An excellent (as always) piece by @thejennchen.bsky.social for @sprudge.bsky.social on the coffee companies stepping up to support refugees with barista training programmes and other activities. #CoffeeSky

Photos in ProPublica. A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address. Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

Trying to write lately has felt like multiple trash fires of shit (and so has not posting here)

This is a great piece by @thejennchen.bsky.social, deftly tackling an issue that is both immediately pressing and also somehow distant and abstracted. #CoffeeSky

😳 Holy shit. This Vox article is from 2016. Think about that as you read: Curtis Yarvin’s (Moldbug) “vision is corporatist,” where a nation “belongs to corporation.” When asked who shld lead it, Yarvin said, “‘It’s easy to say ‘put Elon [Musk] in charge, he’ll figure it out,’ & he might well…’” 1/

My transcription service substituted "egg" for "air" so now it reads like "this is a egg roaster, uses egg to push the beans up to the chamber" and all I can picture is eggs doing hard work

Guess investing in baristas IS important... if only SOMEONE had ideas that could, say, be put into a union contract......... oh wait

Welp I'm sick. Post-expo cold not covid. I was terrible to my body during the show and I think I picked something up on Sunday or Monday.

Four nights of godawful sleep, fourish days of early wake up times, dehydration, not eating enough meals, has my body very unhappy with me.

This weekend seemed to cement a lot of power consolidation in the industry by the SCA, while taking a very heavy-handed consumption-sided approach to value distribution. srossmktg.com/2025/04/26/c... #coffeesky

If you're going to coffee expo next week in Houston and would like a quieter, sober event to network in- I am hosting game night on Saturday! Deliberately low-key and for introverts who hate networking. #coffeesky bit.ly/expogame25

Two notifications today: 1- got paid $40 via Venmo for Facebook's internet tracking settlement 2- blue shield of CA says hey, your info might have been shared with Google. Health care plan, patient name, drs, subscriber ID but don't worry, not your ssn or drivers license #!

How Substack steals your audience and your revenue: 16 ways they take from creators journalistspaythemselves.com/p/how-substa... cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social

Ghost introduced a beta connection between website & fediverse & I'm not sure how I feel about possibly having to manage another social account. I get why it's there and it seems neat, if it was the only account I have

Curious if the 17k+ attendees from 90+ countries stats that sca used in today's expo promo email is going to be adjusted for all the people and countries being blocked from entering the us. #coffeesky mailchi.mp/sca.coffee/t...

Another attempt at distilling everything that's going on through the lens of coffee. This time, a look at how Trump's border crackdown, combined with the Texas legislature's anti-trans mania, have put people off attending the SCA's Expo trade show in Houston next month. #CoffeeSky

Yesterday, I presented my art as art for the first time ever and in as supportive a space as I can think of. It felt a little weird to be the only photographer among paint, textile, clay, mixed media and such artists but it was fun nonetheless

Weekly photo challenge 13/52 mood. I was feeling rather uninspired this week, so I chose wilted as my mood. #52frames #52frames_mood

Started playing cult of the lamb with my partner. It's my first dungeon crawler game but it also has cozy elements of farming and building! Surprisingly fun so far and the artwork is great.

back to the weekly photo challenge! This week was shallow depth of field. I went to the conservatory here and submitted the first one. #52frames #52frames_shallowdepthoffield 🌱

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

Yet again sent a newsletter and forgot to include an important link

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

I woke up at 545 am on Monday, departed at 1045. And landed now, 625 on monday and have to repeat this day I hate Groundhog Day

I am sitting next to a talker and this is an 11 hour flight and I don't sleep on planes send help

I'm on 5 hours of sleep and have an hour to assemble an artist bio and some slides at the airport 😣 This said, I'm extremely glad that simple kaffa has a kiosk in taoyuan. My backup plan was to find hot water for my specialty instant.

The dust is coming off my rusty mandarin and I'm already thinking in mandarin, it's only been 7 days 😭. Unfortunately, I now get brain farts when I start to think in English, not unlike brain fog.

I've now had a coffee limeade and a lychee americano, which I would normally not get in the US but here, it was fresh lychee!

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

On the plus side- lots of cafes around where I am staying. On the negative- they don't open until 1 pm or later because the coffee drinking culture is more like it's an afternoon treat than a morning necessity.

Week 10 (maybe)- black & white. TBH didn't think I would shoot on time this week but it's 5:51 pm in Taiwan and I took like four photos today, not intentionally for the challenge. But what the heck, I can turn it into b&w #52frames #52frames_blackandwhite

This is the first trip I'm making to Taiwan where I'm on my antidepressant and anti-anxiety meds and so far, it's been great. Minimal, manageable anxiety! Not prolonged for days, I could sleep yesterday, hurry!

I won't be around on here much the next two weeks, any coffeesky adds will be delayed.

I have 14 hours of flight time to deal with and I don't usually sleep much on planes, so that's what- two movies, two books, one photo gallery to edit, maybe some writing, and people watching??

An unexpected consequence of my grandmother passing and me organizing a last-minute trip to Taiwan is the number of times I have to write that I am going to a funeral and will be gone for 10 days. Four are travel days.

Week 9 weekly photo challenge- unfinished. a combo of two different mini cafe kits that i haven't completed. #52frames #52frames_unfinished

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Corn cheesecake with a base of corn kernels is excellent

Every time I read something about fruit in coffee and how it's a trend, I think about the coffees I had in Taiwan in 2017 that had orange juice and apple juice (not in the same drink). #coffeesky sf.eater.com/2025/2/21/24...

Someone sent me four slices of very beautiful cakes but with no note, to my home address, and my full name, and I'm so confused.

Weekly photo challenge, week 8 was triangular composition. I have two test dog shoots and this was from one of them. Not a fan of this week's prompt-it was hard to do triangles without actually having triangles #52frames #52frames_triangularcomposition #dogsofbluesky

Bitch has received your signed W-9 and will forward to Kelly Bitch expects you’ll receive payment by the end of the week Bitch knows it has been three weeks and wants to thank you for just checking in on this Bitch is so sorry for the delay

Omg. On advice from my pcp, I am testing Xanax once to understand what its effects on me are like, ahead of an instance next week that I'll be using it. And it is uh.

I went to the creative mornings event and picked up a raisin bagel, put veggie cream cheese on it and it took me until halfway through to realize it was CHOCOLATE CHIP WTF. Why. An extremely bizarre combo & a shock to my taste buds.

I have worked out for two days in a row please clap

Week 7 photo challenge- motion blur. I submitted the first one, which is the wave organ in sf. I was not smart and did not look up instructions beforehand and so we were there at the lowest of tides and no sounds were made by the organ #52frames #52frames_motionblur

Happy fifth adoptiversary to Zoey!!

Me: I'm thinking of writing about X topic Bf: how does X relate to coffee?? Me: idk but I'll find a connection! There always is one