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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Literally just downloaded a new browser and search engine yesterday to see if I can get better search results. I’ve also blocked a lot of bots bc they were inflating my site visit analytics 🥲

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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

And confession- I sometimes don't feel like writing an essay at all

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

My newsletter has felt like WORK instead of a creative outlet. I find myself writing essays more than reported articles. And then my non-newsletter journalism has been like, how do I focus on writing well and disconnect myself from reality while doing this because it's the only way I can write?

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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 · 30/04/2025

Seems to be lacking in the other EQ acronym I'm familiar with

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

Met quite a few people who were attending expo for the first time and I am envious of their energy and excitement (not that I don't have it, but I am a tad jaded)

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

all said, tho, coffee expo always reminds me of the really wonderful friends I've made in the industry, even when I only get to see them once a year. And! Having full convos with people ive known for a while but never talked much to has also been lovely

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

Floor conversations were interesting!

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

Thank you for writing this up

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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

If they took us politics out of it and followed the growth trend of expo, I'm sure it would be the biggest ever. Chicago was enormous and the biggest ever

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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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Jenn Chen @thejennchen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

a note to please add to the conversation more often than promoting business & products

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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 · 18/03/2025

I read my library books through the Libby app and then have a privacy screen protector on my phone, so no sneaky peeks over my shoulder thank goodness

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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 was being dramatic, I have noise-cancelling headphones

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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 got it out!! Nothing like a deadline for motivation. I'm definitely not going to make my weekly challenge deadline though.

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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

I feel like my writing is going to need some recovery time.

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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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