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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 2h

Shook a few needed laughs and smiles out of my bitter ragged bag of a heart.

Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social · 19h

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 3d

a gingerbread man with a crown on his head is standing in front of a pile of gingerbread cookies .

ALT: a gingerbread man with a crown on his head is standing in front of a pile of gingerbread cookies .

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 4d

I unfortunately had to run to another commitment, sorry to have missed the chance to talk!

Powen Shiah @powen.net · 4d

California ballot faxed yesterday; counted today!

An email confirmation from California BallotTrax notifying the recipient that their ballot for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election has been received and counted. It includes contact information for questions and links for election information.

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 4d

Really looking forward to speaking at @writethedocs.bsky.social in Berlin tomorrow! I’ll be sharing how we at @sovereign.tech Agency communicate about complex open source technologies in ways that everyone — not just software developers — can understand… and WHY we invest time/energy in doing so.

Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 5d

Our Comms Lead, Powen Shiah, is speaking @ Write the Docs conference in Berlin tomorrow!

His talk, 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦, dives into how we make digital infrastructure visible, understandable, and valued through communications.

Powen Shiah on Stage presenting to the audience

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 7d

There are few things as gratifying as a long over-due freezer defrosting. Reaching in and breaking off giant pieces of ice and accumulated frost, I think I’d need a pressure washer for more fun.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 8d

24 Oct 2025 -- TIME story on trans ppl escaping discrimination: "Rainbow Railroad which helps LGBTQ+ people escape state violence, received a record number of requests from US...& nearly half of trans adults have relocated or are planning to relocate to another state..."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

From Haven to Exodus: Trans Americans Are Fleeing The U.S.

As restrictions on trans rights mount under the Trump Administration, more transgender Americans are emigrating.

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 8d

That's a Thursday night downer: SchwuZ in #Berlin has announced that they are officially closing down. They had filed for bankruptcy in August, hoping a buyer or some way could be found to be able to keep one of the oldest queer clubs in Berlin (since 1977!) open.

www.instagram.com/p/DQKTg7fjDNA/

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 9d

Have you ever had work-from-home days where you've been writing emails/chatting/doing so much computer work that your fingers are just tired? Not like a sprain or repetitive stress, just... over the taptaptap.

For the record, I am very good at typing, very fast, and can even do it without looking!

a black cat is playing with an apple laptop computer .

ALT: a black cat is playing with an apple laptop computer .

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 10d

We’re having our October #Kreuzberg Kiez pub night w/@demsabroad.bsky.social in #Berlin tonight at Dolden Mädel (Mehringdamm) from 7pm. Meet fellow Americans abroad, talk, & support each other!

www.democratsabroad.org/324260/kreuz...

RSVP not required but appreciated

#americansabroad #demsabroad

Kreuzberg Pub Night

Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.

www.democratsabroad.org

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · 13d

I was just telling someone the other day that it’s surprising/weird that there are no LAP coffee shops near me in #Bergmannkiez. It looks like those days are numbered #kreuzberg #berlin

Night time photo of an under construction store front with an awning with the words “life among people”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14d

ooh well done

Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14d

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14d

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

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Constance Chucholowski @constance-bln.bsky.social · 15d

Berlin, see you tomorrow!
Saturday October 18th, 2pm, Pariser Platz
#NoKings
@demsabroad.bsky.social

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22d

“There’s been times where I have sat back in my house and really wondered how I was going to feed my family,” said one single mom of three. She warns that there’s “going to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlers”: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 2

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 29

Today’s capitulation. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Monday, September 29 5:02
WSJ
Breaking News
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit over the suspension of his account

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · Sep 29

Ooops, it was El Puesto: www.instagram.com/p/CN-G5Y7HJoK/

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23 likes, 4 comments - polexa on April 22, 2021: "Tacos 🌮 & Birria 🍲".

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · Sep 29

Since the first time I had birria (I think it was at the taqueria el oso pop-up in Berlin) I thought it had delicious similarities to Taiwanese or Chinese beef noodle soup. Last night in Santa Cruz I got to eat birria ramen, and a personal Asian-Latino fusion dream came true. Thanks Tacos El Chuy!

a large take-out container with a brown birria broth and ramen noodles

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · Sep 28

Kierkegaard Signature?

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · Sep 25

Finding time to write for myself is a perennial struggle. I worry it mean that I'm not taking enough time to think

-> some meandering thoughts in my latest post on my personal blog

powen.net/not-writing-...

A pad of paper with lots of squiggly lines in many different colors and ink types on it.

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Powen Shiah @powen.net · Sep 25

Finding time to write for myself is a perennial struggle. I worry it mean that I'm not taking enough time to think

-> some meandering thoughts in my latest post on my personal blog

powen.net/not-writing-...

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