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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3h

Are you prepared? Emergencies aren't always big. Sometimes you dig into your emergency kit when you get to the office & realize you're wearing slippers! 😱 Glad I keep spare shoes in my car, even if I have to wear hiking boots all day. Being prepared serves us every day, not just our worst days.

A photo of someone holding slippers in one hand next to a foot wearing hiking boots.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 21h

Me on Facebook today: Hey y'all, got some bad news... 😔 I'm getting divorce--OH SHIT DID YOU FEEL THAT EARTHQUAKE???

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 22h

If you felt this earthquake, submit a report: zpr.io/UA6upKKXB4C3 Also, a reminder that we are practicing for earthquakes at 10:15am, Oct: 15 for the Great ShakeOut Earthquake and Tsunami Drill! Shakeout.org/washington

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 23h

The City of Westport is breaking ground on a new tsunami vertical evacuation tower. Join us for a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 in Westport. This will be the third tsunami vertical evacuation structure on the Washington coast. Full details: mil.wa.gov/news/westpor...

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Westport breaks ground on tsunami vertical evacuation tower

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 29/09/2026

#OTD 9/29/2009: A tsunami killed 192, brought destruction to the Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone in the south Pacific. This event sent a tsunami towards American Samoa, Samoa and the Tonga Islands. Learn about our state's tsunami risk reduction efforts at mil.wa.gov/tsunami

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I visited friends this weekend and my wife took the opportunity to completely move out of the house without telling me. 🤷 I only knew about it because the doorbell camera caught it. Like... I just... okay. Bye, I guess?

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing gets me foaming-at-the-mouth mad like people saying AI is inevitable or that we're already fucked because of it. It's not inevitable! We can fight it! You can literally just not use it! AAAHHHH.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the best show in the aquarium. Millions of years of evolution and these guys could not give less of a shit about us. There's one thing they want to do in life and they're doing it. It's fantastic.

Blue illum flumping in their aquarium like some little guys. They're just bopping around in there.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me packing for a 3-day trip during which I will never be out of Wi-Fi range: Okay, so 2 Kindle books downloaded for the flight there, and a paperback packed in case my phone battery dies, and also a charging cord to charge on the plane... Do I need another physical book just in case? Or maybe 3?

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 24/09/2026

Neighbors are the first responders of a major disaster. Despite how cute and fluffy their pets may be, they won’t be the ones able to help you when you may need it most. For National Preparedness Month, we want to encourage you to get to know your neighbors and work on preparedness together!

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I regret to announce that my brain's newest test for judging whether I'm currently dreaming is just asking "is my wife talking to me?" followed by "is my wife being nice to me?" and if the answers to both are yes then I'm definitely dreaming. It's like the Inception test but faster.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woke up to BlueSky talking about my college hyperfixation! Fun fact, I basically got an entire history BA because I found Japan's WWII biological warfare research program so interesting that I just kept taking history classes. .....I'm normal, I promise.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An observation based solely on personal opinion... The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003): Not good, and always worse than you remember it being. Van Helsing (2004): Not good, but always better than you remember it being.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Frog on dahlia.

A small green tree frog sitting inside a Break Out dahlia.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Could almost forgive my wife for leaving me, but never for leaving THEM. 🥺 #CatsOfBluesky #pets

A photo of two cats sleeping in the sunlight of a window seat. One is a calico and the other a tabby. They are the most perfect creatures on earth.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So the answer to "during his time on earth, did Jesus ever see an armadillo?" is: "the armadillo is nocturnal so it really all depends on what time of day it was when the Devil got round to showing him the Americas."

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The argument against AI should always start with the THEFT of creative labor the technology was built on. The intent was CRIMINAL. CEOs should be facing charges, not class action lawsuits. The devastation these companies continue to inflict on creative communities demands accountability.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pets are important bc you need something in your life you can say obsessively loving things to, like "I love you so much it hurts" and "You're not allowed to ever ever die" and "I would burn the whole world down for you." Humans tend to react badly to these sorts of things. Cats just expect them.

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Sunshine Smebdy @sunshinesmebdy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Moon enters Scorpio: You are allowed to become more selective about what deserves your emotional energy.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 13/09/2026

It’s a beautiful day to practice Drop, Cover and Hold On, walk your tsunami evacuation route and help your community get prepared! Won’t you be our neighbor and register for ShakeOut today at ShakeOut.org/Washington? ❤️ Yes, we're Mr. Rogers fans. #shakeout #wawx

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So... just so I understand where we are politically right now... If I'm a Democrat, I can say a bunch of transphobic shit and then people will just *wink wink* it away under the excuse that I'm only lying about being a bigot to get elected? 🤔 Am I allowed to do that about other minorities too?

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You know, when you think about it, Lake Placid is basically a Hallmark Channel movie. Uptight big city gal goes to a small town in the middle of nowhere after getting dumped and unexpectedly falls in love with the handsome, down-to-earth local game warden. It's really a love story at its heart.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You cannot understand emergency management today without understanding how the Bush administration & Congress took advantage of the post-9/11 shock to create the homeland security apparatus.

Just a few months later, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the window was opened for the largest reorganization of the federal government since the National Security Act of 1947. US emergency management was turned upside down, as reckless policy decisions that contradicted decades of disaster research and emergency management expertise were imple-mented. 402 The cataclysmic post-9/11 policy changes laid the groundwork for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure only a few years later, 403 and still contribute to slow and ineffective responses today.

The most significant of these changes was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. A month after 9/11, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) cosponsored a bill that took inspiration from the concept of the National Homeland Security Agency, proposing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As had happened when Representative Thornberry introduced nearly the same bill in the House months before, hearings were held, but no vote taken. The Bush administration, with support from the Hart-Rudman findings, presented a similar bill to Congress in June 2002. With pressure from the White House, the bill finally passed, and DHS was created. FEMA was subsumed by DHS along with other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Secret Service. In the reorganization, FEMA lost its status as an

independent, cabinet-level agency. Across the country, emergency management agencies got whiplash. 404
As this drastic reorganization and refocus of the federal government was underway, Congress wanted answers about the circumstances that led to the 9/11 attacks including an analysis of how intelligence agencies had failed to communicate with one another before the attack. Most relevant for emergency man-agement, Congress also wanted a better understanding of the effectiveness of the response at the Pentagon and in New York City. The answers to these questions were compiled into the 9/11 Commission Report released in 2004.405 The 9/11 Commission's findings concerned many emergency management ex-perts. 406 The Commission found that the immediate life-saving response measures conducted at the Pentagon had been success-ful. On the contrary, they criticized the response measures in New York City as uncoordinated.

This conclusion ran counter to the findings of disaster researchers in important ways. Disaster scholars documented first responders running into the towers, despite knowing they might never run back out. Inside the towers, people banded together to help each other out of the buildings, carrying coworkers who were disabled down dozens of flights of stairs, resulting in upward of sixteen thousand people evacuating in just 102 minutes.
Those who died were largely located on the floors above where the planes collided, making evacuation impossible.
Those who escaped the towers found people outside ready to guide them out of the dust. Local businesses opened their doors to offer refuge, and others handed out water or bandaged

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Being on the apps isn't working. Time to drive slowly through Gig Harbor while blasting Manalan Mailla from the Control: Resonant trailer with the windows down until I find my soulmate.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My wife told me she wants a divorce. That's a factual statement, not, like, the beginning of a joke or anything. So that's a thing that's happening. But hey! If you've secretly been crushing on me, now's your chance I guess. 🤷 Anyway, here's Wonderwall.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Does Nearer My God to Thee hit as hard if you're not a Titanic kid? Cause that shit fuckin *wrecks* me in literally any context but I can't tell if that's because I've been primed my entire life to hear it and think about death and sacrifice. ...yes, I did just watch Midnight Mass, why do you ask?

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I came here to see how many people would reply/quote with a gif of Francis Dolarhyde eating the painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun and I was not disappointed.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This bitch right here, y'all. One of my favorite villains/anti-heroes of all time (and illustrated by the great @michaelwhelan.bsky.social!) If you haven't read The Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman, you gotta jump on it. Geologically-based magic system, hostile planet, and bitchiest villain ever.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How I sleep knowing I just deleted all the emails in my human's work inbox.

A photo of a sleeping calico cat who looks very satisfied with herself.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

TIME AND TIDE (2009) Oil - 24” x 18” This painting started out to be just a morning exercise, kind of a companion idea to TIME'S PASSING. 1/2 #art

Rippling cobalt sea fades to pale sky as seen through a tall rectangular portal set in the wall of ancient ruins. Rough in outline where blocks are missing—showing through where the fit is uneven—the "window" outward is bathed in golden light and framed by an arched doorway, which is in turn bordered by a simple carved stone arch set in relief. The base is grown over with leafy vines blossoming with pale lavender wildflowers. Beyond the window floats a transparent sphere containing a solitary flame. Set on the stone step leading to the view out, the spiral of an ammonite rests open end up, drawing the viewers eye up to the floating sphere and above where missing blocks show through to pale blue.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There is someone in my life right now who needs to hear this.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Rewatching Parks and Rec and realized the "book about old boats" Ron reads during the harvest festival is one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubreyad books. 🥺 He really is my dad.

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm not the bigger person. I’ll heal in hell. Says Skeletor comforted by the fact he won’t be alone there.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At a friend's birthday party: Wow, seems like a bit of an echo chamber here. :/ Did you even consider inviting people who fucking hate you?

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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'Crime is down, which is why I've secured more funding, even though the state cut spending elsewhere due to a budget deficit, to hire more police.'

Meme picture of a dark-skinned man looking confused with question marks near his head.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 15/08/2026

This graphic shows wave arrival times from a modeled Alaska tsunami. Unlike a local tsunami, you won't feel the earthquake that generates a distant tsunami. It will take an estimated 3.5–4 hours to reach the outer coast, which gives you valuable time to take protective action.

Map of Washington showing estimated tsunami wave arrival times from a modeled Alaska tsunami, ranging from about 3.5 hours along the outer coast to more than 7 hours in southern Puget Sound

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Alex M. Stein (Coldfootfilms) @alexmstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I don't want to single any one group or person out... but I've seen a ton of AI slop in the past week for causes I support. Please don't do that. If you or your group are using obvious AI slop, it makes me wonder what side you're really on.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I love munchie movies (movies where people get eaten by things), which are typically also action movies, but damn if my brain doesn't completely turn off when it hears long, noisy gunfire sequences. I get that they have to be loud to be realistic to the scene, but also, like, do they??

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A digital approximation of an illustrated Egyptian papyrus scroll. On the left is the god of the dead, Anubis, a human with the head of a black jackal. He is in a kneeling position in a classic stylized Egyptian pose. He is facing Ammit, a quadrupedal deity with the head of a Nile crocodile, the forelimbs and trunk of a lion (my source for this had spots and stripes so mine does too, don't email), and the hindquarters or a hippopotamus. They are high fiving in front of the scales Anubis uses to weigh the souls of the dead. The heart of the deceased (in a canoptic jar) is weighed against the feather of Ma'at to determine if the decedant can enter the afterlife. As the heart shown has outweighed the feather, it will be devoured by Ammit and its owner will pass into oblivion. The gods are surrounded by heiroglyphics I just traced from sources and should not be analyzed by scholars under any circumstances. Some slashy lettering around the top of the scales reads 'Maybe it will happen today'.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 13/08/2026

NEW Release from us and @wadnr.bsky.social: Statewide tsunami modeling for a tsunami originating from Alaska is now available. Learn the details here: washingtonstategeology.wordpress.com

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What if.... hear me out.... we let people work disaster response remotely when they're coughing up a storm instead of coming in person to the EOC to get everyone else sick too? Do you think we could try that? Maybe?

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fun fact! There's a pretty compelling theory (imo) that this optical illusion was the reason the Titanic's crew couldn't see the iceberg until it was right on top of them. Fata Morgana can also make objects on the horizon "collapse" and disappear completely from view.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Disney is making a Warrior Cats animated series and I for one can't wait to see an animated version of the scene where the main villain kitty gets so completely KO'd by the new villain kitty that he bleeds out all of his nine lives at once.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I made a meme for the people who are blessed to know the pure, undying love of a sweet dumb boy cat. (Yes, that's mine.) #CatsOfBluesky #CatMemes

A meme with a person pointing at the sky that says "if nobody got me, I know my boy cat got me, can I get an amen?" with a picture of a tabby cat pasted in the clouds.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 06/08/2026

Do you know someone who is looking to help their community and is either retired, in college or has a flexible schedule? If so, they may make a great disaster reservist! mil.wa.gov/disaster-res... #wawildfire

Text says, "WANT TO HELP DISASTER SURVIVORS? BECOME A DISASTER RESERVIST!' Picture shows all types of people.

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