Jenn
@geekgalgroks.bsky.social
Cyberpunk engineer from the future.
Hydration reminders always.
Hydration reminders always.
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Jenn
@geekgalgroks.bsky.social
· Jul 29
a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
Alt: Frodo in Mt Doom saying, "It's gone. It's done."
media.tenor.com
My port has been removed!
All active cancer treatment is done!
All active cancer treatment is done!
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I am a broken record about this, but if you're in a Signal group chat, be aware the comms may be shared with someone else. Set disappearing messages, vet group members, protect yourself & each other. If it's too sensitive, talk in person with no phones. Secure comms pan (generic) here:
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I am a broken record about this, but if you're in a Signal group chat, be aware the comms may be shared with someone else. Set disappearing messages, vet group members, protect yourself & each other. If it's too sensitive, talk in person with no phones. Secure comms pan (generic) here:
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
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we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves
This, 1,000x this. I've been harping about Waymo being anti-worker and yet another way to funnel money upwards to the elite/oligarchs, and people react like I'm nuts. (It's also why I never use self-checkouts.)
and this is why waymo is a labor issue, not a tech issue! it's going to be taking money out of the pockets of rideshare drivers and putting it solely in the hands of big tech
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves
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Fascists want you to starve, by the way. Images like the one I’ve shared on my page help them. This is part of the propaganda.
And that set is no exception.
And that set is no exception.
How far right uses thinness to radicalise women and girls
The far right has normalised much of its ideology within mainstream politics – and ‘body fascism’ is part of that
www.opendemocracy.net
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Fascists want you to starve, by the way. Images like the one I’ve shared on my page help them. This is part of the propaganda.
And that set is no exception.
And that set is no exception.
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hassle induced by someone else's shame is still something one can work with!
Important to understand that shame has no power over these people, because they feel no shame over doing things like promoting Nazism, but sufficient "noise" in the form of media attention and complaints from embarrassed Republicans can have some effect on policy.
wapo.st/4rdDQew
wapo.st/4rdDQew
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
hassle induced by someone else's shame is still something one can work with!
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EVERY SINGLE
CASH PROGRAM
LIKE THIS
WORKS
CASH PROGRAM
LIKE THIS
WORKS
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
EVERY SINGLE
CASH PROGRAM
LIKE THIS
WORKS
CASH PROGRAM
LIKE THIS
WORKS
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I did it. I made the zine.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
Empty Inside: An Autistic Zine, Vol. 1: Interoceptive Hyposensitivity | Ephemeral Record | Nico Mara-McKay
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November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I did it. I made the zine.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
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I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
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If you're not trans, if you read nothing else surrounding the significance of today (though I hope you do), read this thread. Slowly.
CW/TW: Trans Day of Remembrance, death mentions, suicide mentions, violence mentions. 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If you're not trans, if you read nothing else surrounding the significance of today (though I hope you do), read this thread. Slowly.
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Three months after insurance fuckery forced me to trash-panda diet my A1C back up to the magic 6.5 threshold for them to cover the GLP-1 prescription, we tested again yesterday and it's at 5.5, the lowest it's been in years (since we also increased my dosage). It's almost like the drugs work!
AWWW YEAH I CAN HAVE MY DRUGS BACK, I HIT THE MAGIC NUMBER
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Three months after insurance fuckery forced me to trash-panda diet my A1C back up to the magic 6.5 threshold for them to cover the GLP-1 prescription, we tested again yesterday and it's at 5.5, the lowest it's been in years (since we also increased my dosage). It's almost like the drugs work!
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So much this.
*stares at technoutopian imaginaries of American culture*
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
*stares at technoutopian imaginaries of American culture*
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Americans believe science and tech can do anything without having any idea what their actual, realistic limitations are, or what it takes to make that work happen. They confuse the movies and TV with reality. It takes *both* the humanities, the social sciences, and better STEM education to fix that.
1/2 After spreading all that alien nonsense about the interstellar comet, the same “influencers” are now blaming NASA simply because they don’t like the images, despite having no understanding of what it takes to photograph a fast, unexpected interstellar object from every available vantage point.
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
So much this.
*stares at technoutopian imaginaries of American culture*
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
*stares at technoutopian imaginaries of American culture*
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Keeping in mind that Natives willingly retired it.
REPUBLICANS: “How dare you call us Nazis?!”
ALSO REPUBLICANS: “The swastika needs to make a comeback.”
ALSO REPUBLICANS: “The swastika needs to make a comeback.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Keeping in mind that Natives willingly retired it.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08...
#HTML #accessibility #a11y
www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08...
#HTML #accessibility #a11y
Paragraphs | scottohara.me
Consider the following:
www.scottohara.me
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08...
#HTML #accessibility #a11y
www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08...
#HTML #accessibility #a11y
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Read this thread up and down, and then do it again.
I am not on GLP-1.
But I have friends who are, and I have had to be there, hold their hands, and say, "This was never about willpower. This proves there was a MEDICAL thing wrong. It is shit you were made to feel it was only about willpower."
I am not on GLP-1.
But I have friends who are, and I have had to be there, hold their hands, and say, "This was never about willpower. This proves there was a MEDICAL thing wrong. It is shit you were made to feel it was only about willpower."
the GLP-1 corrected the metabolic disorder, and I started losing weight.
And that was the worst blow to my mental health in my entire life.
I am still made of rage over it. Doctors shamed me my entire life and called me a liar and ignored my actual problems and they were ALL. FUCKING. WRONG.
And that was the worst blow to my mental health in my entire life.
I am still made of rage over it. Doctors shamed me my entire life and called me a liar and ignored my actual problems and they were ALL. FUCKING. WRONG.
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Read this thread up and down, and then do it again.
I am not on GLP-1.
But I have friends who are, and I have had to be there, hold their hands, and say, "This was never about willpower. This proves there was a MEDICAL thing wrong. It is shit you were made to feel it was only about willpower."
I am not on GLP-1.
But I have friends who are, and I have had to be there, hold their hands, and say, "This was never about willpower. This proves there was a MEDICAL thing wrong. It is shit you were made to feel it was only about willpower."
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Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...
Martha Wells
Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ...
worldbuildersmarket.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...
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Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
The Practical Accessibility Course
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
practical-accessibility.today
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
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People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl
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The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.