel visible on her wrist, posed with her hand raised near her face against a neutral gray background

Two Casio F-100 digital watch modules mounted face-to-face in a red and black prop housing, displayed against a starfield background — a recreation of the dual-watch device worn by Ripley in Alien

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jul 1

I've been getting into wristwatches lately — more specifically, obsessed with Casio digital watches. Especially excited for this one: the A100, a remake of their 1978 F100, the first-ever resin watch. Weirdly though, this one is metal. I love, love the Darth Vader-style buttons on the face, though!

A Casio Illuminator digital watch with a silver metal bracelet on a wrist, displaying 3:36 on its amber LCD screen, with four gold-toned push buttons and colorful indicator bars on the lower face

Face-on product shot of a vintage Casio F-100 digital watch module in black, displaying 4:57:55 on its LCD screen, with four push buttons and colored indicator bars on the lower face, "Japan" printed below the display, against a bright teal background

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jul 1

Happy Canada Day to my friends and family to the north, from my Florida-born neice who has no idea what Canada Day is, and thought this Messenger filter was about "beautiful fall music" because of the falling leaves!

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 22

POV: you just asked who’s a pretty girl

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 20

Name a tv show you’re sure no one remembers but you

Promotional cast photo of a 1970s ensemble TV show — eight actors posed together, featuring a mix of men and women in period-appropriate clothing including plaid shirts, wide lapels, and curly hair, with a warm, slightly faded color palette typical of the era

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 19

It's possible that I may have a Rollbahn problem

Three Rollbahn spiral notebooks in descending sizes — navy, yellow, and red — stacked together on a green cutting mat alongside a blue Golden Bear pencil

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 18

We love a Dark Brandon holdout

A gray San Francisco residential building facade with a white cross-pattern balcony, on which the same graphic face cutout is visible propped in the window, with a white van parked below

Close-up of a weathered cutout of a smiling man's face — rendered in a graphic blue-and-red style — propped on a white decorative balcony railing in front of a window with sheer curtains

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 16

OMG just go away for fucks sake

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 16

Reader, I found someone to help me do some Neo mods! Very happy with the results.

A yellow MacBook Air open on a terrazzo coffee table, displaying a macOS desktop with a San Francisco cityscape wallpaper and widgets showing the time, weather at 68°F, and a calendar

Overhead view of the keyboard and trackpad of a yellow MacBook Air, showing the full QWERTY layout with purple-tinted modifier keys and a large Force Touch trackpad

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 15

Two biographies, both alike in dignity

Two hardcover books standing spine-out on a wood table: Star Trek: The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard (Titan Books, red spine) alongside Making It So by Patrick Stewart (Gallery Books, dark gray spine), with a stack of books visible in the background

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 13

@gruber.foo @aresluna.org Potential Meta-slop language fodder for your respective blogs! In Meta’s last layoff, UX writers seemed to be disproportionately affected. And suddenly this steaming hot mess of a message showed up on their apps today:

Screenshot of the Facebook app showing a Meta notification titled "Your settings are changing," informing the user that the setting to disconnect off-Meta activity is being removed, with a blue "Learn more" button at the bottom

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 12

Got me a couple of these bad boys and I’m not ruining vegetables!

Packaging for a Walgreens Gel Bead Ice Pack — a reusable, direct-to-skin cold therapy pack shown applied to a knee, described as softly molding to body contours

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 11

The one where the cat gets The Rachel / @pui.bsky.social

A black cat with bright green eyes peers out from beneath long strands of dark brown human hair draped over its head and face, as if wearing the hair like a wig. The cat is snuggled against a person’s shoulder, whose hair falls across the frame. Behind them is a green wall, a black floral throw pillow, and a blurred kitchen.

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Jun 7

Whelp, on Wednesday, @pui.bsky.social and I went and Did the Thing!

A bride and groom burst out of the ornate gold-and-navy doors of San Francisco City Hall, both grinning — she lifts her lace wedding dress while carrying a colorful tote bag, he sticks out his tongue with a crossbody bag, a box of pencils, and a Trader Joe's bag in hand

Black-and-white photograph of a just-married couple walking through a corridor of San Francisco City Hall to cheers from seated guests — the bride beaming in a lace strapless gown with floral arm tattoos, the groom smiling in a dark suit with his arm around her

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· May 27

Ain’t no wedding like an Andy Welfle wedding because an Andy Welfle weddings got WOODEN PENCILS AS PARTY FAVORS

Dozens of royal blue pencils with orange erasers spread across a table alongside light blue gift bags printed with "Erica & Andy, June 3, 2026" surrounding a double happiness character — wedding favor assembly in progress

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· May 24

Met a new cat friend today. 📍 Berkeley, Alameda County, California, United States, California, US #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:57k57qgyj34okw3rjdxcvso3/gallery/3mmlcbu637q2y

A black and white medium haired cat sitting on a wooden floor. He’s very floofy.

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· May 18

Number one baby girl 📍 Dogpatch, California, US #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:57k57qgyj34okw3rjdxcvso3/gallery/3mm44ficj2a2w

A small tuxedo cat, lounging on a pillow

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· May 8

I loved that movie as a kid and still think about it all the time! But I’m not—

Three-panel meme of a stick figure smiling contentedly in the first two panels, then in the third panel its eyes go wide and askew with a flat mouth, captioned "*realization*"

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· May 4

I have always loved cats.

A vintage snapshot of a young child lounging in a tufted armchair, petting a tuxedo cat resting on a red blanket beside them, surrounded by star-print pillows and holiday cards in the background

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Apr 29

Week 4 of unemployment: I finally figured out how to set a picture of my cat as the sleep screen of my weird little ebook reader. This is likely the biggest victory of my week.

A hand holds open a Kindle in a mint green case, displaying a grayscale photo of a tuxedo cat loafing with paws tucked, staring wide-eyed at the camera

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Apr 28

“Give your agent legs” is a wild way to say: “we hired a guy, and he has a backpack” Congratulations, you invented couriers

A flyer taped to a street pole in San Francisco advertising Doorstep (trydoorstep.app), reading "Give your agent legs — one message to your agent and it can do real stuff: pickups, delivers, errands and more. A real person in SF handles it." The flyer features an illustration of a laptop, an arrow pointing to a courier walking past Victorian rowhouses, and a QR code

Andy Welfle 🛰️@andy· Apr 19

The small privilege of having a beer while reading a book in the park on a nice day really does lift up my mood when things feel particularly heavy.