Nettie Jo 👩🏻🏫
@nightmajk.bsky.social
#Boston ☘️ #memoirist ✍🏼 #history buff🪦#bookish 📚 #fiberartist and 🧶 #paint splatterer 🎨
#chronicpain #PTSD #LongCOVID #achalasia ♿️
#ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🫶🏼
#indivisible #resist #MeidasMighty #BlueCrew #Mass50501
"Freedom lies in being bold." ~ Robert Frost 🇺🇸
#chronicpain #PTSD #LongCOVID #achalasia ♿️
#ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🫶🏼
#indivisible #resist #MeidasMighty #BlueCrew #Mass50501
"Freedom lies in being bold." ~ Robert Frost 🇺🇸
I made a thing! 🎉
Feelin kinda proud of myself, actually.
👩🏻🎨🎨
Meet #Howler one of my #IFS kids.
🙈🙉🙊
Her job in the family?
She's both a #gatekeeper and the family's resident #joy bringer.
Here, she's being cheeky, reminding me to laugh.
(I might be a #painter after all)
#recovery #McLeanHosp
Feelin kinda proud of myself, actually.
👩🏻🎨🎨
Meet #Howler one of my #IFS kids.
🙈🙉🙊
Her job in the family?
She's both a #gatekeeper and the family's resident #joy bringer.
Here, she's being cheeky, reminding me to laugh.
(I might be a #painter after all)
#recovery #McLeanHosp
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I made a thing! 🎉
Feelin kinda proud of myself, actually.
👩🏻🎨🎨
Meet #Howler one of my #IFS kids.
🙈🙉🙊
Her job in the family?
She's both a #gatekeeper and the family's resident #joy bringer.
Here, she's being cheeky, reminding me to laugh.
(I might be a #painter after all)
#recovery #McLeanHosp
Feelin kinda proud of myself, actually.
👩🏻🎨🎨
Meet #Howler one of my #IFS kids.
🙈🙉🙊
Her job in the family?
She's both a #gatekeeper and the family's resident #joy bringer.
Here, she's being cheeky, reminding me to laugh.
(I might be a #painter after all)
#recovery #McLeanHosp
#Massachusetts #DTA and #SNAP benefits have returned to their normal schedules and amounts.
Thank you, #GovHealey. That food and monetary assistance literally keep me alive. 🙏🏼
Screw you, #trump regime, you heartless mfers.
#food #poverty #disability #BlueState #gop #BigUglyBill
Thank you, #GovHealey. That food and monetary assistance literally keep me alive. 🙏🏼
Screw you, #trump regime, you heartless mfers.
#food #poverty #disability #BlueState #gop #BigUglyBill
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#Massachusetts #DTA and #SNAP benefits have returned to their normal schedules and amounts.
Thank you, #GovHealey. That food and monetary assistance literally keep me alive. 🙏🏼
Screw you, #trump regime, you heartless mfers.
#food #poverty #disability #BlueState #gop #BigUglyBill
Thank you, #GovHealey. That food and monetary assistance literally keep me alive. 🙏🏼
Screw you, #trump regime, you heartless mfers.
#food #poverty #disability #BlueState #gop #BigUglyBill
Today's (somewhat) more realistic #art goal:
This is a #beginner kit, you see.
Cuz my #age has absolutely nothing to do with my #skill at painting.
Even paint by numbers are challenging for me.
(But seriously, how CUTE is it? 💙)
I'm gonna #paint the thing, dammit.
#creativity #determined #cat
This is a #beginner kit, you see.
Cuz my #age has absolutely nothing to do with my #skill at painting.
Even paint by numbers are challenging for me.
(But seriously, how CUTE is it? 💙)
I'm gonna #paint the thing, dammit.
#creativity #determined #cat
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today's (somewhat) more realistic #art goal:
This is a #beginner kit, you see.
Cuz my #age has absolutely nothing to do with my #skill at painting.
Even paint by numbers are challenging for me.
(But seriously, how CUTE is it? 💙)
I'm gonna #paint the thing, dammit.
#creativity #determined #cat
This is a #beginner kit, you see.
Cuz my #age has absolutely nothing to do with my #skill at painting.
Even paint by numbers are challenging for me.
(But seriously, how CUTE is it? 💙)
I'm gonna #paint the thing, dammit.
#creativity #determined #cat
You know how you always hear that people in #recovery "do #art"?
We do. 🎨
Mine is always the same.
🗻
My inner five year old calls her Mama #Tahoma. She dominated my worldview in childhood and remains alive in my #Boston dreams in midlife.
I've lived many places but the PNW will always be home.
We do. 🎨
Mine is always the same.
🗻
My inner five year old calls her Mama #Tahoma. She dominated my worldview in childhood and remains alive in my #Boston dreams in midlife.
I've lived many places but the PNW will always be home.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For the first time in my life, I want to play with #paint. 👩🏼🎨🎨
This small kit is what I chose to attempt first ⬇️
Cuz this is how my head feels
every. fucking. day. ‼️
Ongoing #psychological #torture from one's own govt has profound effects. ♿️
#TheScream #EdvardMunch #mentalhealth #creativity #art
This small kit is what I chose to attempt first ⬇️
Cuz this is how my head feels
every. fucking. day. ‼️
Ongoing #psychological #torture from one's own govt has profound effects. ♿️
#TheScream #EdvardMunch #mentalhealth #creativity #art
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
For the first time in my life, I want to play with #paint. 👩🏼🎨🎨
This small kit is what I chose to attempt first ⬇️
Cuz this is how my head feels
every. fucking. day. ‼️
Ongoing #psychological #torture from one's own govt has profound effects. ♿️
#TheScream #EdvardMunch #mentalhealth #creativity #art
This small kit is what I chose to attempt first ⬇️
Cuz this is how my head feels
every. fucking. day. ‼️
Ongoing #psychological #torture from one's own govt has profound effects. ♿️
#TheScream #EdvardMunch #mentalhealth #creativity #art
Stuck in the city today; bummed I'm not in the garden. My view here offers a lot of rooftops, parking lots, traffic
Amidst all that humanity, there is a bush, nary a leaf intact
Where the winter birds meet
Dozens of them
I call it the Chickadee-dee-dee Cafe, but all are welcome
#Boston #nature
Amidst all that humanity, there is a bush, nary a leaf intact
Where the winter birds meet
Dozens of them
I call it the Chickadee-dee-dee Cafe, but all are welcome
#Boston #nature
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you're a #trauma survivor in #MA, this form can be added to your electronic medical records. Every time your #medical records are accessed, this pops up.
I have #trust issues w/ #doctors and can have #panicattacks at appts.
Reclaim some control.
No #shame.
#PTSD #mentalhealth #recovery #TICP
I have #trust issues w/ #doctors and can have #panicattacks at appts.
Reclaim some control.
No #shame.
#PTSD #mentalhealth #recovery #TICP
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My favorite part of writing a book isn't the #writing part.
I spend a lot of time with my nose in a #book, ballpoint pen poised above a spiral #journal, speed #reading and scribbling notes.
I also highlight the bejesus out of ALL my books, forever personalizing my #research.
#wordsmithing #memoir
I spend a lot of time with my nose in a #book, ballpoint pen poised above a spiral #journal, speed #reading and scribbling notes.
I also highlight the bejesus out of ALL my books, forever personalizing my #research.
#wordsmithing #memoir
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I love the look of woodcuts, but I am not that type of artist. This #linocut from #NC caught my eye so I bought it from #Etsy.
I plan to use it in a #decoupage project up here in #NewEngland. 👩🏼🎨🍂
Artists supporting other #artists is such a cool thing. 🫶🏼
Want one?
👇
www.etsy.com/listing/4338...
I plan to use it in a #decoupage project up here in #NewEngland. 👩🏼🎨🍂
Artists supporting other #artists is such a cool thing. 🫶🏼
Want one?
👇
www.etsy.com/listing/4338...
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I love the look of woodcuts, but I am not that type of artist. This #linocut from #NC caught my eye so I bought it from #Etsy.
I plan to use it in a #decoupage project up here in #NewEngland. 👩🏼🎨🍂
Artists supporting other #artists is such a cool thing. 🫶🏼
Want one?
👇
www.etsy.com/listing/4338...
I plan to use it in a #decoupage project up here in #NewEngland. 👩🏼🎨🍂
Artists supporting other #artists is such a cool thing. 🫶🏼
Want one?
👇
www.etsy.com/listing/4338...
While waiting for the #yarn from the #sockblanks to relax, I'm working on a different project.
I'm using this #free #Ravelry pattern:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
I'm using hand dyed sock yarn and a size J hook so you can really see the stitch detail. Gorgeous #yarn.
#crochet #fiberarts #art
I'm using this #free #Ravelry pattern:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
I'm using hand dyed sock yarn and a size J hook so you can really see the stitch detail. Gorgeous #yarn.
#crochet #fiberarts #art
November 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
While waiting for the #yarn from the #sockblanks to relax, I'm working on a different project.
I'm using this #free #Ravelry pattern:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
I'm using hand dyed sock yarn and a size J hook so you can really see the stitch detail. Gorgeous #yarn.
#crochet #fiberarts #art
I'm using this #free #Ravelry pattern:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
I'm using hand dyed sock yarn and a size J hook so you can really see the stitch detail. Gorgeous #yarn.
#crochet #fiberarts #art
Sooo when you unravel a knitted piece, the #yarn is very... um... kinky at first. I #crochet pretty tightly so I need my yarn to behave. I had to frog the #sockblank.
I have two of them; once I wound them into balls, they clearly needed new names.
On the left - Crime Scene
The right - Jack o'ween
I have two of them; once I wound them into balls, they clearly needed new names.
On the left - Crime Scene
The right - Jack o'ween
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sooo when you unravel a knitted piece, the #yarn is very... um... kinky at first. I #crochet pretty tightly so I need my yarn to behave. I had to frog the #sockblank.
I have two of them; once I wound them into balls, they clearly needed new names.
On the left - Crime Scene
The right - Jack o'ween
I have two of them; once I wound them into balls, they clearly needed new names.
On the left - Crime Scene
The right - Jack o'ween
On today's schedule:
This colorful thing.
It looks finished right? It isn't.
It is a single strand of sock #yarn machine knitted into a rectangle, then hand dyed.
My job? To unravel one end of it, attach a #crochet hook to it, and create something completely different from it. 🧶
#sockblank #art
This colorful thing.
It looks finished right? It isn't.
It is a single strand of sock #yarn machine knitted into a rectangle, then hand dyed.
My job? To unravel one end of it, attach a #crochet hook to it, and create something completely different from it. 🧶
#sockblank #art
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
On today's schedule:
This colorful thing.
It looks finished right? It isn't.
It is a single strand of sock #yarn machine knitted into a rectangle, then hand dyed.
My job? To unravel one end of it, attach a #crochet hook to it, and create something completely different from it. 🧶
#sockblank #art
This colorful thing.
It looks finished right? It isn't.
It is a single strand of sock #yarn machine knitted into a rectangle, then hand dyed.
My job? To unravel one end of it, attach a #crochet hook to it, and create something completely different from it. 🧶
#sockblank #art
Surely #America is great by now, right?
#SNAP #disabled #LongCOVID #foodpoverty #gop #trump #food #authoritarianism #oligarchy #NoKings #resist #Massachusetts #DTA #assistance #maga
#SNAP #disabled #LongCOVID #foodpoverty #gop #trump #food #authoritarianism #oligarchy #NoKings #resist #Massachusetts #DTA #assistance #maga
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Surely #America is great by now, right?
#SNAP #disabled #LongCOVID #foodpoverty #gop #trump #food #authoritarianism #oligarchy #NoKings #resist #Massachusetts #DTA #assistance #maga
#SNAP #disabled #LongCOVID #foodpoverty #gop #trump #food #authoritarianism #oligarchy #NoKings #resist #Massachusetts #DTA #assistance #maga
Today, I said #goodbye to Sid Not-So-Vicious
I was not his primary hooman but he comforted me thru months of #achalasia starvation and bouts of severe #depression and #PTSD as I struggled to recover from #LongCOVID
You are precious and I will miss you 🐈⬛ 🫶🏼 ✍🏼
#Obsidian 19 Nov 2005 - 29 Oct 2025
🐾
I was not his primary hooman but he comforted me thru months of #achalasia starvation and bouts of severe #depression and #PTSD as I struggled to recover from #LongCOVID
You are precious and I will miss you 🐈⬛ 🫶🏼 ✍🏼
#Obsidian 19 Nov 2005 - 29 Oct 2025
🐾
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Today, I said #goodbye to Sid Not-So-Vicious
I was not his primary hooman but he comforted me thru months of #achalasia starvation and bouts of severe #depression and #PTSD as I struggled to recover from #LongCOVID
You are precious and I will miss you 🐈⬛ 🫶🏼 ✍🏼
#Obsidian 19 Nov 2005 - 29 Oct 2025
🐾
I was not his primary hooman but he comforted me thru months of #achalasia starvation and bouts of severe #depression and #PTSD as I struggled to recover from #LongCOVID
You are precious and I will miss you 🐈⬛ 🫶🏼 ✍🏼
#Obsidian 19 Nov 2005 - 29 Oct 2025
🐾
Notes to self:
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal. 🫶🏼
#mentalhealth #disabledactivist #healing #LongCOVID #TripleOakTree #NewEngland #Boston
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal. 🫶🏼
#mentalhealth #disabledactivist #healing #LongCOVID #TripleOakTree #NewEngland #Boston
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Notes to self:
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal. 🫶🏼
#mentalhealth #disabledactivist #healing #LongCOVID #TripleOakTree #NewEngland #Boston
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal.
Recovery is my goal. 🫶🏼
#mentalhealth #disabledactivist #healing #LongCOVID #TripleOakTree #NewEngland #Boston
Today's concerns:
1. Use my remaining $32 #SNAP bennies on canned #meat, dried #beans and bottled #water.
2. Refill all my Rx meds before I lose #Medicaid / #MassHealth.
3. Try really hard to focus on my own #recovery
and not
#Armageddon.
#trump #gop #christofascism #resist #handsoff #poverty
1. Use my remaining $32 #SNAP bennies on canned #meat, dried #beans and bottled #water.
2. Refill all my Rx meds before I lose #Medicaid / #MassHealth.
3. Try really hard to focus on my own #recovery
and not
#Armageddon.
#trump #gop #christofascism #resist #handsoff #poverty
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today's concerns:
1. Use my remaining $32 #SNAP bennies on canned #meat, dried #beans and bottled #water.
2. Refill all my Rx meds before I lose #Medicaid / #MassHealth.
3. Try really hard to focus on my own #recovery
and not
#Armageddon.
#trump #gop #christofascism #resist #handsoff #poverty
1. Use my remaining $32 #SNAP bennies on canned #meat, dried #beans and bottled #water.
2. Refill all my Rx meds before I lose #Medicaid / #MassHealth.
3. Try really hard to focus on my own #recovery
and not
#Armageddon.
#trump #gop #christofascism #resist #handsoff #poverty
No #food on the 10th for me 🖕🏼
Ensuring that #citizens are FED is the most basic #obligation and #responsibility of any country's leader.
#Republicans in #DC are literally KILLING ALL of us, one at a time.
#Politics be damned.
#SNAP #trump #GOP #governmentshutdown #disabled #Massachusetts #hunger
Ensuring that #citizens are FED is the most basic #obligation and #responsibility of any country's leader.
#Republicans in #DC are literally KILLING ALL of us, one at a time.
#Politics be damned.
#SNAP #trump #GOP #governmentshutdown #disabled #Massachusetts #hunger
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
No #food on the 10th for me 🖕🏼
Ensuring that #citizens are FED is the most basic #obligation and #responsibility of any country's leader.
#Republicans in #DC are literally KILLING ALL of us, one at a time.
#Politics be damned.
#SNAP #trump #GOP #governmentshutdown #disabled #Massachusetts #hunger
Ensuring that #citizens are FED is the most basic #obligation and #responsibility of any country's leader.
#Republicans in #DC are literally KILLING ALL of us, one at a time.
#Politics be damned.
#SNAP #trump #GOP #governmentshutdown #disabled #Massachusetts #hunger
This #PNW native has a #wicked crush on these #NewEngland trees.
#WestRoxbury with the showy colors this afternoon.
#Boston #BayState #autumn
#WestRoxbury with the showy colors this afternoon.
#Boston #BayState #autumn
October 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This #PNW native has a #wicked crush on these #NewEngland trees.
#WestRoxbury with the showy colors this afternoon.
#Boston #BayState #autumn
#WestRoxbury with the showy colors this afternoon.
#Boston #BayState #autumn
October 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Being released tomorrow. Can't wait to read her #truth.
#NobodysGirl #VirginiaGiuffre #JeffreyEpstein #PrinceAndrew #trump
#NobodysGirl #VirginiaGiuffre #JeffreyEpstein #PrinceAndrew #trump
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Being released tomorrow. Can't wait to read her #truth.
#NobodysGirl #VirginiaGiuffre #JeffreyEpstein #PrinceAndrew #trump
#NobodysGirl #VirginiaGiuffre #JeffreyEpstein #PrinceAndrew #trump
In my newly realized Crone Era, I find myself now collecting old #books 📚
(in addition to old #maps) 🗺️
My #genealogy is new to me 🌳
But all the info about my #family #history is #old 🪦💀
and the pages smell like my grandma's #library 👵🏼🧶
✍🏼
#amwriting #memoir #Boston #OldSouthMeetingHouse
(in addition to old #maps) 🗺️
My #genealogy is new to me 🌳
But all the info about my #family #history is #old 🪦💀
and the pages smell like my grandma's #library 👵🏼🧶
✍🏼
#amwriting #memoir #Boston #OldSouthMeetingHouse
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In my newly realized Crone Era, I find myself now collecting old #books 📚
(in addition to old #maps) 🗺️
My #genealogy is new to me 🌳
But all the info about my #family #history is #old 🪦💀
and the pages smell like my grandma's #library 👵🏼🧶
✍🏼
#amwriting #memoir #Boston #OldSouthMeetingHouse
(in addition to old #maps) 🗺️
My #genealogy is new to me 🌳
But all the info about my #family #history is #old 🪦💀
and the pages smell like my grandma's #library 👵🏼🧶
✍🏼
#amwriting #memoir #Boston #OldSouthMeetingHouse
I went looking for "comps" - memoirs similar to mine.
Turns out, most #PNW memoirs center on the 90s grunge music scene
Not #1980s #transgenerational #sexualabuse in a small #logging town.
This was the only #comp that #AI could identify.
#TinaOntiveros your bravery is heartbreaking.
#roughhouse
Turns out, most #PNW memoirs center on the 90s grunge music scene
Not #1980s #transgenerational #sexualabuse in a small #logging town.
This was the only #comp that #AI could identify.
#TinaOntiveros your bravery is heartbreaking.
#roughhouse
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I went looking for "comps" - memoirs similar to mine.
Turns out, most #PNW memoirs center on the 90s grunge music scene
Not #1980s #transgenerational #sexualabuse in a small #logging town.
This was the only #comp that #AI could identify.
#TinaOntiveros your bravery is heartbreaking.
#roughhouse
Turns out, most #PNW memoirs center on the 90s grunge music scene
Not #1980s #transgenerational #sexualabuse in a small #logging town.
This was the only #comp that #AI could identify.
#TinaOntiveros your bravery is heartbreaking.
#roughhouse