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Martha “Mattie” Carter-Gerakines
@mattie.thegem.city
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She/her 🏳️‍🌈

Just a pile of rats in a trench coat

Scientist turned engineer, mediocre crafter, cool stepmom, partner to Nick and Lauren
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theonion.com
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
Q: Will Breaking Bad fans like it? A: Considering that the main character is a woman, no.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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ngerakines.me
Don't Feed the Trolls: Why This Old Internet Wisdom Still Matters
"Don't feed the trolls" emerged as folk wisdom in 1990s Usenet culture and became internet gospel, grounded in solid psychological research showing that trolls seek negative attention and ignoring them removes their reward.
ngerakines.leaflet.pub
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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beccasaintpaul.bsky.social
Hitting like on every northern light photo
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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acvalens.com
breaking: if people can’t get paid they don’t want to spend. who would have thought!
CNBC OLIVESTREAM Q SIGN IN TECH Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping PUBLISHED FRI, NOV 7 2025•11:43 AM EST UPDATED FRI, NOV 7 2025•4:06 PM EST KEY POINTS • Affirm CEO Max Levchin told CNBC that some federal workers impacted by the government shutdown are losing interest in shopping. • The federal funding lapse, which began Oct. 1, is the longest in U.S. history and has halted work across agencies. • Levchin's comments followed a fiscal first-quarter earnings report from the buy now, pay later firm that blew past Wall Street's estimates.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ngerakines.me
This is amazing. Stop threatening me with a really good time @sndorf.bsky.social #VoteDorf
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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ngerakines.me
Join our ATProtocol OAuth Masterclass TOMORROW at 1:00 PM ET!

Only a few seats remaining. Learn to build secure, federated authentication for the decentralized web.

🎟️ Grab your spot: ti.to/ngerakines/a...

#ATProtocol #OAuth #Bluesky #DecentralizedWeb
ATProtocol OAuth Masterclass Fall 2025
Master the complete OAuth implementation for ATProtocol in this comprehensive workshop designed for developers building on the decentralized social web. Whether you're creating applications, services,...
ti.to
October 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
mattie.thegem.city
Happy birthday to you 🥳🍞
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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matociquala.bsky.social
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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skylight.social
The ✨soft launch✨ is here!!

Download the latest update of @skylight.social on the App Store and the Google Play store!

She’s not perfect, there are still some things to work out, but we wanted to get it into everyone’s hands💕

Join us for the first ever LIVE stream on Skylight @ 3:30pm EST
August 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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chadkoh.com
Me and @ngerakines.me being total selfie nerds at St Patrick's Cathedral earlier today — each strategically out of one another's frames 🤳🤓
Chad and Nick simultaneously taking selfies in front of St Patrick's Cathedral Chad selfie pointing at St Patrick's Cathedral
August 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
bit.ly
August 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
It’s good to remember there are still people out there doing the right thing.
New York opens first-in-nation homeless shelter for transgender people
The shelter will offer services to 150 residents.
gothamist.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
mattie.thegem.city
@ngerakines.me did some really cool stuff this year! We met because of community organizing, so watching this take off has been really special. Super proud of you, Nick! 🔥
smokesignal.events Smoke Signal @smokesignal.events · Jul 14
🎉 One year ago today, we launched Smoke Signal! What started as an idea has become a growing community of event organizers and attendees. This milestone belongs to all of you who believed in decentralized events from day one.
July 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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smokesignal.events
🎉 One year ago today, we launched Smoke Signal! What started as an idea has become a growing community of event organizers and attendees. This milestone belongs to all of you who believed in decentralized events from day one.
July 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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ngerakines.me
One year ago today, I launched Smoke Signal. It's been such a fun project to work on and I'm completely beside myself with how far it has come and all of the things that have come from it. #atdev #atprotocol
One Year of Smoke Signal
One Year of Smoke Signal posted by @smokesignal.events on 2025-07-14 12:00 UTC
blog.smokesignal.events
July 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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ngerakines.me
Help Wanted! I'm holding a Community Bug Squash on Thursday, July 10th to help identify issues with the Smoke Signal Preview site. Check out the event for details on how to help.

Please share and spread the word!
Smoke Signal Bug Squash
Smoke Signal's one year anniversary is coming up, and with it comes the release of the new Smoke Signal website! We need your help to identify issues with the new Smoke Signal web application, and .....
preview.smokesignal.events
July 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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ngerakines.me
Mason “the best boy” Gerakines passed away today. Utterly heartbroken 💔💔💔
May 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
mattie.thegem.city
Hey! I know this guy!!
atprotocol.dev AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · Mar 25
Smoke Signal + Lexicon Community, a journey in building ecosystems for communities, Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me

A huge run through many pieces of today’s ATProto and some future directions.

@smokesignal.events @lexicon.community

#ATmosphereConf
Smoke Signal an journey in building open ecosystems for communities Nick Gerakines
YouTube video by AT Protocol Development
youtu.be
March 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ngerakines.me
March 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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ngerakines.me
An emotional “it takes a village” tour by @rudyfraser.com at #ATmosphereConf. It’s a long list, and a lot of people are on it. #BlackSky is what it is because of mutual aid and mutual values. It’s a conduit of people and practices.
March 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
mattie.thegem.city
I was not expecting these to get as much attention as they did! 💙
So time for some due credit:
@lauren.thegem.city for helping me finish weaving in ends!
TheLoopyStitchShop on Etsy- I modified the “resilient butterfly” pattern for these, and
@ngerakines.me for being my hype man and delivery guy
jay.bsky.team Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 21
Thanks to @mattie.thegem.city for this adorable crochet butterfly! Brought by @ngerakines.me for a few folks at
#ATmosphereconf
March 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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jay.bsky.team
Thanks to @mattie.thegem.city for this adorable crochet butterfly! Brought by @ngerakines.me for a few folks at
#ATmosphereconf
March 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM