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Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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🏳️‍⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | online communities + trans tech | librarian sometimes | mayworms.info

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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would drive by while visiting Holland (Herrick District Library) for library co-op meetings. Serviced by the Henika District Library, a beautiful library built in 1899… only had 3500 square feet of floor space though, they’re fundraising to expand the building (www.henikalibrary.org/expansion)

photo of a small beautiful library built of random-patterned fieldstone with a grey shingle roof and large, ornate glass windows. (Image from Wikipedia)

August 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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day three of this 😶‍🌫️

Current air quality index of 128 (Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups) in Ann Arbor, MI

July 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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bird up

July 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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also caught my first Pokemon Go shiny (Alolan Exeggutor) in Pentwater about six years ago

Pokemon Go screenshot of a shiny Alolan Exeggutor (a sparkling Pokemon that looks like a tall golden palm tree with squat legs and red leaves)

July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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pretty view last night

April 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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Yokohama Chinatown is wonderful 🙏

Nighttime photo of a crowded street with food vendors and shops; red paper lanterns hang across the street; a large red gate with golden adornments stands in the center

April 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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Dug into the new town every hour archives for this one — used to pass Shelby often on my way to Pentwater or Ludington. Not to be confused with Shelby Township north of Sterling Heights. I haven’t been to the Shelby Area District Library, but I do love the front entrance brickwork

Photo of the Shelby area district library; the front entrance is made of light, medium, and dark bricks mixed together

April 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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springtime,

nighttime photo of dense snowfall in downtown Ann Arbor, MI

April 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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hhhghgghghghh TT~TT

Github Status page: Update: Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. Update: Customers may not be able to create or make changes to their GitHub Pages sites. Customers who rely on web hook events from Pages builds might also experience a downgraded experience.

March 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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github pages ... please come back . ... .. I just installed baguetteBox and wish to scroll through my Images . . .... .. TT~TT

Github status page: March 20, 2025. Incident with Pages. We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages.

March 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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Had a wonderful time at @haimson.bsky.social’s Trans Technologies book launch event (with Kishonna Gray and @hibby.bsky.social) today! Had fun helping coordinate the Zoom Q&A 😄

(thank you to @noorhindi.bsky.social for helping me take photos!)

Oliver L. Haimson in front of a presentation slide: “Trans Technology (practical definition): technology that addresses the unique needs and challenges faced by transgender people and communities. Often designed in response to the lack of trans inclusion in more mainstream technologies.”

Oliver L. Haimson in front of a presentation slide: “as we continue to search for ways to emerge from the toxic climate that turns people are currently forced to inhabit, we can set our sites on trans tech technologies on the horizon and start to build those tech technologies that help us escape transphobic worlds. I personally tend toward a more optimistic, utopian view. I have immense hope for those 16-year-olds sitting in their bedrooms in their parents houses, or in libraries, or in youth drop-in centers, hacking at their keyboards to create browser extensions; those vast armies of trans game creators, channeling their rage and creativity into trans game jams; and all those people building new tech technologies to help address the challenges their community faces.”

Kishonna Gray and Oliver L. Haimson in conversation

March 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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update: back to my old ways

selfie: me standing in the kitchen holding a glass jar of Laoganma chili crisp

February 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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received my (autographed!) copy of Trans Technologies by @haimson.bsky.social yesterday 😄 so happy to see this book out in print!

selfie: me holding a paperback copy of Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson in front of my face

photo: a paperback copy of Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson

February 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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(4/4)

Panel 1: me putting my bowl of soup back into the fridge in my dimly lit kitchen. "...But the thing about leftovers is that they are a promise that no matter how shitty you feel now, you will come back and try again later."
Panel 2: my roommate Hibby entering the apartment. Hibby: "I'm back! How was your week?" me: "!! Welcome back! I have a *lot* to catch you up on..."
Panel 3: Hibby and I chatting about the past week. Commentary: "So I suppose I will power through it."
Panel 4: Me slouched over on the couch, looking tired. Hibby: "Wow. She really called you that?" Me: "Yeah. Yeah. It's not a *shock,* is the thing." Hibby: "...I feel that."
Panel 5: Hibby: "...Are you okay?" Me: "..." Commentary: Power through it...
Panel 6: Me giving Hibby a thumbs up and a small smile. Commentary: "Power through it."

Row 1: At one point during the argument about the recent horrors (and whether we deserve it), I wondered why my mom didn't ask if I was okay. And her answer went something like: "why would I do that? That's stupid."
Row 2: a view of the night sky outside my apartment window; the moon faintly glows behind the clouds, and there's snow on the bare trees.
Row 3: Me lying in bed with my glasses off, checking my phone notifications. Several phone notifications from friends checking in on me, asking if I'm doing okay, saying they love me, sending me funny videos.
Row 4: I look through these messages from my friends with a tired smile. Commentary: "The thing about my friends is that I love them."

-- Samuel Reiji Mayworm

February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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(3/4)

Panel 1: view of my tv in the living room, speech bubbles between me and my friends joking about the Pro Bowl on the phone. Commentary: "The thing about the Pro Bowl is that it does not fix parental transphobia. Hell, it doesn't fix the upcoming Kansas City Philly Super Bowl either."

Panel 2: me cooking dinner, still speaking to friends on my phone. "And the thing about playing Balatro on your phone is that you're still dying. You're cooking dinner, and your life is eroding. You play a Royal Flush, and the oceans are boiling."

Panel 3: an overhead view of soup cooking in a pot over the stove. "And the thing about this comic is that it's a distraction, drawn on top of a *lot* of white-out tape. And the thing about this soup is I'm not hungry."

Panel 1: a bowl of warm chicken tortilla soup on my table.
Panel 2: me hunched over at the table, thinking, "...still not hungry."
Panel 3: me sitting at the table on my phone an hour later; the bowl of soup is cold.
Panel 4: me shrugging at the camera, "...still not hungry!"

February 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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(2/4?)

panel 1: me staring at my phone in my bed. "Hourly comics day was yesterday?! I forgot?! How the fuck did I forget?"
panel 2: me looking distressed. "I gotta do chores today... I should have written about yesterday... I learned *sea shanties* yesterday..."
panel 3: image of me dusting my kitchen. "I spent my morning dusting while on the phone with a friend."
panel 4: image of me speaking to a friend on speakerphone. Me: "Did you watch that reel I sent you? ...No like I know you *saw* it but did you *watch* it." "A chat with friends can make chores more fun!"
panel 5: me staring up at a high shelf. "I gave up on dusting once I hit the high surfaces."
panel 6: An image of yogurt, granola, and coffee. "...and finally ate some breakfast."

Panel 1: "Had a horrible conversation with my transphobic mom which hurt me very deeply." Image of Mickey from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles saying, "cow-a-bummer!"
Panel 2: me sitting on my couch. "...Do I have to write about this?" Commentary: "suddenly, my pen strokes grow shakier."
Panel 3: me lying on the couch, depressed.
Panel 4: me flopping over on the couch, depressed, calling some friends on my phone.
Rows 5 and 6: a series of panels glancing around my apartment, kitchen, shelves, window, TV, my phone, the snow outside, a small trans flag taped to a PC monitor. "...Yeah. ...No, I'm good. ...Nothing much, just chilling. How 'bout you? ...That's good. ...The Pro Bowl? Shit, I forgot about that. ...Yeah, I'm down. I'll watch. ...Thanks, man."

February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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my friends encouraged me to post my (belated) Hourly Comics Day 2025 contribution to BlueSky!

I haven't written comics in several years, and wasn't expecting to write about this specific topic on Sunday, but so it goes lol

Content warning page:

Heads up: this work describes parental transphobia. Whoopee!!

Page 1: Drawn/written 02 February 2025. # Hourly Comics Day 2025! A day where you... make a comic in 24 hours? Draw a comic for each hour of the day? I don't actually remember, and it hardly matters because...

Panel 1: Image of my apartment building. Speech bubble: "I forgot it?!"

February 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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Despite driving through Ithaca many times, I have never passed by the Gratiot County Courthouse — I would love to see it sometime! (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

daytime photo of an old, ornate, white and cream-colored county courthouse with arching doorways, many windows, a balcony, and a clock tower on top. A US flag flies on the right.

February 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Samuel Reiji Mayworm

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many pretty buildings in downtown Williamston around the Grand River Ave/Putnam St intersection — always wondered what the story was behind this old blue retail building here.