Jen Looper, PhD

In the meantime, here comes the freakin plague

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Not okay 💔 Dolly Parton, my heart, my hero. 332,411,218 books gifted to children all over the world. We will continue gifting books in your honor ✨💛 Music icon, human icon. Beautiful soul. Can't believe this. We will always love you, Dolly Parton. All hail the Queen. Rest in Love, Dearly Beloved ❤️‍🩹

Odyssey. A 21st century American reframing of a pagan classic as a Christian redemption arc. Xenia (“Zeus’s Law”) is co-opted as a complete morality code equivalent to Biblical commandments. Themes of sin/punishment/pilgrimage/redemption contort the epic past recognition. $50 & 3 hrs blown.

The restaurant scene in Boston is dire. We really need a shake-up or something, it’s almost not worth going out at all

Did not expect to come to Poland and be blown away by the best lunch I’ve had in ages

Felt revolutionary. Might delete later. 1780s Colonial style in 93 degrees F. Caraco jacket with “pet-en-l’air” back styling. This is cotton fabric I repurpose from a vintage IKEA duvet cover - their motifs work for this era! Happy #july4th America! 🇺🇸 stay Jacobin 🫰

My kingdom for a smol hdmi monitor that will plug n play with my Arduino Uno Q!

So did they get his name off the Center finally?

What would you do with a trillion dollars?

I’m honored to be listed in the top 7 @DevTO posts this week featuring my new nonprofit, heraistudio.org at dev.to/devteam/top-...

Watching the game and filing nonprofit paperwork for Her AI Studio, Inc. AI is wildly helpful with this paperwork and just saved me a couple hundred in fees!

Read the Encyclical, absolute banger

Let me out alone with some change in my pocket and things happen 😆

Worth the hype!!! Outstanding

screw AI, most important is AC

The world is in disarray but our Uber driver in Taipei is sharing delicious lychees and all is awesome today 😊

Good morning Taipei!

Ok let’s go

The West Newton cinema may still have chairs from the 30s but it’s a great third space and I enjoyed the (highly sanitized) Michael movie there tonight!

A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.

Blue skies today!

I’m so fed up with the lack of diversity in tech, especially in this AI era, with the WIT pipeline regressing rather than progressing, I think I’m about ready to re-launch a nonprofit. DM if you are interested in joining forces. We need to step up.

Benjamin Lay is known in USA as one of the first anti-slavery campaigners who used radical methods of protest. Lay was born near my city of Colchester UK in Copford and was known as the "Quaker Comet." Lay was a friend of Benjamin Franklin when he lived in the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...

A quick blogpost on how to win hackathons - a sponsor's perspective: dev.to/cloudinary/h...

Escape the present day awfulness for an hour or so with PBS's Count of Monte Cristo...totally enjoyable!!!

These lookmaxxers are simply 21st century dandies, incroyables or fops. I will call them fopdoodles and get on with it.

for my Bsky bubble on Earth Day, are you reading The Nutmeg's Curse? Very pertinent information from a book written during the pandemic that we can use to understand what's going on today. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Excellent news, I saw first hand the stupid apps the kids in 1st grade were subjected to for HOURS - we are talking here in Massachusetts, absolute trash software. And the kids knew it.

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

The eyewatering hypocrisy writes itself.

Can we just clone him please and everyone can get someone like him to represent us? I mean we are ok in Mass but nationally… he gives me hope. Wish he could run for president.

Well it’s finally happening. Given this administration <waves hands> I’m wholly unsurprised

Officials Release Design for 250-Foot Arch in Washington, as Trump Seeks Another Imprint www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u... you know how you can tell by a house the character of the people who built it? Like McMansions built by grifters?

Me in Jira

Tfw a Muslim mayor honors a Christian holy day better than the ‘Christian’ president

Worth a shot. Order of service, published 1959. Better days, perhaps. For some anyway.

In other news, there’s WAY too much religion in our government and the separation of church and state is struggling

just in time for my birthday.

Mon boudoir à moi, finished!

dev.to/jenlooper/su... - I have some things to say on the topic. This is a call to interdisciplinarity and to bringing our whole selves to our work.

Everyone on X is going bananas over this text reflowing library called Pretext by (somnai-dreams.github.io/pretext-demo...) by Chenglou at github.com/chenglou/pre..., and it struck me that it would make a nice way to demo some @Cloudinary transformation, so take a look!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Newton is popping off #NoKings

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. We saw this with the Central Park 5 if not earlier. Shameful.

Sometimes I feel sad but there’s always ice cream

Folks, it’s time to stock up and homestead. You don’t necessarily need yeast to start sourdough, and seeds right now at Home Depot are a couple of dollars.

First crocus!

Time to look seriously at solar, huh

Off to Tampa to meet the Tampa devs community and onboard this nonprofit to our @cloudinary.bsky.social Creators Community :)