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Jeffrey Sens
@jeffreysens.bsky.social
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Covid cautious, Bipolar 2, Queer, & cat photos. He/him/they. Portland STEAM educator in video game dev & nonprofit public education. Rhetorical studies background--advocate for youth safety, agency, & community.
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Here's a question I am mulling over. Should I step down from a computer science board because they are all in on "Ai"?

I wrote this on our board chat. It will give me data once I get some responses.
Happy holiday week. Been mulling this since our board meeting. I don't think STE(A)M should be seen as just a buzz word that nobody cares about now. Maybe the legislature and companies don't, Eg hubs only focus on chips and Ai. One of the key ways we have of developing student interest in CS is exposure to a full spectrum of STEAM. Ai is simply a subsegment of it, and I am pretty horrified by the new direction to abandon highly successful programs and a key framework. In sum, I am becoming more and more unnerved by what seems a headlong rush to Ai. What would I like to see more of? Advocacy and Leadership--we are ceding ground everytime we say Ai is here to stay. It's too late. It's a tool. We are just trainers. I think it it is in our interest to our mission and members that we fill throatedly support STEM hubs. They are more than a pot of money. Education--we need clear recommendations and resources by OCSTA for ethics and political analysis of Ai by teachers and students. It cannot be an after thought or dispensed with caveats or cursory naming of it. I do not think it good enough to position ourselves as Ai experts doing PD for teachers if we back away from challengjng the harmful effects and consequences of Ai. So those are my concerns. I've been comfortable promoting OCSTA, but I'm reexamining, what is my responsibility to my communities when I advocate? Can I fully stand by my recommendation with confidence?
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I'm kind of fighty today. Thinking I need to read less upsetting stuff and look at Caturday cuties.
A grey shorthair cat is on a porch laying on her side and facing away from you with legs and paws stretched. Her head is turned around looking up at you.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Damn it. Alice Wong passed away
ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Don't know the article source. 7% decline
Qasim Rashid I've seen no corporate media outlet cover this: •Post 2024 polls showed that Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm for her by 7% •Post 2025 polls show that Mamdani running as an unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA voters who went for Trump in 2024 To be clear, I am not saying this is the only reason Harris lost or Mamdani won. I am saying clearly that Harris's strategy hurt her and Mamdani's opposite strategy helped him. The lesson Corporate Dems need to learn: American voters crave authenticity and consistency. You don't flip votes by compromising on your values, but by unapologetically leaning into them. Screenshot of article titled, Kamala Harris Campaigning With Liz Cheney Flopped with Key Voter Group
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The Portland weird have arrived in full.
Post on Facebook with an illustration of 3 people representing human pets, furries, and kinksters. Degenerates against fascism. Pets, furries, kinksters. All degenerates and our supporters are welcome. March and Protest to the ice building Nov 9 2pm STARTING LOCATION: ELIZABETH CARUTHERS PARK 3508 S. MOODY AVE PORTLAND, OR 97239 @degeneratesagainstfascism on Instagram I think.
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Graham Platner is a progressive combat veteran and small-business owner who says Maine needs "more leaders who stand up for working people instead of the political elite." He has faced criticism from opponents for an old tattoo that some say is anti-Israel, and for outspoken social-media posts on policing and gun ownership. Platner says the attacks are "cheap distractions meant to divide Democrats, " and that he'll keep fighting for workers' rights, abortion access, and climate action. * 18. Does this make you more or less likely to support Platner? • Much less likely • Somewhat less likely • Somewhat more likely • Much more likely • No difference
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Haven't done a caturday in a while.
Ming the merciless, a grey shorthair cat, is sitting on her butt with legs and paws sprawled out. Her mouth is open, revealing 2 teeth so she looks like a vampire.
October 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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In which Gofundme says oh shit, making unofficial fundraisers for non profits was bad.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I love this photo of elders doing No Kings
Protest set in front of a nursing home, many white hair grandma's and some grandpa's (i mean elders) are lined up down the sidewalk with their rollators. Minneapolis. Caption to photo was "Far Left agitators"
October 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Pedro Pascal at No Kings Los Angeles stanning LGBTQIA+
Wearing glasses and in a yellow shirt, Pedro Pascal holds a sign of trans people sneering at Trump and saying No Kings, Only Queers. Los Angeles.
October 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Is anyone able to do alt text better on this one?

This was Portland Saturday
Huge, tall frog with frog hands bent upward dominates the photo. It is quite taller than the marchers. It is surrounded by many people in frog outfits . Behind them is a crowd stretching back holding numerous signs. It's like everyone said, group photo. Portland Saturday No Kings March.
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC. If you want people to do hard things EN MASSE, you must support them when they show up in the MILLIONS to tell the ONE SPECIAL BOY to GTFO. So, shout-out to the winemoms in unicorn blow-ups with FUCK ICE posters in Waukegan or wherever. Gonna need you at the Home Depot tomorrow.
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Frog wearing a cape in the style of Shepard Fairys Obama poster.
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Rallies like this bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusasim for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism. In the literature, we call rallies like this "image events" because they help **focus media attention** on a major strain of ideological resistance that is big enough for lots of people to feel comfortable. They create IMAGES that FOCUS our ATTENTION and AFFECT to mobilize frequently. Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo. And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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My threading is messed up so I couldn't see @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social entire thread on #NoKings. Posting screen shots with alt text.

A grounding frame for understanding Saturday marches.
A thread by D. Lisa Corrigon responding to Jonathan M. Katz who posted:h Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that's good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent. Dr Corrigan starts: In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport. Fun and play are often a part of social movements as the people trust the larger group to hold their values as the conflict with the state expands. The anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 were full of folks dressed like loggerhead turtles and dolphins and stuff dancing to RATM. Very fun + serious. When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization. The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Oregonian is putting it at 40K so far for Portland. Who knows, but itsa good photo. A lot of parents and kids out there.
Photo of Portland No Kings march taken from higher up. The photo centers on a tree lined path--a park or perhaps the road--where protestors and their signs crowd together and stretch to photo's horizon.
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I'm aggravated (again) by resist who use AI. There are perfectly good, powerful photos taken by real people.
A clearly "AI" generated "photo" shows a march of people in a menagerie of costumes with the Portland ICE frog at the front. Above them is a traffic sign saying Portland. Poster added a yellow X through it.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Portland Legal fund. Verified with a local organizer I know.

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STAND WITH IMMIGRANT RIGHIS PROTESTORS! Jairin Anzaldua, Gregorio Cano, Lora Wilde, Elijah Thahir, Holly Brown and Leticia Navarro were all arrested on 10/4 for peacefully protesting at the Portland ICE Facility. They all face potentially serious charges, and Jairin Anzaldua is being charged with a felony. We cannot allow these attacks on the immigrant rights movement to stand. An attack on one is an attack on al! DONATE TO THEIR LEGAL FUNDI! @pdxcd on venmo $pdxcd on cashapp PORTLAND CONTRA LAS DEPORTACIONES
October 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Portland
Sidewalk by a wood barrier on a building in downtown Portland. Someone put up life sized posters along the wall that say Dont Obey with a black and white cartoon frog head in the middle.
October 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hmmm I don't have much an opinion on the Portland No Kings stuff this except don't RSVP and give them your email or trust them with security after the Utah killing.
Indivisible Oregon ••• INDIVISIBLE 12h • C We want to address confusion about an event currently being promoted under the "No Kings" name at the ICE detention center on Macadam Avenue, scheduled for the same time as our No Kings 2.0 march. To be clear: Indivisible Oregon is not affiliated with this action. Our event planned with 50501 Portland Oregon and partner Indivisible groups — like the original No Kings march — will gather at the Battleship Oregon Memorial, with Grand Entry marches leading in. The ICE facility has repeatedly been a site of violent federal response, including tear gas and arrests of peaceful protesters. We've heard serious concerns from immigrant justice groups that demonstrations there may increase risks for the very communities we aim to protect. We're not telling anyone how to protest - but as organizers, we will not lead or endorse a march to the ICE facility. Our priority is keeping our community safe and unified. Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe.
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I included the handle because blocking them is good. Don't bring lasers to Portland protests. Don't listen to people mad at you for saying that.

Also, they know it's not their lane, but they blocked when I informed them Portland organizers are saying don't you fucking do it.
Lillly3ls@bsky.social I don't have an opinion about the matter of laser pointers in Oregon because i know my motherfucking lane, I do however have opinion about people too rude and proud and stupid to do the same
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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From a friend's friend for PFP. With artist permission
A green frog, sitting with legs and feet splayed outward, is holding up the peace sign and winking 1 eye. There is an outline of Oregon on it's chest.
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Portland, message from street medics and community organizing folks. No damn lasers.

This is the 2nd guy to have done it and been arrested.
TO ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT FUCKING LASERS AND THE HELICOPTERS: Fuck no. (.) That can bring the bird down and thats not survivable for anybody on board or below. That decision is not based in community. Can your shit, thats fucken egregious, wtf.
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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For reference of Portland frog facing off ICE art being made.
Photograph at night of a 2-3 deep line of feds in tactical gear and sheilds outside the ICE building in Portland. Facing them alone is someone in a green and white belly frog outfit.
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM