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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday? Las Vegas.

Today? THE PLAGUE.

Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 5d

TBH, it sounds like the mental gymnastics I live with, where I'm a strong, capable person but also any slight rejection means I'm a trash human.

But in my case, it's a trauma response. No idea what their excuse is.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 5d

For anyone interested, the book Chemistry for Breakfast by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim has a whole section on how fluoride works on our teeth, why health concerns are based on flawed science, and why fluoride replacements are bunk. Maybe RFK Jr could read it. Or maybe the words are too big for him.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 6d

Apropos of nothing, but if I were in that marble shitter, I would be overcome with vertigo. Also, I have a bathroom with a slick floor, and it's a fucking health hazard to me as a disabled 40-year-old.

(Final note: Do rich people not need storage in their bathrooms? My gods.)

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 6d

I live in one of those terrified rural towns where they only do Trunk-or-Treat and daylight events, because "crime" (in our town of 17k)

I would LOVE to give king-sized candy to our kids. But we never get trick-or-treaters anymore. Everyone's too afraid (of mountain lions, maybe?)

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 6d

As someone who's been on SNAP, it was a godsend when I was doing civil service. You're 10000% correct, this is totally not how it works.

And honestly, not only is it HORRENDOUSLY RACIST to call out weaves etc., but I wish you COULD get non-food things. When you're poor, everything is a treasure.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 6d

One thing I've learned from a week in Vegas:

The deserts in Oregon are not arid. I didn't know what the word "arid" meant until I traveled to Nevada. My nose is bleeding, my skin is reptilian, and I can't stay fucking hydrated.

DIMENSION 20 TOMORROW, BABY

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 9d

I’m officially claiming Emma Thompson as my ancestor. Yes, I know she’s not dead. No, I will not be taking questions at this time.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 9d

Jesus Christ, someone tell these people to unplug and touch some damn grass. The closest I’ve ever come to using AI is accidentally reading one of those summaries at the top of your Google search.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 10d

I'm glad you wrote this. I don't follow any sports, but I still support the people who are passionate about it, because I'd expect them to do the same for me. Sports are a great unifying factor the world over, and demeaning it all because of a few stereotypes is both hypocritical and ludicrous.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 15d

I apologize, I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just Pagan, and though I worship the Greeks, it's important to me that we're not erased. This sentiment was offered with an honest, earnest spirit of friendship. I'm sorry if it was received in an offensive way. That wasn't my intention at all.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 15d

Do be careful when you're using that information, though. As much as a lot of Norse enthusiasts are racists, Pagans who worship the Norse pantheon and are perfectly respectable people also exist. Their religion has been appropriated by these bigots, and they don't deserve it.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 17d

Ooh, I had that day before yesterday. I was wearing a low-cut dress that my wife described as “very booby, I like it”, and I made the mistake of taking a nap in it.

A monster was unleashed that day.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 18d

One of my former students that I'm close to reached out the other day and I found out she has two children. Last I knew, she was pregnant with the first. Where did the second one even come from?

Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 18d

I feel like so many of us now will post big life events on a social media platform and use that as our announcement. And then the rest of us (especially those who take breaks to unplug) are at the mercy of the algorithm and we just... miss shit.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 18d

Do you know anything about how this industry does mark-ups for plus-sized clothing, and how that affects American manufacturing of larger sizes? Just curious.

Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 18d

Block them and move on. They came here to stir the pot and to troll us, and we shouldn't be credulous enough to fall for it.

I know we're all overwhelmed and overstimulated by terrible news right now, but let's all touch some grass and unplug for a hot minute. We're just falling into a trap.

Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18d

Y’all, I am begging you to not give into rage-baiting.
Bluesky doesn’t have an algorithm. The only way anyone will see a post from someone they don’t follow on bluesky is if it’s replied to or reposted.

The way we beat trolls here is to starve them out. Block them and move on.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18d

Unblocked the White House account for a sec just to check activity, and boy is it active. People earnestly replying to obvious trolling, why.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19d

Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · 19d

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To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 19d

Hey, that's okay. Wasco County definitely could use someone looking out for them. I've lived in EO for various portions of my life, and at one point, was doing AmeriCorps service out that way. My sister lives in Condon (and she's fully drunk the kool-aid, unfortunately.) All my best to you!

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 19d

Bed-time snuggles are the greatest.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 19d

My wife and I are going to be in Las Vegas in a week or so, and I know it's going to be fun, that we're going to see some once-in-a-lifetime things. But also... I'm really scared to leave my cats.

So I feel you.

I hope your kitties give you a ton of snuggles when you get home.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 19d

My wife is, and we're in Pendleton. She wants to try on her own first, (there's apparently a process she can go through that sometimes works) but her department is going through a thing where they refused to replace the last retiree and now everyone's paid the same to work more.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 19d

Hey, I'm from Pendleton! I couldn't show (disability issues) but I was there in spirit. How many did we get?

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 20d

This is so shitty, because I'm disabled and can't see through my front door. So I have a Ring to help me see if I need to answer the door, which is hard for me. But I don't want to help any organization target my neighbors. Guess we'll go without.

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Jami, Part-Time Sapphic @celestialgreen.bsky.social · 20d

Okay, so I finally caught Scream (1996) today. It was a fun time.

I have to say, the whole section on "Jamie Lee, show us your tits" is certainly something (coming from someone whose name is Jami Lee, after the Scream Queen.) I had the weirdest impulse to flash the screen...

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