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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️

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the joker of candle-making @bugsrock.online, one of the greatest minds in web development (jennschiffer.com) and blogging (livelaugh.blog), nyc co-host of robot karaoke (robotkaraoke.live), hot and smart and talented

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · Apr 28

i just keep getting hotter and smarter

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1h

i assume having a face there certainly helps grab attention given the lack of images in that particular zone of the page. i wonder how they pick which headshot to use

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1h

does jimmy wales’ face on the banner asking for wikipedia donations on each page perform better than if his face were not there, someone here must know

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 2h

if this whole rubygems takeover doesn’t work out for ruby central, they could always pivot into developing curriculum for masterclasses in bad faith responses and eroding community trust

André Arko @indirect.io · 3h

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

andre.arko.net

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 3h

my dad’s 2nd wife put me in tennis lessons but with a vintage racket from when she was a teen back in the caverns of Hell in the early 1300s and so i never gave it a real shot so this is my penance to the sport, the candle is v good

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 3h

allow me to answer my own brand account with another brand lol - i am still obsessed with the tennis ball candle by vacation

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 5h

yesterday i launched a new candle collection to celebrate the season where our neighbors display all the fake tombstones they’ve been selfishly hoarding

🕯️ bugs rock 🕯️ @bugsrock.online · 1d

imagine candles, but scary! my new collection is out now on bugsrock.online/shop

learn about these creepy waxy things in the latest bug report 😱

bugs rock | candles, but scary! out now

candles & wares by jenn schiffer

bugsrock.online

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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 6h

Ah yes, famously uncool singer Johnny Cash. I am glad noted arbiter of cool the Wall Street Journal is willing to reconsider his case.

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 6h

and he’s normal so saying “jim ammendments” doesn’t do anything but generational harm

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 6h

my brother is coming across jokes about the third amendment and i am not able to share the folklore without an X or meta product account

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 6h

i don‘t know who is responsible for community growth and/or partnerships on here but they need to get jim amendments on here

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 12h

i am going live in a bit (4pm est) to catch up and hang out

live laugh blah: rocktober chatter

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

my help wasn’t asked for but its been welcomed and i am in a position to be able to step back in. i live in the moment and not the past or future and he really has no option but to do the same as he recovers. its very weird and human

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

posted on mastodon on my way to see my dad about how tomorrow will be one month since he got sick and how it put an indefinite hiatus on our 15+ year indefinite hiatus…someone in a similar situation described the feeling perfectly, saying “i have no idea what i want out of this.”

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the aesthetic of the future

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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

nbc saw this and said ok let’s pick up the fuckin speed but also we need the October juice

“Updated live: Not all October Prime Day deals are good - we found 259+ that actually are”

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

that’s about 3+ more deals found per hour, who else is putting in the work like nbc

Screenshot of a thumbnail of an NBC news article from 20 hours ago that says “Updated live: Not all Prime Day deals are good - we found 181+ that actually are”

Screenshot of a thumbnail of an NBC news article from 3 hours ago that says “Updated live: Not all Prime Day deals are good - we found 233+ that actually are”

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3cats @tokilabs.co · 1d

i pay for this rss feed

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

“LIVE” like lol relax

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

wired is covering this like cnn covers mass casualty events

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 1d

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counting sheep @countingsheep.bsky.social · 1d

counting sheep...10000...🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 2d

in about 5 and a half hours @countingsheep.bsky.social should reach 10000, by then i should be fast asleep 🐑

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 2d

she *should* be praying her extensions start blending into the hair coming out of her thick skull

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 2d

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 2d

there have been good explanations from the team in the past that are framed around discovered bugs (like in this case), but the book pub metaphor is really accessible