@carolinethegeek.bsky.social
PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, enjoyer of things. Always learning. She/her. Profile pic by Ari! Yes, I'm here. On the job market! (The job market is... not great.)
“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”
01.03.2026 14:19 — 👍 756 🔁 300 💬 23 📌 26
A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
Really great thread!
09.02.2026 05:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here.
www.thecut.com/article/bad-...
Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.
09.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 1074 🔁 144 💬 4 📌 12Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
09.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 20663 🔁 5280 💬 107 📌 179
Wepa!
No entiendo muy bien el español puertorriqueño (hay muchos cambios fonéticos) pero entiendo bastante bien el ritmo, el sentido, y la alegría de esa actuación musical.
All this preamble to the Benito concert. My goodness.
09.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 633 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 0
Several Bluesky posts in a row about disliking the dunkin' ad.
The feed is united in dislike of this ad.
09.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Me, finally watching S1 of The Pitt:
Episode directed by Quyen Tran?
Award winning cinematographer and Sam Riegel's much better half Quyen Tran?
Overheard on campus:
College girl #1: Bro, I had phở for the first time in my life.
College girl #2: (shocked/disbelieving tone) Whaaaat?
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
24.01.2026 21:09 — 👍 5495 🔁 1024 💬 84 📌 63
Did you have a qualitative paper rejected from #chi2026? As you're revising for your next submission, check out this crowdsourced document containing common critiques of qualitative research and ideas for responding -- and add any new critiques you've encountered:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
20.01.2026 02:07 — 👍 3797 🔁 868 💬 67 📌 16
Screenshot: serialephemera Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part! should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.
This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it
18.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 3698 🔁 1441 💬 21 📌 39(Speaking of the maple houjicha, if something was swapped for Russian Caravan in the Winter Sampler you almost get a certain hockey show vibe... 🏒😉 @teawitch.bsky.social )
18.01.2026 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Milk tea with ice. It's a light brown. There is an espresso machine in the background.
Needed a little afternoon writing fuel so I finally opened up the houjicha powder I got from @fridaytea.com at GeekCraft.
I've had a lot of milk tea since moving to Seattle and this ranks wayyyy up there.
(the powder is sold out but you can get the maple houjicha which is a fan fave.)
(Esta gringa puede hablar con un acento buen extraño porque mis profes eran de varias paises, pero no es acento de ingles americano. Y tambien my gramatica... es fea. Porque en Seattle es rara que necesito usarlo.)
16.01.2026 05:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Una de mis niñeras era venezolana, mi programa de prekinder era en español en parte. De niña, estuve en una programa de inmersion desde kinder hasta el quinto, tomé clases de español hasta el AP, lengua y literatura. No he practicado mucho recentemente, pero uso duolingo por un poquito de fluidez.)
16.01.2026 05:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two tentative #CHI2026 acceptances (second and third author positions) on similar topics but using different data and a different lens (two different grad student projects).
Now to find some funding for travel... no he visitado España desde 2010 y nunca Barcelona, solo Madrid, Granada, y Cadiz.
And another terrific article from @drjudystone.bsky.social on how we can protect ourselves in the face of respiratory diseases flying left and right!
15.01.2026 22:39 — 👍 318 🔁 110 💬 10 📌 7
Today in Info & Ethics and Policy (IMT 550), we started our Intellectual Property section and discussed copyright and Creative Commons licenses.
Topics/examples that surfaced today:
- TSwift
- Disney and Steamboat Willie
- Weird Al
- OTW/Ao3
- GRR Martin
- the 5e SRD
Good times.
Some interesting insights from @carolinethegeek.bsky.social et al on the work of the Information School at University of Washington.
My friend in IS was very intrigued by this one.
Yeah, I got excited, I wrote up notes immediately. Come read about in-game debrief moments, encouraging player agency, and escape rooms designed to teach about misinformation! Thrill to the image of UW professors learning about #TTRPGs via The Quiet Year! popone.innocence.com/archives/202...
10.01.2026 01:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Phenomenal #OrcaCon panel: Analog Games for Digital Literacies. A bunch of U Wash folks working on information literacy via gaming, including TTRPGs (currently in development). See lokisloop.org for some of their work; I will write up my notes later.
10.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Today at 3pm! We're doing a panel at @orcacon.bsky.social about TTRPG and gaming research!
#OrcaCon #OrcaCon2026
*sits on chair backwards, youth pastor style*
Hey gang! Today we're going to talk about jokes, and how context makes them work, and one really common reason why someone who doesn't know you well might get upset with a joke that uses your good nature as the puchline to a raunchy or edgy joke.
2. The Goblin Emperor (2014) Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette
Fantasy novel. I loved it, lots of intrigue, infrastructure, and many relatable "I need an adultier adult" moments.
#ReadWatchPlay2026
TECHNICALLY 2025, but during winter holidays so I'm counting it:
1. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) Ruha Benjamin
Non-fiction book. I picked this up partially because of her excellent CHI 2021 keynote.
#ReadWatchPlay2026
I want to read more books, play more games, watch more stuff (not just random short videos)... so here's a thread where I will *attempt* to keep track.
#ReadWatchPlay2026