Nyla Bright
@nylabright.bsky.social
Writer, dyslexic, parent, former Software Information Manager (i.e. Data Goddess), and all-around ok person. She/Her.
It's that time again! Tonight I pick up my Bike MS packet for the Pedal to the Point ride. If you haven't already, think of donating to my ride. events.nationalmssociety.org/participants...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's that time again! Tonight I pick up my Bike MS packet for the Pedal to the Point ride. If you haven't already, think of donating to my ride. events.nationalmssociety.org/participants...
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Since we are already cutting out all extra spending (DH is a government employee whose job could vanish), I have added a Facebook blackout to my “spend nothing” protest—and I’ve opened FB twice already. Damn you automaticity!
February 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Since we are already cutting out all extra spending (DH is a government employee whose job could vanish), I have added a Facebook blackout to my “spend nothing” protest—and I’ve opened FB twice already. Damn you automaticity!
A heads up, I like BlueSky but everything here is functionally publicly viewable. Other apps accessing the underlying data can see your posts even with “logged on only” accounts turned on.
What makes BlueSky unownable, decentralized and open, is also what makes its data publicly accessible.
What makes BlueSky unownable, decentralized and open, is also what makes its data publicly accessible.
December 4, 2024 at 2:50 PM
A heads up, I like BlueSky but everything here is functionally publicly viewable. Other apps accessing the underlying data can see your posts even with “logged on only” accounts turned on.
What makes BlueSky unownable, decentralized and open, is also what makes its data publicly accessible.
What makes BlueSky unownable, decentralized and open, is also what makes its data publicly accessible.
Pedego Electric Bikes Peninsula NE Ohio will be helping me complete my MS Pedal to the Point ride by loaning me a battery. This is the third year they have pledged to help me complete this very long ride.
events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fu...
events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fu...
I'm supporting National MS Society!
The National MS Society's vision is a world free of MS. The Society mobilizes people and resources so that everyone affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what h...
events.nationalmssociety.org
July 31, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Pedego Electric Bikes Peninsula NE Ohio will be helping me complete my MS Pedal to the Point ride by loaning me a battery. This is the third year they have pledged to help me complete this very long ride.
events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fu...
events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fu...
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
I doing the 150 mile MS Pedal to the Point. I will give a crochet amigurumi for every hundred dollars donated. A random roll of the dice will determine winners. No upper limit to how many winners there can be. Donate $5 or $100.
Help me fight MS.
I doing the 150 mile MS Pedal to the Point. I will give a crochet amigurumi for every hundred dollars donated. A random roll of the dice will determine winners. No upper limit to how many winners there can be. Donate $5 or $100.
Help me fight MS.
I'm supporting National MS Society!
The National MS Society's vision is a world free of MS. The Society mobilizes people and resources so that everyone affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what h...
events.nationalmssociety.org
July 12, 2024 at 8:07 PM
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
I doing the 150 mile MS Pedal to the Point. I will give a crochet amigurumi for every hundred dollars donated. A random roll of the dice will determine winners. No upper limit to how many winners there can be. Donate $5 or $100.
Help me fight MS.
I doing the 150 mile MS Pedal to the Point. I will give a crochet amigurumi for every hundred dollars donated. A random roll of the dice will determine winners. No upper limit to how many winners there can be. Donate $5 or $100.
Help me fight MS.
I have things I should be doing, but since checking the news casually at 11:30 am today, I've been unable to shut the panic part of my brain off.
July 1, 2024 at 6:49 PM
I have things I should be doing, but since checking the news casually at 11:30 am today, I've been unable to shut the panic part of my brain off.
My son and I are doing the MS bike ride in August. Help us raise funds to fight this horrible disease!
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
and my son's
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
and my son's
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
I'm supporting National MS Society!
The National MS Society's vision is a world free of MS. The Society mobilizes people and resources so that everyone affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what h...
events.nationalmssociety.org
May 29, 2024 at 1:01 AM
My son and I are doing the MS bike ride in August. Help us raise funds to fight this horrible disease!
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
and my son's
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
and my son's
events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
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My third grade English teacher pre-ordered my book and says she can't wait for some monster romance.
March 16, 2024 at 9:23 PM
My third grade English teacher pre-ordered my book and says she can't wait for some monster romance.
“I don’t kill my darlings was much as recycle them” - Marie Vibbert, “Structuring your Story” panel Cleveland ConCoction 2024 Convention
March 9, 2024 at 2:52 AM
“I don’t kill my darlings was much as recycle them” - Marie Vibbert, “Structuring your Story” panel Cleveland ConCoction 2024 Convention
For the CLE peeps, Darrin Bright & I are at ConCoction again this year, running www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/buy-cosmos-n... . Stop by and play a game or two. It's free to play at the con. We will be running Cosmos, so many many nifty changes.
www.clevelandconcoction.org?fbclid=IwAR2...
www.clevelandconcoction.org?fbclid=IwAR2...
Cleveland ConCoction - Home
Cleveland ConCoction - Home
www.clevelandconcoction.org
March 8, 2024 at 4:22 PM
For the CLE peeps, Darrin Bright & I are at ConCoction again this year, running www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/buy-cosmos-n... . Stop by and play a game or two. It's free to play at the con. We will be running Cosmos, so many many nifty changes.
www.clevelandconcoction.org?fbclid=IwAR2...
www.clevelandconcoction.org?fbclid=IwAR2...
On Facebook, I posted a picture of a lamb I crocheted and said it was an insane amount of work. Got a reply, "You could sell these!" I mean, I could if someone was willing to pay $320 (minimum wage, not even with the cost of yarn).
Not every craft/hobby can (or should be) a side hustle.
Not every craft/hobby can (or should be) a side hustle.
February 6, 2024 at 8:22 PM
On Facebook, I posted a picture of a lamb I crocheted and said it was an insane amount of work. Got a reply, "You could sell these!" I mean, I could if someone was willing to pay $320 (minimum wage, not even with the cost of yarn).
Not every craft/hobby can (or should be) a side hustle.
Not every craft/hobby can (or should be) a side hustle.
Just heard the Dept of Education won’t be transmitting the FAFSA to colleges until mid-March.
Dudes, the end of January was insanely late this year to start with, but…6-week further delay?
If you know people who work in Fin Aid or Admission, they are having a bad bad bad enrollment season.
Dudes, the end of January was insanely late this year to start with, but…6-week further delay?
If you know people who work in Fin Aid or Admission, they are having a bad bad bad enrollment season.
January 31, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Just heard the Dept of Education won’t be transmitting the FAFSA to colleges until mid-March.
Dudes, the end of January was insanely late this year to start with, but…6-week further delay?
If you know people who work in Fin Aid or Admission, they are having a bad bad bad enrollment season.
Dudes, the end of January was insanely late this year to start with, but…6-week further delay?
If you know people who work in Fin Aid or Admission, they are having a bad bad bad enrollment season.
The latest crochet project
December 14, 2023 at 2:27 PM
The latest crochet project
Important safety tip: if a person with a generalized anxiety disorder or C-PTSD asks you to stop talking about a subject, stop. If they directly ask you to stop, stop. And, at that moment, is not the time to try to tell them about a “simple solution to anxiety” you read about.
December 3, 2023 at 8:24 PM
Important safety tip: if a person with a generalized anxiety disorder or C-PTSD asks you to stop talking about a subject, stop. If they directly ask you to stop, stop. And, at that moment, is not the time to try to tell them about a “simple solution to anxiety” you read about.
Reading the graduation information for the kid: "Traditionally, the girls wear white [gowns] and boys wear orange."
It is 2023. Making girls wear a different color was old-school sexist 30 years ago. Nowadays we acknowledge non-binary folks exist. Treat all scholars the same for goodness sake.
It is 2023. Making girls wear a different color was old-school sexist 30 years ago. Nowadays we acknowledge non-binary folks exist. Treat all scholars the same for goodness sake.
November 27, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Reading the graduation information for the kid: "Traditionally, the girls wear white [gowns] and boys wear orange."
It is 2023. Making girls wear a different color was old-school sexist 30 years ago. Nowadays we acknowledge non-binary folks exist. Treat all scholars the same for goodness sake.
It is 2023. Making girls wear a different color was old-school sexist 30 years ago. Nowadays we acknowledge non-binary folks exist. Treat all scholars the same for goodness sake.
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OMG why didn't I think of that
November 25, 2023 at 1:30 PM
OMG why didn't I think of that
The quote of the evening. Writer says of her husband, he’s “enjoying the fruits of many assholes.”
November 14, 2023 at 2:45 AM
The quote of the evening. Writer says of her husband, he’s “enjoying the fruits of many assholes.”
The husband wrote a lovely essay about the Depeche Mode concert he went to and about, well, life. I'm sharing it with you: nylabright.com/2023/11/13/m...
Momento Mori by Darrin Bright
My husband, Darrin Bright, read to me an email he sent to a high school acquaintance. It was beautiful, as much for the writing as for the fact that he teared up reading it. I wanted to share with you...
nylabright.com
November 13, 2023 at 8:00 AM
The husband wrote a lovely essay about the Depeche Mode concert he went to and about, well, life. I'm sharing it with you: nylabright.com/2023/11/13/m...
Mom (former Cobal programmer) buys a new computer monitor; plugs it in and tries to set it up. It isn't working so she calls me (from NM to OH) to help. This is not a monitor I've ever seen before. [primal screen].
We get it working. She then THEN THEN! finds the setup instructions on the box.
We get it working. She then THEN THEN! finds the setup instructions on the box.
November 12, 2023 at 11:23 PM
Mom (former Cobal programmer) buys a new computer monitor; plugs it in and tries to set it up. It isn't working so she calls me (from NM to OH) to help. This is not a monitor I've ever seen before. [primal screen].
We get it working. She then THEN THEN! finds the setup instructions on the box.
We get it working. She then THEN THEN! finds the setup instructions on the box.
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Every time I click a news article only to be hit by a paywall I think about how every conspiracy website is absolutely free to read.
November 5, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Every time I click a news article only to be hit by a paywall I think about how every conspiracy website is absolutely free to read.
I "told ghost story"
New tag yourself just dropped
I'm "washwoman objected to her"
(From Chicago Tribune, Illinois, October 15, 1905 apparently)
I'm "washwoman objected to her"
(From Chicago Tribune, Illinois, October 15, 1905 apparently)
November 3, 2023 at 1:41 AM
I "told ghost story"
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I have eaten
the razorblades
that were in
the candy
and which
you were probably
saving
for the children
Forgive me
the children never came
so afraid
of the razorblades apparently
the razorblades
that were in
the candy
and which
you were probably
saving
for the children
Forgive me
the children never came
so afraid
of the razorblades apparently
November 1, 2023 at 2:44 PM
I have eaten
the razorblades
that were in
the candy
and which
you were probably
saving
for the children
Forgive me
the children never came
so afraid
of the razorblades apparently
the razorblades
that were in
the candy
and which
you were probably
saving
for the children
Forgive me
the children never came
so afraid
of the razorblades apparently
The hardest thing for me is being ok with things not being ok. The idea I can do everything right and still might not have a good outcome is crushing.
November 1, 2023 at 3:06 PM
The hardest thing for me is being ok with things not being ok. The idea I can do everything right and still might not have a good outcome is crushing.
The husband’s Halloween costume.
October 31, 2023 at 9:01 PM
The husband’s Halloween costume.