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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 11/06/2026

Chat, is it good to have an unretracted crane directly behind your house during a tornado watch

Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 15/05/2026

The Denali sled dog puppy cam is currently a load-bearing part of my stress management system. www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

a pile of five of the fluffiest, cutest puppies you could possibly imagine. they are asleep

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 07/05/2026

waited so long to finish this book that my iPad somehow erased any evidence I’d ever started it? disconcerting. but at least this cafe is nice!

a small table with an iPad displaying a book page, a plate with a delicious cornmeal-strawberry danish, and a mod-looking mug full of tea

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 27/02/2026

this obscenely large truck is parked behind me on the street. It’s so tall that my SUV backup cam can’t see the hood from a normal parking distance. this is the city! why would you possibly need this?

5’6” white lady standing in front of a gigantic pickup truck. the hood of the truck is above her shoulder height.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 04/12/2025

Made fancy European drinking chocolate last night and then used kid spoons (the rest were in the dishwasher) and stuck old marshmallows on top, like the gauche American I am

two small cups of dark drinking chocolate on matching saucers, each with a pink spoon next to it and a dry-looking Kraft marshmallow on top. The fancy chocolate packaging is visible in the background.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 24/10/2025

a big chunk of the book I'm currently writing is unpacking the crypto-anarchy piece of this. 🎯 "extreme vision of individual freedom and decentralized money" accompanied by "authoritarianism and criminality"

Highlighted text that reads: "It took an obscure technology, fueled by the Silicon Valley hype machine, mountains of dirty money and a massive gambling boom, to persuade millions of voters to embrace an extreme vision of individual freedom and decentralized money — and somehow overlook the authoritarianism and criminality that accompanied it all along."

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 16/10/2025

Hmm, is it a good sign to see Gilded Age political cartoons go up in the neighborhood?

Sticker on a concrete pole showing a 19th century political cartoon. In it, a large man in a top hat labeled Pullman is twisting a crank to squeeze another man between two large plates, one labeled High aren’t and the other labeled Low Wages

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 01/08/2025

Came home from a two-week trip to my Kernel magazine article in print! Buy your copy here to read about what sororities and economists and the doctor cartel have in common shop.kernelmag.io/products/ker...

A hand holding open a book to a two-page spread. The left side is black with a white headline “PLAYING WITH MATCHES” and subhed “How we break the stable marriage algorithm.” The right page is a greyscale drawing of figures lined up in two rows, one on a conveyor belt, with a network graph superimposed above them connecting the figures together across the rows.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 10/07/2025

and the trash is always full of the weirdest shit that you have zero memories of either creating or deleting. a delightful sample.

deleted scrivener items with whack names like New Folder, the weirdest quotes, 8. Anxieties, Why, Crypto b, Notes, Many ear, and Untitled Document

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 24/06/2025

love to pay for high speed Internet

speedtest.net result of 0.16 Mbps download. that’s right, zero point one six megabytes per second

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 20/06/2025

I shudder to think what my notes would look like if they were also full of hallucinated nonsense and anodyne summaries of books I've never looked at. yes I often forget entire months of research that I then have to stumble upon later but that is part of the fun?

two-pane meme of Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Knives Out. In the first he's saying "It makes no damn sense." with a pained expression, and in the second he says "Compels me though," looking resigned to his fate as a chaos human investigating other chaos humans

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 20/06/2025

everything is terrible but the mulberries keep growing so there’s that

a hand holding seven dark purple mulberries. in the background there’s a scruffy black dog on a leash walking on a sidewalk

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 29/05/2025

this flight-themed cafe is so extra. it even has a little pan am style plane seat table with a fake plane window.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 22/04/2025

now I just need to find some rhubarb

a hand holding a copy of The Pocket Rhubarb Cookbook by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 17/04/2025

time to bring this back I guess

Tweet from 2017 shaped like a nesting file structure with folders labeled: NASA Press Conference, Top Secret, Alien pictures!, JK, Presentation, It’s Not Aliens.ppt

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 28/03/2025

I’m thrilled to announce my book will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social! Less thrilled for democracy that it gets alarmingly more relevant by the day!

Publishers Marketplace deal report:
Jillian Foley’s FREE SPEECH AND MAGIC MONEY, tracing cryptography's development from a secret US military weapon to a technology seen as central to debates over the protection of free speech and privacy, to Rachel Field at Harvard University Press, by Jonathan Agin at O'Connor Literary Agency (world).
Rights: karen_pelaez@harvard.edu

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13/03/2025

great excuse to bring back one of my favorite @xkcd.com

xkcd cartoon (#1838) depicting stick figure 1 standing atop a heap holding a shovel. stick figure 2 asks: "This is your machine learning system?"
stick figure 1: "Yup! You pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side."
stick figure 2: "What if the answers are wrong?"
stick figure 1: "Just stir the pile until they start looking right."

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 24/02/2025

well this was an unexpected text from my mom to my brother and me

Mom: FYI you both have been fully vaccinated for measles!
Me: terrifying that that’s relevant

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 02/01/2025

happy hanukkah! I hope you all ate as many donuts as I did today!

a modern silver menorah full with lit rainbow candles, mostly burned down. The menorah is on a white drip tray, on a wood table with a mirror directly behind. In the reflection you can see the menorah, a white woman taking the photo on an iPhone, and a hanukkah wall hanging in the distance.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 19/12/2024

here’s my dog taking a sunbeam nap ☀️

Scruffy grey and black dog naps on a brown patterned rug in a very excellent sunbeam

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 28/11/2024

this year’s thanksgiving meal will be much better than 2021

a white plate with six chicken nuggets and two sad droopy pieces of previously-frozen spanakopita on it

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 27/11/2024

This was supposed to be a slapdash loaf intended for stuffing. It’s too beautiful, now what do i do?!?

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 15/11/2024

ok Bluesky, our microwave kicks my husband off video calls any time I use it. do we need a new microwave? new wifi? are we just insane? pictured: me reheating my coffee on the stove like this 1919 house is new again

a photo of a black mug next to a gas stove, with one burner lit. above the lit burner is a small black pot with pale brown milky coffee in it.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 14/11/2024

Lifehack culture has completely gone off any kind of rails it ever was on to begin with.

A BBC headline reading, "Stressed? Writing Down a to-Do List Might Help" with the subhed "If you find it hard to get to sleep, then a solution might be at hand - a pen and paper"

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 02/11/2024

Literally what is the point? what epistemological function could this possibly serve

FiveThirtyEight headline: “Trump and Harris are both a normal polling error away from a blowout”
subhed: “The race is uncertain, but that doesn’t mean the outcome will be close”

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 14/10/2024

Here We Believe Halloween edition, as spotted in my neighborhood

a here we believe sign edited with tape and markers to read:
trick is treat/no zombie is illegal/dead lives matter/witchcraft is real/ werewolf rights are human rights/blood is life/candy is everything.

The sign is staked to the ground with long bubble wands.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13/09/2024

I certainly will not claim that they are an *effective* mode of project management 😂

A haphazard pile of large, lined sticky notes on a desk. Included in the pile is a small whiteboard the same size and format because I am incorrigible.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13/09/2024

Today’s output. Plus dinner for later cooking on the stove! My kitchen smells goooood

A loaf of braided challah and a plum cake resting on a cooling rack.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 03/09/2024

Moved all my cards to a new wallet yesterday and …. maybe it’s time to finally stop carrying around my grad school ID from 2015

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 12/08/2024

This LA2028 olympic handover preview really feels like it was designed to be maximally opposite of the Paris closing ceremony

shirtless Flea plays guitar on the beach in LA. it’s extremely sunny. the backdrop has American flag motifs.

A spiky gold figure does something weird while shadowy mummy figures do acrobatics in the background. the whole scene is shrouded in fog.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 23/07/2024

What’s the most unhinged thing you’ve found yourself doing (unplanned) lately? Mine: today I made toddler-sized English muffins after being mad about all the frozen breakfast sandwich options at the store

eleven small English muffins on a cooling rack in front of two containers of iced tea

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 18/03/2024

it’s easter eggnog season baybeee

A bottle of eggnog with a pastel purple label with an illustration of a cow wearing a stew hat holding a purple pansy, somehow

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 14/03/2024

Happy five year birthday to this photo of the best billboard I’ve ever seen

A billboard with a photo of some trees with some sweet 90s-style word art in various colors: “Here are some quotes that you can tweet.
When you find your purpose you stop searching
True success is a relationship with God.
Text God and he will text you back.
Prayer is how you text God.
Hope means it’s never to [sic] late”
At the bottom in small print it lists the info for True Rock Ministries in Chicago

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 23/11/2023

two months later and that vial on the right is gone so it’s time to pull out the new one and refill the other!

a small glass bottle with vanilla beans and brown vanilla extract, on a white quartz countertop

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 14/09/2023

Buying a package of (low-quality!) vanilla beans was maybe the best $20 I ever spent. I haven’t bought extract in over eight years but cycle through one of these bottles every few months.

two small clear bottles with black caps on a quartz countertop. the left hand bottle is full of vanilla beans and brown liquid. The right hand bottle also has vanilla beans but the liquid is mostly clear.

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