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
also @ansate@social.coop
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.
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.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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.
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
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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
Come party? It’s FREEEEE
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
Come party? It’s FREEEEE
@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!
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
@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!
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!
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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
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!
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?
the web belongs to all of us! see you there?
Personal Website Workshop
reeds.website
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 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?
the web belongs to all of us! see you there?
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
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October 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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/
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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
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...
#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!
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.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
#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!
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!
Reposted by Melissa Santos
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
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
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
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
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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
⏰ 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:
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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:
⏰ 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
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:
⏰ 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:
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
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
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!
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
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!
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!
#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!)
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 #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!)
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!)
#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.
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
#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.
I just stocked up - i bought 11 lbs of newtown pippins for baking, plus a couple asian pears to snack on.
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
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
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Extremely specific ask!
in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!
ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me
in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!
ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me
Contact Me! — Claire Willett
www.clairewillettwrites.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Extremely specific ask!
in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!
ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me
in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!
ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me
I’m going to the @healthcareforallor.bsky.social ‘s 101 session tomorrow to learn more about how they are working for All Our Health Care! health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/virtual-hcao... you can come too!
VIRTUAL - HCAO 101 2 3 - Health Care for All Oregon
health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I’m going to the @healthcareforallor.bsky.social ‘s 101 session tomorrow to learn more about how they are working for All Our Health Care! health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/virtual-hcao... you can come too!
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“Things are always happening that have the potential to change you.” 🔥
"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."
- Miss Major, 2023 💔
- Miss Major, 2023 💔
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
“Things are always happening that have the potential to change you.” 🔥
Hey #pdx the next @healthcareforallor.bsky.social pdx chapter meeting/social is coming up Sun Oct 19 3p-6p health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-cha... i promise it’s a super nice bunch of nerdy people! (I will be there, but i will be late)
health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech
October 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hey #pdx the next @healthcareforallor.bsky.social pdx chapter meeting/social is coming up Sun Oct 19 3p-6p health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-cha... i promise it’s a super nice bunch of nerdy people! (I will be there, but i will be late)
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NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely
apply.interfolio.com/175474
apply.interfolio.com/175474
October 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely
apply.interfolio.com/175474
apply.interfolio.com/175474
#pdx let’s have a moment to appreciate this Math-y theater/haunted house/escape room combo existing! us.patronbase.com/_Matheatre/P...
It’s not for me but i love everything about the idea of it.
Also that there exists an org to help fund weird math stuff like this www.mathhappens.org
It’s not for me but i love everything about the idea of it.
Also that there exists an org to help fund weird math stuff like this www.mathhappens.org
Fracture 2025
Math is breaking. Space and time are fracturing. Someone or something is erasing numbers, rewriting equations, and opening a dreaded “ArithmeRift” in Portland’s Experiment PDX.
Agents of the Situatio...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
#pdx let’s have a moment to appreciate this Math-y theater/haunted house/escape room combo existing! us.patronbase.com/_Matheatre/P...
It’s not for me but i love everything about the idea of it.
Also that there exists an org to help fund weird math stuff like this www.mathhappens.org
It’s not for me but i love everything about the idea of it.
Also that there exists an org to help fund weird math stuff like this www.mathhappens.org
I went to the Portland (#pdx) chapter meeting/social of @healthcareforallor.bsky.social today! Everyone was super nice, and I think I am going to be helping with some volunteer work. I'll try to remember to post about the next meeting here - really impressed with what a great group of people
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I went to the Portland (#pdx) chapter meeting/social of @healthcareforallor.bsky.social today! Everyone was super nice, and I think I am going to be helping with some volunteer work. I'll try to remember to post about the next meeting here - really impressed with what a great group of people
I went to Breadfest. Here is most of my haul
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I went to Breadfest. Here is most of my haul