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heather gm (she/her)

@heathergm.bsky.social
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Nonprofit design and interenet stuffs for work, cats and cooking for home, politics and anti-racism for making a better world and fighting fascists. Chronic illness & COVID safety concerned. Rarely post but reskeet lots of smart folks I follow.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
She is adorable! And I am so glad for you both.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Instead of shying away from the values of democracy, pluralism, and rights—as many consultants and pundits urge—Ossoff asserts those values. Look at what he’s gotten so much praise for: calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist” and treating that as bad. As a reason to vote against someone.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Public accountability depends on sustained attention and requires people to recognize the significance of an event, demand answers, AND remember those demands long enough for something to come of them. But every day supplies a new horror.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I came here to say that. What a cryin shame
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This. This is important. They’re hoping fear will hold us back because they don’t have the numbers. But it will make us stronger. It will bring people out.
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Factually: a) Whatever he "meant", he picked cities he doesn't like to be theoretically destroyed b) he didn't seem remotely upset at the thought of their destruction or mind when people CLAPPED for it, & c) if it wasn't a threat, he can no longer express himself coherently enough to be understood.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"doesn't"?
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
oh she is Fabulous! that's talent
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This whole thread was super helpful to me in understanding my personal antipathy to AI. There's so much BS swirling around - it's easy to get the 3 issues described confused, but I think this gets to the essence of why people like me just flat out refuse to use it while understanding what it can do.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I clicked thru because of the fantastic photo and was not disappointed. That first paragraph - what a way to start an article! And everything you said resonates with me. Winter stolen, hope struggling, but finding a way through the cold hard soil. Thank you.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell expelled students who were protesting genocide in Gaza, but made five of seven guys who gang raped a drugged girl for seven hours write essays. That tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the morals of that institution.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is like the 5th article like this I've seen in the 2nd Trump regime alone. Every few months there's something saying the kids are wrong/society is breaking because they cut contact. You're right - it's really individual. I wish we could cut this concern trolling but MAGA can never stop blaming.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Trump administration gave a high level security clearance and unprecedented access to your sensitive PII and financials to a kid who ran foreign CSAM boards, was fired from his only prior real job for stealing company data, and was linked to a Russian cybercrime ring.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is horrifying to watch the daily psychiatric emergency that is Donald Trump and the relative silence that follows. The media must confront this ongoing reality and we the people must demand his removal. www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
americaamerica.news
We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And if that happens, I think the Republic is over. Either this was an illegitimate presidency where everything must be undone, or it was a legitimate one with a guy democrats don’t like, and if it’s the second, if No Rules Fascism is now standard operating procedure, we’re done.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
how does early voting help protect the vote? 1. it forces the regime to spread out their limited resources & manpower over weeks instead of a single day 2. it provides *weeks* of time to address any registration/ballot issues that come up instead of just hours
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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This poem is one of the best answers I’ve found. Your wedding vows, your eulogies, your apologies.
PLEASE USE AI by Jo Atkins-Potts

Please use AI
when your mother dies.

Ask it what grief feels like.
Let it explain bereavement
in twelve clear bullet points.

Do not spend years
finding her
in the supermarket
by the tomatoes she always bought,
in the smell of rain on warm pavement,
discovering new ways
to miss her.Please use AI
the next time you fall in love.

Ask it how to know
whether someone is the one.

It will give you a faster answer
than watching a person become familiar,
learning how they take their tea,
which floorboards will wake them,
how their silence sounds
when something is wrong.And please use AI
for your wedding vows,
your eulogies,
your apologies.

Why struggle
for the right words
when a machine can give you
beautiful ones?

Words untouched by shaking hands.
Words that have never sat beside
a hospital bed.
Words that have never known
the terrible privilege
of having something to lose.Meanwhile

I will be over here
watching someone I love
fall asleep on the sofa,
the television talking to itself,
rain tapping the windows,
the dog twitching in her dreams,

wasting my life
on these small unremarkable moments
that become,
without asking permission,
the whole thing.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Saw someone on here point out that "Obama opposed gay marriage" is not a good analogy because what trans folks are facing right now isn't a fight to get rights - but against having existing rights stripped away (and worse). I think this is important to note. This is literally an attempt at genocide.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This whole thread. 100 percent.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's a genuinely terrifying attitude (that isn't just isolated to ResistanceSky, but is utterly prevalent amongst them), that the truth doesn't matter. That's it ok to post that fake quote, genAI image etc, because the other side have denigrated & destroyed the truth, and holy shit that's bad.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we stop for JUST ONE FUCKING SECOND to acknowledge that even with how unhappy at Dems trans folks have been the last few years, we're still voting for them at 84%-86% rates, depending upon your preferred exit poll. Cis men < 45% cis women < 55% Are you sure you're yelling at the right demo?
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
instant follow
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can see that! It was both eerie and sad to see my neighbor is one of the shill/suckers.So far no bull of fear mentioned - but now I will keep an eye out for it :)
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What is super creepy is I read this thread and then saw that my neighbor, who recently discovered the secret to true financial freedom, had posted this for real.
screenshot of an MLM come on scam text essentially saying that all you need to do to have true freedom is to get consultations from the author.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/09/2026
It's just like Windows: some people can break away from it, others are stuck with it because the alternatives are not 100% feature complete and they have specific needs. But just like Microsoft, Adobe is a company loathed by their own customers and everyone is praying for a 1-to-1 replacement.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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heather gm (she/her) @heathergm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we don't have sales tax - and it is lovely
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Sam @very-simple.com · 08/09/2026
"where trump was on 9/11" isn't some mystery! it was reported on a decade ago!! bsky.app/profile/very...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes, the only country that has ever attacked Canada was the USA. The only times one of our nations mobilized to defend the other was ALWAYS when Canada defended US military interests, not the other way around. And the only time NATO article 5 was enacted was for Canada et al to defend the USA.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.
NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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