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Melissa Santos
@ansate.bsky.social
often looking to make friends, reading a lot, maybe some baking and sewing, I adore my cat. pdx. she/her

also @ansate@social.coop
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Join the Portland Chapter of HCAO on Saturday January 10th, at 4:30 pm at Zidell Yards for our Art Show and Silent Auction!

Step into an evening of elegance and purpose—our silent auction invites you to bid on exquisite treasures, all in support of a cause that truly matters.
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM
thanks to @elisebell.bsky.social for telling me about cluesbysam.com - LOGIC PUZZLES. I love this sort of thing.

(which is why someone should be paying me to write SQL)
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I have been knitting for 2.5 weeks and i am thrilled to already be knitting lace. Am i doing it correctly? Almost certainly not. It feels like progress anyway.
January 2, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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This Saturday 12/20 It's ! Web Day ! @ Albina Library 1-5:30PM Room 2A

Explore The Web Together In Person. What spark will ignite in your browser when another human sits next to you? I don't know, let's find out together!

reeds.website/2025/webday/ #pdx #portland #web
Web Day!
reeds.website
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I learned the very basics of knitting yesterday. It’s very satisfying
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@elisebell.bsky.social you were the one who suggested www.imdb.com/title/tt1047... right? Apparently i am going to watch a million low effort movies and knit for the foreseeable future (i learned the very very basics of knitting today!)
The Amazing Maurice (2022) ⭐ 6.2 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
1h 33m | PG
www.imdb.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
#slowBookClub
Safiya Umoja Noble's Algorithms of Oppression, through ch 5
luma.com/gpzppkp9

Tuesday Dec 16, 6p everytimezone.com/s/3a30e294

people are very welcome to join if they've read any of the first 5 chapters.
Algorithms of Oppression, through Ch 5 · Zoom · Luma
Reading Safiya Umoja Noble's book Algorithms of Oppression. This session is for Chapters 3-5 or any material up to chapter 5.
luma.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
i wanted to share a statistics joke from tumblr, but I can't find it.

oh tumblr.
December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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are you in #pdx? do you want a personal website? do you HAVE a personal website? Do you want to help people with their websites? my friend is putting on a Personal Website Workshop at Albina Library, Nov 16, noon-3p. reeds.website/2025/website...

the web belongs to all of us! see you there?
Personal Website Workshop
reeds.website
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
placesjournal.org/article/extr...

fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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TONIGHT: Free show at Starday Tavern in FoPo! We’re up first and playing a super short set—BANGERS ONLY!

Come party? It’s FREEEEE
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social today's #shortStoryClub story was www.khoreomag.com/fiction/memo...

it was REALLY GOOD. in that way where I think it dealt psychic damage to at least 2 of us, and made all of us feel things.

uhm, thanks!
Memories of Memories Lost
Every year they take more. It started with small things. The memory of a laugh, a meal, a kiss. Last year I traded away a birthday party. It was nothing special, really. A few friends. And a few work ...
www.khoreomag.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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The Tigard Tualatin School District Health Resource fair is on Sunday, November 9, at Tualatin High school. This is a free community event for folks to learn about what free services may be available to them, such as care Oregon or OHP. Get up-to-date on your vaccines, and more!
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
are you in #pdx? do you want a personal website? do you HAVE a personal website? Do you want to help people with their websites? my friend is putting on a Personal Website Workshop at Albina Library, Nov 16, noon-3p. reeds.website/2025/website...

the web belongs to all of us! see you there?
Personal Website Workshop
reeds.website
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
dear #pdx, #oregon folks - my favorite volunteer activity of the year is in danger: The North West Science Expo needs funds if they are going to be able to hold the science fair in 2026. Even a virtual fair would allow kids to go on to further fairs! Also you should be a judge! nwse.org/fundraising/
NWSE Fundraising – NWSE
nwse.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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My Real Children, my novel about a woman with dementia who remembers two different versions of her own life, is on sale for only $2.99 as an ebook right now www.amazon.com/My-Real-Chil...
My Real Children
My Real Children - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading My Real Children.
www.amazon.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#SlowBookClub is meeting again Monday, Nov 17, at 6p Pacific everytimezone.com/s/7da32995

We're reading the intro and first 2 chapters of Algorithms of Oppression. luma.com/djt7v235

It's ok to attend even if you don't quite finish the reading. tell your friends!
Every Time Zone Converter
Easily find the exact time difference with the visual Time Zone Converter. Find meeting times for your contacts, locations and places around the world. Never warp your brain with time zone math again.
everytimezone.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Join us for our Labor webinar this coming Tuesday.
Winning True Health Security - How Single-Payer Health Care Will Benefit Unions and Workers
October 28th, 6pm to 7:15 pm

Moderators: Valdez Bravo, Lou Sinniger.
Panelists: Michael Lighty, Rose Roach, Todd Farris, Kaleigh Roehl
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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⏰ 7-8:30 PM ET: Join @haymarketbooks.org for the virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Register:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communitie...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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2 virtual events happening on 🗓️Tuesday, November 4th, featuring each of our 2 co-founders:

⏰ 5-6:30 PM ET: Love zines? Join the Avery Research Center for a virtual conversation with @prisonculture.bsky.social about zines and her archival orientation to pull from the past to make a better future:
Reimagining the Archives with Zines: A Conversation with Mariame Kaba
Join the Avery Research Center for a virtual conversation with Mariame Kaba about her Archival Activations zine series and her archival orientation to pull from the past to make a...
libcal.charleston.edu
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hey #pdx did you know there’s a skating rink in the basement of Mt Scott Community Center? I have now been twice and i will go back and someone nice should come with me so i have someone to talk to. Open skate is 4-6:30 Tuesday and Thursday
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I just finished a 3 part book club on @prisonculture.bsky.social 's amazing book, We Do This 'Til We Free Us

to follow it up, the next book club I'm going to run is Algorithms of Oppression by @safiyanoble.bsky.social - this should take about 3 months/sessions
Let me know if you're interested!
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
#pdx #sewing community:
there was a fabric swap at www.sincerestudiopdx.org Sincere Studio today! they have them about 2x a year, expect the next one in May.
It was such a treat to watch people realize it was FREE FABRIC. (Also pay what you want rotary cutter blade replacements!)
Home | Sincere Studio | Portland Community Sewing Studio
Sincere Studio is Portland's first non-profit community sewing studio. Our mission is to provide textile arts education, with a focus on art as a tool of social change and empowerment.
www.sincerestudiopdx.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#pdx it’s apple (and pear!) time at Portland Nursery www.portlandnursery.com/events/apple...

I just stocked up - i bought 11 lbs of newtown pippins for baking, plus a couple asian pears to snack on.
October 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just learned about queeniescrew.com Queenie’s Crew - an opportunity and set of activities for kids age 6-10 to imagine a world without prisons (they will also send info and activities to educators and activists working with kids) #abolition #PICAbolition #interruptingCriminalization
Queenie’s Crew
Queenie’s Crew engages children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing with an activities that kids can complete to learn more about abolition.
queeniescrew.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM