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am: Staff Engineer & Web Lead @slack.engineering. International Speaker. Design Systems Advocate. Chaotic Good. was: Hillary for America (1st dev hired). IBM Design. always: 🖖🏾. Whovian. Beyoncé. ♿️ AuDHD. CPTSD. INFP. ABCDEFG. 👉🏾 https://mina.codes

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · Nov 13

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.

go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

Ah. Unfortunately for me, the muscle spasms are not unusual. Just another way my body likes to torture me.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

I never even heard of it 😭

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

I had an iron infusion today. I expect the subsequent muscle spasms to start any moment now.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

Every once in a while I’ll look at some code I wrote and be like “Huh, how did this ever work?”

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

I like it when the tech techs the way it’s supposed to.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

👋🏾 I’m on Blacksky’s PDS and use my same custom domain.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 1d

The Birds.
Honorable mention: Hellraiser.

Who let me what those? 😭

Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 1d

What horror movie, besides Bambi, really messed you up as a child?

For me,

The People Under the Stairs

a young boy in a red and gray striped shirt

ALT: a young boy in a red and gray striped shirt

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

Writing Taking GIF

Alt: Woman pushes her glasses up her nose as she takes notes.

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

Then I fall asleep under the blanket and I wake up sweating. I can’t win 😭

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

Anemia and heated blankets go together like… two things that go together really well.

I’m tired. Leave me alone 😂

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

I know what it is, but every time I see “blood products” I think of something weird experiment grown in a lab.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

I spent all day at a networking event.

No one talk to me for five business days.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

OH: “I miss being a child. Things were so free back then.”

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 2d

Evergreen.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d

In my “Fine, I’ll do it myself” - era.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 3d

a woman in a blue dress is clapping in a crowd of people

Alt: Anne Hathaway clapping with tears in her eyes.

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 3d

I don’t know what data breach or dump happened recently but the amount of spam texts I’m receiving is getting out of hand.

Leave me aloneeeeeee.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5d

'And despite its accuracy in many ways, “Past Tense” was too optimistic and did not consider cruelty as policy.' letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com/p/for-whom-t...

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Sis. Petty Shabazz @deelo502.bsky.social · 5d

Because neurodivergent people are so literal and honest, we get mislabeled as rude, sassy, or smart-mouthed when we’re actually just being exact.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 6d

All the time.

We elected a Black man, and they ain’t been right since.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 7d

hey girl hey

we’re on the same server again

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · Dec 14

You know every time I get excited about building something for Bluesky or the AT protocol, the leadership does something that makes me say “actually, nvm.”

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 7d

Rule 34 will get you every time.

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 7d

oh. oh no 😂😂😂

Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 7d

Your ass will be stimulated.

Or whatever she said.

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 7d

this is why i have job security: because tech dudes are like "talking to people? how hard could that be"