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Alyssa Long

@measuredandslow.bsky.social

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I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶 https://linktr.ee/measuredandslow

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · Oct 11

Since we can do pinned posts now, hi, I’m Alyssa and make things! You can find them in several places:

Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1

Three 3D printed dragons laying on also 3D printed fainting couches, lined up on an old porch railing

A blue crocheted dinosaur, in the same shade as Cookie Monster, holding an also crocheted chocolate chip cookie

A loom woven tapestry made to look like notebook paper, hanging from a wooden dowel covered in handdyed rainbow yarn. The words “you are enough” are embroidered in rainbow yarn on the 4th line down

A crocheted fox with a soft, unstuffed body and knotted limbs. It is being held up by a white hand

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 1h

“Hi Mama, I need to know how to spell ‘terrifying’ please.”

Okay let’s start with WHY you need to know that first and we’ll go from there lol

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 3h

(Wool is not animal abuse, in fact NOT shearing sheep is animal abuse given that we have bred them to need it - they no longer shed on their own. If you would like to be pissy about that please take it up with our several hundred times ancestors and not your local yarn haver 😂)

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 5h

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 5h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

9:09am - 9/9/2025 180K Views

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 3h

Got my first “wool is animal abuse” vegan of the year, someone send me a cookie lol

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 5h

This is a massive deal. But it’s not a done deal. Workers have been barred from their offices, but there is still time to protect their jobs. Only your Reps can do it though. Don’t let up!

Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 5h

RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5h

"We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells tamales every morning to support her family — was taken by ICE. We never got a call. We had to learn about it from strangers online."

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 5h

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

Measles (Rubeola)
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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

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...emotional depth of a teaspoon 😩 @troublemakersup.bsky.social · 5h

New Yorkers and other residents of the tri-state-metro-area... ConEd is warning about possible power outages due to the approaching Nor'easter.

Please keep all your devices charged, have an emergency light source, and make sure your yard is clear of potentially damaging flying objects.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 16h

BASEBALL FANS UPSET AT RECEIVING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL

"I came here hoping to see the normal amount of nothing happening. But this is more nothing than I prepared for," said one attendee.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

We just realized we fed the kids but we didn’t eat ourselves. We had adrenaline for dinner lol

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Me too, god he would have loved this one

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

It was great, bases were loaded and Palanco scored at least a double.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 16h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

WE DID IT!!!!

Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

My oh my indeed. What a goddamn game 😍

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

MARINERS TAKE THE FUCKING GAME!!!!!!!!!

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, manager! I keep forgetting. Still!

Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Martinez and Griffey have retired jerseys in the stadium and Griffey has a statue out front, they are baseball royalty here. It would mean a LOT, I’m just saying 🥹

Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Okay what I need you to know is that we won this series in ‘95 and our catcher from then, Dan Wilson, is now the pitching coach, and the guy who hit the double that won the game, Edgar Martinez, is the hitting coach, and the guy who scored that run, Ken Griffey Jr, is there tonight. IT’S MADE FOR TV

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 16h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Fifteen innings. You have GOT to be shitting me 😭

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Seattle Mariners vs Detroit Tigers!