Nina Hatfield
@ninahatfield.bsky.social
she/her, Writer, Learner, Mythologist, chronically ill with #MECFS
I host community peer groups www.co-resting.org
#PWME #Mythology #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #CFS #Resting #CoResting #Pacing #PEM #MCAS #NEISvoid
I host community peer groups www.co-resting.org
#PWME #Mythology #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #CFS #Resting #CoResting #Pacing #PEM #MCAS #NEISvoid
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Nina Hatfield
@ninahatfield.bsky.social
· Dec 23
Co-Resting
virtual gatherings for community support
www.co-resting.org
In response to feeling isolated by chronic illness and appreciative of remote access to community, I host online Co-Resting Groups. They provide a way to gently socialize and rest in community.
Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!
www.co-resting.org
Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!
www.co-resting.org
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OK, I am now understanding why the rich ruling class wants generative AI to write their emails for them.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
OK, I am now understanding why the rich ruling class wants generative AI to write their emails for them.
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I didn't take a photo, but my bag tonight (from Wenzels) - 3 x meal-sized sandwiches, 3 x fancy donuts, 1 x pack of 4 jam donuts. For £4.
USAians, if you don’t already know about Too Good To Go, you should check it out.
It’s a free app that works with local restaurants & bakeries to help them sell (at steep discounts) unsold food at the end of the day—and helps you find cheap good food
apps.apple.com/us/app/too-g...
It’s a free app that works with local restaurants & bakeries to help them sell (at steep discounts) unsold food at the end of the day—and helps you find cheap good food
apps.apple.com/us/app/too-g...
Too Good To Go: End Food Waste App - App Store
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November 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I didn't take a photo, but my bag tonight (from Wenzels) - 3 x meal-sized sandwiches, 3 x fancy donuts, 1 x pack of 4 jam donuts. For £4.
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Yes, everyone who is fighting fascism needs to be united in fighting fascism.
But the need to be united to fight fascism is the opposite of being united with people folding to fascism.
But the need to be united to fight fascism is the opposite of being united with people folding to fascism.
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yes, everyone who is fighting fascism needs to be united in fighting fascism.
But the need to be united to fight fascism is the opposite of being united with people folding to fascism.
But the need to be united to fight fascism is the opposite of being united with people folding to fascism.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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Can someone please tell me how they got a script for a wheelchair?? I’ve been begging my pcp and have had no eval for mobility aides since I’ve been sick! What do I ask for
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can someone please tell me how they got a script for a wheelchair?? I’ve been begging my pcp and have had no eval for mobility aides since I’ve been sick! What do I ask for
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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I truly believe among those who dive into learning there are two general types: the Doers and the Thinkers. Doers approach knowledge as either a lever to achieve things or a new fulcrum through which levers can be applied. Thinkers simply want to know, disinterested in what it is "for" altogether.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I truly believe among those who dive into learning there are two general types: the Doers and the Thinkers. Doers approach knowledge as either a lever to achieve things or a new fulcrum through which levers can be applied. Thinkers simply want to know, disinterested in what it is "for" altogether.
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A lot of Thinkers spend their lives being told they're approaching things wrong for not spending their spare moments finding something to apply their knowledge to. A lot of Doers battle a sense of inadequacy as scholars because they're repeatedly told the knowledge alone should be enough for them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A lot of Thinkers spend their lives being told they're approaching things wrong for not spending their spare moments finding something to apply their knowledge to. A lot of Doers battle a sense of inadequacy as scholars because they're repeatedly told the knowledge alone should be enough for them.
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I tell younger folks all the time: Do not worry about losing the respect or presence of people who can't or won't accept you doing things that bring you joy. The only relationship you are guaranteed will last until you die is the one you have with yourself. Don't let yourself down.
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I tell younger folks all the time: Do not worry about losing the respect or presence of people who can't or won't accept you doing things that bring you joy. The only relationship you are guaranteed will last until you die is the one you have with yourself. Don't let yourself down.
"Prominently platforming a vibes-based argument that the excess of power unreasonably wielded by women has warped the nation’s institutions and should prompt a reconsideration of their civil rights, while their civil rights are being stripped away, is indefensible."
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"Prominently platforming a vibes-based argument that the excess of power unreasonably wielded by women has warped the nation’s institutions and should prompt a reconsideration of their civil rights, while their civil rights are being stripped away, is indefensible."
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I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
![The vagueness and nonspecificity that characterize “Did women ruin the workplace?” are hallmarks of right-wing rhetoric, says Moira Donegan, a Guardian columnist and writer-in-residence at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research who co-hosts the podcast “In Bed With the Right.” “One revealing thing about the conversation is that you can tell these people are in an epistemic bubble where they’re not being challenged on what they’re saying. [They] presume a kind of intellectual entitlement where these are not words you have to make your audience understand. It’s one thing to do that when you’re at the National Conservatism Conference; it’s another when you’re in The New York Times.” Donegan adds one more term to the list, pointing out that the conversation “uses ‘feminism’ as a euphemism for ‘women,’ rather than defining feminism as a set of political commitments or ideals. [When] it’s espoused by a woman and is about gender, that’s presumed to be sufficient to define it as feminism.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sdu4rudzew7rtf26u5o4bdf7/bafkreiewwm3xmwvvxkqspo6ao6seoro5bcmynxh4imtcfhtbr54gxb7bgm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
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We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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One of my friends who is visiting lives in Albany Park in Chicago and listening to her talk about what’s been going on and watching her cry and feel helpless…
She was a union organizer. She’s used to organizing in less than ideal conditions. She’s not brand new.
She’s horrified and traumatized.
She was a union organizer. She’s used to organizing in less than ideal conditions. She’s not brand new.
She’s horrified and traumatized.
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
One of my friends who is visiting lives in Albany Park in Chicago and listening to her talk about what’s been going on and watching her cry and feel helpless…
She was a union organizer. She’s used to organizing in less than ideal conditions. She’s not brand new.
She’s horrified and traumatized.
She was a union organizer. She’s used to organizing in less than ideal conditions. She’s not brand new.
She’s horrified and traumatized.
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I’m in Evanston, IL & we all just look haunted. They stole a city worker yesterday who was trying to remove a giant fallen branch off my friend’s yard.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’m in Evanston, IL & we all just look haunted. They stole a city worker yesterday who was trying to remove a giant fallen branch off my friend’s yard.
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My sister and brother in law live in Rogers Park and the community is trying to resist ICE by using whistles to warn folks if they spot agents. They said it's haunting hearing a whistle outside and knowing someone is likely about to be abducted
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My sister and brother in law live in Rogers Park and the community is trying to resist ICE by using whistles to warn folks if they spot agents. They said it's haunting hearing a whistle outside and knowing someone is likely about to be abducted
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Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
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A cool Interesting Times topic would be "We Put Ross Douthat Into One of Those Drive-Thru Tubes at the Bank, and this is the Sound it Made When We Pushed the Button"
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A cool Interesting Times topic would be "We Put Ross Douthat Into One of Those Drive-Thru Tubes at the Bank, and this is the Sound it Made When We Pushed the Button"
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Which women exactly have a "choice" NOT to work?
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Which women exactly have a "choice" NOT to work?
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my current needs are:
$100 to get home and for food
$710 for rent
$95 for utilities (my roommates were covering for me for a while, but they really can't do it anymore- i hate that i put them in that position 💔)
$430 (literally the final stretch) to pay for radiation therapy)
that's $1335 🥹
$100 to get home and for food
$710 for rent
$95 for utilities (my roommates were covering for me for a while, but they really can't do it anymore- i hate that i put them in that position 💔)
$430 (literally the final stretch) to pay for radiation therapy)
that's $1335 🥹
hey friends,
please help me out to get home from the hospital & to get food?
i'll need +/- $100 or so for both 🙏🏽
please?
i also haven't paid rent bc i had to use that money to pay the minimum on my medical bill repayment (so that i could get access to care this week)
paypal.me/thelongestroad
please help me out to get home from the hospital & to get food?
i'll need +/- $100 or so for both 🙏🏽
please?
i also haven't paid rent bc i had to use that money to pay the minimum on my medical bill repayment (so that i could get access to care this week)
paypal.me/thelongestroad
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November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
my current needs are:
$100 to get home and for food
$710 for rent
$95 for utilities (my roommates were covering for me for a while, but they really can't do it anymore- i hate that i put them in that position 💔)
$430 (literally the final stretch) to pay for radiation therapy)
that's $1335 🥹
$100 to get home and for food
$710 for rent
$95 for utilities (my roommates were covering for me for a while, but they really can't do it anymore- i hate that i put them in that position 💔)
$430 (literally the final stretch) to pay for radiation therapy)
that's $1335 🥹
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This reminds me: A few CBP agents were recently overheard complaining about how much they *hate* the whistles. Apparently, in addition to the obvious, the racket makes it harder for them to communicate with each other.
Listening to CPD radio traffic from something last month and can hear the whistles in the background.
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This reminds me: A few CBP agents were recently overheard complaining about how much they *hate* the whistles. Apparently, in addition to the obvious, the racket makes it harder for them to communicate with each other.
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People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
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Spreading the word in case this is new info.
These Chicago restaurants are offering free meals to SNAP recipients
Here's where you can find free food in Chicago right now.
www.timeout.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Spreading the word in case this is new info.
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It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
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As racist responses to Mamdani's win emerge on social platforms, consider not sharing the actual posts.
Our Muslim siblings don't need to see that bullshit every time they scroll, & we can just call out the people saying those things as racist fools, & stay focused on our joy over his win 🥰
Our Muslim siblings don't need to see that bullshit every time they scroll, & we can just call out the people saying those things as racist fools, & stay focused on our joy over his win 🥰
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
As racist responses to Mamdani's win emerge on social platforms, consider not sharing the actual posts.
Our Muslim siblings don't need to see that bullshit every time they scroll, & we can just call out the people saying those things as racist fools, & stay focused on our joy over his win 🥰
Our Muslim siblings don't need to see that bullshit every time they scroll, & we can just call out the people saying those things as racist fools, & stay focused on our joy over his win 🥰