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Xyla Foxlin⚡
@XylaFoxlin
Makes things on YouTube 👩🏻‍🔧Mechatronics Engineer 🤖 Woodworker 🌳 Pilot ✈️ Rocketeer 🚀 Aspiring Disney Princess👸🏻 @AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador 👩🏻‍🔬
Los Angeles, CA
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    Xyla Foxlin⚡
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    Jan 31, 2023
    Hey everyone! Here is an updated pinned tweet to allow easier ̶s̶t̶a̶l̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶ contacting. I am Xyla and I make stuff! 💻Biz Inq: [email protected] 💌 PO Box: 10866 Washington Blvd #610, Culver City, CA, 90232 📽️ YouTube: youtube.com/xylafoxlin 📸IG & TikTok: @xylafoxlin
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    I'm an engineer by degree with a passion for the arts and working with my hands; and a disdain for the way engineering is taught in schools. I'm a bit of a speedy jet with a broken compass, I'm...
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    May 8, 2020
    So I built this cedar strip corset out of scraps from building my canoe and I'm out on the backyard taking pictures and my aunt just walks out and hands me this sword and is like "looked like you needed this" She wasn't wrong.
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    May 6, 2021
    My waipo (grandmother) told me last year to "find a nice strong boyfriend who can make her a cutting board" so for mother's day this year she's getting a nice strong cutting board made by me
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    May 8, 2020
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    Including this extra AF rapier. (My aunt is a professional fencer, if you can't tell.)
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    Jun 12, 2022
    Some asshat from NASA called me Joe’s “PR girl” at the rocket launch today, and I’ve spent the day trying to talk myself down from quitting rocketry forever. I’m 25, I’ve been dealing with this shit for over a decade in STEM, and it STILL gets to me sometimes. A thread 👇
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    May 8, 2020
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    Oh and if anyone wants to comission a canoe (or a corset I guess...?) my restless hands and quarantined ass would be v thankful
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    Sep 24, 2020
    I did the thing. Finally. Today, after 11 years of obsessively saving money, 9 instructors, 5 plane swaps, 4 rescheduled checkrides, 2 sexual harassment reports, and 1 plane trying to kill me with carbon monoxide... IM FINALLY A LICENSED PILOT #aviatrix
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    Jul 14, 2023
    Remember this? Meet Spite. 💁🏻‍♀️ I designed her on the car ride home.
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    Jun 12, 2022
    Some asshat from NASA called me Joe’s “PR girl” at the rocket launch today, and I’ve spent the day trying to talk myself down from quitting rocketry forever. I’m 25, I’ve been dealing with this shit for over a decade in STEM, and it STILL gets to me sometimes. A thread 👇
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    Jan 10, 2023
    My beloved little handmade teardrop trailer got stolen from outside my house late last night. It had a boot and a hitch lock on it. As I was driving to the police station, I started wondering what value I’d possibly say if they asked what it was worth.
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    May 8, 2020
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    Aight while we're on heartwarming aunt pics (I spent summers living with my aunt and uncle and we'd go wilderness canoe camping in the Adirondacks in homebuilt canoes because they are the coolest.) Felt the need to recreate this pic the day of my canoe's maiden voyage 🙃
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    May 8, 2020
    Replying to @acapellascience
    My aunt is the most badass human ever. She has two Ivy science degrees then after a few years was like fuck it I'm gonna be a fencing coach and a musician. She is on the @USAFencing veterans world team and here's a video of her fencing the cat His parry needs some work though
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    Sep 2, 2020
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    Anyway we were chatting one day and I was complaining about dudes who try to cop a feel at salsa dance socials and how I wanted stun gun booty shorts to shock them away AND HE MADE THEM FOR ME AND I LOVE THEM
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    Apr 27, 2023
    2 months later, I BUILT A BOAT! Maiden Voyage will be tomorrow afternoon at the Center for Wooden Boats at Lake Union in Seattle ⛵️
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    Mar 4, 2022
    Look Ma, there’s a life size statue of me at the ACTUAL SMITHSONIAN!! @IfThenSheCan