Nance
@nance.bsky.social
Knitter, designer, crafter, queer, and PDX
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I’m super late to correcting that I meant to say Holland Tunnel. I don’t know where I got Lincoln or why it came out and stuck.
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I’m super late to correcting that I meant to say Holland Tunnel. I don’t know where I got Lincoln or why it came out and stuck.
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ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
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I’ve been seeing a meme that “shifting $40 to local shops” and while I haven’t checked the match, I agree that money spent locally stays in the community — supporting wages, suppliers, taxes, and charities.
We can’t buy everything small, but shifting even a couple gifts matters.
We can’t buy everything small, but shifting even a couple gifts matters.
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I’ve been seeing a meme that “shifting $40 to local shops” and while I haven’t checked the match, I agree that money spent locally stays in the community — supporting wages, suppliers, taxes, and charities.
We can’t buy everything small, but shifting even a couple gifts matters.
We can’t buy everything small, but shifting even a couple gifts matters.
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For World AIDS Day 2025: the stigma of HIV & AIDS was so strong that many avoided talking about their diagnosis until their final days.
In other cases, the families kept the secret for decades after.
Freddie Mercury, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Gia Carangi, Anthony Perkins... and Isaac Asimov.
In other cases, the families kept the secret for decades after.
Freddie Mercury, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Gia Carangi, Anthony Perkins... and Isaac Asimov.
In 1983, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had triple bypass surgery at NYU Medical Center, during which he contracted HIV from transfusions.
His doctors advised him not to disclose his status because of anti-AIDS sentiment.
He died 1992 from AIDS-related complications.
His doctors advised him not to disclose his status because of anti-AIDS sentiment.
He died 1992 from AIDS-related complications.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
For World AIDS Day 2025: the stigma of HIV & AIDS was so strong that many avoided talking about their diagnosis until their final days.
In other cases, the families kept the secret for decades after.
Freddie Mercury, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Gia Carangi, Anthony Perkins... and Isaac Asimov.
In other cases, the families kept the secret for decades after.
Freddie Mercury, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Gia Carangi, Anthony Perkins... and Isaac Asimov.
I have found the most cursed holiday song video. youtu.be/BDiXPx2OqPI
Yes, it is old but I was just introduced to it.
Yes, it is old but I was just introduced to it.
"Carol Of The Belts" by Here Come The Mummies
YouTube video by HereComeTheMummies
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I have found the most cursed holiday song video. youtu.be/BDiXPx2OqPI
Yes, it is old but I was just introduced to it.
Yes, it is old but I was just introduced to it.
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First, fuck ICE.
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
First, fuck ICE.
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
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The Department of Education is proposing a definition that could strip nurse practitioners and CRNAs of “professional degree” status.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Department of Education is proposing a definition that could strip nurse practitioners and CRNAs of “professional degree” status.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
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I don’t care how mature you are for your age. If you can’t walk away, that is not a partnership; that is ownership. That is why these men pursue girls under 18. It is so much harder to fight for yourself if you need someone else to support you before you can begin.
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I don’t care how mature you are for your age. If you can’t walk away, that is not a partnership; that is ownership. That is why these men pursue girls under 18. It is so much harder to fight for yourself if you need someone else to support you before you can begin.
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There was a very good reason why Gawker had to be destroyed...
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There was a very good reason why Gawker had to be destroyed...
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The whole basis of QAnon is that Trump was going to ride the world of sex traffickers. I wonder if the emails will be enough to break their brains or if their fealty to Trump will trump everything, pun intended. Some people seem angry enough to break with him but I wonder if it will be enough people
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The whole basis of QAnon is that Trump was going to ride the world of sex traffickers. I wonder if the emails will be enough to break their brains or if their fealty to Trump will trump everything, pun intended. Some people seem angry enough to break with him but I wonder if it will be enough people
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Checked out my insurance options for next year. My existing plan will...
• have higher premiums
• have significantly higher deductibles
• cover less care
Great system we have here!
• have higher premiums
• have significantly higher deductibles
• cover less care
Great system we have here!
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Checked out my insurance options for next year. My existing plan will...
• have higher premiums
• have significantly higher deductibles
• cover less care
Great system we have here!
• have higher premiums
• have significantly higher deductibles
• cover less care
Great system we have here!
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Bad night for sexual assaulters all around
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Bad night for sexual assaulters all around
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Quilt pattern idea...
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Quilt pattern idea...
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You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.
I just had the most spectacular voice to text fail but I've had in a long time.
"As long as it's safe seating and Central I will not yuck somebody's yum and wow that voice to text is really horrific"
"As long as it's safe seating and Central I will not yuck somebody's yum and wow that voice to text is really horrific"
October 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I just had the most spectacular voice to text fail but I've had in a long time.
"As long as it's safe seating and Central I will not yuck somebody's yum and wow that voice to text is really horrific"
"As long as it's safe seating and Central I will not yuck somebody's yum and wow that voice to text is really horrific"
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Genesis, a then-20-year-old, pregnant Amazon employee, says her manager wrote her up for sitting down and taking breaks.
Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: Do your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or go on unpaid leave.
Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: Do your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or go on unpaid leave.
A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless
"You're just a number to them."
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Genesis, a then-20-year-old, pregnant Amazon employee, says her manager wrote her up for sitting down and taking breaks.
Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: Do your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or go on unpaid leave.
Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: Do your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or go on unpaid leave.
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Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?
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Queerphobes stigmatized queer people, often based on strongly-held religious beliefs. In a pluralist democracy the courts should never side with one religion over another or use court decisions to persecute and oppress based on one group's religious preference.
Being LGBTQI+ isn't a disease & it's not something that a therapist should be trying to “fix.” Conversion therapy is opposed by every major medical association in the U.S., & today I’m calling on #SCOTUS to protect young people & uphold states' bans on these cruel, disproven practices for minors.
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Queerphobes stigmatized queer people, often based on strongly-held religious beliefs. In a pluralist democracy the courts should never side with one religion over another or use court decisions to persecute and oppress based on one group's religious preference.
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war, war never changes.
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
October 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
war, war never changes.
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Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.
October 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
In the heart of the supposed war zone.
portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL
September 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In the heart of the supposed war zone.