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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I once tried to cope with a frightening political landscape by cutting everything I deemed "frivolous" from my life and it nearly broke me. This time around I committed to not allowing political terror steal my joy and I think that's important for all of us. Let's talk about the power of pleasure!

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The Power of Pleasure: How Joy Sustains Us in Uncertain Times

When the world is chaotic it can be tempting to abandon small pleasures. Let's talk about why joy is more important that ever!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025

we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

My family’s ridiculous cancer history has no genetic cause and the main contributing factor we’ve been able to identify is “NJ before the EPA” so, yeah…

Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Do you feel it? Do you feel the momentum shift? The will of the people is strong. And we all know the only way out is through & the only way through, is together. Resist. Persist. Standup. Speak out. Fight. We can do this. We WILL do this. We ARE doing it. And we will not stop.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 01/04/2025

"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That's true. Also, I'm just sitting here crying over Cory Booker so we're probably lucky I didn't say some nonsense like "the real senators are the friends we made along the way"

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I have work to do but I can't stop sitting here crying about Cory Booker. That's my senator. Though today I think he's everyone's senator.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

When Ted Cruz tried to filibuster he read from Dr. Seuss. In contrast, @booker.senate.gov came prepared with BINDERS full of stories of how this administration has harmed the country in the last 2 months. The work his staff did to make this happen is both impressive and unsurprising.

Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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Cory Booker is spitting TRUTH on the Senate floor right now!! He’s been going all night, and if he keeps going, he may just break a record! Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!! Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So my birth certificate has my name as JoEllen and my other IDs now have it as Jo Ellen. I suspect this means I can never vote again.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025

Time to speak up

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is also a problem in the world of freelancing, where "hyper-productivity" is often praised. Making matters worse is the way book contracts are structured - most of the money isn't given to an author till after delivery of manuscript, so writers feel pressure to deliver as quickly as possible.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

SOA are petitioning Sec. of State for Culture, Media & Sport to protect authors & prevent unlicensed AI scraping. Please sign & share! www.change.org/p/protect-au...

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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Last week I submitted an article about the power of finding joy right now. Then one of my employers published an article about the same thing. Now I’m seeing more and more people post about this exact idea. I think we’re all onto something. Fight, protest, and don’t let the fuckers take our joy.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’ve been thinking about how I’ve failed to replicate the success I had on Twitter on any other platform and I realized that a big part of it is that after Twitter’s destruction, I feel like I don’t have it in me to try to do that again and that none of it really matters.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What's fun is that nobody's really listening to me here, so I really feel like I can say whatever the hell I want. With that in mind, yeah, I'm sort of losing my shit and I like pineapple on pizza (it's not my favorite, but I don't mind it)

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

But also, yes, it's a lot right now. I'm not sleeping enough, I can barely focus on anything, and I just cannot stop eating. Literally I just want to eat everything in sight. I'm like Miss Pac-Man but without the cool bow. I'm seeing the psychiatrist on Friday. I'm hoping he has some insight.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Ever since the time someone on Twitter responded to me talking about the pain of the first Mother's Day without my mother by yelling at me about how I wasn't the only person who had ever lost a mother, I hesitate to share these things publicly because, yes, everyone struggles. Many far worse than I.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Now, in addition to that, the country is crumbling, my dog is rapidly aging, my back is threatening return to the spinal surgery place, and my body decided we would jump into the perimenopause fray the very week I turned 46 (nice timing). Folks, I'm not going to lie, it's a lot.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

On 3/24/21 my mom, bothered by lingering back pain and some other weird symptoms, and despite just having a dr appointment where things were "normal" went to the hospital. 6 days later we learned she had pancreatic cancer. 24 days after that she was dead. This time of year feels a bit "off" for me

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Honestly, I'm in NJ, a state that has accessible healthcare, reproductive freedom, trans rights, and an AG who does stuff like sue the bad guys. It could be worse. I just worry that that's all keeping me *feeling* safer than I should feel.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The country is crumbling, my little dog’s mortality is showing, my spine is threatening me with another injury/surgery (right when my insurance might go away!), and one of my books is part of the LibGen/Meta mess. I’m feeling surprisingly calm and that itself is kind of scaring me.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Yeah, I know… it’s on my list as like “I guess I should deal with this somehow while I also think about what I would have to do if I needed to flee the country” 😂 I miss you ❤️❤️❤️

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Mentally I’ve been struggling lately (who hasn’t?!) and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to hold onto kindness. So even if it kills me (and I’m realistic about that as a possibility) I’m choosing kindness and compassion over the casual brutality that capitalism tries to tell us is normal.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My dog's arthritis is making me weirdly good at guessing the day's barometric pressure. If he seems uncomfortable we are almost definitely at 29 and going down.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I’ve been curious about CBD oil for him. Years ago, a vet told me it did nothing but now a decade later, so many people swear by it and I will try anything to keep him out of pain.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It feels like my dog aged suddenly in the last 6 weeks. I'm having a hard time grasping that his life now might just be slower, quieter, a little wobblier, and a lot more snoozy. If anyone has words of wisdom/comfort for accepting the new normal and not constantly panicking about it, I'll take them.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

When my second book came out in 2023 the running joke was that I managed to get it released without anything terrible happening. You’re welcome, world!

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I just realized that five years ago today I canceled the tour to promote my first book. Yes, my first book came out in March 2020 which is actually very on brand for me. My first career was in theater and my first NYC show went into rehearsals 5 days before 9/11. My timing is atrocious.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Four years ago I bought a used Subaru with the intention of owning it as long as possible. I’ve been meticulously caring for it ever since. I love this car. Am I now in trouble with the government for illegally boycotting Tesla?

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So I’ve been thinking about how I cut all of my hobbies out of my life circa 2017-2021 and it nearly broke my brain so I’m trying not to do that now and I keep thinking about the dual control model in because of my brain’s impulse to slam the brakes on things that bring me joy in stressful times.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I've been thinking lately that the Dual Control Model is actually a useful way to think of how the brain can work in a ton of nonsexual contexts.

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Joan Price @joanprice.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Interview with @enagoski.bsky.social by @brenebrown93.bsky.social: brenebrown.com/articles/202... Pay special attention to #5: "Everything you were taught about how sex is supposed to work in long-term relationships is wrong. All of it."

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5 Questions With Emily Nagoski - Brené Brown

The sex educator and author of "Come Together" talks about the science of creating lasting sexual connections.

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Joan Price @joanprice.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Activism in action!

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I had a public clash with an older gentleman today. The gist of my argument was “stop blasting us with a fire hose of ugly negative rhetoric in our PT waiting room and, you know what, I believe the world DOES still have good people in it” I hate confrontation but I stand by the sentiment.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

My current car is the first car I have ever truly loved. This has led to me having much more experience with the car was than ever before. Consequently I have learned that I care way less about tire shininess than a lot of people.

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I need to get back to regular writing. I have some things I need to get out into the world. I’m thinking a lot about the importance of holding onto stuff that bring us pleasure and joy even when the world is falling apart and also, something about accepting my dog’s transition to “elderly”

JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So my name does not have a space between “Jo” and “Ellen” but sometimes, especially if I’m not careful when filling out applications stuff ends up having a space. For example, my passport. When using that to get my REAL ID the names had to match so now, all my IDs actually have my name wrong 😂

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Two years ago today my second book made its way into the world. It’s bizarre to me that it’s been that long mostly because the last four years of my life feel like a weird black hole time warp thing. It’s a good little book. I’m proud of it. redheadbedhead.com/together

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In It Together - The Redhead Bedhead

"In It Together" by JoEllen Notte is an insightful and much-needed guidebook for people with depression and those who love them.

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

After over a decade of being an affiliate with them, I just received a vaguely worded email from ShareASale saying my account is being terminated. I don't really make affiliate sales anymore, but still, really sad about losing @shevibe.bsky.social for vague reasons no one is explaining.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/03/2025

this denial of empathy/shared fate is politically useful. consider how “the end of the pandemic” was produced—a combination of cutting public programs and resources and “you do you” propaganda that had people acting like other people masking somehow hurt them

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JoEllen Notte @joellennotte.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Online there’s a lot of this feeling that the most negative take is always the most realistic/intelligent. I disagree with this. Do we have to be realistic? Yeah. But I think we can do that and still maintain kindness, hope, and, you know, the ability to not be insufferable assholes.