Lynn Schirmer

Artist, web dev, teacher, full stack curriculum developer, designer. Survivor of US trafficking, torture, and human experimentation. My pictures speak for me.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

🧵 When I was younger, I held on to the belief that justice was possible. It was what pulled me forward through the suffering of the healing process. My friend Wanda Karriker used to say, "One day the world will know!" 1/3

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@NatureofHistory @choeshow It's not my choice. I'm disabled and live in low income housing, cheapest rent in the state for the space. I would move to another state, but my healthcare experts and support network are in Seattle.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@CityofSeattle An employee of yours driving a car labeled Finance & Admin. Services blocked my Zipcar parking space today at King Street Station. Does this city not support car sharing? She was rude and got out of her car leaving it blocking the space. Lic #76980D

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@unclebobmartin Serendipitous. My HS student just did this for his JS course final. Don't know how long it took. I asked him to simplify and add images. He did neither, his favorite part was figuring out the logic. He's a born programmer, can't wait to see what he does in future.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@SecretSunBlog Can confirm, though I think my dad's was a '73, mint green with white leather interior.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@ninapaley I don't think it's A or B, the pointy handle bars are the outlier in referencing the rounded body and squared edges of the font you've chosen. Good luck, I've found myself in the same situ multiple times over the years, it's a fun puzzle to solve.

[Rob @_ROB_29]

If people want to know why Gen X is always mad, it's
because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection and then replace that with a CD collection that we slowly replaced with an MP3 collection and now need a subscription to listen to music.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@JohnJerryLawyer @HoochieTalesKTG @thehoffather No she's not. I've lived in Pioneer Square for over 20 years. Since 2021 it's been over the top dangerous. I do not go outside after dark and during the day I don't go without my pepper spray in my hands. I've been assaulted multiple times. Get your head out of your b*tt.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@JeffWellsRigInt Always been a lab pixie. Huge center in Hawaii for it.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@Nithya_Shrii My community. 95% of all bonds were broken, because I was a heretic, I dared to question. Relationships with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances have never been the same.

[Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D]

My kitchen knife is not sucking up all the data in and in proximity to my devices upstream into an international spy cloud to be stored & distributed without my knowledge or consent forever more

https://t.co/sbVPYiK7CL

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@ivanfioravanti AI tools trained on copyrighted IP should, at the very least, be public utilities.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@sappholives83 Say it to my face. I lived it. You're so damn lucky you didn't. It's organized crime, a form that LE has never sufficiently contended. It's utter cowardice and cruelty declaring that someone's profound suffering doesn't exist. Coming from a cop, more likely a guilty conscious.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@RepLuna I was part of the formation of a truth commission in 2010, headed by some high profile people. It was infiltrated and strong armed out of existence within 3 months. Thinking back, that too was probably a honey trap op. Good luck.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@choeshow Ah yes, our next door neighbors at the Frye. I wanted to go for a walk this weekend, would have passed right through her fairway. Good thing I didn't, probably saved myself a trip to the ER. I just want to know who among our p*do ruling class is bent on destroying this city?

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@zerohedge There are so many cases to pursue! If we had truly intrepid and protected investigators, everything could be exposed, all the trafficking networks, local, national, international, all the horrific tax funded torture, experimentation & death. Unfortunately...

[Cori (DemShenaniganss) 🦝 | #TDST ⚡️ @DemShenanigans]

Do. Not. Normalize. Renting. Your. Computers.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@TheHumanDurag I’m a trafficking and experimentation survivor, spent my whole life processing memories of torture, not one of my perps ever saw justice. At the same time, became an artist, curator, web dev, and teacher. This clip makes me feel lucky. Sorry.

[Lynn Schirmer @Nemal]

@EastVillageSnap @jonathanbfine @walterkirn No, painting didn't die, it moved beyond representation and became more focused on expression. AI isn't capable of original expression, that requires a human.