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lasermistress.bsky.social
ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈
@lasermistress.bsky.social
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She/Her @ Anrchst Jursdctn PDX. Queer ☆ Eviscerate tech misogyny ☆ LEDs ☆ Lasers ☆ 'Blading ☆ Open Hardware ☆ Events ☆ ⓕ𝑒ᵉ𝓛ings ☆ AuDHD
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Recent: Crowd Supply & OSHWA 👩‍💻⚙️
Now: ElectroMage(.com)⚡🌈

⏬ My Opn Src Wrld ⏬

https://linktr.ee/ClaireDanielleCassidy
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lasermistress.bsky.social
That second section would make an excellent t-shirt tho. And I do mean that extremely endearingly. I would buy it for my friends. Darlings they are.
A screenshot of a dropdown menu of firmware releases. The top section is labeled "Unstable (Alpha)". The lower section is labeled "Stable (or Beta)"
July 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Name something Unstable Alpha and then expect me NOT to poke at it 🙄
A webpage titled "FLASHER" in green font shows a three step firmware flashing process. On the left is a render of a LilyGo T-Deck device. In the center is a dropdown menu of different firmware releases, including a section labeled "Unstable (Alpha)"
July 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Crushed it last weekend! Repped my camp speaking vulnerably at a big-deal event, got us 1k more in donations (75% there!) AND got plates for my Retired Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle. (Thoughts on the nickname "Surge" for her? Like Power Surge⚡)

Oh and made THIS!
thereuglow.carrd.co
A woman smiling widely and wearing a neon yellow beanie is taking a selfie holding a licence plate in front of a big vehicle painted line an ambulance but shaped more like a box truck. A screenshot of a gofundme called "There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser" with $3,554 raised which is 71% of its goal.
April 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
We're close to when I hold my annual all femme+queer founded, run and centered electronics camp.

For our first three years this entire camp ran because I put a TON of money from first tech job into it.

I don't have that job now.

We are halfway to our goal! ✨💖✨ Help us out! ⚡

#steam #stem

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A blue glowing picture with a rainbow sign saying "there u glow" has white text overlayed on it. The text reads: Here's the fundraising info to make There U Glow, my team’s annual entirely femme & queer founded and lead pop-up electronics camp, happen soon ✨ We're feeling massive fucking rage and vital no-joke purpose this year ⚡🤬⚡You in? www.thereuglow.club A blue glowing picture with a rainbow sign saying "there u glow" has white text overlayed on it. The text reads: Here's the fundraising info to make There U Glow, my team’s annual entirely femme & queer founded and lead pop-up electronics camp, happen soon ✨ We're feeling massive fucking rage and vital no-joke purpose this year ⚡🤬⚡You in? www.thereuglow.club A photo with two people standing off to the sides reads: Sliding Scale Guidelines in the fundraiser (Use them) (also, avoid fees by sending directly) Share with your supportive tech friends specifically please? ✨ www.thereuglow.club (more info and links) A screenshot of an article from Make Magazine titled "There U Glow Proves You Can Do Tech". Under that is a photo of a glowing camp at night with a pretty rainbow sign that says "There U Glow".
April 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
lasermistress.bsky.social
There U Glow, my all femme + queer radical electronics camp, is teaching NFC chip nail manicures this year. 💅🏼🤩

We will stay grassroots, we will stay aggressive as shit, and we will not stop 😈

We really want to hit our fundraising goal.

www.thereuglow.club

www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

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Someones thumb held up to the camera. It has sparkly nail polish with a semi-visible copper circle embedded in it. In the background are small stickers that look like antennas Someones nail held close to a phone open to it's home screen. A phone opened to a window of an article from Make Magazine that says "There U Glow proves you can do tech"
April 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
The supplies we have been given are SO incredible.

But we need funds.

We fund low-income babes attending.

We are expanding to a two-day non-burner event this Fall.

More!

I'm investing a ton of my own funds.

It's *real* tight right now.

Assist us? Options in🧵⬇️

www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...
A blue glowing picture with a rainbow sign saying "there u glow" has white text overlayed on it. The text reads: Here's the fundraising info to make There U Glow, my team’s annual entirely femme & queer founded and lead pop-up electronics camp, happen soon ✨ We're feeling massive fucking rage and vital no-joke purpose this year ⚡🤬⚡You in? www.thereuglow.club A blue glowing picture with a rainbow sign saying "there u glow" has white text overlayed on it. The text reads: Here's the fundraising info to make There U Glow, my team’s annual entirely femme & queer founded and lead pop-up electronics camp, happen soon ✨ We're feeling massive fucking rage and vital no-joke purpose this year ⚡🤬⚡You in? www.thereuglow.club A photo with two people standing off to the sides reads: Sliding Scale Guidelines in the fundraiser (Use them) (also, avoid fees by sending directly) Share with your supportive tech friends specifically please? ✨ www.thereuglow.club (more info and links)
March 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
I've been pushing my fundraiser, but I wanna share the incredible supplies we've been given already.

Kits from @alpenglow.bsky.social @sjpiper145.bsky.social, @clomads.bsky.social. Tools from @flashingjanet.bsky.social

Legends. Look them up.

More requests below ⬇️
A large organized pile of soldering kits from the makers mentioned in the post. They are all neatly packaged, aesthetic, and fun looking. A box of around two dozen pairs of electronic nipper and wire stripper tools. A box of a large amount of various solder spools.
March 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
More stuff that comes out of my camp because we continue existing:

The There U Glow Digital Swag Bag, with hella open source files, tutorials, e-books and more.

Want to contribute? Want GitHub version? Engage, ask, and tag an invested friend!

drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
A screenshot of a google drive file with a ReadMe, an e-book titled "toolbox for sustainable city living", a tutorial titled "DIY Light Graffiti", and a guide titled "Soldering Is Easy".
March 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
The more social cred and eyes I can get on this fundraiser the better! I know there's so so much going on right now, but this is not dependent on it causing a pang of stress & guilt. I'm doing it either way, I just want hella teammates and to be supportively witnessed as I go (ok, and money 😂).

🧵🧵🧵
A screenshot of an article from Make Magazine titled "There U Glow Proves You Can Do Tech" with a colorful header photo of the camp it talks about.
March 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
#IdesOfMarch

laserkick.etsy.com/listing/1052...
Four pairs of guillotine earrings, in two sizes, two pairs in wood and silver and two pairs in bright blue and pink.
March 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Took screenshots of an awesome thing that's happening in my lasercut file shop this month.
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My sales have skyrocketed, with zero effort, literally only guillotines. Daily escalating orders.
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I am obsessed with tracking underground movement like this.

#eattherich

www.etsy.com/shop/LaserKick
A chart showing a 69% increase in sales with high spikes over the last half of February and early March 2025 A screenshot showing three guillotine lasercut files for earrings and bookmarks. The metrics next to them show a high number of views and sales.
March 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
I am a master of Graphic Design™️ sooo reward us plz 😎✨🫩😈⚡🤘🏻

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To subvert GoFundMe fees:

Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2

CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy

PayPal: [email protected]

www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

www.thereuglow.club
A blue glowing picture with a rainbow sign saying "there u glow" has white text overlayed on it. The text reads: Here's the fundraising info to make There U Glow, my team’s annual entirely femme & queer founded and lead pop-up electronics camp, happen soon ✨ We're feeling massive fucking rage and vital no-joke purpose this year ⚡🤬⚡You in? www.thereuglow.club A photo with two people standing off to the sides reads: Sliding Scale Guidelines in the fundraiser (Use them) (also, avoid fees by sending directly) Share with your supportive tech friends specifically please? ✨ www.thereuglow.club (more info and links) A photo with two people dressed in femme outfits leaning in opposite directions each helping two younger kids with a soldering project. Behind them hang colorful posters talking about electronics. A woman in an aesthetic outfit is standing in front of a large group of colorfully dressed people showing off something on an iPad. Behind her are various glowing LED projects.
March 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
I can feel myself becoming more feral by the second.

In isolation these are ok. At techy events flooded with the exact men this targets, which I regularly frequent, where stickers are valued currency, is pure fucking gold.
An 80's themed meme that reads "trans women biohack better"
March 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
lasermistress.bsky.social
🎶Makin stickers makin stickers

Never ordered my own stickers before

Makin stickers makin stickers

Imma be a bigger menace then before🎶

#cyberpunk #neotropolis
A photo of a laptop screen showing a large 80's vaporwave meme in a sticker ordering form. The sticker reads "take cyberpunk away from white men" in dynamic fonts.
March 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
lasermistress.bsky.social
MY CAT HAS WILLINGLY LOAFED TO THE SIDE OF MY LAPTOP ON MY LAP. I REPEAT. MY CAT HAS WILLINGLY LOAFED TO THE SIDE OF MY LAPTOP ON MY LAP.

I have literally never felt more successful.

And for this to happen on #caturday I am raptured.
A black cat on the legs of someone under a fuzzy purple blanket. Closer to the person is a MacBook prop with the screen half open to show the black cat curled up behind it.
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
I'm making a fundraiser to be able to run and expand my annual entirely femme & queer founded and run pop-up electronics camp soon ✨

We're feeling extra rage and vital 🤬 purpose this year⚡

You in? Keep an eye out and tell your friends 🦾

More 🔽
thereuglow.club
A picture of the front of a few pop-up tents at night glowing a vibrant blue with colorful decor. Several people are bent over inside studying something. A rainbow glowing sign on the front reads "there u glow" and is displayed prominently. A woman in a black and white circuit board printed top and black and white bellbottoms is standing on front of a gathering of brightly aesthetic people facing away from the camera. She is holding and pointing at a tablet in her hands.
February 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
AS IT WAS FORETOLD IN PROPHESY.
A poem that reads: "There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very good indeed, but when she was bad she was horrid." A selfie of a white woman smiling and looking to the right with a prominent single curl hanging on her forehead.
February 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Suffering from CompHet grief.

Send heavy sapphic flirting plz 🥺

My style attached.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Today I screamed into pillows, sobbed, showered slowly, and now I feel like channeling *gestures broadly* into lasercut jewelry for handing out like candy anywhere I go as mutual aid. Like I always have and always will.
A grid of lasercut jewelry on rectangular cardboard backers. The jewelry is colorful and acrylic, and says things like "Cunt, ACAB, No, Queer, They Them, and Not A Boy, Not A Girl". There's small guillotines and lighting bolts as well.
February 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
It's that time of year where I spin up the flywheel of effort that runs There U Glow, a femme & queer created, run and centered LED-focused electronics camp. ⚙️ 🦾

Honestly, it's a balm and incredibly vital vibe in these horrifying techbro times.

Stay tuned if you are interested!

thereuglow.club
An angled shot of the front of several 10x10 pop-up tents that are glowing beautifully blue with a dark night sky behind them. People are sitting and hanging out underneath, and on the front is a prominent rainbow LED sign that says "there u glow" Two children are sitting at folding tables working on something with their hands, and crouched over each of them are two adults in femme festival clothing overseeing and teaching. In behind are two large aesthetic electronics posters on the walls of the pop-up tents surrounding the area. A woman in a black dress with a rhinestone lightning bolt stands in front of a crowd of people paying rapt attention. Next to her is a display board of LED strands. They are all inside of green pop-up tents with aesthetic electronics posters inside.
February 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Got other stuff to do this morning but had to take a quick "Morale Will Be Kept" break for myself. And I'm nothing if not a generous sharer.
A woman fills most of the frame, posing with only below her eyes and above the knees in the frame. She's kneeling, wearing sweatpants and a fleece hooded cardigan with ASCII symbols scattered in neon green on it. She's also wearing a salmon-colored crop-top with an artistic skull and flowers, and the words "Destroy Systems of Oppression". She's wearing one guillotine earring and one sharp knife earring.
February 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Well, here we are, where I can't handle the bluesky character limit and I'm posting screenshots from mastodon with huge alts.

I do care that this content about how I navigate misogyny in my community gets out there, fwiw.
I've noticed that people have a really hard time when I hold men who are my friends accountable to the same standards that I state, loudly, all the time. That they believe in. I find deeply frustrating the single-tone reactive response of defending them. To push me to "care". I am fully capable of loving my male friends enough to point out how they are not immune to misogyny and that the reaction of quietly hating or shrinking themselves is not helpful. That decentering men is not that. I do not abandon my friends. I do not lecture my male friends and then leave them to confusion to turn their programming inwards to rip themselves apart in isolation. I DO NOT save them. I do not center them. I do not give deep emotional space and care outside of small bursts that is the same I give any friend. I invite them in. It's on them to take it or leave it. Oh, and I am reasonably very picky about who I do this with. Typically men who have been trying to close this gap themselves. Oh, and I love them. Same as I love my entire community. Same as I love my friends. I give them everything I give my friends. I am just absolutely going to change dynamics where I can. And that absolutely makes people who are loud and sure on paper really really fuckin uncomfortable. And makes a lot of leftists reach for big leftist vocabulary to justify that uncomfortability and reactive response to dampen what they feel is conflict they don't like and aren't sure of.
February 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Meanwhile, thanks to my internet friends...

(We are all electrical engineers that suck less. Yep, that is possible.)
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January 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Did I cut a gay-ass muscle shirt in order to take these selfies because I've been bouldering lately. Yes. Is one of the top search results for "how to cut a queer muscle shirt" a TikTok search link for "muscle shirt tutorial lesbian". Also yes.

#queer #musclemommy
A woman in a muscle cut shirt taking a selfie with her free arm held on the traditional arm-muscle showing "gun show" position, flexing. Behind her is a colorful, messy bedroom with many houseplants. The same woman from the first photo now positioned to show off the text on the front of the muscle shirt, which says "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
January 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
lasermistress.bsky.social
Fucking loving the general "can't stop the signal" vibe of 2025.

*plays Orbital's Halcyon and On and On*

#REDnote
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January 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM