RocketMermaid
@rocketmermaid.bsky.social
I make beer, music and bad jokes. Professional brewer, modular synthesizer nerd and tinkerer, trans woman, plampt writer, all-around dork. rocketmermaid.bandcamp.com for all your beepboop needs. 18+ for occasional smut talk.
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RocketMermaid
@rocketmermaid.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Julia Davis
Also known as Ubik or RocketMermaid in the tracking and vgremix scenes.
Professional brewer and trans lady who got into music with the demoscene back in the late 90s. I've been tinkering with product...
rocketmermaid.bandcamp.com
Hello! I'm RocketMermaid. I make weird electronic music at rocketmermaid.bandcamp.com. If you're here for beer industry stuff, I ask that you follow my other account. I occasionally write smut, so this account is 18+ only, minors DNI. I'm queer and trans, and don't owe trolls or chuds a debate.
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(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
Third job interview process that seemed to be wildly successful up through the in-person interview that ended in a "whoops, we're not hiring anybody after all."
I know the economy sucks and the brewing industry is in a slump and it's the worst time of year to be looking, but what the hell?
I know the economy sucks and the brewing industry is in a slump and it's the worst time of year to be looking, but what the hell?
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Third job interview process that seemed to be wildly successful up through the in-person interview that ended in a "whoops, we're not hiring anybody after all."
I know the economy sucks and the brewing industry is in a slump and it's the worst time of year to be looking, but what the hell?
I know the economy sucks and the brewing industry is in a slump and it's the worst time of year to be looking, but what the hell?
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Sci-Fi author: I created the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Trans women: In my erotica series “The Agony Nucleus” I made the Torment Nexus a sexy allegory for my own personal struggles to get off cathartically to
Trans women: In my erotica series “The Agony Nucleus” I made the Torment Nexus a sexy allegory for my own personal struggles to get off cathartically to
July 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sci-Fi author: I created the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Trans women: In my erotica series “The Agony Nucleus” I made the Torment Nexus a sexy allegory for my own personal struggles to get off cathartically to
Trans women: In my erotica series “The Agony Nucleus” I made the Torment Nexus a sexy allegory for my own personal struggles to get off cathartically to
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trans day of remembering their joy
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
trans day of remembering their joy
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when I finally die, don't let them bury me beneath the dirt. turn my bones into windchimes, so I can sing with the summer breeze. let my voice carry out forever;
a remembrance of defiant joy, in a world that would see me silent.
a remembrance of defiant joy, in a world that would see me silent.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
when I finally die, don't let them bury me beneath the dirt. turn my bones into windchimes, so I can sing with the summer breeze. let my voice carry out forever;
a remembrance of defiant joy, in a world that would see me silent.
a remembrance of defiant joy, in a world that would see me silent.
The Siebel Institute specifically cites "visa difficulties for non-US students" as a primary reason for relocating out of the US.
The Siebel Institute helped give me and hundreds of others a start in the brewing industry. This is an immeasurable loss for Chicago and the US.
Thanks, Donny Boy.
The Siebel Institute helped give me and hundreds of others a start in the brewing industry. This is an immeasurable loss for Chicago and the US.
Thanks, Donny Boy.
And now I hear that the Siebel Institute is leaving Chicago, its home of over 150 years, for Montréal. Oof, a sad day for beer news.
Siebel embodies much of the US beer industry's historical growth. Even if it's not ending, this departure feels symbolic and dreadful.
Siebel embodies much of the US beer industry's historical growth. Even if it's not ending, this departure feels symbolic and dreadful.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Siebel Institute specifically cites "visa difficulties for non-US students" as a primary reason for relocating out of the US.
The Siebel Institute helped give me and hundreds of others a start in the brewing industry. This is an immeasurable loss for Chicago and the US.
Thanks, Donny Boy.
The Siebel Institute helped give me and hundreds of others a start in the brewing industry. This is an immeasurable loss for Chicago and the US.
Thanks, Donny Boy.
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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The world is run by people who are more cruel and more obscene than you can fathom. They're all pathetic in ways that feel like satire, and monstrous beyond your wildest imagining.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The world is run by people who are more cruel and more obscene than you can fathom. They're all pathetic in ways that feel like satire, and monstrous beyond your wildest imagining.
Not gonna reference the discussions, but I don't think we should be calling things people create with sincerity and passion "slop" just because we might not like them. Can we save that term for genAI garbage and created-by-committee corporate cruft?
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Not gonna reference the discussions, but I don't think we should be calling things people create with sincerity and passion "slop" just because we might not like them. Can we save that term for genAI garbage and created-by-committee corporate cruft?
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Love to sit with my friend Mr. Bone Saw and insult the press while they sit and take it
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Love to sit with my friend Mr. Bone Saw and insult the press while they sit and take it
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Cloudflare Twitter refugees:
Welcome to Bluesky! 🦋
ACAB, trans rights now & forever, stop genocide, fuck AI, & please use alt text 🫶
Welcome to Bluesky! 🦋
ACAB, trans rights now & forever, stop genocide, fuck AI, & please use alt text 🫶
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cloudflare Twitter refugees:
Welcome to Bluesky! 🦋
ACAB, trans rights now & forever, stop genocide, fuck AI, & please use alt text 🫶
Welcome to Bluesky! 🦋
ACAB, trans rights now & forever, stop genocide, fuck AI, & please use alt text 🫶
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Wall Street brokers are literally just gambling addicts who've been told by society that being gambling addicts makes them very smart and very special big boys
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Wall Street brokers are literally just gambling addicts who've been told by society that being gambling addicts makes them very smart and very special big boys
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
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The Catholic Church's decision not to provide gender-affirming care to trans people will hurt more people than you think. It's genocidal in intent and practice.
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Catholic Church's decision not to provide gender-affirming care to trans people will hurt more people than you think. It's genocidal in intent and practice.
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Each smallest bit of genai dogshit, represents *hundreds* of artists being fucked over. Not just now, but artists years from now who would have been hired had the company kept paying people to find and hire and manage artists.
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Each smallest bit of genai dogshit, represents *hundreds* of artists being fucked over. Not just now, but artists years from now who would have been hired had the company kept paying people to find and hire and manage artists.
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When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
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transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
The Catholic Church, as always, either being cool with or actively participating in genocide. Fuck the Church.
Those Catholics are finally starting to get a bit more liberal and welcoming. They are starting to, whoops! What do we have here? Ah yes... that's the Catholic church we know...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement an...
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Catholic Church, as always, either being cool with or actively participating in genocide. Fuck the Church.
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three songs into the industrial playlist
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
three songs into the industrial playlist
GOD, SERIOUSLY. IT FUCKING SUCKS.
it's hard to find clothes that fit - and fit well - when you're a trans woman, or a butch woman, or a tall woman, or a fat woman, so naturally, when you're a tall, fat, butch trans woman it's uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
GOD, SERIOUSLY. IT FUCKING SUCKS.
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We still have a lot of problems as a society but at least albums no longer have endless segues where musicians try their hands at comedy in between songs. Remember this whenever people insist that change is impossible.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We still have a lot of problems as a society but at least albums no longer have endless segues where musicians try their hands at comedy in between songs. Remember this whenever people insist that change is impossible.