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Franzi Roesner
@franziroesner.bsky.social
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Professor (computer security and privacy, broadly construed) in the Allen School of CSE at the University of Washington. Also spend my time on parenting, reading, exercising, and writing poetry. She/her.

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Check out these beauties
Golden larches in the North Cascades
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Took myself to Cascade Pass / Sahale Arm today and it was the LITERAL BEST.
North Cascades seen from Sahale Glacier
August 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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May someone find value in my angry feminist post-election poem, appearing today in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social 's political poetry anthology.
Exit Poll Where should I put my feminist rage? Chew it up, swallow it, let it sit heavy in my gut, undigested for seven years? Wrap it in a body bag, tie it at the knees, dump it in the Boston Harbor? Deposit it into a savings account under my husband's name? Crush it with my bare feet, ferment it in oak barrels, drink it alone? Paint my nails with it, shiny, black, expensive, sharpened to points? Or bestow it, carefully (a fragile inheritance cradled against my chest) upon my daughters? — Franzi Roesner
March 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Note Fox News's choice to zoom this video in, because otherwise it's just too obvious.
screenshot from Fox News of Elon Musk press conference in the Oval Office
February 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Cool, thanks Meta for asking for my consent for this. </sarcasm>
Facebook Messenger alert: Summarize unread chats, edit photos and more with Meta AI. To use these features, anyone in your chats can now share your messages and photos from the chat with Meta AI. Shared messages and photos may be used to improve Meta AI.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Based on a true story ;)
Bowl of ramen with a goofy face
February 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I have a new poem out in Rust & Moth -- thank you @rustandmoth.bsky.social for giving it a home! rustandmoth.com/work/face-off/
Face-Off or, Summiting Mount Pilchuck My bowl of ramen had a goofy face, chashu grinning up at me, squishy orange eyeballs framed by egg-white, no pupils, hair twirled around my chopsticks. I need to know: were the parked cars angry, and if so, were they angry at me? One’s headlight eyes narrowed; another’s mouth contorted, teeth bared. But with the face of this mountain underfoot I can’t make out its expression. At cerebral elevation, my nose bleeds, ramen broth dripping down my chin, coloring the bushes red.
February 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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FFS did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?
New York Times headline: Beneath Trump’s Chaotic Spending Freeze: An Idea That Crosses Party Lines. There is a long, bipartisan history of attempts to rein in spending and address concerns about government inefficiencies, though the parties have grown increasingly divided about what to cut.
February 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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So grateful to the editors of Third Wednesday for giving this poem (which means a lot to me) a home 🥰 thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2025/01/09/m...
My Favorite Mug After my first daughter was born I thought it was the lack of caffeine, the cooling paper cups of hospital coffee I kept leaving around everywhere. Instead it was my own self leaking out through a man-made hole, my spinal fluid tugging, pulling, gravity dragging down my brain every time I dared stand up. The fix for a spinal headache is to draw out your own blood and reinject it, like birds might use their own feathers for a nest, like a baby (made of you) might nurse from your breast. After I brought her home, I was surprised by my cats’ faces, which looked suddenly animal. Three months in, when one of them lay, corpse-like in the corner behind the baby glider refusing to eat, burning pancreas I wondered if there was a balance someone was trying to keep. After my second daughter was born I started drinking my coffee out of a silver thermos mug, shaped like a stemless wine glass curved and cool against my palms. The point was to protect the baby from spills, but it became a solace in my sleep-deprived state, soft brown liquid, still hot, even relentless hours later. When she was a few months old, screaming in the car seat, the mug I had forgotten on the roof of the car tumbled down with surprise at a stoplight — soft brown liquid, still hot, streaking my windshield like muddy rain, like a film across the eye before blinking. I watched as my mug ran the red, escaped head over heels down the hill lid-less, kid-less emptied of its contents, laughing, hysterically.
January 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I think I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending...
NYTimes breaking news notification about first bird flu death in US of patient over 65 with underlying medical conditions
January 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I read + listened to over 70 books this year and it's really, really hard to definitively narrow them down to any sort of list, but here's a selection of some I found myself telling people about.
December 23, 2024 at 9:52 PM