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emily.gorcen.ski

Technologist, storyteller, activist. Opinions my own. Creator of @lefttoourowndevices.blog and @brandblock.online 📍Charlottesville / Berlin en / de / es Posts autodelete after 2 days. Some posts automated. Web: emilygorcenski.com Bookwyrm.social/EmilyG

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The year is 2025. I am putting together slides for a basic data architecture. I finish and decide to scroll the internet. I find this massive story and leave it feeling like I am the last relatively socially-balanced trans woman in the entire tech industry.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

No way out but through, folks

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

If you reply to the email you’re a dweeb

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Literally how are they still alive

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

I fucking hate this framing because, yknow, there are also Jews under Trump. I’m pretty sure the Jews living under Trump today aren’t like “wow all these Nazi salutes sure are not about me”

submitted 10 hours ago • 23 comments

We’ve already had people sent to Gitmo and then deported to Venezuela so if whatever “first they came for…” you’re reaching for as a white person isn’t acknowledging the ongoing removal of brown people from the country then idk like maybe the poem is for you and not about you

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

White dreads and Timbs? Germany, we gotta talk…

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I finished reading Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 💙📚 I did not expect this book to be a GPS guides missile aimed directly at me, an American expat in Europe going through mid-life crisis, but it is, and maybe that’s why my first thought is that it’s a …

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

If I could vote in Germany’s elections tomorrow, I would vote for the Stop Standing In Front Of The Godsforsaken Escalator Party

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

We’re going to see how far Ukrainian Special Forces are willing to go to prosecute this war before long.

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Back in Germany after a week in Bengaluru, India. It was not my most fun trip, having been extremely sick for half of it, but I am glad I went.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

CHLA just dropped their pause on gender affirming care for minors, after weeks of protests every Thursday by local activists. This includes one just yesterday. This is amazing news and proof that hospital protests and ACT UP tactics still work! www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Holy fuck I just realized my next tattoo idea and I cannot believe it took me this long. I need to make an appointment somewhere in Berlin next weekend, like stat.

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Today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted to defy the federal court ruling that blocked the executive order against providing gender-affirming care for patients under 19 and violate the Code of Virginia. Discrimination isn’t just wrong; it’s illegal. They’ll undoubtedly be sued.

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abolish the police abcnews.go.com/amp/US/hance...

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