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."
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My port has been removed!
All active cancer treatment is done!
All active cancer treatment is done!
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Since folks are saying promote yr books, I’d like to share a couple of slides of some books that I often show when I give talks — if you’re interested in the history of computing, and its present, you might like these! And yeah my book is on there too🥸
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Since folks are saying promote yr books, I’d like to share a couple of slides of some books that I often show when I give talks — if you’re interested in the history of computing, and its present, you might like these! And yeah my book is on there too🥸
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shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
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To my fellow nerds; may your timings be perfect, your birds be juicy, and your spreadsheets be well annotated and ready for next year. 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
To my fellow nerds; may your timings be perfect, your birds be juicy, and your spreadsheets be well annotated and ready for next year. 🦃
I don't know what happened. Bestie and I swam 12 laps in the big lap pool today.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I don't know what happened. Bestie and I swam 12 laps in the big lap pool today.
Goals.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Goals.
I was a fool, I picked up the phone when my mom called.
Anywho, time to make a pizza and scream into the void because I survived that phone call.
Anywho, time to make a pizza and scream into the void because I survived that phone call.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I was a fool, I picked up the phone when my mom called.
Anywho, time to make a pizza and scream into the void because I survived that phone call.
Anywho, time to make a pizza and scream into the void because I survived that phone call.
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
Just spent half an hour scraping ice off my driveway.
It was fun for like the first 12 feet or so when it would break and shatter and then make tinkling noises as it slid across the driveway.
Then it got annoying.
It was fun for like the first 12 feet or so when it would break and shatter and then make tinkling noises as it slid across the driveway.
Then it got annoying.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just spent half an hour scraping ice off my driveway.
It was fun for like the first 12 feet or so when it would break and shatter and then make tinkling noises as it slid across the driveway.
Then it got annoying.
It was fun for like the first 12 feet or so when it would break and shatter and then make tinkling noises as it slid across the driveway.
Then it got annoying.
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First up: scientists said it couldn't be done. But we put our logo on a scroll, and then got a mouse to hold it while riding a lobster.
Be wowed:
merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi...
Original artwork from @uorspeccoll.bsky.social.
Be wowed:
merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi...
Original artwork from @uorspeccoll.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
First up: scientists said it couldn't be done. But we put our logo on a scroll, and then got a mouse to hold it while riding a lobster.
Be wowed:
merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi...
Original artwork from @uorspeccoll.bsky.social.
Be wowed:
merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi...
Original artwork from @uorspeccoll.bsky.social.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Read the whole thread. Everything in it is exactly right. Some types of younger people who ESPECIALLY need a will:
1. Parents of children <18
2. Parents who are married to someone not their child's other parent
3. Unmarried, childless people who wouldn't want their parents or siblings inheriting
1. Parents of children <18
2. Parents who are married to someone not their child's other parent
3. Unmarried, childless people who wouldn't want their parents or siblings inheriting
This is my yearly PSA that, no matter how old you are, you should have a basic health directive and will. The forms are free online in California. The number of senior citizens in my neighborhood with no directives and no plan who are already a little off the rails is staggering. A short rant 1/
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Read the whole thread. Everything in it is exactly right. Some types of younger people who ESPECIALLY need a will:
1. Parents of children <18
2. Parents who are married to someone not their child's other parent
3. Unmarried, childless people who wouldn't want their parents or siblings inheriting
1. Parents of children <18
2. Parents who are married to someone not their child's other parent
3. Unmarried, childless people who wouldn't want their parents or siblings inheriting
CW: Cancer & menopause rant
So, I had my hepatology appointment today.
To sum it up: "lose 5 to 10 pounds" BECAUSE OF COURSE THAT IS THE FUCKING ANSWER.
I also get to have more lab work and a liver scan for a baseline but still.
So, I had my hepatology appointment today.
To sum it up: "lose 5 to 10 pounds" BECAUSE OF COURSE THAT IS THE FUCKING ANSWER.
I also get to have more lab work and a liver scan for a baseline but still.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
CW: Cancer & menopause rant
So, I had my hepatology appointment today.
To sum it up: "lose 5 to 10 pounds" BECAUSE OF COURSE THAT IS THE FUCKING ANSWER.
I also get to have more lab work and a liver scan for a baseline but still.
So, I had my hepatology appointment today.
To sum it up: "lose 5 to 10 pounds" BECAUSE OF COURSE THAT IS THE FUCKING ANSWER.
I also get to have more lab work and a liver scan for a baseline but still.
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just like in Florida when a sudden snowstorm freezes the Limes
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
just like in Florida when a sudden snowstorm freezes the Limes
Why haven't I thought of savory lefse?!?
It has been a while but I guess I'm making lefse in December.
It has been a while but I guess I'm making lefse in December.
Leaving Oslo today and I was finally able to find a hot dog on lefse (potato flatbread) with shrimp salad and crispy onions for breakfast at the airport.
Verdict: delicious
Verdict: delicious
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Why haven't I thought of savory lefse?!?
It has been a while but I guess I'm making lefse in December.
It has been a while but I guess I'm making lefse in December.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Thread, today in St. Paul, Minnesota raid and attacks by federal agents.
Dana Thiede, KARE11:
"As word spread about the operation unfolding on Rose Ave., neighbors and activists calling themselves 'constitutional observers' streamed in, holding phones in the air to videotape what was unfolding."
Dana Thiede, KARE11:
"As word spread about the operation unfolding on Rose Ave., neighbors and activists calling themselves 'constitutional observers' streamed in, holding phones in the air to videotape what was unfolding."
Federal agents launch another operation in St. Paul
A witness said the number of agents "just kept growin' and growin' and growin," as did an angry crowd that was eventually sprayed with chemical irritants.
www.kare11.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Thread, today in St. Paul, Minnesota raid and attacks by federal agents.
Dana Thiede, KARE11:
"As word spread about the operation unfolding on Rose Ave., neighbors and activists calling themselves 'constitutional observers' streamed in, holding phones in the air to videotape what was unfolding."
Dana Thiede, KARE11:
"As word spread about the operation unfolding on Rose Ave., neighbors and activists calling themselves 'constitutional observers' streamed in, holding phones in the air to videotape what was unfolding."
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There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
This is your reminder to let your friends know you love and appreciate them.
You don't know how much it can mean to them.
And with that said, I love and appreciate you all! My techies, geeks, weirdos, dehydrated noodles, and awesome peeps.
Thank you for coming along this wild adventure with me.
You don't know how much it can mean to them.
And with that said, I love and appreciate you all! My techies, geeks, weirdos, dehydrated noodles, and awesome peeps.
Thank you for coming along this wild adventure with me.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is your reminder to let your friends know you love and appreciate them.
You don't know how much it can mean to them.
And with that said, I love and appreciate you all! My techies, geeks, weirdos, dehydrated noodles, and awesome peeps.
Thank you for coming along this wild adventure with me.
You don't know how much it can mean to them.
And with that said, I love and appreciate you all! My techies, geeks, weirdos, dehydrated noodles, and awesome peeps.
Thank you for coming along this wild adventure with me.
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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An older blogpost of mine came up in conversation today
«Filtered through 4 layers of middle management there was no real explanation, only the sentiment had survived the transfer:
“IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT!! THEY CANNOT USE THE SYSTEM WITHOUT IT!!!”»
«Filtered through 4 layers of middle management there was no real explanation, only the sentiment had survived the transfer:
“IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT!! THEY CANNOT USE THE SYSTEM WITHOUT IT!!!”»
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November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
An older blogpost of mine came up in conversation today
«Filtered through 4 layers of middle management there was no real explanation, only the sentiment had survived the transfer:
“IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT!! THEY CANNOT USE THE SYSTEM WITHOUT IT!!!”»
«Filtered through 4 layers of middle management there was no real explanation, only the sentiment had survived the transfer:
“IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT!! THEY CANNOT USE THE SYSTEM WITHOUT IT!!!”»
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I get a bit irritated when I see “now they’re coming after disabled people?!” like we didn’t all see that clip in 2015.
They have ALWAYS been coming after disabled people. They use us to stoke fear, to delegitimize the agency of our own and other groups, as scapegoats, as bellwethers, as excuses.
They have ALWAYS been coming after disabled people. They use us to stoke fear, to delegitimize the agency of our own and other groups, as scapegoats, as bellwethers, as excuses.
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I get a bit irritated when I see “now they’re coming after disabled people?!” like we didn’t all see that clip in 2015.
They have ALWAYS been coming after disabled people. They use us to stoke fear, to delegitimize the agency of our own and other groups, as scapegoats, as bellwethers, as excuses.
They have ALWAYS been coming after disabled people. They use us to stoke fear, to delegitimize the agency of our own and other groups, as scapegoats, as bellwethers, as excuses.