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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 13, 2026

Replying to @aud@fire.asta.lgbt

@aud@fire.asta.lgbt @futurebird@sauropods.win better yet, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 09, 2026

Replying to @benroyce@mastodon.social

@benroyce@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I love this post so much. For every ordinary person who might have briefly got a win out of crypto back in the day, you have multitudes more who just use it to scam and steal and control. #FuckCrypto

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 09, 2026

Replying to @alxd@writing.exchange

@alxd@writing.exchange @foundseed@spore.social RIGHTEOUS HEROISM a refreshing idea... we need this so much (and please, when I say RIGHTEOUS, there is not even a whiff of religion in my meaning... all humans are born with moral codes regardless what they believe, and that includes secular humanists, atheists, and agnostics. Religion needs to step aside and let humans do what humans inherently know how to do... without the "guidance" of controlling religious patriarchs.)

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 09, 2026

DO NOT apologize for using social media to post about ALL THE THINGS.

You're a human being, not a marketing tool.

Social media is a platform for SHARING IDEAS, not just a billboard for your work.

If people would bare themselves just a little more in their posts/reels/stories, we'd get a sense they were actually human and not AI.

I'm beginning to unfollow those who only self promote, because I'm here for the human grok, not the AI drek.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 08, 2026

RE: @vantablack@cyberpunk.lol

More like #cyberflunk

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 08, 2026

Replying to @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe yeah she lost my support the moment I saw this

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 08, 2026

RE: @oldredsubby@sfba.social

Privilege is so ugly.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 08, 2026

RE: @Chrisblue@journa.host

not staggering

the South never stopped being White Supremacists

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 06, 2026

RE: @tobi82@swiss.social

HERE WE GO AGAIN

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 06, 2026

Replying to @geos@social.seattle.wa.us

@geos@social.seattle.wa.us thx for the kind words. I wish I didn’t feel like I had to be here to make it a nice place. It’s not my job alone but everyone’s. My first priority is me and my own, and I only have so many spoons.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 05, 2026

After a packed, joyful3-day weekend of f2f #community, returning to SM to find hateful content, doomsterism, empty griping re: Trump, and engagement bait is really making it hard for me to want to stay.

WTF are we even doing here?

Taking a break. We’ll see if I come back.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 05, 2026

These were not here when I left for the convention on Friday #bloom

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 05, 2026

These were not here when I left for the convention on Friday #bloom

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 04, 2026

Creatives, if you're not sparing a bit of space to mention/link other creatives in socials, what are you even doing?

We don't belong in silos, stored/forgotten until someone needs feeding

We're meant dance together under pavilions, plotting revolutions, dreaming power into life

#ArtIsResistance

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 01, 2026

RAIN SHADOWS: Dark Tales from Washington State

::: A Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association prize finalist for 2026:::

12 horror stories in a unique pod-to-pub process, all set in the Evergreen state and featuring PNW “quirks”

Get your copy this weekend at the CAMP #CRYPTICON table

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · May 01, 2026

LURKING
…from the popular Dark Decades series by Inky Bones Press…

captures all your tech nightmare scenarios… and maybe some you haven’t thought of yet.

“Lather, Rinse, Repeat” will make you rethink your parasocial relationships

Get your copy this weekend at the @hwaseattle table at #Crypticon

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 29, 2026

April is Earth Day Month ~ 🌿🌍🦆 ~ Words to ponder #CliFi #hopepunk #solarpunk #lunarpunk #GreenLit
ECOTOPIA by Ernest Callenbach

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world

@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world The Upside Down isn't just a US thing. I've stopped asking "what next?" because it's an open-ended question and the answer is more likely than not to be something even worse than the shitty thing from before.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai

@Nonilex so glad I just got mine reissued so I won't have to look at him ever (I feel pretty certain that once this guy is ousted, his likeness will be stripped from everything like they did to Shitler in Germany)

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @benroyce@mastodon.social

@benroyce @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees I can do that.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @benroyce@mastodon.social

@benroyce @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees I want in on this as a new filmmaker. Just don’t make me hold the boom.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @benroyce@mastodon.social

@benroyce @falseknees totally agree, but then, two of my 3 key spirit animals are birds (owl and woodpecker) and my IQ is up there in the sky as well, so...

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @benroyce@mastodon.social

@benroyce @leeloo @falseknees dude, I watched a bluejay try to raid a junco nest yesterday and the robins stepped in and were the biggest badass bouncers you could ever imagine. I thought crows were tough but these robins... they're like knights of the round table out here

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net

@stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net and this is why I make art and tell stories in the way only I know how to. At age 4, I learned it was my gift. At age 60, I have finally learned that

• self belief is powerful
• individual creativity feeds the collective engine

Together, we can generate the energy needed to move from the old world of exploitation and division to the new world of community coherence and equitability.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@martinvermeer no worries, I always flinch at any kind of reference to that old emblem of toxic masculinity, even if I know what you refer to!

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@martinvermeer thx for clarifying. I’ll be surprised if socials last another 5yrs, iibh. As an aside, I wish I could get more engagement here, but it’s my third-string platform because I don’t. I’ve tried several accounts/instances: it’s been 🦗 I just stick with my regional one, where at least people do respond, if rarely. I’m just an author who writes outside commercial molds (not indie) trying to connect with an audience. In Bsky/Substack, I’ve found them. Here? Not so much.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@martinvermeer no, patriarchy is global. Have you read the Epstein files? Global. Did you see what 🇬🇧 did today to shut down criticism of 🇮🇱? That's not the US. Do you know about Scandinavian white power? Also not the US. These vermin exist in literally every Euro nation. They’re white and tearing down the same progress in Europe as they are in the 🇺🇸 It’s distinctly colonial-patriarchal, not reserved or even inspired by the 🇺🇸 — these interests existed outside the 🇺🇸 before it was even born.

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @seindal@mastodon.uno

@seindal @joshsutphin Not true. I’m a nobody who ppl engage with in Bsky at a rate of 20x more than I do in Masto

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@martinvermeer It will happen here too… it’s inevitable. Human vermin are everywhere, under every platform rock

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @flancian@social.coop

@flancian @joshsutphin I always get the opposite effect, for me BlueSky engagement is significantly higher than in Mastodon. Like 20:1

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @codebuzz@indieweb.social

@codebuzz exactly this. We first boycotted Walmart and went to 🎯 Now 🎯 is under boycott + Amazon, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, etc Ppl have vowed to not buy “made in 🇨🇳” yet they live in 🏘️ filled with the stuff Substack is a 🇺🇸 biz bound by 1A law. Want to make a change? Start there. But limiting free speech guarantees we’ll all be less free (esp in 2026). Who gets to decide what’s offensive? Right now, it’s a perverse SCOTUS Block/counterpoint are tools we still have. Use them!

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @_elena@mastodon.social

@_elena @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @codebuzz that’s not how US free speech law works, however, and Substack is an American company. Also, given what we know about other 👹 like Epstein, it’s clear that these vermin exist everywhere, famous or not, wealthy or not. Even in 🇫🇷 It’s naive to think canceling one app will rid the planet of hate. It will just move somewhere else. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @electropict@mastodon.scot

@electropict@mastodon.scot not sure what you are implying because I own the movie and have seen it dozens of times. The theme is solarpunk (what could be possible) even if you don’t like the ending. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 24, 2026

April is Earth Day Month ~ 🌿🌍🦆 ~ Words to ponder #CliFi #hopepunk #solarpunk #lunarpunk #GreenLit
SILENT RUNNING film directed by Douglas Trumbull

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 23, 2026

April is Earth Day Month ~ 🌿🌍🦆 ~ Words to ponder #CliFi #hopepunk #solarpunk #lunarpunk #GreenLit
FLOW, film by Gints Zilbalodis

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @realtegan@wandering.shop

@realtegan@wandering.shop the reminders of ordinary human life persisting during horrible times are truly necessary to get through it all. We can't and shouldn't stop living our lives when things fall out of balance... in fact, it's our persistence and resilience that will be our soft landing after all the madness is done and gone (and yes, it will be, nothing lasts forever).

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 05, 2026

April is Earth Day Month ~ 🌿🌍🦆 ~ Words to ponder #CliFi #hopepunk #solarpunk #lunarpunk #GreenLit
A PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT by Becky Chambers

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @britt@mstdn.games

@britt I live w/MS, 3 kinds of arthritis, 2 other autoimmune things. They cost me HUGE amounts of brainspace/energy. I'm 60, not done living yet. But only now have I even had *time/space* to live creative dreams I've had since age 5—my life's purpose. For 45yrs, I've served family, employers, community—always fighting for creative time/space for myself. Now I make short films, podcast, publish—FINALLY! Except aging has arrived, adds to my constant pain/exhaustion 🤬 #ChronicIllness #Unfair

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @beandreams@friendhole.social

@beandreams great idea!

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @RandallBeggs@mas.to

@RandallBeggs@mas.to ha I love it!

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Mar 23, 2026

#3Things that bring me joy for MON: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Driving right onto the ferry w/2min to spare (good “ferry karma”)
2. Spotting a rando seagull on the pier rail brandishing a gnarly trophy starfish in its beak 😝
3. Definite “June gloom” vibes today which confirms spring’s arrival https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Puget_Sound_ferries.jpg

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TamaraPNW @tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us · Dec 15, 2025

Replying to @maxleibman@beige.party

@maxleibman@beige.party beautiful!

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