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Ashley Chappell

@ashchap.bsky.social
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SFF Author, NASA Nerd, Green Advocate, Mother of Cats and all-around weirdo.

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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
And here I thought I still had at least a few weeks before scorpion season started back up.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The government punishing a law firm for defending a client seems like the kind of tyranny we fought a revolution against.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
•Monday: federal holiday, so I spent the day preparing for my inevitable unlawful and meritless termination by pouring over my finances. •Tuesday: higher than usual number of bathroom breaks due to stress-eating about the fresh new socio-political horrors we endure each day. Who's got Wednesday?
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I miss the date when the only horrors I worried about were Eldritch.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
truthout.org
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We'll be laying my grandfather to rest on Friday, and today I went through some of my favorite pics of him for the funeral. This one of him walking me down the aisle at my wedding will always make me cry.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's harder to reach, but the whimsy is still there.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just got terrible news. Please send your best memes that are guaranteed for a smile no matter what 💜 Here's one of mine to start.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/02/2025
Remember when the Journal detailed the security risks of Musk’s conversations with Putin?
wsj.com
Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger So say the ones who've never suffered. They want to rip the band-aid off of wounds they never even bled.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
hey question, is this bad?
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is not disruption. This is reversion. They are not "disrupters." They are devolvers. These are important distinctions.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Who else thinks Trent Crimm's hair should have its own casting credit? Those locks are amazing. #TedLasso
media.tenor.com
a man stands in front of a crowd with the words trent crimm the independent written below him
ALT: a man stands in front of a crowd with the words trent crimm the independent written below him
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I don't know who authorized this national LARP of Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, but I'd like them to quit it, pretty please.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Just checking in - how are my fellow federal employees out there holding up? Personally, I'm just glad dry January is almost over.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is how my cat tells me she doesn't support the full time return to the office. My socks will never remain matched again.
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Gerald L. Coleman @geraldcoleman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Stop by the award winning, speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons, if you haven’t already, and check out my new poem—“age of villains”—in the latest issue. Please leave a “like” at the bottom of the poem if you enjoy it. Thanks! strangehorizons.com/poetry/age-o...
strangehorizons.com
age of villains
surviving / while black / is our superpower / we lift broken down / cars / over our heads / and that’s just a tuesday
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka: ICE agents, during a warrantless raid, detained undocumented residents as well as citizens. “One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.” www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
northjersey.com
ICE raids establishment in Newark, detains undocumented residents
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a local establishment in the city.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Art makes everything 1,000% better.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yes - be mad. But also take action. Help the helpers. linktr.ee/transequalit...
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Can we pretty please have bonus episodes of Ted Lasso to get us through the dark times ahead? They can just be short episodes. Anything really. Just the cast standing around chatting while holding puppies and kittens would do.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
When you're majestic AF and you know it.
Tuxedo cat with paw extended majestically
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Ira Bearbussy 🦋 @bearbussy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Share & repost friends
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A reminder for the "there can be only 2" crowd:
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Flu sucks, but apparently Theraflu is good for my writing mojo. One dose and I'm too wired to sleep and just managed to work out all the final details on a short story that's been stymied by a severe spoon shortage for the past year. I'll take the W on that one.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Can we just have one hero who doesn't eventually turn out to be a monster?
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Enjoy this little moment of Zen on me. What a perfect day.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I followed a little critter track in the snow today - my tracks for scale. Sad to say it didn't hang around for cuddles.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Just showing off 2 of my favorite pieces by @elizabetheadeart.bsky.social !
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I so needed this snow day!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“It’s difficult to believe the degradation of our information systems is by accident. If we’re unable to accurately report how and why we’re in this disaster, the people responsible won’t be held accountable. Their net worth continues to increase exponentially at the same clip as public ignorance.”
thehandbasket.co
Scorched Earth
The precarity of living on a burning planet.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just when it's going to be more important than ever to battle the dis- and misinformation mills, Zuck pulls off the final piece of his human suit and drops this.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Yay! $400 worth of fraudulent charges on my debit card. Just what I wanted for Christmas.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I wish I'd remembered that I burned the hell out of the roof of my mouth last night before I decided to use hot salsa as my salad dressing.
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of a woman holding a fireball in her hand
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Cases of whooping cough in Michigan are at their highest level in at least 20 years, as vaccinations decline. The disease can be deadly to infants. Alarmed by the increase, doctors are pleading for families to vaccinate their children.
bridgemi.com
Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Michigan, as vaccinations decline | Bridge Michigan
A potentially deadly disease in infants, whooping cough — pertussis — has exploded in Michigan this year, in part because of decreased vaccination rates.
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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
(Also if it’s not already clear, I finished Alice Will by @ashchap.bsky.social and I immediately had to go seek out copies of books 2&3. I definitely found a new favorite author! ❤️)
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I'm going to need the entire #Arcane S2 soundtrack playing on repeat. This is 🔥
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Ahhh yes, the season has arrived when I can wear my favorite holiday pajamas with pride and pretend that I didn't already wear them all year long.
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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I’m only about a third of the way through and really loving this book so far! Nice to escape into a high fantasy with such incredible world-building for a little while. It’s like taking a mini vacation with every chapter. So well put together! ✨💕 @ashchap.bsky.social
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New hair, new mood!
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
FB: We're going to force AI down your throat in a helpful way! FB Groups: Hi, I'm your new entirely unasked for AI Moderator and my name is Speculum! Women everywhere: Welcome to our world, bitches.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hey @multiversecon.bsky.social, can we have a panel at MV25 on The Penguin? Because I feel like I could have an entire conversation around the dismantling of the patriarchy that occurred in Ep5.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Oh, nothing, just watching The Legend of Vox Machina with my cat...
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My top artists of the year according to Tidal. I'm noticing a theme 😂 Also, Tidal pays artists more per stream than Spotify.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Looks like it's a slumber party on the couch tonight with these cute little terrorists.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'm reading book 1 (AUGUST KITKO AND THE MECHAS FROM SPACE) and it's friggin' phenomenal. Seriously, buy these books and fall in love.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Finally got to start on #Arcane season 2 and AHHHHHHHH it's so friggin good.
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Ashley Chappell @ashchap.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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