Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery
@disasterqueer.bsky.social
In a toxic relationship with the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 🌋🌊
Emergency management professional in WA State with a focus on tsunamis. Polytheist pagan, witch, writer. Agender, asexual, queer AF. She/they. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Views are my own.
https://onlyfragments.com
Emergency management professional in WA State with a focus on tsunamis. Polytheist pagan, witch, writer. Agender, asexual, queer AF. She/they. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Views are my own.
https://onlyfragments.com
Pinned
Perennial "pinned" post until we actually have those here!
Here's stuff I like thinking/talking about:
🌊 natural hazards
🏳️🌈 queerness & identity
⚠️ emergency management
🕯️ paganism & spirituality
💀 death & mortality
🍄 environmentalism
📚 reading & writing
🎃 spooky witchy shit
Here's stuff I like thinking/talking about:
🌊 natural hazards
🏳️🌈 queerness & identity
⚠️ emergency management
🕯️ paganism & spirituality
💀 death & mortality
🍄 environmentalism
📚 reading & writing
🎃 spooky witchy shit
I think that I should be able to message someone through the Libby app who has the book I have on hold and bother them to finish it faster.
I'm not saying other people should also have this ability, I'm just saying I should. I would only use it for good, I promise.
I'm not saying other people should also have this ability, I'm just saying I should. I would only use it for good, I promise.
December 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I think that I should be able to message someone through the Libby app who has the book I have on hold and bother them to finish it faster.
I'm not saying other people should also have this ability, I'm just saying I should. I would only use it for good, I promise.
I'm not saying other people should also have this ability, I'm just saying I should. I would only use it for good, I promise.
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You ready for our 2026 Valentines??
The art is ready for ya 😍
As with everything on our shop, sales of these valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social!
This year's cards were designed by Philly artist @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social! Obsessed with how these turned out.
order at SquidFacts.net
The art is ready for ya 😍
As with everything on our shop, sales of these valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social!
This year's cards were designed by Philly artist @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social! Obsessed with how these turned out.
order at SquidFacts.net
December 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You ready for our 2026 Valentines??
The art is ready for ya 😍
As with everything on our shop, sales of these valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social!
This year's cards were designed by Philly artist @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social! Obsessed with how these turned out.
order at SquidFacts.net
The art is ready for ya 😍
As with everything on our shop, sales of these valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social!
This year's cards were designed by Philly artist @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social! Obsessed with how these turned out.
order at SquidFacts.net
Masks shame liberals. Masks remind them that they cared about COVID once and then made a conscious decision one day to stop. They hate being reminded that they're not the bastions of morality that they pretend to be.
Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
December 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Masks shame liberals. Masks remind them that they cared about COVID once and then made a conscious decision one day to stop. They hate being reminded that they're not the bastions of morality that they pretend to be.
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The best holiday gift I could ask for is to meet my sales goal this month so I can start off the new year with no credit card debt <3
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
December 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The best holiday gift I could ask for is to meet my sales goal this month so I can start off the new year with no credit card debt <3
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
Don't touch shit.
What is your theme for the new year?
Mine is: Go where you are wanted.
Mine is: Go where you are wanted.
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Don't touch shit.
What did YOUR family argue about over Christmas dinner? Mine argued about whether TNR is the best method to deal with feral cat colonies. And by argued I mean we tried desperately to explain to my uncle that it's a proven method and he said we thought we knew more than trained field biologists. 🤷
December 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What did YOUR family argue about over Christmas dinner? Mine argued about whether TNR is the best method to deal with feral cat colonies. And by argued I mean we tried desperately to explain to my uncle that it's a proven method and he said we thought we knew more than trained field biologists. 🤷
Obligatory holiday book haul photo, including Black Wave by @danielaldrich.bsky.social and Water Always Wins by @ericagies.bsky.social. 😎
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Obligatory holiday book haul photo, including Black Wave by @danielaldrich.bsky.social and Water Always Wins by @ericagies.bsky.social. 😎
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choose gender:
⚫ male
⚫ female
⚫ genderqueer or trans
⚪ man of constant sorrow
⚫ male
⚫ female
⚫ genderqueer or trans
⚪ man of constant sorrow
December 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
choose gender:
⚫ male
⚫ female
⚫ genderqueer or trans
⚪ man of constant sorrow
⚫ male
⚫ female
⚫ genderqueer or trans
⚪ man of constant sorrow
Torturing my wife after exchanging loving holiday gifts by teaching her about kombucha scobys.
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Torturing my wife after exchanging loving holiday gifts by teaching her about kombucha scobys.
I love him so much it hurts
Playing Control again just to see him
![Dr. Darling, Man in a white lab coat with text overlaid "this is my pet freak [camera cuts to a thoroughly average man in business casual clothes. He smiles and waves at the viewer]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4rar73sq54nqmqh2ndm3lah3/bafkreiej3rncjw7wy7lchdgbgjbc22duntadoqwnn6a5t2kbgc5dcedkom@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I love him so much it hurts
What a fucking surprise.
Visual elevator music : generative AI image makers tend to default to just 12 general motifs or topics.
www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artific...
www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artific...
How creative is AI? Researchers find that AI tends to recreate the same 12 cliches
A group of researchers had an AI write a prompt and an AI generate an image, and found only 12 common motifs repeated in thousands of images
www.digitalcameraworld.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
What a fucking surprise.
Lotta bad stuff on the timeline, so here's my himbo cat posing on my tsunami bookshelf. #CatsOfBluesky #Pets #Pride
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Lotta bad stuff on the timeline, so here's my himbo cat posing on my tsunami bookshelf. #CatsOfBluesky #Pets #Pride
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
The Tubi app has Ghost Ship for free.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Tubi app has Ghost Ship for free.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Watching Starship Troopers. Its genuinely so funny that my dad showed me this movie when I was, like, 10 years old. Sure, I saw Jurassic Park when I was 6, and Tremors not too long after, but ST is violent as FUCK. And I'm pretty sure the only thing he was actually worried about was the nudity. 😂
December 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Watching Starship Troopers. Its genuinely so funny that my dad showed me this movie when I was, like, 10 years old. Sure, I saw Jurassic Park when I was 6, and Tremors not too long after, but ST is violent as FUCK. And I'm pretty sure the only thing he was actually worried about was the nudity. 😂
This man is so dangerous. Attacking chaplains is maybe the least of his current evils, but it's a prime example of this administration's obsession with stoking the fires of a Satanic Panic 2.0. Chaplains serve EVERYONE - not just Christians - and to do this, we must have an interfaith foundation.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military's chaplain corps, with a plan to simplify a system that he said has become too focused on "new age" concepts.
Hegseth to overhaul chaplain corps, toss ‘unacceptable and unserious’ Army spiritual fitness guide
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military’s chaplain corps.
www.stripes.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This man is so dangerous. Attacking chaplains is maybe the least of his current evils, but it's a prime example of this administration's obsession with stoking the fires of a Satanic Panic 2.0. Chaplains serve EVERYONE - not just Christians - and to do this, we must have an interfaith foundation.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
"Polytheism multiplies the sacred and thereby multiplies the pathways of thought; monotheism restricts the sacred and thereby constricts the pathways of inquiry. Where you demand purity, we pursue understanding; where you fear deviation, we cultivate reflection."
“ #Polytheism, properly understood, is not simply the worship of many gods but the institutional and philosophical tolerance for multiple, incommensurable accounts of the world.” via @epbutler.bsky.social whiterosemagazine.com/when-god-bec...
White Rose Magazine: When God Becomes Fragile
“Infidel! Kafir! Heretic!” These are not merely insults; they are weapons forged in the theological anxiety of traditions that tremble before the presence of the other.
whiterosemagazine.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Polytheism multiplies the sacred and thereby multiplies the pathways of thought; monotheism restricts the sacred and thereby constricts the pathways of inquiry. Where you demand purity, we pursue understanding; where you fear deviation, we cultivate reflection."
An important reminder that the Pacific Northwest does in fact get tornadoes! Dangerous ones!
Today is the 7th anniversary of an EF2 tornado hitting the Port Orchard area with winds up to 130 mph. While damaging homes and business, there were no fatalities or serious injuries. Photo courtesy of The Seattle Times. Learn more about tornados and staying safe at buff.ly/7fahqyD
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
An important reminder that the Pacific Northwest does in fact get tornadoes! Dangerous ones!
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Asked why no one outside the state of Washington cares enough about its flooded communities that just lost everything they own right before Christmas, today the nation admitted it just kinda assumed the PNW was always living underwater in some sort of giant puddle like that.
Nation Just Kinda Assumed Pacific Northwest Always Lived in Giant Puddle Like That: tinyurl.com/bdh393s4
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Asked why no one outside the state of Washington cares enough about its flooded communities that just lost everything they own right before Christmas, today the nation admitted it just kinda assumed the PNW was always living underwater in some sort of giant puddle like that.
THIS is why I harp on other Washington State agency or elected official accounts that don't use alt text. Not just because it's a requirement, but because it matters!
@emd.wa.gov dear emd social media folks, I send your stuff to friends in wa basically daily now, thank you for always being so present and informative (and your alt text means even my low vision friends get up to date info, double thank you) xoxo Jo
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
THIS is why I harp on other Washington State agency or elected official accounts that don't use alt text. Not just because it's a requirement, but because it matters!
Look, I'm agender, tattooed, have a weird haircut, AND live in the Pacific Northwest... when do I unlock my barista powers? The macha tea I made today is very sad. 😭💀
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Look, I'm agender, tattooed, have a weird haircut, AND live in the Pacific Northwest... when do I unlock my barista powers? The macha tea I made today is very sad. 😭💀
Piracy is conservation.
‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ is scheduled to leave Netflix on February 21, 2026.
(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
December 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Piracy is conservation.
New educational campaign idea:
"Water is Fucking Dangerous."
Combines flooding, tsunami, maritime, and beach/swimming hazards. Simple, direct, comprehensive.
"Water is Fucking Dangerous."
Combines flooding, tsunami, maritime, and beach/swimming hazards. Simple, direct, comprehensive.
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New educational campaign idea:
"Water is Fucking Dangerous."
Combines flooding, tsunami, maritime, and beach/swimming hazards. Simple, direct, comprehensive.
"Water is Fucking Dangerous."
Combines flooding, tsunami, maritime, and beach/swimming hazards. Simple, direct, comprehensive.