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Jessica (she/her)
@jessicalikestea.bsky.social
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I drink tea and read things and enjoy cozy gaming.

Co-founder, Cascadia Tea Festival
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Cascadia Tea Festival Autumn Virtual Steep 'n Sip is coming on Nov 1! Free tickets on our website:
www.cascadiatea.org/event-detail...

Autumn tea boxes with a tea pet and fall teas to go with the event are $17. Financial hardship discount available.
2025 Cascadia Autumn Steep 'n Sip | Cascadia Tea Fest
Join us online on November 1st to share tea! We'll enjoy a cozy fall vibe as we drink tea, chat with special guests, and enjoy being part of the tea community.
www.cascadiatea.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Can't wait!
fridaytea.com Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · Apr 11
Blooms and breakfast tea? Yes please! ☕️🐰 Come visit us at Cascadia Tea Festival in Everett tomorrow for a breath of spring and a cuppa!

Festival info here: www.cascadiatea.org/
french press and cup of tea beside bunny tea pet and branches of plum blossoms
April 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Come drink tea and enjoy nerding out over the best of beverages!
cascadiatea.bsky.social Cascadia Tea Festival 🍵 @cascadiatea.bsky.social · Apr 5
Cascadia Tea Festival is April 12th in Everett, WA! Get your free tickets and don't forget your cup!

www.cascadiatea.org

#tea #teafeed #teasky #teafestival
Banner reads 2025 Cascadia Tea Festival. Two white bunnies sit on a teaboard with tea accessories with pink flowers in the background.
April 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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zjayres.bsky.social
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation.

www.chron.com/news/space/a...
NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites
NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.
www.chron.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Alt text: Schoolhouse Rock screen capture with a bill and a child sitting on the steps to congress. The bill says, "Sorry, kid. There's no song to explain this crap."
February 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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My "dignity, safety, and well-being" has never been threatened by providing human rights, respect, equality, and inclusion to all humans, including trans women. Those things have been threatened for years by conservative politics, religious conservatism, misogynists, and bigos. That's today's tea.
February 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I feel like we're living in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. And maybe we thought we were the visitors there to see the play, but really we're the inmates.
February 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination.
Our response: Book bans are real.
Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
Book Bans Are Real. American Library Association
January 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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So excited for the next Cascadia Tea Festival! 🍵 🐇
cascadiatea.bsky.social Cascadia Tea Festival 🍵 @cascadiatea.bsky.social · Jan 27
A little bunny told us the 4th Cascadia Tea Festival is coming to Everett on April 12th...

We'll be in Floral Hall and Lions Hall with space for chatting and tasting tea with local tea vendors (yay!) and seperate dedicated space for tea education and tastings.

#teafest #teasky #teafeed #tea
Osmanthus Tea Bunny and bunny friends sit with a sign that says Cascadia Tea Festival, April 12, 2025, Floral Hall, Everett.
January 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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A friend brought back this tea set and tea from Vietnam for me. Excited to fill it up and try the teas! #tea #teasky #teafeed
Vietnamese tea set with squared teapot and five small teacups on square saucers. The teaware is off-white with a dark blue lotus motif and the teapot has gold handles. Three packages of Vietnamese tea.
January 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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For National Hot Tea Day (US) I'm enjoying a massive quantity of black tea in a new dragon scale tea mug I received as a gift. It holds so much tea. I love it. #tea #handmadepottery
A hand-crafted burgundy teacup with blue wash, covered in decorative pointed dragon scales with a rounded belly and extremely comfortable handle site on a wooden surface with blurred windows in the background. This beautiful monster holds a tremendous amount of tea.
January 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Isn't everyone's tea closet like this?
January 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I usually assume that people who love tea are lovely people, but getting blocked for requesting ALT text isn't lovely. I manage a starter pack to help people connect with tea people (yay!), but inclusivity is a priority. Please use alt text and I'll be happy to include you. #teafeed #teasky #tea
Screenshot of Bluesky post. A picture of a blue and white pattern teaset and food is at the top in the original post. The picture does not have alt text. The account who made the post has 75+ posts in one month, almost all with pictures without ALT text. A text response to the post from my account reads "Please add ALT text to pictures. Thank you!" The response of the original posting account follows and says "Hey clear this up for me: who's account I am running?"
January 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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cascadiatea.bsky.social
Cascadia Tea Festival invites you to join us for our first event of 2025: Lunar New Year Tea Celebration 🐍

Sunday, Jan 26, 2025
1:45pm - 4:00pm
Ferndale Library, Ferndale, WA

Event attendance is free.
#tea #teasky #teafeed ##teafestival
Osmanthus Tea Bunny and other bunny and snake tea pets sit on a bamboo tea board with two red teacups of tea and a white teacup with a snake filled with tea. They all face the camera, leaving a space for you to join them at the tea table. White text on the background says Lunar New Year Tea Celebration, January 26, 2025.
January 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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chucktingle.bsky.social Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Dec 19
proving love can happen in BIG WAYS and in can happen in SMALL WAYS that we barely see. just take a moment and think ‘WHY am i saying this? WHY am i in this pattern to distance myself from outsider or queer art?’ a little moment of consideration goes a LONG way buckaroos. LOVE IS REAL
January 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Packed up tea, teaware, tea board, snacks to serve tea at a friend's family's house. Forgot the teaware next to the door at home, of course, so brewed this Wild Sky pu erh in a pitcher that was in a box of donation items in my car trunk. The tea was still delicious. #tea #teafeed
Glass pitcher with brewed pu erh tea leaves and a pink Camelia Sasanqua flower in the background.
January 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Crafternoon tea with A. Started a small embroidery project.
Blue teapot and sugar dish on a tray with stollen, dried apricots, cheese, and crackers. Embroidery floss and Aida fabric are on the table next to the tray and a cross-stitch project.
January 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Oolong tea and sweet and sour cucumber at Dough Zone. So tasty. #teafeed Followed by soup dumplings and wonton soup.
Black cup with oolong tea, black plate with spring-cut cucumber salad, and black dipping dish with soy sauce blended with vinegar and ginger.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Entertaining myself my holidaying up a picture of C + H.
Two tabby cats sit on a dark red bench with a wood framed window behind them. A white, red, and green frame is around the picture and sparkly green hat stickers were added on the cats so they look like sweet tempered felines who would pose for a festive holiday photo instead of tearing around and rolling wildly like Satan was riding their head if you try to put hats or reindeer ears on their heads.
December 24, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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I liked the weird way that the lights reflected in my cup of tea.

Crafternoon at a friend's home (I love her china!) and we enjoyed Gingerbread Festival tea from @harneyandsons.bsky.social sweetened with a bit of maple sugar candy. (Not the whole piece.) It went together really nicely.
Teacup filled with Gingerbread Festival tea. The surface of the tea has the reflection of a six-light chandelier. Teacup filled with Gingerbread Festival tea. Teacup with maple leaf shaped maple sugar candy in an empty cup.
December 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Not sure why young people think it's a good idea to make prank calls from their cell phones, when everyone has caller ID with the name and number of the person calling and can call back to lecture.

No, I don't have a pizza order to come and pick up, and no, I would not like to suck your appendage.
December 1, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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There are more books in the world than you can read in a lifetime. Reserve the writing and editing of new books for humans. We don't need anything from machines to fill some unfillable gap or technical divide - there isn't one. So many failures in the idea of machine algorithm books having value.
elsbells.bsky.social El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · Nov 25
At this point, if your tech-bro project both uses A.I. & is described by you, the tech bro, as poised to “disrupt” an industry (any industry) — we should fire your project into the sun.

Note: They say the books won’t be A.I. written — just A.I. proofread, designed, & every other thing. Still trash.
marcorinaldi.bsky.social Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 25, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Book club tea selections:
* Yunnan Gold from Floating Leaves Tea
* Imperial Grade shou puerh from Crimson Lotus Tea
* Bloodberry from Spice Traders Tea

Also had Mr. Darcy's Delight from @fridaytea.com but we didn't get to it. It will be our starting tea next month.

Love this derpy tiger tea set.
Brewed Yunnan Gold tea leaves from Floating Leaves Tea Partial brick of Imperial Grade shou puerh from Crimson Lotus Tea A tin of Bloodberry from Spice Traders Tea, with tea leaves and fruit in a white gaiwan, and a sharing pitcher of brewed tea. Tea set with happy derpy gray tigers floating on clouds. Set has a gaiwan, sharing pitcher, and four cups on a tray.
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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Book club = cheese board.
Autumn themed cheese board with six cheeses, golden berries, candied nuts, dates, dried candied oranges, fig jam, maple fudge, and squash & corn shaped chocolates. Cheeses: basque, baked lemon ricotta, caramel washed gouda, cinnamon toscano, Dubliner, and tete de moine. Autumn themed cheese board with six cheeses, gold-wrapped pear, golden berries, candied nuts, dates, dried candied oranges, fig jam, maple fudge, and squash & corn shaped chocolates. Cheeses: basque, baked lemon ricotta, caramel washed gouda, cinnamon toscano, Dubliner, and tete de moine.
November 24, 2024 at 9:05 PM