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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery

@disasterqueer.bsky.social

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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

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · Nov 13

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

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 42m

IT LOOKS LIKE A GHOST THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 7h

Look, I know Christian Bale is supposed to be a jerk but he seems to handle apocalypses/totalitarian governments well and I wouldn't mind being stuck with him when the world ends, I'm just saying.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Reign of Fire is a truly underrated movie and it deserves more love than it gets.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 10h

And the winner of this year's Dundie?

You, #ShakeOut participant!

Here's a short video about how (mostly not) to protect yourself if you happen to be in The Office when an #earthquake strikes!

youtube.com/shorts/OXVjd...

Enjoy, and don't forget to register at www.shakeout.org/washington!

Shakeout Office Parody

YouTube video by EMDPrepare

youtube.com

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 13h

😍😍😍

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 15h

Sobek 🐊

#paleoart #berensart2025

a black and white drawing of a spinosaurus perching on a stone plinth shrine. He wears atef crown and the markings on his sailed spine resemble ankh.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 1d

In Search of Ancient Tsunamis: A Researcher's Travels, Tools, and Techniques a.co/d/9Ofr71l

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 1d

And here's the link to where our Ask-me-Anything will be on Reddit today:
www.reddit.com/r/AMA/s/pjrG...

We will start answering questions at 11:00 this morning. See you there!!

From the AMA community on Reddit: AMA: We're Pacific Northwest Earthquake & Tsunami Experts. Ask us Anything

Explore this post and more from the AMA community

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 1d

They do. When I came out as asexual, my mom asked if I should get my hormones checked. My first therapist told me I "owed" my wife sex. And many churches find asexuality just as problematic as homosexuality because you're supposed to be popping out babies for the next generation. 🤷

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 1d

"But first they must catch you" will always stay with me.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 1d

"No protection exists from practices meant to increase sexual or romantic orientation — the kinds of practices aspec “conversion” therapy traffics in — and the definition’s second half seems to only acknowledge queerness through an LGBT lens."

Cody Daigle-Orians @codydo.bsky.social · 1d

No matter what happens at SCOTUS, conversion therapy for asexual and aromantic people will still be perfectly legal and culturally accepted. And that has to change,

We won't end conversion therapy without ending it for aspec people, too.

The Supreme Court's consideration of Chiles v. Salazar is a good time to remember aspec conversion therapy is still a perfectly legal practice everywhere.

open.substack.com

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Sequim.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Franchise where you kill shitty historical figures afraid to let you kill shitty historical figures.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Well fuck.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

This. ☝️☝️☝️ Social media allows me to reach people with life saving information during potential disasters.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Very interested to know what our own TAG plans...

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 3d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Here's your happy for the day. This lil guy came to us from a bad situation and is very scared of humans. However, he was so jealous of his brother getting cuddles that he overcame his fear and let me put him in my lap. He even fell asleep! #CatsOfBluesky 🥺😭❤️

A photo of an orange tabby kitten asleep in someone's lap.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

I'm taking part in this AMA! It's gonna be fun, be sure to join us!

Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 3d

Ever had a question about earthquakes, tsunamis, or preparedness that you just wish you had experts handy to answer?

Here's your chance! This Thursday, 10/9 from 11-1, join experts from our team, @pnsn1.bsky.social, and @wadnr.bsky.social for an "Ask-me-Anything" on Reddit!

Link coming soon!

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Man, I was JUST talking about this with my wife. Knew this administration would try to pull some shit like this.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d

This is rampant lawlessness

The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 4d

Just give me an address and good time to drop by. 😍

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta live forever in the cloud somehow.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 4d

Air jail but for your dumbass descendants. 😭😂

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 5d

Please tag your sports posts. Some of us spent our childhoods being tricked into running at a football only to have it be pulled away at the last second as we tried to kick it, causing us to fall embarrassingly to the earth. That pain lives with us still.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 5d

The Fear Street trilogy!