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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones

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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Unpopular opinion: Rhubarb season doesn’t end until first frost. Fight me.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
So tired. Just finished one paper for school, on to coding for work. I feel lined with lead, my body is so heavy and sluggish. I slept plenty! Why must I feel like this on a weekend and when the weather is actually pleasant?! Unfair.
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were-duck @were-duck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
PERFECT no notes
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“I never expected all these leopards to eat my country’s face,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, who bred and trained face-eating leopards for decades.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We smashed the patriarchy. Unsurprisingly, it was full of play money and Dum Dums.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Also, the piñatas are finally stuffed and sealed. One more day to make them diabolically impregnable and then PAINTING and then SMASHING!
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Random dude I gave a plant to after I saw him admiring my garden dropped off a card with the pot, this was inside. MY BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT RADIATES, GUYS. 🤘
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
WAIT. Guys, if my phone can vibrate…is there an app or anything that can make it PURR?!
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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
feels like the writer has known several cats
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I bought a fainting couch today. It will go with literally nothing else I own but HOW COULD I NOT?!
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Apropos of this ask, my preferred genres include: Hopecore, sci-fi/fantasy, thinky but not boring non-fiction, and romance mixed with a secondary genre. Literary fiction welcome but only if it can make me laugh/hope and doesn’t make me despair.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/04/2025
Anyone who tells you that holding on to things you love is a distraction doesn’t want you to win.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Oh my god, where has my energy gone?!
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I…bought avocados. You can’t “stock up” on those but you can sure savor their ready availability while it lasts.
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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
#USPol I made a little power point presentation on what's happening in markets
shitty MSPaint style approximation of stock charts, with steep trends downward labelled "trump says something" and the jagged climbs upward labelled "but not for real, right?" "maybe it was a joke?" "he's kidding, right?"  The chart does not go up as far as it goes down.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Turned out nice.
Picture of author at table surrounded by prop flames holding speech bubble that says “this is fine.”
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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"We can't save the world with joy, but we can be a reprieve before the fight." (h/t @nrlines.bsky.social)
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Having friends over for drinks tonight. Making photo backdrop out of cardboard.
Cardboard cartoon speech bubble that says “this is fine.”
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today was a lot. Like, would have cried multiple times but I was too busy a lot. Tomorrow I am going to try to make some time to spend with plants.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Off my LAWN.
AO3 comment “omg a fanfic from before I was born got me sobbing”
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Unfortunately, the measles party controls all 3 branches of government
arstechnica.com
Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing
Twenty people have been hospitalized. Most cases are in children.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ray’s only friend just punked out on their birthday hangout. It’s hard to see your kid sad and lonely, but he’s long past the age when I could arrange playdates. 💔
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Okay so did the Fourth Wing trilogy ever make it clear at any point that it was not going to be a trilogy? Because I just got whiplash from that cliffhanger. I don’t read series in progress for a reason!
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Morgan Dawn @morgandawn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are fabulous Americans!
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Today’s flowers.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
My primary motivations to write: 1. Something is due 2. Something *else* is due that I am avoiding by writing 3. Technical challenge of some sort 4. Thought experiment
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Spending the weekend in a bunk unit in a six-woman room of a DC hostel because N is with the kids so I can’t go home but I’m not sure I’ll have a job next week so I can’t spend money.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I keep telling myself I will be sad if I eat all of this carrot cake. But I’m already sad? So I might as well have cake too.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Oh my God y’all I just had an Awkward Moment in which I went out to dinner with some people I work with - I organized & chose the place, we met there, all good - but at the end of the meal it transpired that they had thought I/my employer was paying 😬
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Democracy only works if the rules are upheld. OH HEY LIKE BOUNDARIES. They only work if people respect them, and if you are willing to enforce them when people violate them.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“Some liberation is always at hand.” - Pico Ayer
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Going dancing even though the people I was supposed to go with backed out. But I have my party hair on, so you know it will be a good time!
Picture of me in a blue fiber optic light-up wig
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How’s this for a weird sentence: Based on my Pinterest bookmarks, the algorithm thinks I have “edgy” style. …Algo, honey.
screencap of algorithm suggestion
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Morgan Dawn @morgandawn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The best time to unionize was 2 years ago. The next best time to unionize is now.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Fighting to keep the dream alive
linocut print of robot carrying sign reading “robot bodies now”
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Wedging & rolling 25 lb of pottery. Gonna be the MOST sore tomorrow. Worth it!
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How it’s going
Email from my work about court freeze on OMB stop work order
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
These li’l fuckers have been in mealybug quarantine for a month & still infested after sprays, drenches, and hand-removal with rubbing alcohol and q-tips. Why is evil so persistent?!
sad-looking plants in a bathtub
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#uspol I called my Senators to ask them to oppose the nominations (in priority order) of Kennedy, Gaetz, Gabbard, and Hegseth. Now is a good time to put all your reps on speed dial if you haven’t already! Makes calling them 100% easier.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Those of you who prep for apocalypses? I mean, I’m not hardcore but I have a Bad Feeling About This. Maybe make sure you have all your meds, masks, and whatever “staples” are for you.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I moth you the hole time we are apart
A linocut of moths and knitting with holes in it
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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A partial list

I believe the days are getting longer. I believe this nation can become the land of promise my mother understood it to be. I believe we have obligations to each other. I believe every human being is made in the divine image. I believe in science. I believe fundamentalism damages the spirit. I believe truth matters. I believe everyone should be ethical. I believe hope is a discipline. I believe what I see with my own eyes. I believe vaccines work. I believe we shall overcome someday. I believe life is always better with music. I believe we are stronger together than we are apart. I believe a better world is possible. I believe as a Jew I am obligated to love the stranger. I believe there is more than enough to go around. I believe it takes work not to swing at every pitch in the dirt. I believe I would be a terrible baseball player. I believe no race or gender is superior. I believe there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy. I believe healing the world is everyone’s responsibility. I believe it’s the government’s job to care for all of its citizens. I believe human beings are meaning-making machines. I believe Star Wars Episode IV is the best of the bunch. I believe humanity can be better than we have been. I believe that spring will come. I believe that love matters. I believe it is not incumbent on me to finish the work. I believe I am enjoined to begin anyway.

R. Rachel Barenblat
Velveteen Rabbi
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I love my child, but I absolutely DREAD the 30-45 minutes between when he wakes up and when his meds kick in.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
You know what is just really super great, is when you want to eat a food, like a specific food, and you have it! That exact food! And you can eat it! I am glorying in this perfect, fleeting confluence of supply and demand.
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the-shoshanna @the-sho.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Transcription of second post, in alt text. "Find something tangible to do for yourself and others, however small, and do it as hard as you can." #uspol
So... I heard from a friend of 20+ years who works for the State Department who confirmed to me in so many words that they can assure me, without specifics, that "all of the suppositions you have made here are true.”

So. yep. Passport folx at the State Department really did work incredibly long hours this week just... shoveling every passport out the door (and prioritizing the ones that might be A Problem come Monday) and yes, they did On Purpose make sure that all of them weren't just DONE but MAILED and out the door and in the hands of the USPS so that they can't be told to pull those passports back and deny/destroy them.

This also means they got the OK for the *mountains of overtime* from the Biden administration to get that done.

This is what I mean when I say that the Good Work is often not glamorous and that we have to prioritize things which actively and immediately better the lives of our siblings. The State Department worker who was still in the office last night at midnight Pacific time stuffing my passport into an Express Mail envelope and making sure that it was in the hands of USPS has done more liberatory work for the trans movement than 100 people endlessly auditing the language others use to describe their lives ever will.

These next years are gonna be real hard. Find something tangible to do for yourself and others, however small, and do it as hard as you can.
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the-shoshanna @the-sho.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This was re-re-reskeeted onto my timeline without alt text, so I'm reskeeting the original image with it, because it was a ray of sunshine in these dark times. It's too long to transcribe in one skeet, so there will be two. #uspol
Screenshot of two social media posts from a platform I don't recognize, from the username "vaspider". This is the text of the first post (second transcription in next skeet; they're too long to combine):

1: So... I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned be my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're *my fucking hero*.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Not about anything I know about but a great general plea
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I am so tired of being angry and bitter and resentful. I want to move on, but I feel trapped here.
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Miss Ella Norah Smith-Jones @ellanorah.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The small benefit of personal heartbreak is that it distracts from national and global heartbreak. #silverlinings
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/01/2025
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
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