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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 · 4h

Well fuck.

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

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

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 16h

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

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 17h

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 · 23h

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

Gotta live forever in the cloud somehow.

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

Air jail but for your dumbass descendants. 😭😂

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

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 · 3d

The Fear Street trilogy!

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

I'm reconfiguring my altar space, which means everything had to go somewhere in the in-between, and thus I currently have a sort of pagan-themed I-Spy vibe going. I kinda like it. 😂🤷 #WitchSky

A photo of the top of a bookshelf absolutely covered in various pagan and witchy paraphernalia like statues, crystals, bones, shells, feathers, fossils, candles, and rocks.

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

But that would be bad for the environment. :(

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

Somehow I doubt that's what this is about, actually! Methinks you just don't like that she cares about a thing you don't care about!

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 4d

Don't let October 16th sneak up on you - it's time to stop avoiding it, and register for #ShakeOut! (It only takes a few minutes!)

Join over 1.2 million Washingtonians and practice #Earthquake and #Tsunami safety and preparedness - visit shakeout.org today!

youtube.com/shorts/dy_zI...

Are you registered for ShakeOut? #earthquake

YouTube video by EMDPrepare

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

I do too 😭

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

Ugh, I transitioned to someone else when this happened and still got something in the mail from CVS that was like "your old pharmacy gave us all your private information, welcome!!" like wtf.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 6d

We're just 😱 2 weeks away 😱 from the Great Washington #ShakeOut. Looking for ways to shake up your ShakeOut game? Check out our bingo card for some good ideas and see if you can get a full house!

And don't forget to register at shakeout.org/washington/ to help us hit 1.7 million participants!

A Great Washington Shake Out bingo card. The free space is drop, cover, and hold on. Other spaces are filled with suggested activities such as telling a friend about shake out, registering for shake out, testing your evacuation plan, signing up for local emergency alerts, and learning about local hazards.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

Yes and no. It's brilliant writing like KAOS, cancelled before its time because people don't like having to think about the thing they're watching (though the story wraps up, unlike KAOS). But it's more about the blurry line between human and "god" and how we even define human in the first place.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

Hey if you're furloughed right now and have some time on your hands can you pretty please watch Pantheon on Netflix so I can obsess over it with someone I promise it's good please I'm going crazy.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

WHAAAAT

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

Trans people existing visibly.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

Aced it. 😎💀 #agender #nonbinary

www.idrlabs.com/7-identities...

A screenshot of the 7 Identities Test showing percentages for cisgender, genderfluid, non-binary, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and agender. The person who took the test scored 100% for agender.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

Unless you're willing to sit through a three hour word dump.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 6d

It's the fuckin worst.