J. Ng (she/they)
@tribbletron.bsky.social
🗽 NYC 1st-gen immigrant ⚙️ WOC in tech (sysadmin and infosec) 🐦 birbs mom 🖖 learning things, helping others, being the person i needed when i was younger 🧶 knitter of 3 doctor who scarves
If you're at PAX Unplugged and can give an injured staffer a ride home to NYC (drop-off in either south Brooklyn or near Queens College), please reach out! #PAXU
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If you're at PAX Unplugged and can give an injured staffer a ride home to NYC (drop-off in either south Brooklyn or near Queens College), please reach out! #PAXU
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For the record, many many people are not actually clear on their values. It's more difficult than it sounds.
The reality is that your judgment has to be rooted in your values. That's what's going to determine what you reward and what you punish. And if you're not clear on your values, then they will emerge clearly through your actual actions. In short, Link is banned, Jesse Singal is not. So now we know.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
For the record, many many people are not actually clear on their values. It's more difficult than it sounds.
3 eps in and I ever expected an anime named "Chainsaw Man" to make me cry every episode.
Ep 3 is about saving a cat.
Ep 2 was the main character finally experiencing care and regular meals for the first time in his life.
Ep 1 was about a demon puppy giving up its life for the main character.
Ep 3 is about saving a cat.
Ep 2 was the main character finally experiencing care and regular meals for the first time in his life.
Ep 1 was about a demon puppy giving up its life for the main character.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
3 eps in and I ever expected an anime named "Chainsaw Man" to make me cry every episode.
Ep 3 is about saving a cat.
Ep 2 was the main character finally experiencing care and regular meals for the first time in his life.
Ep 1 was about a demon puppy giving up its life for the main character.
Ep 3 is about saving a cat.
Ep 2 was the main character finally experiencing care and regular meals for the first time in his life.
Ep 1 was about a demon puppy giving up its life for the main character.
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We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Netflix's "Bon Appetit Your Majesty" is my 1st 사극 (sageuk). I'm not normally into kdrama. Only seen a few shows, not counting Squid Game.
Been having fun noting the similarities to cdramas.
But ep 6 has the worst spoken Chinese dialogue I've ever had to sit through... since Firefly.
Been having fun noting the similarities to cdramas.
But ep 6 has the worst spoken Chinese dialogue I've ever had to sit through... since Firefly.
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Netflix's "Bon Appetit Your Majesty" is my 1st 사극 (sageuk). I'm not normally into kdrama. Only seen a few shows, not counting Squid Game.
Been having fun noting the similarities to cdramas.
But ep 6 has the worst spoken Chinese dialogue I've ever had to sit through... since Firefly.
Been having fun noting the similarities to cdramas.
But ep 6 has the worst spoken Chinese dialogue I've ever had to sit through... since Firefly.
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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Sigh. Once again, things you think are ridiculous or wasteful are often meant to or happen to help disabled people. Forearm pan holder? Not because people are lazy. Tide pods? Have you tried pouring detergent with a tremor?
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sigh. Once again, things you think are ridiculous or wasteful are often meant to or happen to help disabled people. Forearm pan holder? Not because people are lazy. Tide pods? Have you tried pouring detergent with a tremor?
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
4am is for asking my spouse if he can powerwash poop stains on our toilet with his pee and him going 'why are you like this???'
(Duh.... cause I don't have the equipment or I'd try it myself!)
Reddit is for finding out that the answer is yes: www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybod...
(Duh.... cause I don't have the equipment or I'd try it myself!)
Reddit is for finding out that the answer is yes: www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybod...
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
4am is for asking my spouse if he can powerwash poop stains on our toilet with his pee and him going 'why are you like this???'
(Duh.... cause I don't have the equipment or I'd try it myself!)
Reddit is for finding out that the answer is yes: www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybod...
(Duh.... cause I don't have the equipment or I'd try it myself!)
Reddit is for finding out that the answer is yes: www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybod...
I can't believe a CUNY polisci prof posted this like it's some great insight when NYC IS A CITY OF IMMIGRANTS and 38% of the population.
"If you voted for Mamdani chances are you were NOT born in New York City and you didn't grow up here. A real New Yorker would NEVER vote for a guy like that"
"If you voted for Mamdani chances are you were NOT born in New York City and you didn't grow up here. A real New Yorker would NEVER vote for a guy like that"
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I can't believe a CUNY polisci prof posted this like it's some great insight when NYC IS A CITY OF IMMIGRANTS and 38% of the population.
"If you voted for Mamdani chances are you were NOT born in New York City and you didn't grow up here. A real New Yorker would NEVER vote for a guy like that"
"If you voted for Mamdani chances are you were NOT born in New York City and you didn't grow up here. A real New Yorker would NEVER vote for a guy like that"
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Small talk isn't all pleasantness though. It can be wielded defensively (to suss out bad actors), but also offensively (to socially coerce or enforce conformity).
IOW, it can build or block rapport.
How one feels about small talk, probably depends on how they tend to use it. Or seen it used. 1/2
IOW, it can build or block rapport.
How one feels about small talk, probably depends on how they tend to use it. Or seen it used. 1/2
small talk makes the world go round and it is in fact incumbent upon you to at least make an *effort* to be pleasant to other people in your community
there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Small talk isn't all pleasantness though. It can be wielded defensively (to suss out bad actors), but also offensively (to socially coerce or enforce conformity).
IOW, it can build or block rapport.
How one feels about small talk, probably depends on how they tend to use it. Or seen it used. 1/2
IOW, it can build or block rapport.
How one feels about small talk, probably depends on how they tend to use it. Or seen it used. 1/2
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
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I like how they just have this binary of "we either protest in a peaceful and well-behaved fashion" and "we go full civil war armed revolution like"
As if there's not a ton of folks who have already shown alternatives to both.
But the alternatives do all involve organizing more *personally*
As if there's not a ton of folks who have already shown alternatives to both.
But the alternatives do all involve organizing more *personally*
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I like how they just have this binary of "we either protest in a peaceful and well-behaved fashion" and "we go full civil war armed revolution like"
As if there's not a ton of folks who have already shown alternatives to both.
But the alternatives do all involve organizing more *personally*
As if there's not a ton of folks who have already shown alternatives to both.
But the alternatives do all involve organizing more *personally*
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People definitely need to learn the history of how strikes actually work. You definitely have to address how people are going to get their needs met. For the Montgomery bus boycotts, they organized car pools to get people to work. You can't just say "don't go to work".
October 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
People definitely need to learn the history of how strikes actually work. You definitely have to address how people are going to get their needs met. For the Montgomery bus boycotts, they organized car pools to get people to work. You can't just say "don't go to work".
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When I talk about white people, I'm talking about a culture. No individual person can fix this. Or even make a huge dent in my opinion. That's not an expectation I have of anyone. The cultural problem with Whiteness is it's very hard for y'all to start thinking collectively.
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When I talk about white people, I'm talking about a culture. No individual person can fix this. Or even make a huge dent in my opinion. That's not an expectation I have of anyone. The cultural problem with Whiteness is it's very hard for y'all to start thinking collectively.
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A year ago, I got an email that a friend of mine had subscribed to my substack.
I DM'd him, extremely unsettled, to say I didn't HAVE a substack account, let alone a newsletter for him to subscribe to.
Please get your stuff off Substack. I will not read it while it's there.
I DM'd him, extremely unsettled, to say I didn't HAVE a substack account, let alone a newsletter for him to subscribe to.
Please get your stuff off Substack. I will not read it while it's there.
"Several months after we stopped “hanging out,” I needed no UX nudge to have obsessive thoughts about him, including whenever I was on a date with someone else. He was there, a taupe phantom in my peripheral vision — an off-white ghost in freshly steamed linen."
www.esckey.co/why-substack...
www.esckey.co/why-substack...
Why Substack is nudging you to follow your ex, your hookups, randos who aren’t even writers
Last week, I got a creepy notification nudging me to follow an ex — on Substack. Then I realized how comprehensively the app had scraped my phone's contacts, a la the dark patterns of the monopoly-cha...
www.esckey.co
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A year ago, I got an email that a friend of mine had subscribed to my substack.
I DM'd him, extremely unsettled, to say I didn't HAVE a substack account, let alone a newsletter for him to subscribe to.
Please get your stuff off Substack. I will not read it while it's there.
I DM'd him, extremely unsettled, to say I didn't HAVE a substack account, let alone a newsletter for him to subscribe to.
Please get your stuff off Substack. I will not read it while it's there.
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You know the "Dark Web"? We need to start our own "Light Web" that has all of the awkward charm of the early Internet and none of the monetization. Leave this one to the birds 'n bots and return in secret to sillier times.
Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
You know the "Dark Web"? We need to start our own "Light Web" that has all of the awkward charm of the early Internet and none of the monetization. Leave this one to the birds 'n bots and return in secret to sillier times.
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It's incredibly odd, but even on a brand new phone, my bsky mutuals feeds still won't display posts older than 2-3 days.
September 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It's incredibly odd, but even on a brand new phone, my bsky mutuals feeds still won't display posts older than 2-3 days.
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Me watching John talk about the app "Focus Friend" and realizing, HANK BASICALLY GAVE A STOPWATCH EMOTIONS.
August 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Me watching John talk about the app "Focus Friend" and realizing, HANK BASICALLY GAVE A STOPWATCH EMOTIONS.
Am I creative? Resourceful? Care for the environment?
NAH, I'M JUST A TRASH PANDA KID WITH A BETTER LIFE NOW. 😅
Which means I can't resist going through my new job's dumpsters to see tossed samples get a second chance as coasters, doll clothes, embroidery patches, or at the very least, schmatta.
NAH, I'M JUST A TRASH PANDA KID WITH A BETTER LIFE NOW. 😅
Which means I can't resist going through my new job's dumpsters to see tossed samples get a second chance as coasters, doll clothes, embroidery patches, or at the very least, schmatta.
August 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Am I creative? Resourceful? Care for the environment?
NAH, I'M JUST A TRASH PANDA KID WITH A BETTER LIFE NOW. 😅
Which means I can't resist going through my new job's dumpsters to see tossed samples get a second chance as coasters, doll clothes, embroidery patches, or at the very least, schmatta.
NAH, I'M JUST A TRASH PANDA KID WITH A BETTER LIFE NOW. 😅
Which means I can't resist going through my new job's dumpsters to see tossed samples get a second chance as coasters, doll clothes, embroidery patches, or at the very least, schmatta.
THIS. I also don't think many are opposed to creating life in other forms. (As SFF nerds, we embrace them!) The problem is, *what are industries creating that 'life' for*.
my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way
August 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
THIS. I also don't think many are opposed to creating life in other forms. (As SFF nerds, we embrace them!) The problem is, *what are industries creating that 'life' for*.