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Nina Hatfield

@ninahatfield.bsky.social

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she/her, Writer, Learner, Mythologist, chronically ill with #MECFS I host community peer groups www.co-resting.org #PWME #Mythology #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #CFS #Resting #CoResting #Pacing #PEM #MCAS #NEISvoid

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · Dec 23

In response to feeling isolated by chronic illness and appreciative of remote access to community, I host online Co-Resting Groups. They provide a way to gently socialize and rest in community.

Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!

www.co-resting.org

Co-Resting

virtual gatherings for community support

www.co-resting.org

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Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 10d

Oooh, this is really smart.

When I still had the physical strength to attend protests, I carried my own #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis kit w/ me.

Great to see our most prominent advocacy group laying out a blueprint for everyone w/ post-infectious illnesses.

#pwME #pwLC #LongCovid

#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 10d

We know that there are a lot of protests happening. Stay safe everyone! We have a protest guide available! www.meaction.net/_files/ugd/b...

It includes planning an accessible protest & attending an in person protest when you have ME or similar.

#pwME #Protest #MECFS #ChronicIllness

Photo from #MEAction Still Sick Still Fighting protest in front of the White House showing protesters lying on the sidewalk. Text above: MEAction protest guide available. Text below: Part 1: For people who are planning a protest/activism to include people with ME Part 2: For those planning to attend an in-person protest that have complex chronic illness

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Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 1d

Joni playing and Jimi recording her. Imagine being there in 1968. #stilldreaming
youtu.be/g-lyx5aW1EU

Joni Mitchell - The Dawntreader (Live at Cafe Le Hibou, Ottawa, 3/19/1968) [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Kurt Vonnegut was one of the better decisions I made when I was seventeen

Photo of a page in Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. My thumb is visible on the left. It says:

The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to show off their useless education, which consisted of the study of hocus-pocus from ancient times. They were bum poets as well.

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the
United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it
with pride and joy:

1492

The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the
year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 1d

already blocked 🙌🏻! Thanks, "A Very British Bigotry" blocklist!

screenshot of a bluesky user's page, showing user name calrobert.bsky.social with label "User Blocked by "A Very British Bigotry"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

I am currently out of copies to give away, but if you are new to organizing and activism, and you could use some insight and guidance, you can find Let This Radicalize You at a discount here:

Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 4d

Truly

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 4d

So many excellent moments in this video! This guy in the background speaks directly to my soul:

still screen grab from the linked video, of a background dancer dressed in black, laying on his side on top of a grand piano, with arms and legs in the air, partway through a sequence of roiling moves

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 4d

Me, taking notes: "three is better than two"...

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 5d

If you are trying to do something with other people and don’t know how to start

I HAVE IDEAS

www.whatashrinkthinks.com/group-group

The Group Group | Build Community Resilience — What A Shrink Thinks

Join workshops and discussions to explore and nurture community groups for support, study, and recreation. Sessions focus on balance, facilitation, and welcoming environments.

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl

that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

People need to be able to say rude things about a guy who regularly talked about Black people like we aren't human, and the fact that Bsky seems more protective of a dead white man's memory than of living Black people's connection to community is a profoud, grotesque statement

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 6d

Now I can imagine it with nuance, thank you!

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 6d

Oooh, it's beautiful. Is its smell different from other jasmines?

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 11d

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 9d

I'm reading Orwell's '1984'. Super timely. Nauseatingly timely.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10d

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Fire all clear and out, KNOCK DOWN, fire was in Plant 7. Burning now is only flaring. 10/2/25 2250PT #elsegundofire #chevron #losangeles

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🧟‍♂️ Sharin’ Zombies 🧟 @sharonz.bsky.social · 11d

LA folks grab your N95s and close your windows. Turn on your air filters if you have them.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11d

Looming over what would otherwise be a beautiful stretch of pacific coastline, this facility represents about 1.5% of the US’s refining capacity. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Large fire erupts at Los Angeles County refinery

The Los Angeles County Fire Department said the original report came from the intersection of Aviation and Rosecrans.

www.cbsnews.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 12d

Anyway - PLENTY of seats open -

and I try to reserve four free seats for every group I facilitate - the rest are "pay-whatever-you-can-afford" by donation.

This system actually consistently takes care of me!

So please feel free to join if you are interested!

Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks

Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 12d

You can also still register for this second part of a discussion about negotiating resistances to group work with Dr. Deserie Charles.

I'll send out the recording for last Saturday to those who register:

This week will be recorded too:

Discussion: Community Work - Why Bother & What Stops Us — What A Shrink Thinks

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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