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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It went great, omg. Maybe this is the first of many interviews for you!

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Ryan Woldt @roastwestcoast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New pod ft. @thejennchen.bsky.social dropped recently. I wide-ranging conversation on entrepreneurship, belief, coffee experiences, anxiety, and being your own cheerleader. #coffee #coffeesky #specialtycoffee #coffeenerd #coffeepeople #podcastsky www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/jenn-chenn-w...

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Jenn Chen, Specialty Coffee Writer and Photographer

We welcome specialty coffee and lifestyle writer and photographer Jenn Chen to the Coffee People Podcast.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 01/05/2026

@thejennchen.bsky.social wrote a good piece for her newsletter on the subject. "It’s a bullshit, spineless move, doing it silently and hoping that no one notices."

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What's in a name? 🇹🇼

Plus: social prescribing, The Republic of Slowjamastan, potatoes for chips

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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Photos in ProPublica. A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address. Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Trying to write lately has felt like multiple trash fires of shit (and so has not posting here)

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

😳 Holy shit. This Vox article is from 2016. Think about that as you read: Curtis Yarvin’s (Moldbug) “vision is corporatist,” where a nation “belongs to corporation.” When asked who shld lead it, Yarvin said, “‘It’s easy to say ‘put Elon [Musk] in charge, he’ll figure it out,’ & he might well…’” 1/

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My transcription service substituted "egg" for "air" so now it reads like "this is a egg roaster, uses egg to push the beans up to the chamber" and all I can picture is eggs doing hard work

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 02/05/2025

Guess investing in baristas IS important... if only SOMEONE had ideas that could, say, be put into a union contract......... oh wait

A headline from The Guardian: Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed. Chief executive Brian Nicoll vows to "fundamentally change" strategy in face of worse-than-expected results

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Welp I'm sick. Post-expo cold not covid. I was terrible to my body during the show and I think I picked something up on Sunday or Monday.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Four nights of godawful sleep, fourish days of early wake up times, dehydration, not eating enough meals, has my body very unhappy with me.

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 28/04/2025

This weekend seemed to cement a lot of power consolidation in the industry by the SCA, while taking a very heavy-handed consumption-sided approach to value distribution. srossmktg.com/2025/04/26/c... #coffeesky

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Coffee Value Assessment vs. Equitable Value Distribution?

The Specialty Coffee Association just took over the CQI Q Grader licensing and added in its Coffee Value Assessment. Now what?

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you're going to coffee expo next week in Houston and would like a quieter, sober event to network in- I am hosting game night on Saturday! Deliberately low-key and for introverts who hate networking. #coffeesky bit.ly/expogame25

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Expo Game Night · Luma

Game Night for Expo attendees and local specialty coffee professionals SCA Expo can be an overwhelming experience, no matter how many times you’ve attended.…

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Two notifications today: 1- got paid $40 via Venmo for Facebook's internet tracking settlement 2- blue shield of CA says hey, your info might have been shared with Google. Health care plan, patient name, drs, subscriber ID but don't worry, not your ssn or drivers license #!

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 05/04/2025

How Substack steals your audience and your revenue: 16 ways they take from creators journalistspaythemselves.com/p/how-substa... cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social

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How Substack steals your audience and your revenue

They're not just bad for humanity. They're bad for business.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ghost introduced a beta connection between website & fediverse & I'm not sure how I feel about possibly having to manage another social account. I get why it's there and it seems neat, if it was the only account I have

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Curious if the 17k+ attendees from 90+ countries stats that sca used in today's expo promo email is going to be adjusted for all the people and countries being blocked from entering the us. #coffeesky mailchi.mp/sca.coffee/t...

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📅 This Week at the SCA

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 28/03/2025

Another attempt at distilling everything that's going on through the lens of coffee. This time, a look at how Trump's border crackdown, combined with the Texas legislature's anti-trans mania, have put people off attending the SCA's Expo trade show in Houston next month. #CoffeeSky

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Travel Warnings and Detainments Cast a Shadow Over America’s Biggest Coffee Trade Show

Amidst the U.S. government’s crackdown at the border and a raft of anti-trans legislation in Texas, some coffee professionals are skipping the Specialty Coffee Association’s Expo in Houston.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yesterday, I presented my art as art for the first time ever and in as supportive a space as I can think of. It felt a little weird to be the only photographer among paint, textile, clay, mixed media and such artists but it was fun nonetheless

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Weekly photo challenge 13/52 mood. I was feeling rather uninspired this week, so I chose wilted as my mood. #52frames #52frames_mood

Yellow ridged plant pot with one wilted calathea orbifolia leaf hanging over the edge and an open one in the background

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Started playing cult of the lamb with my partner. It's my first dungeon crawler game but it also has cozy elements of farming and building! Surprisingly fun so far and the artwork is great.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

back to the weekly photo challenge! This week was shallow depth of field. I went to the conservatory here and submitted the first one. #52frames #52frames_shallowdepthoffield 🌱

Leaves in a pond with a grid roof reflection in background

Vine with leaves above the stem and roots dipping into the pond

Beautiful pink flower buds with head down and one long orange bud sticking down

Pin cushion like flower with many peach buds still unopened

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Yet again sent a newsletter and forgot to include an important link

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I woke up at 545 am on Monday, departed at 1045. And landed now, 625 on monday and have to repeat this day I hate Groundhog Day

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I am sitting next to a talker and this is an 11 hour flight and I don't sleep on planes send help

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'm on 5 hours of sleep and have an hour to assemble an artist bio and some slides at the airport 😣 This said, I'm extremely glad that simple kaffa has a kiosk in taoyuan. My backup plan was to find hot water for my specialty instant.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The dust is coming off my rusty mandarin and I'm already thinking in mandarin, it's only been 7 days 😭. Unfortunately, I now get brain farts when I start to think in English, not unlike brain fog.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I've now had a coffee limeade and a lychee americano, which I would normally not get in the US but here, it was fresh lychee!

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

Sunset at the ocean. In silhouette- a couple and their dog on the beach, a few sailboats

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

On the plus side- lots of cafes around where I am staying. On the negative- they don't open until 1 pm or later because the coffee drinking culture is more like it's an afternoon treat than a morning necessity.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Week 10 (maybe)- black & white. TBH didn't think I would shoot on time this week but it's 5:51 pm in Taiwan and I took like four photos today, not intentionally for the challenge. But what the heck, I can turn it into b&w #52frames #52frames_blackandwhite

Cafe corner with rounded back chairs, a wide window with light white curtains pulled in the middle, thin wood panels in front of the chairs for the bar. Black & white version of the color photo

In color. Cafe corner with rounded back chairs, a wide window with light white curtains pulled in the middle, thin rich brown wood panels in front of the chairs for the bar.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is the first trip I'm making to Taiwan where I'm on my antidepressant and anti-anxiety meds and so far, it's been great. Minimal, manageable anxiety! Not prolonged for days, I could sleep yesterday, hurry!

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I won't be around on here much the next two weeks, any coffeesky adds will be delayed.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I have 14 hours of flight time to deal with and I don't usually sleep much on planes, so that's what- two movies, two books, one photo gallery to edit, maybe some writing, and people watching??

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

An unexpected consequence of my grandmother passing and me organizing a last-minute trip to Taiwan is the number of times I have to write that I am going to a funeral and will be gone for 10 days. Four are travel days.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Week 9 weekly photo challenge- unfinished. a combo of two different mini cafe kits that i haven't completed. #52frames #52frames_unfinished

Finger holding a miniature bar stool, putting it in an unfinished mini cafe - walls and floor are up

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services is
"watching" the outbreak, which he described as
"not unusual" during a Wednesday meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet members.
The health secretary did not provide specifics on how or if the federal agency is assisting on the ground.

CDC chart of measles cases, showing a profound drop off after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and an elimination declared in 2000.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Corn cheesecake with a base of corn kernels is excellent

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every time I read something about fruit in coffee and how it's a trend, I think about the coffees I had in Taiwan in 2017 that had orange juice and apple juice (not in the same drink). #coffeesky sf.eater.com/2025/2/21/24...

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The Bougie Bay Area Coffee Upgrade Is Fruit

Wasabi lattes, orange juice Americanos, and sliced strawberry garnishes changed the Bay’s coffee culture for the better

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Someone sent me four slices of very beautiful cakes but with no note, to my home address, and my full name, and I'm so confused.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Weekly photo challenge, week 8 was triangular composition. I have two test dog shoots and this was from one of them. Not a fan of this week's prompt-it was hard to do triangles without actually having triangles #52frames #52frames_triangularcomposition #dogsofbluesky

Samoyed dog pulling his human on a skateboard. Bordered on the side by lush trees.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/02/2025

Bitch has received your signed W-9 and will forward to Kelly Bitch expects you’ll receive payment by the end of the week Bitch knows it has been three weeks and wants to thank you for just checking in on this Bitch is so sorry for the delay

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Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money,” Expanded for Freelancers

Bitch better have my money Bitch doesn’t see you in our invoice system Bitch is wondering if you ever sent in a W-9? Bitch isn’t seeing it Bitch is...

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Omg. On advice from my pcp, I am testing Xanax once to understand what its effects on me are like, ahead of an instance next week that I'll be using it. And it is uh.

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a sloth wearing a green shirt is sitting at a table using a tablet .

Alt: a sloth wearing a green shirt is sitting at a table using a tablet .

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I went to the creative mornings event and picked up a raisin bagel, put veggie cream cheese on it and it took me until halfway through to realize it was CHOCOLATE CHIP WTF. Why. An extremely bizarre combo & a shock to my taste buds.

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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I have worked out for two days in a row please clap

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