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Nina Hatfield

@ninahatfield.bsky.social

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she/her, Writer, Learner, Mythologist, chronically ill with #MECFS I host community peer groups www.co-resting.org #PWME #Mythology #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #CFS #Resting #CoResting #Pacing #PEM #MCAS #NEISvoid

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · Dec 23

In response to feeling isolated by chronic illness and appreciative of remote access to community, I host online Co-Resting Groups. They provide a way to gently socialize and rest in community.

Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!

www.co-resting.org

Co-Resting

virtual gatherings for community support

www.co-resting.org

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 21h

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl

that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

People need to be able to say rude things about a guy who regularly talked about Black people like we aren't human, and the fact that Bsky seems more protective of a dead white man's memory than of living Black people's connection to community is a profoud, grotesque statement

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 20h

Now I can imagine it with nuance, thank you!

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 20h

Oooh, it's beautiful. Is its smell different from other jasmines?

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 5d

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reading Orwell's '1984'. Super timely. Nauseatingly timely.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5d

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Fire all clear and out, KNOCK DOWN, fire was in Plant 7. Burning now is only flaring. 10/2/25 2250PT #elsegundofire #chevron #losangeles

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🧟‍♂️ Sharin’ Zombies 🧟 @sharonz.bsky.social · 5d

LA folks grab your N95s and close your windows. Turn on your air filters if you have them.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

Looming over what would otherwise be a beautiful stretch of pacific coastline, this facility represents about 1.5% of the US’s refining capacity. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Large fire erupts at Los Angeles County refinery

The Los Angeles County Fire Department said the original report came from the intersection of Aviation and Rosecrans.

www.cbsnews.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7d

Anyway - PLENTY of seats open -

and I try to reserve four free seats for every group I facilitate - the rest are "pay-whatever-you-can-afford" by donation.

This system actually consistently takes care of me!

So please feel free to join if you are interested!

Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks

Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7d

You can also still register for this second part of a discussion about negotiating resistances to group work with Dr. Deserie Charles.

I'll send out the recording for last Saturday to those who register:

This week will be recorded too:

Discussion: Community Work - Why Bother & What Stops Us — What A Shrink Thinks

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 5d

Give It Away

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 5d

same

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 6d

In the introduction language for one of my groups, I added the sentence:

“No one is obligated to speak, and silence is as important a part of the conversation as are its words”.

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Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 6d

WHAT!?!

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 7d

learning is good! a simple assertion with profound implications when learning is being interfered with and denigrated by authoritarians wanting malleable masses

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know

learning is good

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 7d

hard same

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 7d

What's on his shoe? Looks like a wearable camera for filming up people's skirts.

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · 8d

Bunny obviously knows about pairings. This is a both, and situation.

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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 9d

This is why I'm slowly losing my mind in isolation.

When you know it would likely kill you, you can't just go living life hoping that anyone else isn't out there not giving two shits if they socially murder you.

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 10d

The people that don’t disclose they got Covid at an event are the same people who’d hide a zombie bite from their friends. The people who’d laugh about that… eesh.

Anyway I have Covid! Me and about 20 other people I know of. If you were at Fantastic Fest this week, think about testing/isolating.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 10d

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 9d

It's hard to describe that sense of community to someone who hasn't experienced it: people coming together to collectively accomplish the goal of meeting a shared basic human need, in connection with the land.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 10d

Wow.

I still have four FREE seats available for this workshop which starts on Tues and several pay-whatever-you can seats

Past articipants have found the conversation USEFUL

This starts Tuesday.

Join us!

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 11d

We don't have to obey or be controlled by our emotional responses,

and we don't have to control them either.

There are many other frames for considering emotion beyond control. Most people learn little about this.

That is actually part of our cultural sickness I think.

There are other ways:

Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks

or grown-ups who have feelings

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 10d

People with mild ME/Long Covid & people who have recovered, please start advocating for the most severe instead of mildwashing the disease & using your story to sell your personal projects while feeding the media narrative of “individual overcoming” 🙏

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 11d

I shared some thoughts about how my new series of seascape paintings, Moments Along the Way, came to be over on my blog:

tishamark.com/2025/09/27/m...

Tisha Mark ©2025, We Met Along the Way, oil on cradled Gessobord, 14"x11"

Available:
tishamark.com/product/we-m...

#art #painting #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "We Met Along the Way" 14"x11" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). A seascape painting with a gray-blue sky with textured, atmospheric cloud formations over a dark blue sea. Waves are meeting a rocky shore, and there are hints of green moss or algae on the rocks.

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