I'm happy to support a local San Diego coffee shop called Garden Coffee while I write e-letters to congressmembers today! The shop is donating $1 to the ACLU for each drink sold during the Jan. 30th #ICEOut #AbolishICE national strike & day of action. The coffee shop is near Old Town Station

These were my #GenshinImpact Layla and #HazbinHotel Melissa (Velvette's assistant) and Angel Dust cosplays at Anime Los Angeles last weekend! I loved participating in the Cosplay Catwalk part of the fashion show and meeting up with friends! #AnimeLA #AnimeLA21 #ALA2026

Thank you to everyone who attended @cosplayforscience.bsky.social's #animelosangeles #ALA21 panel (with co-panelist @hillingsama.bsky.social) on sleep health and disorders! We loved discussing sleep challenges with you and how they relate to some of our favorite anime stories and characters.

I picked up my ALA panelist badge! They'll have panelist ribbons available at Registration tomorrow. I'm looking forward to presenting a @cosplayforscience.bsky.social fan panel on Saturday! #ALA21 #AnimeLosAngeles #anime

At #AnimeLA21 (Day 3 / Jan 10th, 7:15PM, LP2), join @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, @hillingsama.bsky.social, and me in lively discussion about the science of sleep and working the graveyard shift, with insights from your favorite superheroes, magical girls, and other characters! #Anime #SciComm

I styled a long and straight wig into a pontytail wig for Melissa, Velvette's assistant in #HazbinHotel! 💜💖 I was going to add a ponytail mouth, but gravity 😛 won this round. I added some demonic eyes to pull the look together for the ALA #Cosplay Catwalk. Can't wait to meet Hellaverse fans at ALA!

#TwistedWonderland / #Twst players, if anyone needs a Prof. Crewel support card, mine is fully leveled! Good luck in your battles, puppies! 🐾

My favorite #TwistedWonderland / #Twst characters are the faculty, and PE teacher Vargas was finally released today! He can take alchemy lessons from Crewel and Crowley with Trein. Lucius sits adorably nearby 😹

The ribbons for my #AnimeLA panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social and @hillingsama.bsky.social arrived! It's sleep-themed, and the symbols represent Layla from #GenshinImpact and Silver from #TwistedWonderland. The panel will be on Day 3, Jan. 10th from 7:15 - 8:15pm in LP2. More details soon!

#Cosplay WIP: Melissa's wig from #HazbinHotel! The next steps will be to combine these ponytails and then make a clip-on for the upper jaw of the ponytail mouth. I got the wig and wefts last year for another character, and I'm repurposing them to cosplay Melissa, Velvette's assistant, at Anime LA 💜

I had fun volunteering at SD Anime Con over the weekend! I met other local #HazbinHotel cosplayers, got an autographed print from storyboard artist @zachgiering.bsky.social, and was given some 💖✨ character cards by a con staff member who also loves Hazbin (especially the Vees; they're our faves!)

The #TwistedWonderland (aka #twst) anime finally premiered today! My friends @hillingsama.bsky.social, @eviefire.bsky.social, and @courtofcosplays.bsky.social (and an anon friend) did a fun tea party photoshoot before heading out to Disneyland on RunDisney Halloween Weekend back in September ❤️👑✨

I volunteered to help run @cosplayforscience.bsky.social's #Pokemon science education booth at LA Comic Con at the end of September! These were my 3 👻 trainer cosplays: the original hex maniac trainer design from Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, mimikyu, and the newer hex maniac design from X/Y onward

These #RunDisney #Brooks shoes are perfect for running a science education booth as a ghost #Pokemon trainer! I'm at LA Comic Con this weekend with an org called Cosplay for Science 😁

I completed the #RunDisney Chills and Thrills Challenge with @hillingsama.bsky.social @eviefire.bsky.social @courtofcosplays.bsky.social and others last weekend! We ran in #TwistedWonderland / #Twst cosplays and went to Disneyland and CA Adventure to celebrate 🎃

Took the fledgling to do the half marathon 😄😁 he did just fine ~ 🦇 @hillingsama.bsky.social 🐉 @geekycuriosities.bsky.social #twstcosplay #runDisney

A friend gave me this adorable handmade Prof. Divus Crewel plushie at #AnimeExpo! ☺️ I'm bringing it with me whenever I cosplay him in the future. It was clearly made with a lot of passion for #TwistedWonderland / #twst!

An amazing pic of @hillingsama.bsky.social and me as Prof. Trein and Prof. Crewel from Twisted Wonderland! We took it at the Aniplex 20th anniversary booth at Anime Expo. Pic is by our friend Mari. #twst #twistedwonderland #AnimeExpo #AX2025 #cosplay #disney

The Phainon and Mydei bath scene, performed live at the Honkai Star Rail panel at Anime Expo! 🤣 •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #hsr #honkaistarrail #starrail #animeexpo #ax2025

I'm close to the front of the Ai Gate with Ei! 😁 (South Hall line.) I'm attending main event panels all day today at #AnimeExpo. #AX2025 #AX

Yae Miko got Ei out of the house to see the American #AnimeExpo anime festival! This is an actual Texan hat too from the Wimberly store in Round Top ☺️ #GenshinImpact #YaeMiko #RaidenShogun

I'm excited to go to the #ZenlessZoneZero / #ZZZero cosplay meetup today at #AnimeExpo!

This is my official time from running my first half marathon yesterday at the #RnRSanDiego event! I did the Jeff Galloway walk-jog method and walked up steep hills to keep myself injury-free because my longest training run was only 6.5 miles 😅 I'll be fully prepped for the RunDisney 🎃 Half!

Thanks to the walk-jog Galloway Method (and walking up Hillcrest Hills 😉) I finished my 1st half marathon despite only having training runs up to 6.5 miles! I almost gave up on the SD Rock 'n' Roll Half because DOGE laid me off in January, but I'm so glad I persisted! Next: the RunDisney 🎃 Half!

I'm deeply disturbed by RFK Jr saying that US medical researchers should publish in "state-run" journals. Before I was laid off by DOGE, my job was a combo of Asta in #HonkaiStarRail and Alhaitham in #GenshinImpact, and I used to teach like Crewel in #twst. I managed research studies at a hospital.

... Or so he says, ignoring the catlike creature on the other side of the room 😹 #TwistedWonderland #twst #DivusCrewel

Prof. Crewel's 3rd 🔥 move is so satisfying 😁 He crits and allows the teammates to crit too! Poor Malleus failed his exam here; better luck next time, Hornton #TwistedWonderland #twst

The #TwistedWonderland English translators / localizers did a fantastic job at showing Prof. Crewel's biting sarcasm. Here are a few rare history lesson lines where he pokes at Prof. Trein. 😂 The story behind this is that NRC staff can take lessons too for professional development. #twst

Hello puppies, I have groovied Prof. Crewel, set him to his 🌿 duo spell and his 3rd 🔥 spell, and leveled up his friendships as much as I could with 🫖. Best of luck in your battles! (Also, I've always headcanoned that he's a werewolf, and... maybe he is? He growls! 😮) #twst #TwistedWonderland

Hello, puppies! Prof. Divus Crewel is my favorite #TwistedWonderland character! I'm so excited that I was able to fully uncap him with my meticulously saved rolls and SSR perfumes as a F2P player. Good luck with your Arcane Combat drills, and you may call upon me for assistance, if you wish. 🐾

No matter what con I go to, I always end up with yet another bag, hat, and an art print. This time, it's a new flute bag, a hat from Wimberly in Round Top, and a 90-yr-old Texas A&M postcard from a raffle at the World Shakuhachi Festival 😂 #shakuhachi #TAMU #texas

I'm looking forward to attending the World #Shakuhachi Festival tomorrow at Texas A&M / #TAMU! This is a song that we'll be learning in their music department. Shakuhachi are Japanese vertical flutes that are somewhat like recorders and clarinets.

🍊's tariffs are horrible for figure collecting. For example, when I preordered the #Bloodborne doll #nendoroid, she was $55.99. Now she's 69.99, which is more than a 25% increase from the original price! #videogames #fromsoftware

I found the UCSD eucalyptus grove trail, and it's also a fitness test! #TwistedWonderland cosplayers, if you come here for SDCC, this would be an amazing spot for PE class cosplay photoshoots. Imagine Coach Vargas having NRC students do fitness tests at the stations and jog in between them 😂 #twst

My favorite part of the #TwistedWonderland / #twst guest room feature is that we can get ridiculous fights like Ruggie vs Headmaster Crowley 😆 Really, Ruggie? During your birthday month???

"Non, non, Monsieur Pommette and Roi du Poison, you mustn't fight—" 🍎 "AHHHHH!" 👑 #TwistedWonderland #cosplay #Pomefiore #EpelFelmier #VilSchoenheit #Disney #twst

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

Thank you #TwistedWonderland devs for putting my 2 fave students on the same banner! They both came home in my first set of 10 rolls—best luck I've had in #twst so far 🎉 I have so many #JamilViper cards now that I got the cunning 🐍 achievement 😂 #disney #VilSchoenheit

I volunteered at San Diego Rocket Con! I helped #pokemon voice actor Michael Haigney with his autograph signings, and I also helped manage Kevin Eastman's autograph line. I also met Keith Silverstein and got a signed holographic #GenshinImpact Zhongli print! 😁

In case this helps, this is approx. what I sent to CA senators via online form letters re the #cloture vote and the #government #shutdown. Their phone lines are voicemail-only right now. As a laid off clinical researcher whose NIH study got cut, I support a shutdown to help call ppl to action.

Tell your senators to vote no on cloture for HR 1968, the government funding bill that passed the House! Cloture is how the Senate ends debate on a bill. This article has more info. Phone lines are clogged for the CA senators, so I'm sending in online form letters. #shutdown shorturl.at/U9o7i

In addition to #resist #resistance books like The Handmaid's Tale and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair's wife, Dorothy Thompson, also wrote this article called "Who Goes Nazi?" She worked in 1930s Germany as a reporter, and she predicted JD Vance ("Mr. C") harpers.org/archive/1941...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Although the University of California has $28 billion in cash reserves, healthcare departments are short-staffed, which makes patient care more challenging. #UPTE marched in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego today as part of our #union #strike for better working conditions!

On strike with @uptecwa.bsky.social today at UCSD's Hillcrest Hospital! One issue we're striking about is a staffing shortage, and I'm a researcher who was laid off due to NIH budget cuts. I was studying side effects from a chemotherapy alternative that were causing cancer patients to go to the ER.

Yesterday, tens of thousands of UC workers converged on picket lines across the state to call out unfair labor practices. Will we see you on the picket lines with us again today? #Strike #StrikeReady #Solidarity #UC

On strike with @uptecwa.bsky.social from Wednesday - Friday! This is a sign that we were using during marches today.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

#VilSchoenheit has no choice but to accompany me to the Oceanside Kpop and anime festival tomorrow! 😂 The bag is a clear potion bag from Girl With One Eye, who presented her fashion designs at the Anime LA Fashion Show! She almost lost an eye to cancer, hence her name. #TwistedWonderland #Pomefiore