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Tessa Brown

@tessa.germnetwork.com

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ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com, the secure messenger for the social internet. san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva 🌱 I'm on Germ DM 🔑 https://ger.mx/A_80PptKcStrvukixhoOHNlRmbCFvr-w7kK7SRO7b_p_#did:plc:ad4m72ykh2evfdqen3qowxmg

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 4h

Maj tbh

Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 7h

With phone numbers out of the picture, end-to-end encrypted messaging has never been more flexible. First stop: #atproto 🥨🦋

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 18h

hold the torch 🕊️ and teach the youth

Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 20h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 1d

Beyoncé pays tribute to D’Angelo on her website.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

In any case the winner this weekend was undoubtedly the Peju 2023 Sauv Blanc. Grassy, complex, yet ineffably light.

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

Wages for Housework

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Experienced Housekeeper–Nanny Needed | ~40 hrs/week | San Francisco - general labor - job employment - craigslist

About the role Household with two preschoolers seeks a dependable, proactive professional to handle day-to-day housekeeping and childcare. We value calm authority, clear routines, and consistency....

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

killer cache strategy

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

Drop the mask today baby, just for a little while

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The Charade

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

D'Angelo!!!! What a loss!!!

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 4d

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 4d

#germsky #germwire

Richard Ferro, MD @richferro.com · 4d

I’ve been working on the algorithms for the @medsky.social specialty feeds for over a year, and the difference between then and now is staggering.

We now have:
• 70+ feeds
• Hundreds of professional societies and journals
• Several thousand HCW accounts

I’m really proud of how far we’ve come.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 4d

Yes @omidyarnetwork.bsky.social, I will take a book

Thank you Block Party for this LIBRARY!

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

SF moments with @buildwithtori.com ✨🌈💕

Two smiling women founders in front of a rainbow flag

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

Try me if we haven’t germed in a minute ☺️

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

New build who dis 🦠📲

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

New build who dis 🦠📲

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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 5d

Family Surveillance apps, like #Life360 and #FindMy, are replacing traditional ankle monitors in some courts. Read STOP's latest report: www.stopspying.org/big-brother-...

white background with black text. Phone with location tracking app.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

Beckyyyyy

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 5d

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE’ is now playing in select theaters before releasing on Netflix starting October 24.

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

nomorefeaturesonlyQA!!!!!!!

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

Very Bolaño

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 5d

You claim to be a player but I…

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.