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🇨🇦 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 9h

She lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

Laughter is medicine. G’night all

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 4h

Where are my fellow @ahcu.bsky.social healthcare workers at at? Is there a #NursesOfBluesky yet? Wouldn't it be nice to have competitive wages again, to recruit and retain excellent staff? Kaiser can do better! #OneVoiceOneFuture @ofnhp.bsky.social (not OC)

Clown meme with Kaiser's proposals that dont meet the needs of patients or staff

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 1d

I've had 2 people assume my eye glitter was tracks of tears. Prob a sign that I should do something different.

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Kristy "puppy killer" Noem at PDX ICE facility as of 10 min ago. #Portland per trusted source

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Day 2 of posting a cat every day we work without a contract. I am an @ofnhp.bsky.social nurse. This is my cat. Many of my patients have cats, and I distract them from thinking about the sutures I am removing by chatting about their cats. I LOVE my job AND we need a good contract. #OneVoiceOneFuture

Close up of a cat face. He is a perfect cat

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Posting a cat every day I work without a contract @ Kaiser. Ours expired @ midnight here in the Pacific Northwest. I am a nurse in the Portland area. I want to stop losing new grads and experienced nurses to local places that pay better. #ExpiredContract day 1 #OneVoiceOneFuture
@ofnhp.bsky.social

Cat, paused in his morning grooming routine. One foot is up. The photo is kind of blurry. We could say it was on purpose, but I have not had my morning coffee and am not wearing my glasses. Cat

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Day one of working with and expired contract at Kaiser.
@ofnhp.bsky.social nurses were up til 2AM bargaining + coming to terms with the fact that the management team did not seem to actually want to bargain with us. Going to see what the other BUs say tonight. #OneVoiceOneFuture @ahcu.bsky.social

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 12d

Older lady: yeah this is kind of what it was like in the 60s.
Me: oh, how did you get through things, any tips for living through these times
OL: just put your head down and try to get by
Me: 💀

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 12d

Feelings:
* mom from Ecuador pleading with ICE brownshirt that her husband would be killed if sent back (it was their ASYLUM hearing)
* a 10 year old in my town was killed and the neighborhood is rallying to support the family
* starvation as a war crime
* all children deserve fucking safety + love

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 14d

Ok ok ok work is a lot, we might be striking, my nation is marching through stages of authoritarianism, but my pets are great, my fam is full of love, garden full of tomatoes, and im about to defeat Ketheric Thorm on bg3 HONOR MODE. I hope. Check you later.

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 14d

Contracts expire IN SIX DAYS for many @ahcu.bsky.social union locals, including my own @ofnhp.bsky.social @aft.org 5017. I just saw our employer refused to open the door to UFCW 770 to accept a petition signed by hundreds of members.
So, it is not going as well as I'd hoped. #OneVoiceOneFuture

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 15d

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Acet ... aceta... you just can't fool me again.

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

To be clear, I had NOTHING to do w any award, I was just the lucky purchaser

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

hnhp.org there are some unionized already. HNHP is a KP @ahcu.bsky.social union. A rising tide lifts all boats, and definitely any union the healthcare workers join will lift all the boats. #1u

HNHP

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

I went to my nephew's bday party, and i am feeling so thankful. My nephew and my own kiddo are loved so much and there is so much love that is in the world and ao much more is possible.
I am filled with so much joy and so much sorrow at the same time, it leaks out of my damn eyes.

The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

I will be on the picket line.
BTW 97%, wow.

Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (AFT 5017) @ofnhp.bsky.social · 16d

Our members voted to authorize a strike by an astounding 97%. We are fighting for safe staffing, great patient care, living wages, and sustainable working conditions.

If we strike, will you be joining us on the picket line? Will you raise your voice in solidarity? #UnionStrong #OneVoiceOneFuture

Kaiser Permanente workers vote 97% in favor of potential strike in Oregon, Southwest Washington

Nurses and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente voted this week to authorize a strike.

www.opb.org

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

One of the WIPs I'm working on. This is the back of a knitted vest - reverse stockinette with 3 cables. Pretty easy. Should result in a nice and cozy layer.

Close up of two grayish aqua blue yarn cakes

Unblocked cable. Please don't look too closely ♡

Another pic of yarn. Always hard to capture beauty of yarn like this. It seems kind of chameleon-like

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

We need real offers! We are so far behind the Portland metro wages, and keep losing good staff. Its not a sustainable business plan for Kaiser to keep losing nurses, techs, etc (and MDs)! I've heard Hawaii and other regions are in same boat. #OneVoiceOneFuture

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 16d

Eight days until Kaiser contracts with @ahcu.bsky.social expire. Tick tock, KP. Hoping you realize it is "in your interest" to bargain with your current employees before you buy ANOTHER SYSTEM AGAIN. I am a #nurse and stand with Alliance members #CoastToCoast

a man is holding a pool ball with the number 8 on it .

Alt: a man is holding a pool ball with the number 8 on it .

media.tenor.com

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 17d

Current craft WIP: knit back of cabled vest, crochet packers, 2 hats, mending pile, cake up rest of yarn for vest. The handspun yarn, purchased at an estate sale, won a "honorable mention" at a state fair.

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The Other Steph Brown 🩺🧶🦇🧪🐈‍⬛ @theotherstephbrown.bsky.social · 17d

I have been very slowly advancing my Honor Mode on bg3. Just freed the Nightsong. Level 9 with a Paladin tav. I haven't multiclassed. Everything seems relatively doable so far, but still nervous about the whole Ketheric thing coming up.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 19d

The full order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Because this cam out of the blue and sudden: other, similar orders could come out of the blue and sudden.

So those on visas will surely consider international travel a potential risk, and opt for zoom calls over flying when possible

Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United

www.whitehouse.gov

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 19d

www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

It's A Digital Disease!

This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people.

www.reddit.com

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