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Missa

@missahaarstad.bsky.social
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Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s zemblanity ✨✨✨ Visual Function/Eye to Brain Chain Nerd, she/her

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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 19/02/2026
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Put! It! Back!
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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland
The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Why would someone do this?!? 😂(laughing because I’m that perplexed)
Picture of a dude standing on a cement floor joining wood subfloor. Cement was an addition. To the left of the dude’s feet is a floor vent. Written above in a very dark green is “OMG He(the original homeowner) cemented the vent work”
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I do not understand it. The pulmonologist has a copy of a referral from my primary care clinic, all the visit notes post house fire that mention a grade 2 smoke injury, the chest x-ray…. And still wanted to force me to go get physical copies of all of this to make a first appointment 🙃 WHAT
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coachbalto.bsky.social @coachbalto.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If you live in Oregon especially outside of Portland. Please contact your state representative asap. #BikeBus should be all over the state & this Safe Routes to School funding helps make that happen.
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WA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If you want to help keep whistles flowing in WA, here are some great options: Hanwiskan has NINE 3D printers running fullstop on whistles. Help him out with some new hotends: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Ryan in West Seattle - www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Sick teenager comes into the kitchen. “I thought I smelled gas, then realized it’s just me- I stink. WAIT. No, that smell I’m smelling is dinner” 💀 Love you too, Kid 🙃🙃🙃
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:
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In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat - Bolts
With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff this year, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Adding maraschino cherries to random drinks
Cherry cola soda with two maraschino cherries in a blue rimmed glass is held in hand
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Tacos for breakfast
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Apparently I’m at the prime age for seeing certain scenes from the Mandalorian and thinking “Oh cool I haven’t seen RobiCop in ages” 💀 I swear it’s the hair
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I could do a “Best of 2025” thread but literally survived a serious mental health crisis only to almost die in a house fire 🤷‍♀️ Imma bought as serious and inspirational as a classic remade into a muppet movie 🫶✨🫶
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I *tried* making viral crispy tacos and it didn’t come out as anticipated 🤣
10 soft tacos on a pan lined with brown parchment paper. The tortillas busted and curled upwards and the cheese melted everywhere
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Guess who just made their 1st completely independent trip to the grocery store post brain injury?!? Using the white cane to walk vs a mobility cane was SO MUCH BETTER.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I just saw a Santa, full costume- hat, beard, top, boots. Except, oddly he was wearing cotton mauve shorts that showed his knees. Dude hustled outta Marshall’s to his beater red hatchback. If he’d had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, we’d be in a John Hughes movie.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Getting lit today (Laser surgery)
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Come on CFBC- you can do better than “regret the incident happened” 🤨 Ya’ll’ve been having live animals for multiple decades (I was in elementary school when you started!) Ya’ll know better. This is 🍌🍌🍌 www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Houston megachurch attendee kicked by camel during extravagant Christmas show
Champion Forest Baptist Church said a guest was hit by a camel used in its annual Christmas Spectacular.
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Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is quite the statement about housing etc from one of the shittiest slumlords in current existence who is also well known for stealing wages 🤨
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The last seven days or so have just been all kinds of devastating and heartbreaking
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Faye @fayelands.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
In these moments may we each of us find a way to illuminate the darkness. Chag sameach.
Chanukah menorah. With one candle lit and shamash.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/12/2025
May their memories be for a blessing May we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, all of them
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
the good that you do persists in this world
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
So much beauty and goodness in these responses. Chag Sameach. May light keep pouring forth and lighting the way to your health, wholeness, and joyfulness.
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Simon Christiansen @simonchris.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Poem of the Day: "Twilight of Wisdom" #poetry #poem #poemoftheday
Twilight of Wisdom

In a dark library
devoid of patrons,
I came upon a man
in a white cloak,
reading an ancient tome.
Dust fell from pages
as they turned, 
drifting like grey snow.
“What are you reading?” I asked.
“I do not read,” he said.
“I clear the dust.”
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“Could I be a rogue?” “Mom. No.”
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Color contrast affects readability on the web and in print. It is especially important for users who are low vision or for users who are colorblind. Good color contrast means all users can see your content no matter the device they’re using or the lighting of their surroundings.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Marketing works lol. (Story time!) So since my brain injury in August, my brain is spitting a lot of memories/nostalgia stuff at me. Initially with wound/burn care on my left leg/butt cheek, my very not online partner would pop up a leg to rest *my* leg up to change bandages.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Shocking no one, our Mac and Cheese Bundt did not make it whole out of the Bundt pan 🤷‍♀️
A Doritos crusted Mac and cheese bake is sitting on a white poly cutting board like a very sad fallen gingerbread house The remnants of the sad Doritos and Mac and Cheese Bundt is being scooped out of Bundt pan with  white and blue spatula
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My oldest teen just asked us which world war Eminem is a veteran from 😆
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I just feel awful for the National Guard troopers caught up in this. They’re just standing around looking bored all the time, but they have been made into a deliberate symbol by the Trump admin and that may have made them a target for this gunman.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
What’s up with today, today
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hell yes!
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
And what it all comes down to Is that I haven’t got it all figured out just yet ‘Cause I’ve hit one hand in my pocket And the other is givin’ a peace sign
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Every Xmas and Thanksgiving my mom ruined the gravy by turning it into ‘giblet gravy’ and I’m really wondering if it’s a southern thing or if she was just mucking with my head. No one seems to know what I am talking about.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving @weirdxmas.bsky.social
Red envelope style metal pail with a Victorian-era post card printed on the front. It shows a little girl with red dress, white bonnet, and white apron feeding a live turkey an ear of corn. A Happy Thanksgiving is printed in fancy gold letters along the top.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Love is your partner being very silly and arranging the Millennium Falcon on your plate with pizza 🥰
Pizza and breadsticks arranged on a plate to look like the big ship the good guys flew in Star Wars.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I am not mean; I’m just done being compliant you sad seagull
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I need one of my movie buff friends to tell me about their favorite bits of Frankenstein. Ye TBI is making it impossible for me to even rewatch the previews without my whole nervous system wigging out 😭
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Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dick Cheney dying and Mamdani winning on the same day there is GOOD in the world, Mister Frodo
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I’m starting to lose hope that I’m going to get the aftercare I need to heal other than the care I’m getting at the burn clinic. Tricare is so broken.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A hospital I frequent (St Joseph’s Medical Center in Tacoma) found a loaded gun left unattended in a bathroom. It was accidentally left behind by an ICE contractor 😑 media.king5.com/embeds/video...
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To stream KING 5 on your phone, you need the KING 5 app.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Feeling like garbage today. My 18 year old son, to cheer me up tells me about the Trento Pickle Ordinance of 1976 that made it illegal to eat pickles on Sunday. This was followed by declaring it was his offer of serotonin for the day, accompanied by a forehead kiss.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
TW: 🏠 🔥 update Asbestos abatement complete, so we did a walkthrough. It was really hard. Basically one end of the 🏠 was only subfloor, framing, and roof.
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Missa @missahaarstad.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This is so wildly awesome. Looking forward to purchasing a print!
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#brainfog
1 - guy yelling "what do we want?"
2 - 3 guys yelling "better memory!"
3 - guy yelling "when do we want it?"
4 - 3 guys yelling "want what"
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