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Brandy

@brandyheinrich.bsky.social
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Rustbelt born, Florida raised. Manic Pixie Nightmare Cryptid. I paint unicorns and hoard cats.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
COMMENTARY: Oil's new problem isn't supply. It's logistics reut.rs/4hBAP3C
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COMMENTARY: Oil's new problem isn't supply. It's logistics
Middle East crude exports recently climbed to their highest levels since the start of the Iran war as more Gulf producers resume transit through the Strait of Hormuz – despite the continued threat of Iranian attacks. Yet oil prices remain stubbornly elevated, suggesting logistical problems are proving as disruptive as outright supply losses.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
While I am glad I’m not going through these things anymore, my sister is in Tally. I checked in & they’re all set, expecting to just get outer bands. We’ll probably get some rain up here Sunday as the storm heads north, slows, and starts to fall apart.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A political mailer that was sent to me says an incumbent candidate represents “family values.” I know what I’m supposed to infer from that - especially considering photos of wife and multiple children were featured *prominently*.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So I just had the weirdest, most hands-off, impersonal experience with a pet rescue organization, and needless to say we did not get approved for an adoption. Hopefully there were other, better applicants & that little cat gets into a great home very soon. (Kinda sad tho, anyway, TBH.)
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So about that “efficiency” this tech was supposed to increase…
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rumpled sweater witch and budget muppet are my entire vibe.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 22/09/2026
“Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by the tech giants reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market.“
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
…yes. So pay up.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t think elected officials need to be making influencer-style short-form content to “engage with their base.” It increasingly pisses me off when I see it, actually.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I posted a very specific position in academia to add to the team I’ve accidentally acquired responsibility for, and there are 155 applications I have to review. MANY of them are from people with more than one degree and depth of experience…in completely different fields. 🫣
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I know we’re watching daylight hours wane in real time, but the evenings sure are lovely anyway.
Late summer evening light filtering through trees with calico aster in the foreground.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It picks up in episode 3, and absolutely hooked me with episode 7.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Do you even know who John Brown was? What actions he took in service of what he believed was seeking liberation and justice in a very unjust society? JFC.
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Dingo Jackson @thedingodaily.com · 13/09/2026
"France did not wait for the debate. It already moved all of its gold out of New York. Germany, one of the world's largest holders of gold reserves, is now actively discussing whether to do the same."
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Netherlands Just Pulled 86 Tons of Gold Out of America
The Netherlands yanked 86 tons of gold from the US, France already cleared out its reserves, and Norway's sovereign wealth fund is eyeing the exit. America is losing its default status.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026
The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, documents show.
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On laserdisc.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem believed women's equality wasn't a side issue—it was everything. She fought for the right to abortion access, credit, and careers. Because of her, women can occupy spaces we were never supposed to. Thank you, Gloria.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI is not inevitable. resistance works!
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Right?! The older I get the less I think anyone who I’m supposed to think has their shit together actually does…
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As the adult child of an unwed teenage mom and the sister of another, and someone who grew up in the 80s & 90s when we literally had after-school specials and politicians campaigning on addressing teen pregnancy as a major “sociocultural crisis”…what the actual fuck.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures & people who wish to live as machines.” ― Wendell Berry, "Life is a Miracle"
Wendell Berry
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.“ - Rumi
A light green monarch butterfly chrysalis nestled in an untidy garden.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 26/08/2026
NOT OKAY
Tim Curry and Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo, and Rizzo the RatDolly Parton and Missy Piggy
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wow this is just a suck ass week.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"lol i don't understand celebrity worship they're just people" You rube. You simple child of the land. Dolly Parton wasn't just a celebrity. She did more material good in her life, with her own money, than anyone we literally elect to serve us.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The mid-2000’s playlist at this sushi restaurant is heavy on the *mid*.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22/08/2026
"A mind partly occupied with monitoring itself cannot simultaneously give full attention to anything else."
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Last weekend I had a table at a local Art in the Park art market, and one of my displays was Halloween-themed. I got a few “Halloween…already?” comments. YES. “Already.” Because it brings *me* joy! Joy that I require to function in this burgeoning dystopian hellscape, okay??!
“It’s freaking bats. I love Halloween.”

A colorful painting of a brown bat flying amongst sparkly starts in a dark blue sky with Halloween decorations in the background.A display table at an art market decked out in orange and black decor and fall leaf garland.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Definitely looks like maybe some kind of tussock moth. The fuzzy hairs can cause skin irritation so I try to admire them from a respectful distance.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I really do need to start posting more art & gardening & books here because otherwise this website is just Twitter-lite and even that is too much Twitter in my life at this point. So anyway…looooook at this gloriously fuzzy milkweed tussock moth caterpillar! 🐛 #bugs #chaosgardening #nativeplants
An adorable milkweed tussock moth caterpillar lounging on a large wild grape leaf in my front yard.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My best friend has a full-time job as a university library archivist *and also* typically has TWO OR THREE adjunct appointments with other institutions at the same time in order to make ends meet.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Instagwam uWu
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Brandy @brandyheinrich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m definitely choosing to not take anyone who says those things at all seriously.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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