Melissa Young
@techsassy.me
Engineering leadership. Journalism roots. Always rolling for initiative. Surrounded by gamers, computers & kids. (She/They)♠️🤍💜
Media, Technology and Teams @ Vox Media
Currently:
🎻 Learning cello
🏋🏽♀️ Making gains
🏫 PTA Board Member
Media, Technology and Teams @ Vox Media
Currently:
🎻 Learning cello
🏋🏽♀️ Making gains
🏫 PTA Board Member
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Melissa Young
@techsassy.me
· Nov 14
A bit about me for recent followers:
📰 Former journalist & tech blogger
🤖 Developer
⌨️ Engineering Mgr/Director/VP
🧶 Knitter
🎻 Beginning cellist
👯💃Mom of identical twins + 1
🇵🇷 Puerto Rican
🤠 Texan living in NoVA
♠️💜 Ace
😱 Love horror, trek, sci-fi, & trashy reality tv
♑ sun, ♉ rising, ♋ moon
📰 Former journalist & tech blogger
🤖 Developer
⌨️ Engineering Mgr/Director/VP
🧶 Knitter
🎻 Beginning cellist
👯💃Mom of identical twins + 1
🇵🇷 Puerto Rican
🤠 Texan living in NoVA
♠️💜 Ace
😱 Love horror, trek, sci-fi, & trashy reality tv
♑ sun, ♉ rising, ♋ moon
You know who needs to be on SNL this weekend. Make it happen.
miss piggy from the muppet show is making a funny face with her eyes closed .
Alt: a zoom in to the angry eyes of miss piggy from the muppet show
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You know who needs to be on SNL this weekend. Make it happen.
Tonight's winner.
[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Tonight's winner.
Reposted by Melissa Young
Planning to watch Ken Burns’ new film on the Revolutionary War?
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
a drawing of an american flag with the words gonna hold a revolution now king below it
Alt: a drawing of an american flag with the words gonna hold a revolution now king below it
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Planning to watch Ken Burns’ new film on the Revolutionary War?
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
If I donate more to @pbs.org, can I get streaming access to new Ken Burns projects before the evening? Sunday morning coffee is my primetime.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If I donate more to @pbs.org, can I get streaming access to new Ken Burns projects before the evening? Sunday morning coffee is my primetime.
Great, Now watching...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great, Now watching...
Can't get out of my head how much Guy in Talamasca looks like Schmendrick the Magician.
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Can't get out of my head how much Guy in Talamasca looks like Schmendrick the Magician.
DEL FRANKENSTEIN TIME
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
DEL FRANKENSTEIN TIME
Winamp skin Bluesky themes
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Winamp skin Bluesky themes
Hey, what if I told you instead of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for concert tour tickets you could instead pay $30ish bucks and listen to quality jazz live any day of the week.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Hey, what if I told you instead of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for concert tour tickets you could instead pay $30ish bucks and listen to quality jazz live any day of the week.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
Laughing, crying after every episode of the new season of The Diplomat— now a high fantasy world.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Laughing, crying after every episode of the new season of The Diplomat— now a high fantasy world.
If you recommend something to me, I will absolutely check it out.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
October 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you recommend something to me, I will absolutely check it out.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
Spooky season family movie night: Cube
a group of men are standing next to each other in a dark room with a green light behind them .
Alt: Three people stand in a glowing green room and a man sits up into view from the bottom and says "this room is green"
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spooky season family movie night: Cube
Research! Science! Health!
Study finds COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sparks immune response to fight cancer - UF Health
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived…
ufhealth.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Research! Science! Health!
These days is someone tries to gaslight me for being hyperbolic, I start laughing maniacally and don't stop.
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
These days is someone tries to gaslight me for being hyperbolic, I start laughing maniacally and don't stop.
Let the kids be car DJ this afternoon
October 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Let the kids be car DJ this afternoon
I have a spider friend that has been outside my kitchen sink window for a few weeks. A highlight of my day is checking her status. Today we have a Charlotte's Web situation. New egg sac just dropped!
October 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have a spider friend that has been outside my kitchen sink window for a few weeks. A highlight of my day is checking her status. Today we have a Charlotte's Web situation. New egg sac just dropped!
JOURNALISTS, DO YOUR JOBS
if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
JOURNALISTS, DO YOUR JOBS
Reposted by Melissa Young
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
A beautiful day to travel back home from NY -> DC.
October 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A beautiful day to travel back home from NY -> DC.
Reposted by Melissa Young
I’m ready! LFG!! 💙
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I’m ready! LFG!! 💙
Reposted by Melissa Young
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
This very first-gen device raises several questions about where the next chapter of mobile computing is headed.
buff.ly
October 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me