Tessa Brown
@tessa.germnetwork.com
you're in her DMs, I built her Germ DM 🔌
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
Germ DM me 🔑
https://ger.mx/A53xu7cyweS-R5l3GdDawq8007L96gI4bL-KTFv0kBMz#did:plc:ad4m72ykh2evfdqen3qowxmg
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ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
Germ DM me 🔑
https://ger.mx/A53xu7cyweS-R5l3GdDawq8007L96gI4bL-KTFv0kBMz#did:plc:ad4m72ykh2evfdqen3qowxmg
these skeets delete
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our data story visualizing the rabbit hole people can fall into with chatGPT is on the cover of today’s @washingtonpost.com @kevinschaul.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
our data story visualizing the rabbit hole people can fall into with chatGPT is on the cover of today’s @washingtonpost.com @kevinschaul.bsky.social
The skeets I’m here for
You're the best feminist killjoy on Bluesky, Moira. Well, maybe second-best after @saranahmed.bsky.social .
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The skeets I’m here for
I’m ready to call it:
There is a run on Earth Balance in San Francisco 🧈
There is a run on Earth Balance in San Francisco 🧈
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I’m ready to call it:
There is a run on Earth Balance in San Francisco 🧈
There is a run on Earth Balance in San Francisco 🧈
holiday update: trying to use my brain today, skruggling
December 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
holiday update: trying to use my brain today, skruggling
My central gripe with clickbait headlines is that they have ruined the utility of scanning the day's news. You learn nothing, gaining only a spike in cortisol from all the unfinished statements.
December 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My central gripe with clickbait headlines is that they have ruined the utility of scanning the day's news. You learn nothing, gaining only a spike in cortisol from all the unfinished statements.
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Lesbian pulp emerged under very specific political conditions for gay women in the postwar period. What can we learn about lesbian life in our own era from its recent reemergence?
December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lesbian pulp emerged under very specific political conditions for gay women in the postwar period. What can we learn about lesbian life in our own era from its recent reemergence?
Reposted by Tessa Brown
Welcome! Leaflet is a publishing app — like WordPress / Substack / Medium — great for blogs & more 🌱
It's part of the Atmosphere, i.e. uses the same account you use here!
With custom theming, subpages, canvas layout, comments…
Try at leaflet.pub ✨
Plz share if friends might enjoy! 😍
It's part of the Atmosphere, i.e. uses the same account you use here!
With custom theming, subpages, canvas layout, comments…
Try at leaflet.pub ✨
Plz share if friends might enjoy! 😍
December 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Welcome! Leaflet is a publishing app — like WordPress / Substack / Medium — great for blogs & more 🌱
It's part of the Atmosphere, i.e. uses the same account you use here!
With custom theming, subpages, canvas layout, comments…
Try at leaflet.pub ✨
Plz share if friends might enjoy! 😍
It's part of the Atmosphere, i.e. uses the same account you use here!
With custom theming, subpages, canvas layout, comments…
Try at leaflet.pub ✨
Plz share if friends might enjoy! 😍
Dear Gauss I love abstract math
A perfect Sunday morning read.
A perfect Sunday morning read.
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Dear Gauss I love abstract math
A perfect Sunday morning read.
A perfect Sunday morning read.
I dream of
GERMBOT
December 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I dream of
Weekend Of All Weekends, Leftovers Of All Leftovers, We Praise Thee 🍗🛋️
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Weekend Of All Weekends, Leftovers Of All Leftovers, We Praise Thee 🍗🛋️
Trust is hard to earn, easy to lose
I always say we’re in the business of trust.
We value having yours.
If we don’t have you, we don’t have anything.
We take that seriously.
We value having yours.
If we don’t have you, we don’t have anything.
We take that seriously.
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Trust is hard to earn, easy to lose
✅ ATConf proposals submitted
🍩🎬 Now where was I
🍩🎬 Now where was I
December 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
✅ ATConf proposals submitted
🍩🎬 Now where was I
🍩🎬 Now where was I
I am a child of the AOL era.
From AIM to Germ DM, what a trip
From AIM to Germ DM, what a trip
My wife and I technically met in high school. But we're together because of AIM.
Going to watch this with her later! www.theverge.com/podcast/8487...
Going to watch this with her later! www.theverge.com/podcast/8487...
How AIM taught the internet to chat
On Version History: LOLing, BRBing, and JKing through the early internet.
www.theverge.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I am a child of the AOL era.
From AIM to Germ DM, what a trip
From AIM to Germ DM, what a trip
All The Homies Are Writers 📓📝💻
December 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
All The Homies Are Writers 📓📝💻
Honored to be a fellow traveler, shook by the writing.
See you in Vancouver, Rudy
See you in Vancouver, Rudy
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Honored to be a fellow traveler, shook by the writing.
See you in Vancouver, Rudy
See you in Vancouver, Rudy
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DJ Lynnée Denise on Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
'Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters' is a queer, Black “biography in essays" that reclaims the cultural impact of “Big Mama” as one of the most prominent Black women in contemporary music history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKZ... |
'Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters' is a queer, Black “biography in essays" that reclaims the cultural impact of “Big Mama” as one of the most prominent Black women in contemporary music history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKZ... |
Left of Black | Small Talk with DJ Lynnée Denise on Rock Legend Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
DJ Lynnée Denise on Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
'Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters' is a queer, Black “biography in essays" that reclaims the cultural impact of “Big Mama” as one of the most prominent Black women in contemporary music history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKZ... |
'Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters' is a queer, Black “biography in essays" that reclaims the cultural impact of “Big Mama” as one of the most prominent Black women in contemporary music history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKZ... |
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Before she was America’s oldest park ranger, Betty Reid Soskin was a Black woman navigating wartime labor exclusion, and the paperwork of inequality
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/23/w...
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/23/w...
December 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Before she was America’s oldest park ranger, Betty Reid Soskin was a Black woman navigating wartime labor exclusion, and the paperwork of inequality
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/23/w...
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/23/w...
Y’all following Dr. MAN?
An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st
December 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Y’all following Dr. MAN?
A wonderful 5 minute read
'R&B icon Raphael Saadiq, who co-wrote Best Original Song contender "I Lied to You" from "Sinners," discusses how collaborating with director Ryan Coogler was similar to his work with Beyoncé and D'Angelo.'
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
Raphael Saadiq Counts ‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Among the ‘Visionaries’ Inspiring His Best Work
Musician Raphael Saadiq talks to IndieWire about writing Best Original Song contenders 'I Lied to You' for 'Sinners,' and this history with the Blues.
www.indiewire.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A wonderful 5 minute read
Just figured out the Atmospheric River is a (scaremongering?) rebrand of the Pineapple Express, that rain's straight from Hawai'i baby
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December 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just figured out the Atmospheric River is a (scaremongering?) rebrand of the Pineapple Express, that rain's straight from Hawai'i baby
🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍
🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍
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Us? Working? No way.
No, really. This is an away message. We're asleep. Or eating. Or watching something. Or reading. Did we say eating?
Happy holidays, fam.
Love,
Germ
💚
Us? Working? No way.
No, really. This is an away message. We're asleep. Or eating. Or watching something. Or reading. Did we say eating?
Happy holidays, fam.
Love,
Germ
💚
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌲❄️🍵
Us? Working? No way.
No, really. This is an away message. We're asleep. Or eating. Or watching something. Or reading. Did we say eating?
Happy holidays, fam.
Love,
Germ
💚
Us? Working? No way.
No, really. This is an away message. We're asleep. Or eating. Or watching something. Or reading. Did we say eating?
Happy holidays, fam.
Love,
Germ
💚
☔️🔥🧩
Yet another round of heavy showers and thunderstorms, some strong to even severe, immediately inbound into the SF Bay Area this evening. Yet more strong/damaging winds likely, plus torrential downpours & urban flooding in some areas. A brief tornado remains possible. #CAwx
December 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
☔️🔥🧩
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2 days ago the US admin imposed travel bans on 5 European individuals. Amongst them @thierrybreton.bsky.social, one of the main architects of the #DSA, and both the founder and the CEO of @hateaid.org - a non-profit that champions human rights in digital spaces & also operates as a Trusted Flagger.
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
2 days ago the US admin imposed travel bans on 5 European individuals. Amongst them @thierrybreton.bsky.social, one of the main architects of the #DSA, and both the founder and the CEO of @hateaid.org - a non-profit that champions human rights in digital spaces & also operates as a Trusted Flagger.
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it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me