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...

I've had a super duper heavy hitting week. If you have it in you, both moots and strangers if you are good with words, tell me you value me? With those words? And with validation and respect. Also suggest dance-it-out music? I like upbeat synthwave, breakbeats, new pop. Many thanks buds🤘🏻

Tips on making a goddamn difference. You have to be willing to make everything uncomfortable and angry. That is what change IS. That is when you know you are DOING IT. THIS is what makes people very rarely do it. It's a tenent of white supremecy. We preach, and very rarely choose real change. ⬇️

Springfield, NJ @teslatakedown.com at least doubled in size from two weeks ago. (Not shown: pathetic counter protest on the other side of the highway, maybe 20 people?) #teslatakedown

Help some folks learn to #MakeAllTheThings - donate here: I can vouch for this group; any help I give Claire is force-multiplied into a bigger impact than I'd get by myself.

The supplies we have been given are SO incredible. But we need funds. We fund low-income babes attending. We are expanding to a two-day non-burner event this Fall. More! I'm investing a ton of my own funds. It's *real* tight right now. Assist us? Options in🧵⬇️ www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

If it is unwritten, it isn't a rule; it is gatekeeping.

Donate to ThereUglow Club (PDX) if you can! thereuglow.club

If you've got any LEDs or soldering kits that you can donate to Claire's camp, please do it! You'll help a lot of folks get into hardware and/or skill up.

I feel like I'm last to the party learning that print on demand/digital printing use a CMYK palette and this means I can't do good neon color prints and I cannot afford to spin up a business screenprinting designs one at a time and so I've had a very shitty morning. #graphicdesign

My toxic trait is that I can never remember that people aren't usually clever, capable and knowledgeable. They just have money.

I've been pushing my fundraiser, but I wanna share the incredible supplies we've been given already. Kits from @alpenglow.bsky.social @sjpiper145.bsky.social, @clomads.bsky.social. Tools from @flashingjanet.bsky.social Legends. Look them up. More requests below ⬇️

Check this thread for more ⚡

We're at 1/4 of our goal. Not bad! I need to get this fundraiser to rad techy people who have the means and drive to make this effort happen. So those specific shares and investment really mean the world 🤘 Also, you get gifts back. Like my popular LED guide: ledguide.info More open source in 🧵

I cried when I got featured in Make Magazine yesterday. I've been working so hard to make this happen this year while in a real tough financial spot. makezine.com/article/make... www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl... #maker #steam #stem 🧵🧵🧵

#IdesOfMarch laserkick.etsy.com/listing/1052...

Took screenshots of an awesome thing that's happening in my lasercut file shop this month. ⚔️ My sales have skyrocketed, with zero effort, literally only guillotines. Daily escalating orders. ⚔️ I am obsessed with tracking underground movement like this. #eattherich www.etsy.com/shop/LaserKick

Seriously, we have changed misogyny in tech in my local area in just a few years. Women have found tech jobs through us. I have taught 70yo women to solder. Trans women run my camp. I put *everything* into this. This is the best way to help. We will keep going either way. But it really helps.

I am a master of Graphic Design™️ sooo reward us plz 😎✨🫩😈⚡🤘🏻 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To subvert GoFundMe fees: Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2 CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy PayPal: [email protected] www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl... www.thereuglow.club

If you want to subvert GoFundMe fees: Venmo: (at)claire-csssidy-2 CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy PayPal: [email protected] www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

More neat stuff funds go to: - USB-C soldering irons & tools to teach even more enthusiastic femmes who feel safe learning with us 💖 - Open Source die-cut educational PCB art badge (that I'm learning KiCad 9 doing!) we give out - Swaaag 😎 www.thereuglow.club You in? (Direct $ apps in 🧵below)

Help me run There U Glow, my annual radical femme & queer founded and fronted electronics camp? 😘 A bit of where the funds go: - More potent solar power system⚡🤤 - Projecting video of 100+ femme/queer engineers on the wall on a raspberry pi running VLC ✨ a🧵! www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

🎶Makin stickers makin stickers Never ordered my own stickers before Makin stickers makin stickers Imma be a bigger menace then before🎶 #cyberpunk #neotropolis