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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 04/05/2026

Hi all! For our current study, I am interviewing TBIPOC social media users about their online trans community support & care experiences. Participants will be compensated $50 for a 1-hour Zoom interview! Interested? Please fill out our eligibility form - thank you! forms.gle/qbTF1uQ6QSxb...

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 06/08/2025

would drive by while visiting Holland (Herrick District Library) for library co-op meetings. Serviced by the Henika District Library, a beautiful library built in 1899… only had 3500 square feet of floor space though, they’re fundraising to expand the building (www.henikalibrary.org/expansion)

photo of a small beautiful library built of random-patterned fieldstone with a grey shingle roof and large, ornate glass windows. (Image from Wikipedia)

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 15/07/2025

day three of this 😶‍🌫️

Current air quality index of 128 (Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups) in Ann Arbor, MI

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 05/07/2025

also caught my first Pokemon Go shiny (Alolan Exeggutor) in Pentwater about six years ago

Pokemon Go screenshot of a shiny Alolan Exeggutor (a sparkling Pokemon that looks like a tall golden palm tree with squat legs and red leaves)

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 26/04/2025

Yokohama Chinatown is wonderful 🙏

Nighttime photo of a crowded street with food vendors and shops; red paper lanterns hang across the street; a large red gate with golden adornments stands in the center

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 14/04/2025

Dug into the new town every hour archives for this one — used to pass Shelby often on my way to Pentwater or Ludington. Not to be confused with Shelby Township north of Sterling Heights. I haven’t been to the Shelby Area District Library, but I do love the front entrance brickwork

Photo of the Shelby area district library; the front entrance is made of light, medium, and dark bricks mixed together

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 20/03/2025

github pages ... please come back . ... .. I just installed baguetteBox and wish to scroll through my Images . . .... .. TT~TT

Github status page: March 20, 2025. Incident with Pages. We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages.

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 13/03/2025

Had a wonderful time at @haimson.bsky.social’s Trans Technologies book launch event (with Kishonna Gray and @hibby.bsky.social) today! Had fun helping coordinate the Zoom Q&A 😄 (thank you to @noorhindi.bsky.social for helping me take photos!)

Oliver L. Haimson in front of a presentation slide: “Trans Technology (practical definition): technology that addresses the unique needs and challenges faced by transgender people and communities. Often designed in response to the lack of trans inclusion in more mainstream technologies.”

Oliver L. Haimson in front of a presentation slide: “as we continue to search for ways to emerge from the toxic climate that turns people are currently forced to inhabit, we can set our sites on trans tech technologies on the horizon and start to build those tech technologies that help us escape transphobic worlds. I personally tend toward a more optimistic, utopian view. I have immense hope for those 16-year-olds sitting in their bedrooms in their parents houses, or in libraries, or in youth drop-in centers, hacking at their keyboards to create browser extensions; those vast armies of trans game creators, channeling their rage and creativity into trans game jams; and all those people building new tech technologies to help address the challenges their community faces.”

Kishonna Gray and Oliver L. Haimson in conversation

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 20/02/2025

received my (autographed!) copy of Trans Technologies by @haimson.bsky.social yesterday 😄 so happy to see this book out in print!

selfie: me holding a paperback copy of Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson in front of my face

photo: a paperback copy of Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 06/02/2025

my friends encouraged me to post my (belated) Hourly Comics Day 2025 contribution to BlueSky! I haven't written comics in several years, and wasn't expecting to write about this specific topic on Sunday, but so it goes lol

Content warning page:

Heads up: this work describes parental transphobia. Whoopee!!

Page 1: Drawn/written 02 February 2025. # Hourly Comics Day 2025! A day where you... make a comic in 24 hours? Draw a comic for each hour of the day? I don't actually remember, and it hardly matters because...

Panel 1: Image of my apartment building. Speech bubble: "I forgot it?!"

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 01/02/2025

Despite driving through Ithaca many times, I have never passed by the Gratiot County Courthouse — I would love to see it sometime! (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

daytime photo of an old, ornate, white and cream-colored county courthouse with arching doorways, many windows, a balcony, and a clock tower on top. A US flag flies on the right.

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 24/01/2025

many pretty buildings in downtown Williamston around the Grand River Ave/Putnam St intersection — always wondered what the story was behind this old blue retail building here.

Google maps screenshot: old-fashioned, light blue retail building with fancy white windows (with dark blue awnings) and white doors. Downtown Williamston, MI

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 08/12/2024

checked tumblr on a whim and the only ads im seeing are for sports betting, crypto, mobile games, and whatever’s going on over here

tumblr ad: three dark blue quarter-zip shirts with poorly photoshopped text on them. The first shirt reads, “that’s what i do, I fix stuff, and I know things.” Second shirt: “Because I’m Dave, that’s why.” Third shirt: “Grumpy old man club, founding member, only happy when complaining.”

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 08/12/2024

instagram ads giving tumblr ads a run for their money

Instagram ad: a roll of round yellow stickers with the word “shrimp” written on them (off-center and in Arial font)

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 01/12/2024

November ‘24 album/EP/singles listens (5x5)

Warning: long block of text!

5x5 grid of albums/EPs/singles I played the most this November. Albums in order:

Dean Blunt - Zushi
Two Shell - Two Shell
Joanne Robertson/Dean Blunt - backstage raver
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Twilight Supper Club - Iceworm Gulch
Kilo Kish - homeschool EP (Anniversary Edition)
Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia
full body 2 - infinity signature
George Daniel - Screen Cleaner
Cities Aviv - Cafe Tom Tom
Guitar Michael Lückner - Sunkissed
Sam Gendel - Fresh Bread
Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
Dj Suzy - Haunted Disc
Kesha - Gag Order
Underworld - Strawberry Hotel
Bibio - Phantom Brickworks (LP II)
Sam Gendel, Benny Bock, Hans P. Kjorstad - Dream Trio
Dean Blunt - Roaches (2012-2019) Deluxe Edition
Darkside - Graucha Max
Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
Herbert - Part 9
Kilo Kush - Leaving? (Remastered)
pilotredsun - achievement
Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes - Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 27/11/2024

still thinking about the ducks I met two weeks ago

Twitter screenshot:

for pity’s sake, Muscovy duck, reveal your secrets!

Muscovy duck: (close-up image of a Muscovy duck glancing at the viewer with a secretive expression)

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 22/11/2024

Rufous-backed wren I met in Costa Rica

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 16/11/2024

#CSCW2024 and #2: “The Online Identity Help Center: Designing and Developing a Content Moderation Policy Resource for Marginalized Social Media Users,” co-authored by Shannon Li, @hibby.bsky.social, Dan Delmonaco, Christian Paneda, Andrea Wegner, and @haimson.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Screenshot: The Online Identity Help Center: Designing and Developing a Content Moderation Policy Resource for Marginalized Social Media Users.
Author list: Samuel Mayworm, Shannon Li, Hibby Thach, Dan Delmonaco, Christian Paneda, Andrea Wegner, Oliver L. Haimson
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW1
Published: 26 April 2024

Abstract (warning: long block of text):

Marginalized social media users struggle to navigate inequitable content moderation they experience online. We developed the Online Identity Help Center (OIHC) to confront this challenge by providing information on social media users' rights, summarizing platforms' policies, and providing instructions to appeal moderation
decisions. We discuss our findings from interviews (n = 24) and surveys (n = 75) which informed the OIHC's design, along with interviews about and usability tests of the site (n = 12). We found that the OIHC's resources made it easier for participants to understand platforms' policies and access appeal resources. Participants expressed increased willingness to read platforms' policies after reading the OIHC's summarized versions, but expressed mistrust of platforms after reading them. We discuss the study's implications, such as the benefits of providing summarized policies to encourage digital literacy, and how doing so may enable users to express skepticism of platforms' policies after reading them.

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 16/11/2024

#CSCW2024 presentation #1 was on “Content Moderation Folk Theories and Perceptions of Platform Spirit among Marginalized Social Media Users,” co-authored by @michaelann.bsky.social, Dan Delmonaco, @hibby.bsky.social, and @haimson.bsky.social 😎😎 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Content Moderation Folk Theories and Perceptions of Platform Spirit among Marginalized Social Media Users
Authors: Samuel Mayworm, Michael Ann DeVito, Dan Delmonaco, Hibby Thach, Oliver L. Haimson
ACM Transactions on Social Computing, Vol. 7, Issue 1-4
Published: 23 March 2024

Abstract (warning, long block of text):

Social media users create folk theories to help explain how elements of social media operate. Marginalized social media users face disproportionate content moderation and removal on social media platforms. We
conducted a qualitative interview study (n = 24) to understand how marginalized social media users may create folk theories in response to content moderation and their perceptions of platforms' spirit, and how these theories may relate to their marginalized identities. We found that marginalized social media users develop folk theories informed by their perceptions of platforms' spirit to explain instances where their content was moderated in ways that violate their perceptions of how content moderation should work in practice. These folk theories typically address content being removed despite not violating community guidelines, along with bias against marginalized users embedded in guidelines. We provide implications for platforms, such as using marginalized users' folk theories as tools to identify elements of platform moderation systems that function incorrectly and disproportionately impact marginalized users.

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Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info · 15/11/2024

Gave my first (and second) conference presentations at #CSCW2024! I really enjoyed the conference, met lots of great people, learned lots of new things 😄

photo: me standing with my hands behind my back while giving a conference presentation

photo: me leaning toward the table microphone to answer a question during my conference presentation

photo: me making a funny face while answering a question after a conference presentation

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