Reposted by Melissa HugginsEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I would prefer for there not to be one grim complex sexually traumatizing news story after another for a full decade THANK YOU VERY MUCH 119817
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026bummed that my petite Canadian girlfriend didn't consider my needs specifically when booking her tour. 🤪 No Seattle date, Portland show is a Monday, and none of the other dates magically align with pre-existing travel. Curses! www.carlyraemusic.com/tour/carlyraemusic.comTour - Carly Rae JepsenOfficial Site 100
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkRwapo.stU.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pactThe two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre... 38621409
Reposted by Melissa HugginsLane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy Bi Visibility Day to everyone who's attracted to all genders and is somehow still single. We defied the odds and won!!! 1315
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026youtu.be/Q3VjaCy5gck?...youtu.beBon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me / Nick of TimeYouTube video by SavannahSP 000
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026me waiting for the Carly Rae tour dates to be announcedstatic.klipy.comJudge Judy: Time Is Up!ALT: Judge Judy: Time Is Up! 000
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Carly Rae Jepsen is great in part because her songs are horny in ways that most musicians can't capture all of. Cheerfully horny. Wistfully horny. Hornnui. She has the horny range. 411903279
Reposted by Melissa HugginsErin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This should help you sleep at night: “There’s no one set of standards for how the US verifies the information generated by these tools.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 01812
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Release day for our petite Canadian girlfriend's new album!!!!!! Double album, no less! open.spotify.com/album/1XWFzA...open.spotify.comDay and Night - Album by Carly Rae Jepsen | SpotifyCarly Rae Jepsen · album · 2026 · 24 songs 000
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Passing through Ellensburg and got an enthusiastic compliment on my Dempsey's Brass Rail shirt, we love to see it 000
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I picked up a freelance book editing project recently which has been both satisfying and so good for my writing brain, but I need a moment to pause and appreciate how absolutely insane my Google search history is right now 000
Reposted by Melissa HugginsPacific Northwest Newspaper Guild @pacnwguild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild is shocked and disappointed by McClatchy’s decision to lay off 33% of its unionized workers at the Idaho Statesman, The News Tribune (Tacoma), Tri-City Herald, The Olympian and Bellingham Herald. This includes 10 journalists in Idaho, and seven across Washington 514471
Reposted by Melissa HugginsEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New: Seattle residents call on Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Alaska Airlines, other major employers to stop fighting the proposed taxes that would give the city resources to properly address serious social issues that lead to public safety problems. 251595427
Reposted by Melissa HugginsEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Heartbreaking to hear that Gloria Steinem has died & very painful for it to happen when the world feels so poisoned by misogyny. A brilliant, generous activist who devoted her life to making the world a freer place 💔 345050
Reposted by Melissa HugginsRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry 2665195
Reposted by Melissa HugginsRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For? 121173351
Reposted by Melissa HugginsMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight.theguardian.comTrump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies 27512319
Reposted by Melissa HugginsThe Western Edge @thewesternedge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Years before President Trump began systematically rolling back DEI efforts, Oregon's Parks department fired its first two DEI coordinators, buried a report on barriers to access and, according to ex-employees and contractors, stifled inclusion efforts. www.thewesternedge.media/p/dei-at-ore...thewesternedge.mediaDEI at Oregon Parks is Lost in the WoodsIn progressive Oregon, the Parks department has wrung its hands for years over inclusion 02714
Reposted by Melissa HugginsDoug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Filling Pike Place with people and programming is so much better than it being a car park. Why don't we make this permanent?? 523826
Reposted by Melissa HugginsThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/08/2026Column: Dolly Parton’s lack of children demonstrated that the world could in fact love a woman who wasn’t a mother. But more importantly, she was proof that a person could be an advocate for children while personally choosing against parenting.washingtonpost.comColumn | Why it matters that Dolly Parton wasn’t a motherWith decades of philanthropy, she proved that parenting isn’t the only way to invest in generations of children. 2910922
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026open.spotify.com/track/6Ze4jf...open.spotify.comHere You Come Again - from the Dumplin' Original Motion Picture SoundtrackDolly Parton, Willa Amai · Dumplin' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack · Song · 2018 000
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly made times less hard for a lot of people thoughtcatalog.com/nicolestawia...thoughtcatalog.comDolly Parton Funded an Oscar-Winning AIDS Documentary in the 1980s When the Reagan Administration Wouldn’t ActParton lost friends to AIDS in the 1980s and put her production company Sandollar behind Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt that wen… 53312714
Reposted by Melissa HugginsDr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you 11439732
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Street art in her honor from SE Seattle 766871718
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 25/08/2026cool things Dolly Parton did that you may not have known: a thread. supported families after the Gatlinburg fires: 124095
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 25/08/2026has been supporting high school band programs across TN for years: 1789
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 25/08/2026straight up cut a check for a million dollars to help fund the Moderna Covid vaccine: 210012
Reposted by Melissa HugginsNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc 583573423
Reposted by Melissa HugginsJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894611287
Reposted by Melissa HugginsGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy,” Jane Fonda writes about her friend Dolly Parton. “That’s something of hers she’d want us all to take with us.” "To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you.” www.justjared.com/2026/08/25/j...justjared.comJane Fonda Pays Tribute to '9 to 5' Co-Star Dolly Parton, Sends Message to Her 'Gay & Trans Fans'Jane Fonda is mourning the loss of her 9 to 5 co-star Dolly Parton. The 88-year-old actress released a statement moments ago after learning of the news of 737071024
Reposted by Melissa HugginsWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026[Exit Queen.] 2063894711014
Reposted by Melissa HugginsAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135088680
Reposted by Melissa HugginsEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I hate this. Dolly Parton. Goddammit. 357222
Reposted by Melissa HugginsMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Giving into the presence of AI in higher ed (and everywhere else) is such a clear Do Not Obey in Advance situation. Teaching is a job, and the terms of the job will continue to change. But they haven't changed yet, for me, and I'm going to keep doing what I know is right in my classroom. 2432
Reposted by Melissa HugginsMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN. 1319327
Reposted by Melissa HugginsNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes on a private server or Donald Trump spending 24 hours a day with a mentally unstable aide who has no security clearance, both candidates presented grave national security risks. 352412435
Reposted by Melissa HugginsLaurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 20/08/2026NEW THIS MORNING: An exclusive analysis of Census Bureau data shows LGBTQ+ people make up a record-breaking 12% of the total population - but, even more importantly, represent 10% of adults in 40 of 50 states.hrc.orgRecord Breaking: LGBTQ+ Adults Now 12% of Population; Greater than…HRC Foundation analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Data finds a record-high 25.6 million people now identify as LGBTQ+ Heading into the midterms, the LGBTQ+… 07029
Reposted by Melissa HugginsNPR @npr.org · 19/08/2026The former Meta employee testified that the company culture prioritized user numbers over child safety measures. n.pr/4qqsfbXn.prWhistleblower Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against MetaThe former Meta employee testified that the company culture prioritized user numbers over child safety measures. 1442797
Reposted by Melissa HugginsRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026An, utterly, devastating accounting of the deaths left in the wake of Musk’s cuts. USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying apnews.com/article/usai...apnews.comUSAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dyingThe Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal. 08657
Melissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's a Sera Cahoone kind of day. open.spotify.com/track/7HQTrJ...open.spotify.comUp to MeSera Cahoone · From Where I Started · Song · 2017 000
Reposted by Melissa HugginsMelissa Huggins @themelisser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026what else is there but to read Nance poems and be heartbroken 011
