Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
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Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Sorry this took so long, but I finally got the doc I prepared for my friend up on Google Docs. It is a deliberately short Long Covid On Ramp for folks just discovering they are sick and wondering what to do next. Thanks to all who contributed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Me re: black paired with brights: 😣
Me re: charcoal gray paired with brights: 🥰
Me re: charcoal gray paired with brights: 🥰
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Me re: black paired with brights: 😣
Me re: charcoal gray paired with brights: 🥰
Me re: charcoal gray paired with brights: 🥰
Love this so much.
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Love this so much.
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Other than the clear top-of-alphabet favoritism in this list (9 out of 20 have names that start between A and C? Typical biased media) this is a great list. Subscribe to The Onion, too, obviously, but this is a very good way to spend your money on good people.
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Other than the clear top-of-alphabet favoritism in this list (9 out of 20 have names that start between A and C? Typical biased media) this is a great list. Subscribe to The Onion, too, obviously, but this is a very good way to spend your money on good people.
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in #AbundantNumber 5 (late fall 2025) you careful readers will find a URL directing you to a place where you can download a Song
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
in #AbundantNumber 5 (late fall 2025) you careful readers will find a URL directing you to a place where you can download a Song
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Have a hard-to-shop-for relative? Take a page from the Blue Heron Farm playbook: Use a sharpie to turn them into a ninja in an old photo and then frame it. 🎁
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Have a hard-to-shop-for relative? Take a page from the Blue Heron Farm playbook: Use a sharpie to turn them into a ninja in an old photo and then frame it. 🎁
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Morro Rock sunset.🌅🌊
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Morro Rock sunset.🌅🌊
“A skunk approached him, and scratched him on the shin…”
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“A skunk approached him, and scratched him on the shin…”
JESUS
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
JESUS
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The management of Gray's Landing across from Portland's ICE facility want a judge to bar federal officers' use of tear gas, smoke grenades and chemical munitions, except if facing an imminent threat.
Portland residents near ICE building allege ‘unconstitutional poisoning’ by federal officers
The management of Gray's Landing across from Portland's ICE facility want a judge to bar federal officers' use of tear gas, smoke grenades and chemical munitions, except if facing an imminent threat.
www.oregonlive.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The management of Gray's Landing across from Portland's ICE facility want a judge to bar federal officers' use of tear gas, smoke grenades and chemical munitions, except if facing an imminent threat.
Our initial excitement about the show has given way to speculation on the dangerous freedom earned by having done two total banger shows in a row.
I understand that here are narrative pacing reasons in Pluribus why Carol has to find things out in a certain way but her utter refusal to ask very basic questions about the most fundamental things has infuriated me to the point of almost taking me out of the show
Which is part of why he actually SEEMS REMOTELY GODDAMN CURIOUS ABOUT THINGS, for the whole series so far I have been wanting to leap through the TV and throttle Carol while shrieking MAYBE ASK SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING, MAYBE THAT WOULD HELP YOU, YOU IMPOSSIBLE DENSE-SKULLED DIPSHIT
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Our initial excitement about the show has given way to speculation on the dangerous freedom earned by having done two total banger shows in a row.
Have now reached the stage of this horrible cold where I just sip plain hot water bc hot drinks are the only thing that helps and a girl can only drink so much hot ginger honey lemonade and tea.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Have now reached the stage of this horrible cold where I just sip plain hot water bc hot drinks are the only thing that helps and a girl can only drink so much hot ginger honey lemonade and tea.
I did get him a bigger basket but somehow he expanded to overflow this one too. (He remains completely devoted to it.)
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I did get him a bigger basket but somehow he expanded to overflow this one too. (He remains completely devoted to it.)
Strange to see this framed as a rivalry when USPS is a not a profit-making operation and Amazon will almost certainly take a loss having to either cover final mile deliveries themselves or lose those customers.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Strange to see this framed as a rivalry when USPS is a not a profit-making operation and Amazon will almost certainly take a loss having to either cover final mile deliveries themselves or lose those customers.
I have seen the non-joke version of this so many, many times.
Twitter Has A Nazi Problem, Read About It On My Substack
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have seen the non-joke version of this so many, many times.
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Good morning to The Pinkening only.
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Good morning to The Pinkening only.
What?
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
What?
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This story feels so important, and @carakelly.bsky.social did stellar work on it, as did so many fellows and students. It’s the least of what he did, but the person who was leading IRW in 2023 torpedoed this project and deleted findings. I’m really glad that we were finally able to get it published.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This story feels so important, and @carakelly.bsky.social did stellar work on it, as did so many fellows and students. It’s the least of what he did, but the person who was leading IRW in 2023 torpedoed this project and deleted findings. I’m really glad that we were finally able to get it published.
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Work for this story began in 2023 as part of a project by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit newsroom at American University. Students, interns, and editors over the past two years combed through more than 1,600 bills filed nationally since 2015.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Work for this story began in 2023 as part of a project by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit newsroom at American University. Students, interns, and editors over the past two years combed through more than 1,600 bills filed nationally since 2015.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
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Trauma isn’t just trauma, it’s a form of connection, an opening as well as a closing off, a constellation of experience, an opportunity for care.
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trauma isn’t just trauma, it’s a form of connection, an opening as well as a closing off, a constellation of experience, an opportunity for care.
You know how people preach valuing process over product and say "learn as you go!" and then showing you their perfect products? This video documents a project so process driven and chaotic that it made me feel actual anxiety before collapsing into giggles and freedom. youtu.be/UCRzJdFRAH0?...
Did I Spend 3 Months Knitting the Worst Outfit Ever?
YouTube video by Ash Bentley
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
You know how people preach valuing process over product and say "learn as you go!" and then showing you their perfect products? This video documents a project so process driven and chaotic that it made me feel actual anxiety before collapsing into giggles and freedom. youtu.be/UCRzJdFRAH0?...
The artist Stuart Semple (who has been running a years-long marketing/performance art paint color campaign ever since Anish Kapoor patented Vanta Black) is fighting back against this nonsense with an electric lavender called Anarchic Venom: www.culturehustleusa.com/pages/colour...
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The artist Stuart Semple (who has been running a years-long marketing/performance art paint color campaign ever since Anish Kapoor patented Vanta Black) is fighting back against this nonsense with an electric lavender called Anarchic Venom: www.culturehustleusa.com/pages/colour...
My only consolation for this predictable, heartbreaking, deeply damaging ruling is knowing that at some point Texas will be so populated by people who know better they will be unable to slice it into weird little shapes without those monster blobs joining to rise up against their makers.
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Texas to use its new gerrymandered congressional districts map in next year's mid-term elections:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use new congressional district map drawn to favor Republicans
Texas officials drew the new congressional map to help Republicans gain up to five additional seats in the House in next year's midterm elections.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My only consolation for this predictable, heartbreaking, deeply damaging ruling is knowing that at some point Texas will be so populated by people who know better they will be unable to slice it into weird little shapes without those monster blobs joining to rise up against their makers.
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
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Them: “25 years ago”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Them: “25 years ago”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”