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Annette Hynes

@planktonnette.bsky.social

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Microbial oceanographer, crochet designer, Mashreq percussionist, and friEndo. Welcome to the House of Tortitude. she/her

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · 20h

Bro is pro-asbestos and mold.

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · 20h

Many thanks to Seattle City Lights for working throughout the night and continuing to work to turn the lights back on. ⛈️

A map of power outages in Seattle from the night of October 25th.

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · 5d

I caught a glimpse of an old woman wearing a black jacket that looked like a cloak and I really wanted her to be the Vader character. 🤣

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · 5d

A tortoiseshell kitty plays with an ottoman with a wide-eyes expression. Her catnip beaver lies nearby.

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Sep 26

Last weekend I was at an event and while talking to an elderly woman and my friend with long CoVID, the elderly woman asked me about my mask. She couldn’t understand why I insisted on wearing it. Ma’am, if you don’t get it by now just please let me be in peace.

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Aug 15

Walkability.

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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.bsky.social · Jul 16

Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it.

Mosaic of a patron saint rat with a sun behind it and a little heart. Below it states “Hot Rat Summer”

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Jul 12

I met them at the top of Denny. The people won.

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Jul 12

I’d be more stoked if people didn’t ride them in the sidewalk.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · Jun 7

This is opening of an Octavia Butler novel

Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · Jun 7

LAPD helicopter circling immigrant rights protesters behind the pride month rainbow-lit city hall

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Apr 24

Hooray! Now bring back your line of maternity pants.

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Apr 18

Gorgeous! And to me it looks in line with the space-forward aesthetic of that time.

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Apr 2

He’s already demolished everything in sight, but I’d still be happy to see him go.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elon Musk set to soon step down from lead Trump role as service limit nears

Insiders reportedly say Musk will leave when 130-day cap on government service expires but ‘Doge’ team set to continue

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Apr 2

I didn’t even know pea milk existed. 🫛 🥛

I’m also shocked at how little protein is in almond milk.

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Mar 24

So, catturd2 is well-represented. What about catturd1?

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Mar 21

I just tried setting up my online social security account to download my records. They will send me an activation code via SNAIL MAIL in 5–10 days. 😬

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Mar 13

These are extra sassy. Love it!

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Mar 5

Me, too. ❤️

Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Mar 3

Be sure to encrypt those emails if you are obliged to send them.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Mar 3

Tonight in Art Therapy with the Plucky Shrimp, we are speaking on behalf of the ocean, and are VERY mad, not only at the evil guys in charge but also at every evil person who enables the evil guys in charge. Every last one. May they know no peace for the rest of their miserable lives.

A shrimp stands on a plastic straw with her claws on her waist, and she has her angry eyebrows on, and she is saying fuck you and every bastard who enabled you xoxo the ocean. On the bottom in a rectangle in sand serif font, it says paid for by the invertebrate caucus for a survivable future. There’s a squiggly blue background in mid tone blue and light blue

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 26

Call to Action: The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent federal agency that safeguards federal employees in employment disputes, has paused the terminations of six probationary federal workers across various executive branch agencies and departments for 45 days.

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Annette Hynes @planktonnette.bsky.social · Feb 21

Can we call it “comedy” when it’s not funny?