⚡🔌ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy♾️

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.

#pcb #badgelife #soldering

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. Blend in, back off. Give it all. Raise up others invisibly. Let go of "fair". And your own insecurities

So many do. It's right there. Pointed at you

Confusingly, infuriatingly, I can't seem to get this idea to 95% of "actually nice" guys

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.

BUT ALSO we take supplies. Specific stuff. 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

-Art PCBs (best by femmes/queers) for our pop-up museum

-Lockpick gun and practice padlocks

DM me.

I've had an absolutely unhinged series of massive life setbacks this week, I'll be crowdfunding soon. I don't do that unless radically important, so, oof

In the MEANTIME I'm working hard on this tutorial to make it more attractive, make a pretty website instead of an intimidating repository, make a new explainer video, and I'm personally building three new projectors for local use for the first time in five years

https://github.com/DisruptivelyUseful/handheld-light-graffiti

OR LightGraffiti.club which is pretty cool of me 😉

#ice

Printing whistle zines, buying whistles, distributing to my wide circle fast as I can in 2-3 cities (Portland, Bellingham, Seattle)

Designing Fuck Ice earrings, lasercutting, assembling, giving out, fundraising for causes

Fully updating my Handheld Light Graffiti Projector tutorial, make some (💰), give out

All local, unpaid

If you have spare funds and trust me, I will use every penny right now

Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2

CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy

PayPal: clacassidy@gmail.com

#fuckice #ice

The older I get the more intense the fact that I am the tortured artist/Cassandra archetype gets.

I'm watching the explosive, accelerating femme movement of cyberdeck creation on tiktok right now and losing my fucking mind.

A dominating chorus casually saying "No" to the depressing doomsday cyberdeck vibe by men. All of it. Tossed aside.

Taking it ALL for themselves, easily. Grasping the political, existential need.

I CALLED THIS. I DREAMED IT, SCREAMED IT. I'VE GONE MAD. AND I'M RIGHT.

Surfacing this in case there's more folks into making my Maker Rig make sense.

All the tasty deets in the link on being a solo woman pulling full time, unemployed, to create and fight for multiple platforms that are good and true in the world of tech.

A friend once described my whole vibe as "No, you move". I'm years in. I do 90%. You make the last 10%.

Subvert GoFundMe fees:
Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2
CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy
PayPal: clacassidy@gmail.com

Thank you.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-amazing-maker-rig-alive

Quickly because I need to order the boards today, I need good quotes about Queerness and Revolution to put on the silkscreen for my Guillotine PCB with trans and bi flag colored LEDs. Preferably one quote about those things being together.

It's a mystery to me how sharing my raw thoughts and accomplishments and self 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.

Simply because I don't consistently and often want to bare myself as content online. I'm hit hard financially and socially.

#Audhd #autism #autistic

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@hachyderm.io

The new badge will have three LEDs. Pink, white, blue

Trans guillotines ya'll

Queers, free feel to give me your design detail ideas. Give me your ✨Audacity✨

Really really proud of this thing I'm doing and supporting with my camp this year.

I support QTBIPOCs + and lead femmes & queers dismantling and curbstomping tech gatekeeping on a deeply effective hyperlocal micro level ya'll. Fuck off world news. This is where real shit happens. We are consistent, and we won't stop.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrenGVibkU/

www.thereuglow.club

The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

"I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite a CV in both), and how I have struggled to explain to others my experience."

https://irenezhang.net/blog/2024/07/24/misogyny.html

#tech #misogyny #computerscience

@davidr@hachyderm.io and like, I wasn't actually asking for anyone to "solve" the mystery I've been going over about myself for a while.

@davidr@hachyderm.io not on balance when I can't get social and financial support I completely depend on and only get through a following I have through producing this content in wanted ways. Class is the underlying oppression structure that affects other oppression vectors and the hard choices that must be constantly made around them deeply.

@mark@canuck.social yeah saw it fixed thx