Melissa Santos

Fracture 2025 Math is breaking. Space and time are fracturing. Someone or something is erasing numbers, rewriting equations, and opening a dreaded “ArithmeRift” in Portland’s Experiment PDX. Agents of the Situatio...

#pdx let’s have a moment to appreciate this Math-y theater/haunted house/escape room combo existing! us.patronbase.com/_Matheatre/P...

It’s not for me but i love everything about the idea of it.

Also that there exists an org to help fund weird math stuff like this www.mathhappens.org

I went to the Portland (#pdx) chapter meeting/social of @healthcareforallor.bsky.social today! Everyone was super nice, and I think I am going to be helping with some volunteer work. I'll try to remember to post about the next meeting here - really impressed with what a great group of people

3 loaves of bread, and several pastries, including some fancy cookies

I went to Breadfest. Here is most of my haul

Routine PSA: If you ever wish you could put time into directly helping out some kids who need help, I'd be happy to talk about being a court-appointed special advocate in your local foster-care system. There are a whole lot of kids—queer, trans, and otherwise—who need someone to have their backs.

OK!! #DataBS conf starts in 45min and I'm gonna be busy hosting, SO, things to know:

Chat is on discord, NOT zoom: bit.ly/databs-chat

Last min registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Official Schedule: databsconf.com/schedule/

Thanks! I just want to hang out with the cool kids

It’s so joyous! So many dance routines

Today is one of my favorite tumblr holidays

Pst, the discord link on databsconf.com is invalid/expired

A picture of a book called “A Weasel in My Meatsafe.” There is a meme caption that says “Whether I ever read the book is neither here nor there; I needed this title on my shelf.”

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is like

Fwiw, i bought 4 lbs of frozen nuggets on purpose today

HCAO - Health Care for All Oregon Educating and advocating for quality, affordable, universal, single-payer Health Care in Oregon

hey, Oregonians (#PDX in particular) did you know we have friends trying to get universal healthcare in Oregon?
www.hcao.org

(somehow I have both made a friend and agreed to help with data stuff)

Anyway, Portland meetup Sunday after next
health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-sep...

Show flyer created by Nate of Left of the Dial, featuring a lovely photo of Siouxsie Sioux and all relevant show deets: Arbor Beer Lodge and Brewery presents Precious Machinery Tribute to Siouxsie and the Banshees 8PM Saturday October 4th With special guests 80s alt rock cover band Left of the Dial The poster has the times backwards though; LOFTD go on at 8, and we’re on at 9. Whatever, just come, it’ll be a good time!!

Spooky season starts Saturday, October 4th at Arbor Beer Lodge in NoPo!
8PM
$5-$10 sliding scale
NOTAFLOF
Our friends Left of the Dial will start us off with some 80s alt rock, then we’ll tear it up with Siouxsie and the Banshees classics like Spellbound, Monitor, and of course, HALLOWEEN
#pdxshows

2nd Saturday of most months is at Leaven Community Center 5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland in the basement, 12-3pm

There will also be one in 2 weeks at St. Aiden's Church (17405 NE Glisan St, Portland) 12-3pm

#PDX www.repairpdx.org Repair Cafes are back in session (we took July/August off for Portland summer reasons)

I'll be one of the people sewing/mending today - many other people will be fixing things like small appliances, sharpening knives and tools, bike repair, maybe even book repair

Does anybody have a use for the domain robot.wtf?

I bought it years ago in a fit of I don’t know what and have never found a use for it. Pitch me anything at all and it’s yours

Pbj

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

The entirety of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's discography is currently free (name your price, no minimum) on Bandcamp.
kinggizzard.bandcamp.com

😳

The #DataBS Conf draft schedule (sans time assignments, and maybe a straggler or two) has been posted! databsconf.com/schedule/

Now is the time to get hyped and grab a ticket to attend the online-online event Wed Sept 24!
tickets: ti.to/databsconf/d...

Save the Date Douglass Day Feb 13, 2026 Featuring the Colored Conventions Project DouglassDay.org Image of 19th century people looking at us and debating in a hall.

Did you hear?

Douglass Day 2026 is on the way!
Friday, February 13, 2026
Sign up today: DouglassDay.org

Oh, and this year we are featuring a massive *new* trove of rediscovered documents from our friends at the @ccp-org.bsky.social! 🎂

I am looking for more reviewers at the Lesbrary! You just have to commit to one review, list, or essay a month about sapphic books and in return you get forwarded all of the sapphic ebooks sent to us for possible review.

oh hey, you already have an RSS feed I can subscribe to! on it!

<3 i will totally subscribe to your blog. I saw you give one talk, and I am so happy to see little tidbits from your brain here. But a blog is good too! Please do what works best for you, but know that you are valued!

It is annoying when people assume things like this “just wear a white shirt and black pants” “just wear something that buttons up the front”

I have ONE button front shirt that is sufficiently large that it doesn’t have boob gap problems. (I have one other that i like anyway)

An oversized button front shirt?

I love this outfit

@ouinne.bsky.social I thought of yall www.tumblr.com/captainlorda...

❤️ i honestly think this is part of why i got laid off this spring - how dare i show emotion? How manipulative!
Trying to hope that some people can just get “i cry easily “ and not be super weird about it

… thanks for the warning. I’m either already there or this is about to get real awkward for people who are embarrassed when i cry in front of them