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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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Just sent the government my accomplishments

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

We’re approaching the Best Season: Eurovision drama over casual internal racism “the catchy tune - typical of Eurovision entries - features lyrics: ‘Ciao bella, I’m Tomaso, addicted to tobacco. Mi like mi coffè very importante.’”

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

I started reading Whipping Girl by Julia Serano 💙📚 More transgender theory!

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Klaus Stuttmann, German election cartoon. Every sizeable party, except die Linke, is running on some version of rationalizing deportations. www.spiegel.de/kultur/liter...

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

I like it when my writing has a real impact on the world, I wish that was what I could do full time.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Chilling read by @okwonga.bsky.social "Far right’s xenophobia is not at the fringes of German society: it can be found in voices at its very centre" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)

submitted 6 hours ago • 25 comments

Good developments in this bog of trash will be BSW and FDP failing to make the threshold

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Good morning, Germany. Cool people vote left today, if they haven’t already. Be cool.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

My feed is broke. I see like five posts and then when I scroll it’s nonstop posts from my other feeds and not my following

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

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 14 hours ago • 5 comments

No way out but through, folks

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

If you reply to the email you’re a dweeb

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Literally how are they still alive

submitted 17 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 20 hours ago • 24 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 22 hours ago • 3 comments

White dreads *and* Timbs? Germany, we gotta talk…

submitted 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments