Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery
@disasterqueer.bsky.social
In a toxic relationship with the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 🌋🌊
Emergency management professional in WA State with a focus on tsunamis. Polytheist pagan, witch, writer. Agender, asexual, queer AF. She/they. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Views are my own.
https://onlyfragments.com
Emergency management professional in WA State with a focus on tsunamis. Polytheist pagan, witch, writer. Agender, asexual, queer AF. She/they. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Views are my own.
https://onlyfragments.com
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Perennial "pinned" post until we actually have those here!
Here's stuff I like thinking/talking about:
🌊 natural hazards
🏳️🌈 queerness & identity
⚠️ emergency management
🕯️ paganism & spirituality
💀 death & mortality
🍄 environmentalism
📚 reading & writing
🎃 spooky witchy shit
Here's stuff I like thinking/talking about:
🌊 natural hazards
🏳️🌈 queerness & identity
⚠️ emergency management
🕯️ paganism & spirituality
💀 death & mortality
🍄 environmentalism
📚 reading & writing
🎃 spooky witchy shit
The final season of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory was so deeply stressful and yet so beautiful and heart-wrenching and sweet and I'm A WRECK 😭
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The final season of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory was so deeply stressful and yet so beautiful and heart-wrenching and sweet and I'm A WRECK 😭
Therapist: pick your battles
Me:
Me:
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Therapist: pick your battles
Me:
Me:
Doomscrolling? Trapped in the endless spiral of despair that is the news? Break yourself out of it for a moment by visiting the One Simple Wish website and buying something for a kid in foster care. Can't make much of a more direct positive impact on the world than that.
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Doomscrolling? Trapped in the endless spiral of despair that is the news? Break yourself out of it for a moment by visiting the One Simple Wish website and buying something for a kid in foster care. Can't make much of a more direct positive impact on the world than that.
Gonna tell my wife I'm in love with her, wish me luck. 🫣😳
♌️ You're radiating this incredible confidence and charm that's impossible to ignore. You're in rare form right now, so launch that project, make your move with your crush, or step boldly into whatever spotlight calls to you.
Leo Daily Horoscope
November 22, 2025
www.astrolis.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Gonna tell my wife I'm in love with her, wish me luck. 🫣😳
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
I just... I'm so tired.
Allllrighty so the Coast Guard swastika situation. Buckle up for a thread.
Yesterday it broke in the news that a USCG policy was being updated and that swastikas and nooses were no longer classified as hate symbols.
Yesterday it broke in the news that a USCG policy was being updated and that swastikas and nooses were no longer classified as hate symbols.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I just... I'm so tired.
Just realized the final season of Netflix's She-ra and the Princesses of Power is basically the plot of The Chronicles of Riddick and I'm not sure what to do with this information.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just realized the final season of Netflix's She-ra and the Princesses of Power is basically the plot of The Chronicles of Riddick and I'm not sure what to do with this information.
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More fundamentally, no map or line will ever be able to delineate ‘safe’ from ‘dangerous’ - risk is a continuum and we need to move to system that recognizes this instead.
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Testing out whether saying I'm "performing femininity" when wearing a skirt to work helps bypass the gender dysphoria caused by knowing I'm read as a cis woman when I wear one. Maybe it's more fun if I pretend I'm playing a role? This is Corpo Work Elyssa™ & she'll curse you through the Teams chat.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Testing out whether saying I'm "performing femininity" when wearing a skirt to work helps bypass the gender dysphoria caused by knowing I'm read as a cis woman when I wear one. Maybe it's more fun if I pretend I'm playing a role? This is Corpo Work Elyssa™ & she'll curse you through the Teams chat.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
1) Something is eating people
2) Something is haunting people
3) Something is alive that shouldn't be
4) You shouldn't have come here
5) All the disasters are happening at once for some reason
1) Something is eating people
2) Something is haunting people
3) Something is alive that shouldn't be
4) You shouldn't have come here
5) All the disasters are happening at once for some reason
What are your top 5 movie genres?
Mine are:
- “OMG, I have *powers*?”
- dinosaurs
- animated plucky misfits with animal companions
- wait, it’s a musical
- blood soaked horror
Mine are:
- “OMG, I have *powers*?”
- dinosaurs
- animated plucky misfits with animal companions
- wait, it’s a musical
- blood soaked horror
What are your top 5 movie genres? mine are:
- when the sensitive guy finally figures out that there’s nothing wrong with him
- women kicking ass and taking names
- hard working folks who are also poets talking in verse while they get shit done
- dragons and magicks and pointy ears
- car chases
- when the sensitive guy finally figures out that there’s nothing wrong with him
- women kicking ass and taking names
- hard working folks who are also poets talking in verse while they get shit done
- dragons and magicks and pointy ears
- car chases
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
1) Something is eating people
2) Something is haunting people
3) Something is alive that shouldn't be
4) You shouldn't have come here
5) All the disasters are happening at once for some reason
1) Something is eating people
2) Something is haunting people
3) Something is alive that shouldn't be
4) You shouldn't have come here
5) All the disasters are happening at once for some reason
"Sometimes you're such a high school mean girl and sometimes you're like a barely clothed frat boy and sometimes you're like this ethereal floaty thing."
My wife giving me the best agender gender euphoria.
My wife giving me the best agender gender euphoria.
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Sometimes you're such a high school mean girl and sometimes you're like a barely clothed frat boy and sometimes you're like this ethereal floaty thing."
My wife giving me the best agender gender euphoria.
My wife giving me the best agender gender euphoria.
[ insert "It never works for other people... but it might work for us" meme ]
Overfunctioning to the point of exhaustion is a very effective way to guarantee we won't be able to protect ourselves when we need to.
Trauma Brain's insistence that overfunctioning somehow keeps us "safe" is a lie. It never did keep us safe-- not really.
Trauma Brain's insistence that overfunctioning somehow keeps us "safe" is a lie. It never did keep us safe-- not really.
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
[ insert "It never works for other people... but it might work for us" meme ]
I personally cannot imagine any of the amazing folks from the tribal nations I work with agreeing to such a heinous collaboration. Talk about a deal with the motherfucking Devil.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I personally cannot imagine any of the amazing folks from the tribal nations I work with agreeing to such a heinous collaboration. Talk about a deal with the motherfucking Devil.
Okay, how do I get my mom's phone away from her and secretly set up parental controls on it? I love her dearly but she is spending way too much time rabble-rousing on the local Facebook pages.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Okay, how do I get my mom's phone away from her and secretly set up parental controls on it? I love her dearly but she is spending way too much time rabble-rousing on the local Facebook pages.
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Over 50,000 lives could be lost when the Big One hits WA, with a massive tsunami arriving in just 10–15 min. Communities ARE building tsunami vertical evacuation structures to save lives -- and we support more being built.
🌊 Learn more about tsunami risk, loss estimates & VES: mil.wa.gov/tsunami
🌊 Learn more about tsunami risk, loss estimates & VES: mil.wa.gov/tsunami
Why tsunami vertical evacuation structures are important
YouTube video by EMDPrepare
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Over 50,000 lives could be lost when the Big One hits WA, with a massive tsunami arriving in just 10–15 min. Communities ARE building tsunami vertical evacuation structures to save lives -- and we support more being built.
🌊 Learn more about tsunami risk, loss estimates & VES: mil.wa.gov/tsunami
🌊 Learn more about tsunami risk, loss estimates & VES: mil.wa.gov/tsunami
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Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow
Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
I know the world is a terrible place but at least we exist in the same universe as the movie Tremors. That's something.
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I know the world is a terrible place but at least we exist in the same universe as the movie Tremors. That's something.
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With the rest of the country falling into a dictatorship and restricting trans rights it would very much give me joy to see more actions from local communities in Cascadia to protect trans people.
Cascadia can be a beacon of safety.
#Cascadia
Cascadia can be a beacon of safety.
#Cascadia
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
With the rest of the country falling into a dictatorship and restricting trans rights it would very much give me joy to see more actions from local communities in Cascadia to protect trans people.
Cascadia can be a beacon of safety.
#Cascadia
Cascadia can be a beacon of safety.
#Cascadia
Hey @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov what the hell? Hundreds of thousands of jobs mean nothing to you?
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Hey @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov what the hell? Hundreds of thousands of jobs mean nothing to you?
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
Wow, so Moonfall is, uh, really bad, huh.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Wow, so Moonfall is, uh, really bad, huh.
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Maybe we need to stop pretending that these are centrists and just call them what they truly are: fascist enablers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Maybe we need to stop pretending that these are centrists and just call them what they truly are: fascist enablers.
We haven't solved the problem of nuclear waste, we've seen what happens when disasters hit nuclear power plants, we're seeing what happens when war comes to regions with nuclear reactors, and yet you're STILL treated like a fear monger if you say you're anti nuclear power.
House without a bathroom: DOE has no permanent disposal facility for nuclear waste, leaving taxpayers on the hook for payments of up to $800 million every year in damages, a bill that has reached $11.1 billion since 1998, and could grow to $44.5 billion www.cnbc.com/2025/11/09/n...
New U.S. nuclear power boom begins with old, still-unsolved problem: What to do with radioactive waste
As government and industry, from tech giants to utilities, commit to big nuclear power plants, there is still no clear solution for radioactive waste storage.
www.cnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We haven't solved the problem of nuclear waste, we've seen what happens when disasters hit nuclear power plants, we're seeing what happens when war comes to regions with nuclear reactors, and yet you're STILL treated like a fear monger if you say you're anti nuclear power.