Rachel Happe
@rhappe.bsky.social
I enjoy the absurdity of humanity. Perfect is boring. Things to say about communities, tech, culture, leadership, L&D, and social dynamics.
Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs.
Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs.
Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
Thankful today for so many things, mostly people and nature 🍗🥧🍂
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thankful today for so many things, mostly people and nature 🍗🥧🍂
We are - and took a lovely long walk this morning. Grateful 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We are - and took a lovely long walk this morning. Grateful 🦃
The world is 💩 right now, but also still magical.
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The world is 💩 right now, but also still magical.
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
One of my favorite books in this category is The Library Book by Susan Orlean.
I second The Boys in the Boat and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
And Where the World Ends, about a little known but crazy story.
I second The Boys in the Boat and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
And Where the World Ends, about a little known but crazy story.
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One of my favorite books in this category is The Library Book by Susan Orlean.
I second The Boys in the Boat and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
And Where the World Ends, about a little known but crazy story.
I second The Boys in the Boat and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
And Where the World Ends, about a little known but crazy story.
#FlipThatShit from @parkroseperma.bsky.social via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
It’s hard to heard all the cats here in the U.S. - and hard to see the extent of the resistance - but it is happening all the time, all over.
Proud of all of you 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It’s hard to heard all the cats here in the U.S. - and hard to see the extent of the resistance - but it is happening all the time, all over.
Proud of all of you 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#FlipThatShit from @parkroseperma.bsky.social via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
It’s hard to heard all the cats here in the U.S. - and hard to see the extent of the resistance - but it is happening all the time, all over.
Proud of all of you 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It’s hard to heard all the cats here in the U.S. - and hard to see the extent of the resistance - but it is happening all the time, all over.
Proud of all of you 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Over the last few years, I have been teaching myself to draw and paint.
I finally took a class this fall, which was enlightening and it amused me that I struggled to give up control… given I am writing a book called Control Is for Amateurs.
But then again, I AM an amateur 😏🙂
I finally took a class this fall, which was enlightening and it amused me that I struggled to give up control… given I am writing a book called Control Is for Amateurs.
But then again, I AM an amateur 😏🙂
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Over the last few years, I have been teaching myself to draw and paint.
I finally took a class this fall, which was enlightening and it amused me that I struggled to give up control… given I am writing a book called Control Is for Amateurs.
But then again, I AM an amateur 😏🙂
I finally took a class this fall, which was enlightening and it amused me that I struggled to give up control… given I am writing a book called Control Is for Amateurs.
But then again, I AM an amateur 😏🙂
I hosted potlucks for friends with kids when mine was younger and we do have board game nights but not on the regular.
I saw this idea recently and I love it - have people over to do all your admin crap together, with beer and chips 🍿
I saw this idea recently and I love it - have people over to do all your admin crap together, with beer and chips 🍿
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I hosted potlucks for friends with kids when mine was younger and we do have board game nights but not on the regular.
I saw this idea recently and I love it - have people over to do all your admin crap together, with beer and chips 🍿
I saw this idea recently and I love it - have people over to do all your admin crap together, with beer and chips 🍿
When historians look back on this time, they will see its misogyny on women’s faces.
We should not have needed the Epstein files to know.
Also WTF?
We should not have needed the Epstein files to know.
Also WTF?
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When historians look back on this time, they will see its misogyny on women’s faces.
We should not have needed the Epstein files to know.
Also WTF?
We should not have needed the Epstein files to know.
Also WTF?
I love this - we have, collectively, forgotten how to care for and re-use things.
Take these brackets, for example. We took them off a wall and they were a rusted mess - and my husband’s instincts were to chuck them.
A little citric acid and oil and they look useable again.
Take these brackets, for example. We took them off a wall and they were a rusted mess - and my husband’s instincts were to chuck them.
A little citric acid and oil and they look useable again.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I love this - we have, collectively, forgotten how to care for and re-use things.
Take these brackets, for example. We took them off a wall and they were a rusted mess - and my husband’s instincts were to chuck them.
A little citric acid and oil and they look useable again.
Take these brackets, for example. We took them off a wall and they were a rusted mess - and my husband’s instincts were to chuck them.
A little citric acid and oil and they look useable again.
I finally found the recipe/directions that creates a perfect (and perfectly browned bird) from the NyTimes, although they have put the recipe behind their NYTimes Cooking subscription 😡
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
The important details are attached here.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
The important details are attached here.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I finally found the recipe/directions that creates a perfect (and perfectly browned bird) from the NyTimes, although they have put the recipe behind their NYTimes Cooking subscription 😡
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
The important details are attached here.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
The important details are attached here.
In the end, it’s the business model.
They convinced their customers that engagement = likes/responses instead of differentiating engagement as a spectrum resulting in a range of behaviors, all of which have different value.
Validation is the easiest/cheapest of the active engagement behaviors.
They convinced their customers that engagement = likes/responses instead of differentiating engagement as a spectrum resulting in a range of behaviors, all of which have different value.
Validation is the easiest/cheapest of the active engagement behaviors.
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In the end, it’s the business model.
They convinced their customers that engagement = likes/responses instead of differentiating engagement as a spectrum resulting in a range of behaviors, all of which have different value.
Validation is the easiest/cheapest of the active engagement behaviors.
They convinced their customers that engagement = likes/responses instead of differentiating engagement as a spectrum resulting in a range of behaviors, all of which have different value.
Validation is the easiest/cheapest of the active engagement behaviors.
Facebook and Twitter seem to actively pursue trolls. It’s unlike anything I have seen in any other business.
This post churned up so much dreck.
So many questions:
- How many of the trolls are legitimate?
- Why do people invest so much time being hostile?
- How do they feel good doing this?
This post churned up so much dreck.
So many questions:
- How many of the trolls are legitimate?
- Why do people invest so much time being hostile?
- How do they feel good doing this?
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Facebook and Twitter seem to actively pursue trolls. It’s unlike anything I have seen in any other business.
This post churned up so much dreck.
So many questions:
- How many of the trolls are legitimate?
- Why do people invest so much time being hostile?
- How do they feel good doing this?
This post churned up so much dreck.
So many questions:
- How many of the trolls are legitimate?
- Why do people invest so much time being hostile?
- How do they feel good doing this?
And a longer exposure version
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
And a longer exposure version
I never expected to see the aurora so frequently or so nearby that I can wander out to my backyard on a random evening.
Amazing
Amazing
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I never expected to see the aurora so frequently or so nearby that I can wander out to my backyard on a random evening.
Amazing
Amazing
Amazingly, a WWII veteran who saw fellow marines raise the flag at Iwo Jima is still alive.
Our veterans have always taken the risk to protect our freedom - we owe it to them to carry that burden at home.
Grateful to all of our veterans today.
Our veterans have always taken the risk to protect our freedom - we owe it to them to carry that burden at home.
Grateful to all of our veterans today.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Amazingly, a WWII veteran who saw fellow marines raise the flag at Iwo Jima is still alive.
Our veterans have always taken the risk to protect our freedom - we owe it to them to carry that burden at home.
Grateful to all of our veterans today.
Our veterans have always taken the risk to protect our freedom - we owe it to them to carry that burden at home.
Grateful to all of our veterans today.
Has anyone seen the Epstein files?
Still waiting...
Still waiting...
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Has anyone seen the Epstein files?
Still waiting...
Still waiting...
This Margaret Wheatley quote sums it up, “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This Margaret Wheatley quote sums it up, “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
The richest Americans don’t fly commercial - they use private planes and air services.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The richest Americans don’t fly commercial - they use private planes and air services.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
Boom - New Jersey Governor’s race is called.
Let’s Go!
Let’s Go!
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Boom - New Jersey Governor’s race is called.
Let’s Go!
Let’s Go!
Wasn’t expecting results yet but Decision Desk has called the Virginia’s Governor’s race for Spanberger.
LFG!
LFG!
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Wasn’t expecting results yet but Decision Desk has called the Virginia’s Governor’s race for Spanberger.
LFG!
LFG!
My small acts of resistance are paying off.
I offered my dahlias to anyone in town willing to foster them for the summer and return them in the fall.
They were just returned with a delicious loaf of sour dough bread 😋
#ConnectingWithNeighbors #CommunityWealth
I offered my dahlias to anyone in town willing to foster them for the summer and return them in the fall.
They were just returned with a delicious loaf of sour dough bread 😋
#ConnectingWithNeighbors #CommunityWealth
November 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My small acts of resistance are paying off.
I offered my dahlias to anyone in town willing to foster them for the summer and return them in the fall.
They were just returned with a delicious loaf of sour dough bread 😋
#ConnectingWithNeighbors #CommunityWealth
I offered my dahlias to anyone in town willing to foster them for the summer and return them in the fall.
They were just returned with a delicious loaf of sour dough bread 😋
#ConnectingWithNeighbors #CommunityWealth
Things that make me happy: seeing the Winslow Homer exhibit at the MFA this weekend.
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Things that make me happy: seeing the Winslow Homer exhibit at the MFA this weekend.
THIS is what we should all be talking about.
Why, in 2025, when GDP and productivity have grown steadily for decades, do we have people in the U.S. who work 40 hrs/week who CANNOT AFFORD FOOD.
Never mind that everyone deserves food. And farmers/farm workers deserve a living wage to grow it.
Why, in 2025, when GDP and productivity have grown steadily for decades, do we have people in the U.S. who work 40 hrs/week who CANNOT AFFORD FOOD.
Never mind that everyone deserves food. And farmers/farm workers deserve a living wage to grow it.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
THIS is what we should all be talking about.
Why, in 2025, when GDP and productivity have grown steadily for decades, do we have people in the U.S. who work 40 hrs/week who CANNOT AFFORD FOOD.
Never mind that everyone deserves food. And farmers/farm workers deserve a living wage to grow it.
Why, in 2025, when GDP and productivity have grown steadily for decades, do we have people in the U.S. who work 40 hrs/week who CANNOT AFFORD FOOD.
Never mind that everyone deserves food. And farmers/farm workers deserve a living wage to grow it.
The monarchy, in the 21st century, is weird but this statement is really something.
Its brevity and conclusion cracks like a slammed door.
Perhaps the king, in his dotage, has finally found relevancy.
Its brevity and conclusion cracks like a slammed door.
Perhaps the king, in his dotage, has finally found relevancy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The monarchy, in the 21st century, is weird but this statement is really something.
Its brevity and conclusion cracks like a slammed door.
Perhaps the king, in his dotage, has finally found relevancy.
Its brevity and conclusion cracks like a slammed door.
Perhaps the king, in his dotage, has finally found relevancy.