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Chela 🐝 Cottrell

@chelacottrell.bsky.social
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My middle child has mild dyslexia and graphic novels unlocked a world for her she was struggling to access. Once she gained confidence from reading graphic novels she was able to move onto traditional fiction and is now an accomplished reader with great reading comprehension. Reading is reading!
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It feels like the anti-intellectualism has ramped up to a visceral desire to just not know *anything*. If the administration wants to control what everyone thinks as true- getting rid of anything factual is definitely a place to start.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Good work Sir!
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Did he say “meat wife” 👀
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Two doggies sleeping together for cuddles 🥰
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
He looks wise and like I would ask him for directions
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My 11 yo daughter was late to reading due to some medical issues- graphic novels broke through the struggle. After that it was Hunger Games and then -Yes!- Divergent that turned her into an avid reader. Forever thankful.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
We do my husbands family on Christmas Eve- immediate family in Christmas morn- and my side of the fam for Christmas dinner and Christmas afternoon. It works and it’s awesome.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Play kitchen year was one of my favorite parenting years/ ours went through three kids and then onto two nieces before going out into the wilds of the “buy nothing” subscribers. Enjoy the heck out of yours!
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/11/2024
"kamala harris will protect your right to disagree with her" is something i haven't really heard from another surrogate and i find it genuinely compelling?
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Ask at your local grocery store!
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
CEOs can write off the entire cost of their private jets, but you can’t write off the cost of the car you use to drive to work. This is what it looks like when billionaires and corporations are allowed to fund the election campaigns of the politicians who write our tax laws.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Thanks for telling us when to take PTO next year 😉 Looking forward to it!
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
Justice Cavalier
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
I'm honestly floored and very honored. Thank you so much. Here's a link:
thehandbasket.co
We can slay giants
Tech companies and thin-skinned billionaires won't get the final word
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Can confirm. Webs through the entire house.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Vegas also has 24 hr chapels… just sayin’
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
That grumpy owl pic is begging to be a meme- so many opportunities with that expression!
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Patrick! @tragicgay.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
I have reopened the webshop and art-for-sale at tomgauld.com, and added a few new drawings: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
Title: The shocking truth of what is going on in our public libraries!
Image 1: A librarian hands a book to a girl saying "I think you'll enjoy this". The caption reads: Teens prescribed mind-altering experiences!
Panel 2: A librarian reads to toddlers under a 'Reading is Fun!' poster. The caption reads: Children indoctrinated from an early age!
Panel 3: A librarian checks out a pile of books for a user, saying "come again soon!". The caption reads: Free samples distributed to promote addiction!
Panel 4: A figure approaches the library by night passing a sign for a Ulysses Study Group. The caption reads: Groups gather by night to study arcane texts!
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
Any thought on NG911 going cloud based?
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
I imported 31 friends from Twitter to Bluesky
skygaze.io
Import your Twitter follows to Bluesky
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Please tell me you are calling them Bluey and Bingo
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Love this pattern!
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
*Gasp* SISTERS!! I love how one has blue eyes and the other brown.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Super cute!! Boys or girls?
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
“Hollaback Girl” by Ms. Gwen Stefani herself 😎, 2024 is going to be B-A-N-A-N-A-S (which I think we all kinda already knew)
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
An added layer of reflection for the New Year
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
I usually speed through books at a high clip- “Wanderers” forced me to slow and think. Will be one I turn to again.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
((Mushroom and Olive is my fave))
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Beautiful way to start the day 💕
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Knowing spouses are priceless and mine stocked my favorite Xmas treat for the rainy mornings. May your soda arrive swiftly.
Two containers of Peppermint mocha flavored coffee creamer
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
The message (I take from the film- open to interpretation)of “be who you are and that’s good enough” is still as beautiful today as it was when the movie came out.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
We will have her TIME magazine cover edition in our home forever. Absolute representation.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Congratulations on your GMC- great choice
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
All government issue commuters
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Oh dear
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Standards have certainly slipped
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Right now, Dispatchers are classified as “Office and Clerical” which prevents us from training the way we need to train, and also does not give us protections from presumptive conditions. Support the 9-1-1 Saves act by reaching out to your representatives. torres.house.gov/media-center...
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
The 9-1-1 Saves Act reclassifies dispatchers under the federal "safety" classification under the Office of Management and Budget. You want this to happen. As citizens, as someone who may need to call 9-1-1, as someone who wants a human to hear the true meaning behind their words.
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
There is a sound behind the sound that trained dispatch professionals listen for- the sound for words that cannot safely be said- the sound of how many people are in the room- the sounds of barely veiled fear. Dispatchers train for months to “solo-out” from training- everyday they learn..
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Ordered from our favorite local bookstore!
A circular logo of a smiling Golden Retriever reading a hard-back book
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
How you know you are winning at parenting
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Today we saw a double-rainbow on the drive home-a small reminder that there is so much joy in the world
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Chela 🐝 Cottrell @chelacottrell.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
“Appreciation in advance” = the rage of 1,000 suns
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