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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Doing my due diligence in giving people info to help me with my birthday fundraiser. Venmo, Cashapp, PayPal links in here: ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm fundraising for by birthday today. Info is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Maybe enticing to folks here is my wishlist for what got stolen out of my car 3 days ago. Lots of batteries and cables, important to my engineering work and I can't afford again. www.amazon.com/registries/g...

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Claire Birthday Fund Info '26

Hey friends ✨ Happy Birthday to meeee 🥳 For my 39th birthday I badly want to be able to pay off debt my friends are carrying to help me survive. This includes $1.5 k in house bills and $500+ in car e...

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am barely seen on here but... IF you are into mesh radio and IF you are into MeshCore and IF you have a Lilygo T-Deck GO FLASH THE FRESH WADAMESH FIRMWARE IMMEDIATELY. It's head and shoulders better over anything else for touchscreen. Gorgeous. Delicious. Do it. #meshcore #meshradio

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Straithe @straithe.com · 29/07/2026

I was on a call with the hottest people I know and my phone couldn’t handle it. @alpenglow.bsky.social @lasermistress.bsky.social @jumperless.org

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Might as well ask, I'm at a loss and in a financial hole. Anyone know of a flexible, chill, part time gig that pays well? Not looking for more than 10-15 hours a wk. I'm a contractor, and my skills list is pretty outrageous. I'll hear anything out but I especially dislike anything "social media".

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We need: -Wire cutters (not nippers!). We clean rust -Nice-ish Raspberry Pis, mini computers, larger external hard drives and accessories. We teach about Kiwix, cyberdecks and more -Meshtastic hardware ⬇️

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hey nerds 😎 I'm fundraising for my incredibly cool femme/queer electronics camp that's holding on by bloodied teeth this year. Find it in my bio and thread below. BUT ALSO we take supplies. Specific tools, electronics, supplies. List in replies.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view, according to the company.

The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.

CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale,” he told staff on Tuesday.

At the same time, he said the company had completed the initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud, and would wind down the Sora AI video mobile app, which employees had complained was a drag on the company’s computing resources during a time of heightened competition with foes such as Anthropic and Google.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Don't worry, America. We foresaw every possible attack scenario from Iran except the most obvious one. via @violetblue.bsky.social's Cybersecurity newsletter www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

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Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started

The company, Stryker, said a cyberattack disrupted its “Microsoft environment.”

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

More progress on designing a soldering kit badge this year for my femme/queer electronics camp. Compliments please, I'm very very tired and pushing super hard and could use them.

a screenshot of a design of a 2d lineart guillotine. It has decorative flourishes with little hearts on the top and bottom, and words running down each side that say "Eat The Rich" and "There U Glow". On the left is a black and white version, on the right a black and gold one.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sometimes what I'm asking of misogyny and men's role in it is so simple Put other people first. When you really want credit and attention. When credit involves you. Give it up. Abdicate Leave the spotlight. Truly, not performatively, point it elsewhere. Let go of "fair". And your own insecurities

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Designing a new learn-to-solder PCB art badge for my electronics camp thereuglow.club. The last four years we've used a glow bug design created by @drc3p0.bsky.social. The new badge will have three LEDs. Pink, white, blue. Trans guillotines ya'll. Queers, design detail ideas please. ✨Audacity✨.

A digital design for the front and back of a guillotine silhouette that says "eat the rich" and "there u glow"

two beautiful physical glowing LED art PCBs in the shape of glow bugs, one round and one bug shaped.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Surfacing this in case there's more folks into making my Maker Rig make sense. A friend once described my whole vibe as "No, you move". I'm years in. I'm the real deal. I do 90%. You make the last 10%. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-am...

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Donate to Keep My Amazing Maker Rig Alive, organized by Claire Cassidy

After my first Maker Rig and open source regenerative living space conversion on wheels… Claire Cassidy needs your support for Keep My Amazing Maker Rig Alive

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's a mystery to me how sharing raw thoughts online went from a AuDHD need, basically medical, to being hugely off-putting in the last two years. Of course I could pick apart why. But it's just so frustrating and painfully impactful. I don't have that community anymore. Structurally devastating.

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key-gle.json @clomads.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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

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ClaireDanielleCassidy | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

She/her. Grow, rest, connect, resist gatekeeping 💖

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Straithe @straithe.com · 17/02/2026

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...

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Donate to Keep My Amazing Maker Rig Alive, organized by Claire Cassidy

After my first Maker Rig and open source regenerative living space conversion on wheels… Claire Cassidy needs your support for Keep My Amazing Maker Rig Alive

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Boone Ashworth @boone.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

“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...

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Makers Are Building Back Against ICE

In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation.

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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⚙️ clockwork banana 🍌 @drivemyrocket.upuran.us · 11/02/2026

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)

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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 ⏬

Two zines and a few whistles. One zine says "Form a crowd, Stay loud" and the other says "Hey Babe, did you know you can download wikipedia and use it offline, anytime?"

Blue and silver mirrored earrings that say "FUCK ICE" with decorative drips coming off of them.

A woman holding a small funny shaped flashlight-looking object in two hands with the words MELT ICE projected on the wall from it.

an image of a DIY handheld light graffiti projector in someones hand.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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. 🤔

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 06/11/2025

Women really can do anything 🤩

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/11/2025

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

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/11/2025

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!" 🤣

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/11/2025

Bad night for sexual assaulters all around

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Carrie (prev of Alpenglow) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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

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Carrie (prev of Alpenglow) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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👇

A box with a hand-drawn sign about the contest showing all of the circuit boards, kits, and glowy things listed in the thread.

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Carrie (prev of Alpenglow) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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 !

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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 🤷‍♀️.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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...

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Carrie (prev of Alpenglow) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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

A bright star is held in a hand with a circuit board in back of it, suspended from magnetic jewelry findings.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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! 🤘🏼

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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) 🧵

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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

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How To Make a Handheld Light Graffiti Projector

Find the full tutorial for this project here: https://github.com/DisruptivelyUseful/handheld-light-graffiti This information is fully open source and can be copied,…

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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

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