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Jess
@jsz.bsky.social
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Tech person, mom, organizer, musician, artist, improviser, gamer, she/her. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

These are all my words, not my employer's.
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jsz.bsky.social
Hey - I'm building a new project and I'd love to work with a queer designer if possible to do some logo / branding work. Can anyone send me any interesting portfolios or stuff? 😄 Thanks!
July 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
jsz.bsky.social
I didn't expect to see a tech career post that's actually about a social movement too
June 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
jsz.bsky.social
1 year! That's pretty awesome. I'm super proud. Even if it's little, it's something 😄 (I'm learning Japanese!)
It's the 365 day streak badge from Duolingo!
April 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
jsz.bsky.social
Finally something!!
April 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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rabosaalforn.bsky.social
Have you ever… uuh, whatever this is?
March 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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denisenorris.bsky.social
And look what snuck in a proposed rule change for Affordable Care Act.👇

"...prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB [essential health benefits] requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB."

Add a comment & say fuck no!

Make this viral!

H/T @scrappyaf.bsky.social
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability
This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...
www.federalregister.gov
March 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
jsz.bsky.social
Just.. wow..

> Even in the darkest places, within the most broken systems, humanity persists.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
jsz.bsky.social
This Wired “Tech support” about dictatorship is fantastic: youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
youtu.be
March 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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phoenixfire.bsky.social
Perhaps the Gamers are alright
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points.

She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.

“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”

Watch to the end…
March 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
jsz.bsky.social
Talking with my partner about how dogs are there to give you constant attention and love:

"Are small dogs just for cat people with low self esteem?"
March 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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transexualmenace.bsky.social
Dupont circle has always been a home for trans resistance. Dr. Chloe Schwenke, the first transgender political appointee at USAID had a speech ready at Dupon_ Rally yesterday. They want to erase us. But we are still here. And we are never leaving.

#Dupon_ #TransRights #SilenceisErasure
Closeup of Dr. Chloe Schwenke holding a mic and speaking truth at Dupont Circle
March 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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dashingmd.bsky.social
A Hyundai Ioniq 5 with a bumper sticker that says I used to drive a Tesla but it pulled to the right.
March 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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transexualmenace.bsky.social
Menaces are coming together at the Dupont rally today. We stand strong for the trans community. This space is for us, no matter what they say. Join us: buff.ly/0HZWBUZ #TransRights #Dupon_ #SilenceisErasure
group of people at the rally with little trans flags in their hair buns, facing the speakter with a microphone. The shirt says "The Transexual Menace, Put the T back in DUPONT"
March 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
jsz.bsky.social
Finally cut a release for Tofu 1.0.0! Win64 only right now - have to build it on my mac too when I get a minute - but it's out at least now :D

I'm sure I did things wrong - this is my first time using github releases, but LMK and I'll do what I can to fix!

github.com/jszmajda/tof...
Release Tofu 1.0.0 · jszmajda/tofu
Finally publishing a full release now that Tofu has been stable for awhile. This release also includes Sonnet 3.7, Nova Pro, and DeepSeek R1. Keep in mind that you have to have an AWS account with ...
github.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
jsz.bsky.social
At the Renwick gallery today I was telling my kid the story behind this quilt, Cracked Justice, by Carolyn Crump. I was struck by how quickly our national conversation has careened away from Black Lives Matter to anti-DEI, anti-woke nonsense.

americanart.si.edu/artwork/crac...
A photo of Cracked Justice, by Carolyn Crump, on display at the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery. Carolyn Crump made this quilt in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020. She explains, “My quilt only shows the faces and names associated with those faces but it does not show the hurt and pain of broken families and the hearts that they represent. I am hurt and still in disbelief of the events of this past decade of the loss of these brilliant minds and bright futures that were taken away from us much too soon.” In the foreground, police pepper-spray a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. An artist spray-paints a memorial to George Floyd at upper left. Crump also memorializes others killed in and before 2020: Breonna Taylor of Louisville, Kentucky; Ahmaud Arbery of Fancy Bluff, Georgia; Atatiana Jefferson of Fort Worth, Texas; and Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri. She renders the phrase “Cracked Justice” on the sidewalk as a call to reform a “cracked” justice system. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S. Bresler, 2023.40.6
March 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
jsz.bsky.social
Goddamn. My wife just shared this with me - I hadn't seen it before - and it's perfect for our current moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
www.youtube.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
jsz.bsky.social
So.. Daredevil is just doing the Trump storyline now huh?
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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alt18f.bsky.social
Wiped out or fired up? ❤️‍🔥Thank you so much to @matteowong.bsky.social for writing about us!
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 2
18F, a team in the General Services Administration, was tailor-made for government efficiency and technology, writes @matteowong.bsky.social. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wiped it out.
DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team
“It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.”
www.theatlantic.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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alt18f.bsky.social
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
III. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS IN PART and DENIES IN PART Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, Dkt. No. 169, and ORDERS as follows: 1. Defendants? and all their respective officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and any person in active concert or participation with them who receives actual notice of this Order (collectively, the "Enjoined Parties"), are hereby fully enjoined from enforcing or implementing Section 4 of Executive Order 14,187 within the Plaintiff States. 2. The Enjoined Parties are hereby fully enjoined from enforcing Sections 3(e) or 3(g) of Executive Order 14,168 to condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a health care entity or health professional provides gender-affirming care within the Plaintiff States. 3. Defendants' attorneys shall provide written notice of this Order to all Defendants and agencies and their employees, contractors, and grantees by March 6, 2025. Defendants shall file a copy of the notice on the docket at the same time. 4. This preliminary injunction remains in effect pending further orders from this Court.
March 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*.

www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
natevince Suggested for you Following 50.4K 1,551 Liked by dianettewells and others natevince Heartbroken and Confused! I was terminated on Valentines Day from my dream job. 48 weeks ago I started my permanent NPS position as Yosemite's new Locksmith. y I apprenticed under the previous locksmith the 4 years before his retirement. He had a wonderful carrier of 23 years with NPS. He said, "This is a good job Nate, the park can't run without a locksmith, do your job well and your'll always have job." Well now 3 weeks short of my probationary period l've been fired. I've had exemplary performance and am essential for park operations. The people that fired me don't know who I am, or what I do. They simply don't understand this park and how big and complex it is. I need to immediately move out of housing, I have lost my career and I have NO PLAN. This was my dream! All of my eggs were in this basket and I planned to stay till retirement. I had an appointment to meet a realtor today, but canceled, everything has been flipped upside down. I'm scared I?????????????????????!!!!!!??????????????????] I was terminated at 1:15pm 2/14/2025 via email. Yosemite National Park the size of Rhode Island and has more locks than a small city, and without a locksmith I'm deeply concerned for the safety and security of the park and people in it. This is not right! -1 @nytimes @nationalparkservice @yosemitenps @outsidemagazine @nationalparkfoundation @natgeo @sfchronicle @meidastouch @washingtonpost #iwantmyjobback #iloveyosemite #nps #unemployed
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
jsz.bsky.social
Traded in my Tesla for way less than it should've been worth, but I'm just super glad to be rid of it. I got a Hyundai Ioniq 5, it's really nice!
February 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
jsz.bsky.social
Here are some stories of what we're losing with the federal worker cuts: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM