please help my friend @lasermistress.bsky.social fix her rig and share her art. k clairecassidy.info www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-am...

My friend, @lasermistress.bsky.social, is constantly doing good for others and she needs us to do some good for her. Please, donate to her Go Fund Me ASAP so she can keep bringing us all impactful resistance art. * clairecassidy.info * www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-am...

“We’re not fucking around in the dream space anymore,” @lasermistress.bsky.social says “This is a particularly fucking fraught time. But we are still going to live our lives.” a look at the crafters and makers pushing back against ICE who say resistance is practical www.wired.com/story/makers...

The ICE surge ending is just false spring! Don't put away the whistles, don't put away the shovels!

everybody this is my bestie Claire, she drips so much awesomeness i have to mop the floors afterwards. please check out the greater thread and consider throwing her a few bucks. she's doing the Good Work. 💖🫶 (+she promotes women and gender diverse folks in tech, a constant battle for inclusion)

Queer babe here making Fuck Ice zines+whistles & rapidly distributing to a wide PNW circle + Designed lasercut Fuck Ice earrings, opened the file, cutting & assembling to give out & fundraise + Updating my DIY Handheld Light Graffiti Projector tutorial while making many for local activists More ⏬

I am hopelessly obsessed with viral protest tactics. Passed gen to gen. Now spread globally overnight. Occupy: camp out, stay. Hong Kong: leaf blowers, cones+water, clear infographics with roles. Chicago: whistle codes. Minnesota: full city decentralized protection networks. #fuckice

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I really need to find some fuckin place to write and be seen online again. I built and rebuilt that and the platforms are all blown apart or zombified and I just don't have it in me to do it again. And I don't seem to have what people want where I am without changing my tone or content anymore.

I have the energy for this voice for the first time in a long time so here it is. www.patreon.com/posts/skills...

Good summary of the problems with substack here: lithub.com/the-case-aga...

Should I switch from Patreon to Substack? Writing is my offering. Patreon sucks in many ways but it is fully functional and well known and adopted. I don't know Substack as well and don't know if it has higher adoption/access/ability. Opinions? Especially if you have actually used both. 🤔

How Portland Oregon am I? I just automatically unironically they/themed my car during a oil change because they haven't told me otherwise.

Women really can do anything 🤩

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

the left has been burned a lot before by electing people we thought were good and turned out real stinkers but i think zohran is the genuine real deal for bringing her into the fold

lol I'm about to get a whole bunch of unsubscribes on the ol' blog today from the folks who are like "write about tech!" 🤣

Bad night for sexual assaulters all around

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Whoa! What a Saturday at Maker Faire Bay Area! We were so busy all day that I never got a chance to post anything! Here’s what our booth looks like, we’ll be there 1 more day, tomorrow (Sunday) until 5pm! #mfba2025 #makerfaire #makerfairebayarea #glowies #alpenglowies #pixelblaze #learntosolderkits

Visit us at Maker Faire and sign up for our newsletters and be entered for a chance to win this awesome glowy prize basket! Included is: - A Rainbow AlpenGlowie pendant from us - A mesmerizing Duonacci pendant from @californiasteam ….1/ more👇

The inability to edit posts here kills me. Prize basket contributors are @californiasteam.bsky.social @bhencke.bsky.social @lasermistress.bsky.social @drc3p0.bsky.social Learn to Solder Kits +1 more prize: a super cool PwrTop 18650 super small battery bank w flashlight by @clomads.bsky.social !

To this day I get far more consistent, quick, local, loving connection through Facebook then any other platform. Also, it's 95% women responding every time. Related, it's my birthday. I posted there instead of here for good reason. I think this should be taken into consideration 🤷‍♀️.

Building stuff in my brain I was like "wait, there's gotta be an inline wireless on/off switch I could use for LED builds"and voila. Haven't seen this magic simple thing before personally. For me USB is siiiick but the concept comes in many voltages. www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807...

Light yourself up at Maker Faire Bay Area and Lambtown this year - we’ve got some fun new LED wearables in the works! #mfba2025 #wearables #ledjewelry #lambtownfestival2025

Reinvesting in posting this fall/winter as I continue my long game of setting up freelance seasonal income™️ This year ✨Lasercut Jewelry Bike Shop Summer✨ fuckin slapped Now for ⚡Femme Art & Community Electronics Engineering Winter⚡ Will I post here? Who knows! It's not been rewarding before! 🤘🏼

Name something Unstable Alpha and then expect me NOT to poke at it 🙄

Welp. I've been really holding my own with my mental health for about 9 months now. I feel more stable than I have my entire life. Aggressively living and loving and fighting with care and sustainability for others and myself in insane times. (Planned Parenthood reaction thread 1) 🧵

Did something in honor of the No Kings protests today. Go to lightgraffiti.club to find the full tutorial for a DIY light graffiti projector out of hardware store parts. If you build one I'll answer questions and send you lasercut stencils. That is all. vimeo.com/851967606 #nokings #protest

Today I searched for "really really angry free fonts".

A last second way to help out my queer+femme run electronics camp 💖 I'm printing a bunch of these free zines to give away: www.mirkwork.com/free-zines-t... If you have revolutionary, free, techy / queer / fuck the system one page zines to print please send me links!! ✨ 💖 ✨ #zines #STEAM

Alrighty babes. It is the last hour to pull in ✨ the last 17%✨ of the fundraiser for my all femme & queer founded and run electronics camp. Additionally, I have taken the month off work to suddenly take on the intense estate logistics from my stepdad dying. (fundraiser below) thereuglow.carrd.co

Alrighty babes. It is the last hour to pull in ✨ the last 17%✨ of the fundraiser for my all femme & queer founded and run electronics camp. Additionally, I have taken the month off work to suddenly take on the intense estate logistics from my stepdad dying. (fundraiser below) thereuglow.carrd.co

I just found out that my stepdad is in the hospital and it's terminal. He is my last remaining parent. I have to get there fast and be helpful 😮‍💨. There's no new fundraiser, the one for my camp works for this (& camp is still on). (other donation methods below) www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

The last Battery Buddy is our Coin Cell Power board! This one is used to replace a coin cell battery on boards that have side-insert-style holders, and it has convenient PH conns and a little cable that allows you to daisy-chain them. Badge display anyone? www.alpenglowindustries.com/products/coi...

Not to be too intense about it (I will). But suddenly I can't stop feeling the fact that I haven't cried in someone's arms for four years. And I haven't called a parent (there aren't any to call). I know it's true for the collective too. It's fucking lonely out there. #Audhd #ActuallyAutistic

Need something to watch? The new season of Dr. Who is wild and radical (as in fighting back) and opens by gratuitously shaming incels. But because of it's shitty core audience it's ratings are plummeting. It is precious and needed and eye candy to boot. And stars Ncuti Gatwa! 🥵 Get on it!

My response to my friends question "how do you gather people!?" I'm a persistence predator. It is rough to do consistency. But it will be *remarkable* how solid it will grow. My ability is unhinged because it's all small, selfishly satisfying, existentially purposeful, and spread over time.

Crushed it last weekend! Repped my camp speaking vulnerably at a big-deal event, got us 1k more in donations (75% there!) AND got plates for my Retired Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle. (Thoughts on the nickname "Surge" for her? Like Power Surge⚡) Oh and made THIS! thereuglow.carrd.co

Some numbers. $2500 left on our fundraiser. I'd *love* to make that. But if we can't, bare-bones I need $300 for a generator rental (we are off-grid and fully self-powered), $100 for educational decor, and I pulled $700 from my (meager) savings for poorer campers already. $1,100 would do *a ton*.

I'm having a really bad day because I struggle to make rent. That's it. I know who I am. I have rare skills that make me incredible in a global emergency. I build social webs. I share tech skills. I make resilient systems. I'm so fucking capable. Instead I scramble for rent. It's kafka madness.

I’m so excited to be going back to Soak and to be camping with There U Glow (recently featured in Make Magazine)! We’re raising funds to support our work at this year’s festival, including structure & power for the camp, tools & supplies for teaching & sharing, not to mention hella cool swag!

We're close to when I hold my annual all femme+queer founded, run and centered electronics camp. For our first three years this entire camp ran because I put a TON of money from first tech job into it. I don't have that job now. We are halfway to our goal! ✨💖✨ Help us out! ⚡ #steam #stem 🧵⬇️

There U Glow, my all femme + queer radical electronics camp, is teaching NFC chip nail manicures this year. 💅🏼🤩 We will stay grassroots, we will stay aggressive as shit, and we will not stop 😈 We really want to hit our fundraising goal. www.thereuglow.club www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl... 🧵⬇️

There U Glow, my all femme + queer radical electronics camp, is teaching NFC chip nail manicures this year. 💅🏼🤩 We will stay grassroots, we will stay aggressive as shit, and we will not stop 😈 We really want to hit our fundraising goal. www.thereuglow.club www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl... 🧵⬇️

At this point anyone who casually posts "this is concerning" and then shares more random shock based stressful news should be shot into the moon. Believing anyone posting anything is helpful (What!? You don't have that kinda following) shouldn't fly. People can get information without it. Fuck.

Holy SHIT this book. Just heard about it from @professorcasey.bsky.social who I trust implicitly with this stuff. It also came out *two days* ago. Get onnnn iiiitt. (Also sponsor me a copy 🤤 I collect aggressive non-cis white guy authored tech books furiously) mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186...