Fliss
@flisswave.bsky.social
Howling into the void since dinosaurs roamed. From Carolina, now Oregon coast. Dogs, art, photography, books, expressions of despair. Black & trans lives matter, no gods no masters. She/her. Masto: https://bsky.app/profile/flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy
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Fliss
@flisswave.bsky.social
· Nov 15
bsky.app
Attempting to bridge the gap, i think this account replicates me on mastodon, where I am somewhat more active: bsky.app/profile/flis...
This is really, really bad. MOST of the health care providers in rural areas are nurse practitioners or physicians assistants and there ALREADY aren't enough of them. Now there will be even less. Or, probably, none.
Another blow for good paying middle class jobs courtesy of the orange demon.
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is really, really bad. MOST of the health care providers in rural areas are nurse practitioners or physicians assistants and there ALREADY aren't enough of them. Now there will be even less. Or, probably, none.
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
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I am moving out of state and have an outdoor cat who is very skittish that I simply can’t take on a plane without risking life and limb. Would anyone in PDX like to adopt a moody gray lady? She could be fine inside a home with no other cats, she doesn’t tolerate them (hence outside). DM if so.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I am moving out of state and have an outdoor cat who is very skittish that I simply can’t take on a plane without risking life and limb. Would anyone in PDX like to adopt a moody gray lady? She could be fine inside a home with no other cats, she doesn’t tolerate them (hence outside). DM if so.
Reaching the end of #flyday with another one from the archives, also 2019. #murmuration #pnw #oregoncoast #birding #photography #canonphotography #eastcoastkin
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Reaching the end of #flyday with another one from the archives, also 2019. #murmuration #pnw #oregoncoast #birding #photography #canonphotography #eastcoastkin
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We have Trump because we fought Bush instead of the white supremacist systems that created Bush, just like with Reagan before him and Nixon before *him.*
Want to prevent another Trump? Dismantle the systems that created him. They go back to the founding of this country.
Want to prevent another Trump? Dismantle the systems that created him. They go back to the founding of this country.
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We have Trump because we fought Bush instead of the white supremacist systems that created Bush, just like with Reagan before him and Nixon before *him.*
Want to prevent another Trump? Dismantle the systems that created him. They go back to the founding of this country.
Want to prevent another Trump? Dismantle the systems that created him. They go back to the founding of this country.
Continuing to welcome myself to #eastcoastkin with maybe the most over the top #scape and #flydayphoto I ever took. From early February 2019, a few months after I moved here, bald eagles over the river and snow on the Washington hills. #photography #canonphotography #dramatic #baldeagles
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Continuing to welcome myself to #eastcoastkin with maybe the most over the top #scape and #flydayphoto I ever took. From early February 2019, a few months after I moved here, bald eagles over the river and snow on the Washington hills. #photography #canonphotography #dramatic #baldeagles
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I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
Oxford researchers say octopuses 'likely to take over the world'
Oxford University boffins say the octopuses are likely to take over the world after humans.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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Hey @bsky.app, why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hey @bsky.app, why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?
3 photos from this morning's walk, whoo mid week holiday. #RockinTuesday and #TidesOutTuesday (tides don't go real low this time of year by daylight at least) & I am inviting myself to #EastCoastKin even though I live on the *far* west coast. 😁 #phoneography #photography #oregoncoast #beach #jelly
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
3 photos from this morning's walk, whoo mid week holiday. #RockinTuesday and #TidesOutTuesday (tides don't go real low this time of year by daylight at least) & I am inviting myself to #EastCoastKin even though I live on the *far* west coast. 😁 #phoneography #photography #oregoncoast #beach #jelly
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
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Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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Wicked witches of west cliff, conjuring up twilight.
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Wicked witches of west cliff, conjuring up twilight.
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
My great grandfather was the manager of the Francis Marion hotel in downtown Charleston, SC. He and his brothers threw empty bottles down from the roof onto the Klan rally below in Marion Square in hmm probably early 1920s.
I grew up in poverty in the rural South. In the '90s. It is absolutely not true that "everyone" had a white supremacist phase or anywhere close. My dad and grandad were clear the klan were evil scum. My grandmother was avowedly anti-segregation. The redneck garage fired a mechanic for saying slurs.
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My great grandfather was the manager of the Francis Marion hotel in downtown Charleston, SC. He and his brothers threw empty bottles down from the roof onto the Klan rally below in Marion Square in hmm probably early 1920s.
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I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
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I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
What's it's like inside my head
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
What's it's like inside my head