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Abby

@abby-writes.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, cat lady, WWU, Northwest Indian College

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our next Generate session is tomorrow (Tuesday 10/13) at 9am PDT. We'd love to see you there! #writingcommunity Bring your #WIP and get some writing done.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All done to fill the pockets of donors. So indefensible and depraved.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have only worked at a tribal college for a matter of months, but since I started I have been astounded at the constant casual anti-Native behavior I see in everyday life. I knew it was bad before I started working there. But you guys. It is so, so bad. This is one tiny example.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just came her to say, commenting on a person's appearance is a crappy thing to do even if you don't like that person. Maybe don't.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is one of the best lighter reads I've read in quite awhile.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any keyboard enthusiasts in the #wriringcommunity out there? #amwriting
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putting a bottle or can of pop in the freezer to cool it quickly and assuming you'll pull it out before it explodes is known as 'the devil's fizzy wager.'
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I decided I want to get a mechanical keyboard so I began doing some Internet research. Unwittingly opened an entire Pandora's Box.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can we send everyone back to first year college English class please. These are literally the aims of the courses.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can't divulge details on our friend, but the stress their detainment caused for their family was incredible, leading to panic attacks for their family members and friends. My wife cried many many times. And their outcome was one of the rare few "good" ones.
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also, the cruelty of our concentration camps is truly some next level evil fascist shit and should be the main topic of everyday as it is only getting worse
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You don’t want to hear it but this was peak superhero moviedom.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He didn’t think we’d live to be 59, couldn’t imagine gay marriage or that we’d have a husband, and was often told he couldn’t be an out gay writer. He‘d be a little sad about our hair. But I live the life he fought for.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
keep cookie dough in your fridge and have fresh cookies all week and other things you can do when your children move out
A bowl of cookie dough
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My friends with young kids cry real tears whenever Ms. Rachel once again does not fail them. That’s real. And it matters.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you're having trouble getting your butt in the chair to write, come join @anneliesekamola.bsky.social and me for generative writing sessions th 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month. First one is 9/22 at 9am! #writingcommunity #wip #amwriting #writesky www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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GENERATE: A Morning Write-In
As a bee generates honey, so we generate words. Inspiration. Writerly momentum. Anni calls this “Opening the tap”: Put your pen to paper/fingers to keys and just see what comes through. Abby calls t...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They just got back from 5 more weeks off, after multiple other very long vacations. They never work.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/09/2026
Billionaires and the corporations they run are raking in massive profits while refusing to pay their employees enough to afford healthcare. Tax the rich. Tax the billionaire corporations. Raise the wage.
Amazon building front with logo. Text overlayed at top in green and white reads, "Amazon workers enrolled in SNAP and Medicaid nearly tripled since 2020 while the company plans to spend $200 billion on AI in 2026."
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
jstor is cutting their monthly free article limit from 100 to TEN??? ten articles??? per month? I'm lucky that I have a real job now so I can just request permission to expense the extra $200 per year this change is going to cost me, but that's not the case for everyone who wants to learn!!!
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On the one hand, I follow legal victories against this administration with some relief. On the other hand, I know that litigating every aspect of the social contract means there isn’t one anymore. And so it’s hard for me to get out of bed these days, is what I’m saying.
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Ash 🦴🦇 🌒 @ashrowan.design · 27/08/2026
the most American thing you can do is (try to) name everything after an Italian
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This show is so funny and sweet. Can't wait for a new season.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.
Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 19/08/2026
Would you rather have a system that saves trillions of dollars and countless lives or a system that prioritizes profit over your health? The answer is clear. We need Medicare for All.
Rep. Jayapal stands with a crowd holding "Medicare for All" signs. Above them is bold text promoting Medicare for All, highlighting trillions in savings and lives saved annually. Below the image, a statement from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health supports the benefits of a single-payer universal healthcare system.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm very excited to get started tomorrow! It's not too late to sign up if you'd like to join.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/08/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hi friends, I did my first round fighting skin cancer at age 32. And it keeps coming. Put sunscreen on your kids. Put it on yourself. Stay out of the sun if you can help it at all. Wear hats. Wear long sleeves. This is not something you can solve later in life.
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's not too late to sign up. We start Friday!
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hikercat.bsky.social @hikercat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I would rather have my tax dollars fund preschool for everyone than pay for republicans to launder my tax dollars through their billionaire buddies right back to republicans' coffers through donations.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A new Senate investigation says JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America processed massive sums tied to Jeffrey Epstein despite glaring red flags. Powerful institutions helped keep his operation running and every one of them must be held accountable. Follow the money, release everything.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 04/08/2026
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
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60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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@radbradley.bsky.social @radbradley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Warning: the President of the United States is kidnapping American citizens off the streets of blue states. Some of them return —most do not. Some are murdered in concentration camps owned by the President’s cronies. All of it is one big fat crime. None of our electeds will stop him. Will you?
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Abby @abby-writes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you are a writer in the "mucky middle" of your #WIP, join @anneliesekamola.bsky.social and me in our upcoming four-week writing course on structure. #writingcommunity #writers #authors #amwriting Sign up here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Republican Party owns this war They weren’t 'lied to' or 'misled' — they championed it Every single sitting Republican Senator, Representative, Cabinet official, and appointee — and every Republican candidate running will fall in line with it It's exactly the same for the Epstein files
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hug a professor today.
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