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Alyssa Harad

@alyssaharad.bsky.social

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Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · Nov 11

Sorry this took so long, but I finally got the doc I prepared for my friend up on Google Docs. It is a deliberately short Long Covid On Ramp for folks just discovering they are sick and wondering what to do next. Thanks to all who contributed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 39m

Froggy went a-courtin’, he did ride
A grand jury said no charges against him they could decide
uh huh

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 39m

Need more spooky frogs. With totally accurate skeletons.

amzn.to/46YfmfY

it's an inflatable frog costume but black with a white skeleton painted on it which is totally accurage

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

bubble dance party

a person in an inflatable unicorn costume and a person in an inflatable peacock costume dance as a person holds a bubble gun shooting lots of small bubbles over them

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1h

No-Go area at the Portland ICE facility. Take heed!

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

officers just came out and seized a handful of people. some of them it was for standing on this piece of sidewalk that is not sidewalk, it’s part of the property so they’ll nab you if you stand there

Photo of a facility from google maps, showing a strip of concrete next to the gate that looks like sidewalk but it runs along side a planter perpendicular to the sidewalk

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1h

Spray one frog's ventilation valve with pepper spray and the next night two will return!

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1h

👏 TAKE 👏 BACK 👏 THAT 👏 FROG 👏

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 4h

Sure, or maybe my oil was darker, or I processed it less or more, or the leaves sat in the bowl longer. Still tastes good!

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 4h

Oh just very basic since it’s going in the freezer. Basil, pine nuts, garlic, lemon juice, salt, lots of olive oil.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Feb 23

outside the library

view into.an empty library and the outside reflected in the door glass

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 4h

How it started/how it’s going.

A large glass Pyrex bowl full of pesto made from the pile of basil in the quoted post.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 4h

Mine has been doing OK dipping down into the upper forties, but we’re about to have a few days of rain and all day temps between 40-50ish so harvest time it is.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 6h

It smells incredible. I left enough behind that I could try covering it to overwinter.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 6h

Basil harvest!!!

Big pile of fresh basil on a cutting board.

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Mary M. Davies @marymdavies.bsky.social · 6h

That’s my city councilor 💕

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 8h

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 7h

Listen, we know we're not LA. 😂

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 7h

No worries if we disable more than half the work force! We didn't really like it when they could think for themselves anyway!

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 7h

I do have some questions about the convenient overlap between this push and the cognitive hit many people are taking from Covid and/or the chronic stress of living in the moment.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 8h

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 8h

I have a great idea for someone who can win the Nobel Peace Prize: Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent by the United States to an El Salvadoran torture prison for 125 days, with no due process, & who, afterwards, epitomized grace.

english.elpais.com/internationa...

Andry Hernández’s life after leaving Bukele’s terror prison: ‘Our bodies are free, but our minds are still there’

The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention

english.elpais.com

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 8h

Emily Wilder was one of many journalists kidnapped by Israel in a second flotilla attempting to break the genocidal state's siege on Palestine.

We must DEMAND Israel & the U.S. release her and the the 144 others (+remaining members of the sumud flotilla) who were abducted in international waters

Jireh Deng @bokchoy-baobei.bsky.social · 1d

My friend and Jewish American reporter Emily Wilder was detained by the Israeli military last night while sailing with the Gaza flotilla reporting for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Please help our friend get home safely and call her US reps. bit.ly/ReleaseEm

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yeah, totally. I have a doctorate that I do not use or even talk about very much.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12h

Oh that’s just straight up antisemitism.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12h

I keep imagining small, badly lit rooms full of earnest but slightly despairing people starting something new. Mushrooms popping up in the undergrowth.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12h

I think we’re going to have to grow our own places and platforms from the ground up y’all. It makes me exhausted just thinking about it but young people should be in charge of them anyway.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12h

Related thread! bsky.app/profile/drew...

Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 12h

There is such a paucity of imagination in the chattering class—journalists, other politicians, etc. No curiosity, no willingness to consider the idea that the system we live in isn't the one we HAVE to live in. Indeed, seems like the opposite is true: an aversion to anything besides the status quo

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12h

I so appreciate the rage here and would only add that they also destroyed their reputation with much of the generation (mine, Gen X) that grew up dreaming of working for them.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

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