Jenn
@geekgalgroks.bsky.social
Cyberpunk engineer from the future.
Hydration reminders always.
Hydration reminders always.
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Jenn
@geekgalgroks.bsky.social
· Jul 29
a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
Alt: Frodo in Mt Doom saying, "It's gone. It's done."
media.tenor.com
My port has been removed!
All active cancer treatment is done!
All active cancer treatment is done!
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If you want to do this in Minnesota specifically for your LGBTQ+ siblings, might I recommend ABetterDFL.org in this trying time?
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If you want to do this in Minnesota specifically for your LGBTQ+ siblings, might I recommend ABetterDFL.org in this trying time?
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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By the way, the blood-pact you signed upon becoming a creative states that you don't need to create every day. The council of creative demons allow breaks. You're fine. You're not falling behind. You're no lesser a creative for needing rest. Shit happens sometimes, bro. You're doing great.
July 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
By the way, the blood-pact you signed upon becoming a creative states that you don't need to create every day. The council of creative demons allow breaks. You're fine. You're not falling behind. You're no lesser a creative for needing rest. Shit happens sometimes, bro. You're doing great.
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Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Black Disability Politics Audiobook on Libro.fm
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...
libro.fm
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
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More formal post soon, but early share into the magic internet clouds:
Open to work! Prefer contract. Share any leads if you got ‘em. 💌
Specialize in web accessibility, design systems, developer experience.
Bachelors in software engineering, 10+ years experience, thorough, persistent, curious.
Open to work! Prefer contract. Share any leads if you got ‘em. 💌
Specialize in web accessibility, design systems, developer experience.
Bachelors in software engineering, 10+ years experience, thorough, persistent, curious.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
More formal post soon, but early share into the magic internet clouds:
Open to work! Prefer contract. Share any leads if you got ‘em. 💌
Specialize in web accessibility, design systems, developer experience.
Bachelors in software engineering, 10+ years experience, thorough, persistent, curious.
Open to work! Prefer contract. Share any leads if you got ‘em. 💌
Specialize in web accessibility, design systems, developer experience.
Bachelors in software engineering, 10+ years experience, thorough, persistent, curious.
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YOU MUST SATE YOUR THIRST TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
YOU MUST SATE YOUR THIRST TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.
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If you don’t get it yet.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you don’t get it yet.
To add on to my previous retweet (about food aversions and not helpful help).
Yes, people want to help. Food is how we share connection, build bounds, and nourish our souls as well as our bodies.
But food aversions do not honor that. "Normal" advice doesn't help, it just frustrates.
Yes, people want to help. Food is how we share connection, build bounds, and nourish our souls as well as our bodies.
But food aversions do not honor that. "Normal" advice doesn't help, it just frustrates.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
To add on to my previous retweet (about food aversions and not helpful help).
Yes, people want to help. Food is how we share connection, build bounds, and nourish our souls as well as our bodies.
But food aversions do not honor that. "Normal" advice doesn't help, it just frustrates.
Yes, people want to help. Food is how we share connection, build bounds, and nourish our souls as well as our bodies.
But food aversions do not honor that. "Normal" advice doesn't help, it just frustrates.
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note that when someone talks about food aversion, or a caregiver of someone with food aversion talks about it, your common sense advice (make your own! Fake it with packaging! Buy this other brand!) isn't going to be helpful. It's not our first day. We've thought of it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
note that when someone talks about food aversion, or a caregiver of someone with food aversion talks about it, your common sense advice (make your own! Fake it with packaging! Buy this other brand!) isn't going to be helpful. It's not our first day. We've thought of it.
This right here.
Sometimes your "better" is not what you were pre-illness or disease. It is a different state with different rules for food, energy, and appointments.
And some people never have a "better", there is "this is what I can do today" and you rob from tomorrow.
Sometimes your "better" is not what you were pre-illness or disease. It is a different state with different rules for food, energy, and appointments.
And some people never have a "better", there is "this is what I can do today" and you rob from tomorrow.
Disease is not punishment. It’s not something you earn. The number of atheists I know who need to examine why they think this is way too high.
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This right here.
Sometimes your "better" is not what you were pre-illness or disease. It is a different state with different rules for food, energy, and appointments.
And some people never have a "better", there is "this is what I can do today" and you rob from tomorrow.
Sometimes your "better" is not what you were pre-illness or disease. It is a different state with different rules for food, energy, and appointments.
And some people never have a "better", there is "this is what I can do today" and you rob from tomorrow.
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Oh, I forgot to mention! If you are going to be at a Broadway, Off-Broadway, or touring production in the next few weeks, it is the fall Red Bucket Follies, one of the main fundraisers for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwa...
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention! If you are going to be at a Broadway, Off-Broadway, or touring production in the next few weeks, it is the fall Red Bucket Follies, one of the main fundraisers for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwa...
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The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
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This vote is a slap in the face to all the disabled activists and advocates who LITERALLY put their bodies and health and freedom on the line to protest (not hold pep rallies) to save the ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This vote is a slap in the face to all the disabled activists and advocates who LITERALLY put their bodies and health and freedom on the line to protest (not hold pep rallies) to save the ACA.
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This is the best explainer on what Lovecraft’s elder gods actually do to your mind—they don’t instantly drive you insane, they force you to comprehend the futility of human society.
He uses covid lockdown as an example. It’s brilliant.
He uses covid lockdown as an example. It’s brilliant.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is the best explainer on what Lovecraft’s elder gods actually do to your mind—they don’t instantly drive you insane, they force you to comprehend the futility of human society.
He uses covid lockdown as an example. It’s brilliant.
He uses covid lockdown as an example. It’s brilliant.
I just broke a nail picking up the stack of books I bought in California.
Anywho, instead of cooking I got sucked into a video game (Ball X Pit) and now I'm cozy for a book.
The cooking will still happen, my brain is just demanding more relaxing first.
And maybe some potato chips.
Anywho, instead of cooking I got sucked into a video game (Ball X Pit) and now I'm cozy for a book.
The cooking will still happen, my brain is just demanding more relaxing first.
And maybe some potato chips.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I just broke a nail picking up the stack of books I bought in California.
Anywho, instead of cooking I got sucked into a video game (Ball X Pit) and now I'm cozy for a book.
The cooking will still happen, my brain is just demanding more relaxing first.
And maybe some potato chips.
Anywho, instead of cooking I got sucked into a video game (Ball X Pit) and now I'm cozy for a book.
The cooking will still happen, my brain is just demanding more relaxing first.
And maybe some potato chips.
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at the risk of having several more men come into my replies to tell me I’m wrong and dumb and “Schumer is a better negotiator than you are”, which is what happened last time I posted about this, I’m going to say again that this seems quite bad for me, a person dependent on the ACA for healthcare
I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises.
But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.
But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
at the risk of having several more men come into my replies to tell me I’m wrong and dumb and “Schumer is a better negotiator than you are”, which is what happened last time I posted about this, I’m going to say again that this seems quite bad for me, a person dependent on the ACA for healthcare
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90 minutes later and we have people signed up from 7 of our 8 congressional districts!
Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
90 minutes later and we have people signed up from 7 of our 8 congressional districts!
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Absolutely sending me how I look like an innocent baby and Kat looks like an evil mastermind
Look out if you're at Kubecon, @lookitup.baby and I have a new way to cause (good) trouble
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Absolutely sending me how I look like an innocent baby and Kat looks like an evil mastermind
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians