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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Back in the 1880s, doctors proposed a new cure for ataxia: suspending people from the ceiling. 140 year from now, how ludicrous will the dozens of things I’ve tried for long covid sound? imagine1community.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-...

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New Treatment of Locomotor Ataxia by Suspension

Environment, ecotheory, bike commuting in the city that never sleeps.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

so here’s the thing about sharpton’s event with potential prez candidates in 2028. they didn’t just volunteer themselves, he invited them. he invited exactly one woman.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is a really good articulation of what AI needs to be safe: the ability to think morally, empathetically, and cooperatively. Which is unfortunately absolutely not what profit-driven AI is aiming at. blog.amaranth.foundation/p/towards-ma...

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Towards Magnanimous AGI

A neuroscience-first strategy for aligning advanced AI and the teams executing it

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

“His impetuosity and histrionic vanity caused him to let his rhetoric run away with him and say things that he afterwards regretted and which official spokesmen needed to ‘interpret’ or explain away.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“Artificial intelligence is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world.”

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"Everyone I know can sense armageddon. ... I will always love my troubled nation." The Indigo Girls

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Jeff Bezos just gutted the @washingtonpost.com. I just cancelleld my subscription. With grief for another lost piece of the USA I thought I knew.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

standing in the cold with “ICE OUT” signs and writing emails to elected officials seems like not much but at least it lets you know you’re not alone

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Someone outside the US: So, let me get this straight. The groundhog... Me: Is clairvoyant, yes

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I’ve missed snow so much. Yeah, the cold is starting to feel like an endurance challenge, but sun on snow is so bright and beautiful.

a dammed river. background, winter trees behind snow-covered, frozen river, foreground, rocks covered by snow and ice, with a few shrubs and small trees poking up.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Rice Estes (no relation; @librarian.bsky.social clarifies in a follow-up post that he was white, not Black) published this in 1960.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

this game has grabbed me. wordle, but in two dimensions. anyone else playing? [if you’re using text to speech, what follows is a bunch of different colored squares] 🟥⬛🟧⬛🟥 ⬛🔳🟥🔳🟩 🟩🟧🟨🟨🟩 ⬛🔳🟥🔳🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Squardle

Squardle is a daily word game where you try to solve a 5x5 grid of 6 words! You get colored clues telling you if the guessed letters were in the square, row or column.

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

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Sue Poncin @sueponcin.com · 25/01/2026

One infection = 5 yrs of brain damage Being dynamically disabled by Long Covid looks like……

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

14-year-old skates around behind the goal, lifts the puck on the end of her hockey stick, lobs it over the goalie’s shoulder. old news, but i just saw the video, and had to watch it five times. youtu.be/n2FEurga_No

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14-year-old Nela Lopusanova INSANE Michigan goal at U18 Women's Worlds #shorts #hockey #slovakia

YouTube video by Czech NHL

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

time to start a rumor that djt is already dead and there's a stunt double

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“In federal court, a prosecutor not getting an indictment is like a chef burning cereal.… You have to work hard to lose a grand jury. But Trump’s Justice Department pulled it off twice.” drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/two-tries-...

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Two Tries. Zero Indictments.

I love how Letitia James lives rent-free, utilities included, inside Donald Trump’s head

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Duolingo is teaching me about zombies, and there keep being bits that seem relevant to the current regime in the US.

duolingo cartoon person with a thought bubble saying, Si el cadáver camina, ¡es un zombi! If the corpse is walking, it’s a zombie!

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

women are more likely to die of a heart attack than men. among the reasons: hardly any cpr training dummies have breasts, and if they do, they’re an optional overlay that trainers can choose to use, or not. result: women having a heart attack, in public or in a hospital, are less likely to get cpr.

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CPR training as a gender and rights-based healthcare issue

Abstract. It is not understood how cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, specifically the representation of sex in CPR manikins, contributes to ine

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Representing, this Labor Day.

A woman holds a sign that says, no facists. In the background, a crowd of people carrying signs.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/08/2025

Watch Valerie’s whole speech here: www.instagram.com/reel/DLrDU-_... Goodnight 💚 we hope you get some rest this weekend

What if this darkness
is not the darkness of the tomb,
But the darkness of the womb.
What if our America is not dead,
But a country that is waiting to be born.
What if the story of America is one long labor
What if all our grandfathers and grandmothers are standing behind us now,
Those who survived occupation and genocide,
Slavery and Jim Crow,
Detentions and political assault.
What if they are whispering in our ear tonight,
You. Are. Brave.

Valerie Kaur

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black.

Text reads: I defragged my zebra

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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California reaches deal with Uber, Lyft to allow driver unions

The deal brings Uber and Lyft on board with a pathway to unionization for ride-hailing workers after the companies spent years fighting against the idea.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Central Park coyote couple. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...

Two coyotes in front of a bridge in central park.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

back in, i dunno, fourth grade, we had “values clarification” indoctrination at school. we were supposed to consider morally difficult situations like, would you steal medicine if if was the only way to keep someone alive. i refused to play, and i said there’s no way to know what you’d do until…

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wemeze @wemeze.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Schon bitter, wenn ein Ex-Actionheld mehr Rückgrat zeigt als ein Präsident. Während Arnie ganz klar ausspricht, was Sache ist – „Du standest da wie ein Lappen, wie ein Fanjunge. Ich habe mich die ganze Zeit gefragt, wann du um ein Autogramm bittest oder ein Selfie mit ihm machst…“

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Skipping rocks and thinking about oral transmission.

Ocean water, a cone where a rock now in midair bounced. Background: moored boat in front of shoreline with trees.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

“Pacing is rationing our lives.” “Do not blame yourself for being addicted to life.” “Pacing is the only evidence-based ‘treatment’ for ME/CFS” and Long Covid: the quotation marks signal how problematic that is. If you want to know more about what it’s like to live with ME/CFS/LC, read this.

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Brain Fog Makes Pacing Hard. Fighting Executive Dysfunction — ME and more

Executive Dysfunction One of the main symptoms of brain fog is executive dysfunction. The executive functioning of your brain is responsible for:  -Working memory -Task switching -Task in...

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Trump’s claim that he can sell a million visas at five million dollars each has been bugging me and I finally wasted some time on it.

imagine1community.blogspot.com

Who Can Afford a “Gold Card” Visa?

Environment, ecotheory, bike commuting in the city that never sleeps.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

hoick, verb. to yank suddenly. see also: yeet, sky hook

screenshot of NYT spelling bee. Not in word list: HOICK

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/07/2025

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

… enjoying dunning-kruger

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Political satire became obsolete when Donald Trump became president. (Tom Lehrer didn’t actually say that).

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The “CIA Book Program” smuggled 10 million books and periodicals into communist bloc countries during the Cold War. Conservatives in the US today want to ban many of those same books. Keep reading. Literature is powerful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Maybe the sheer volume of flight delays and cancellations will finally motivate the US to invest in high-speed (solar-powered) trains as a more reliable way to move people? Yeah yeah, prob a pipe dream…

FlightAware Misery Map showing on-time flights versus “misery” for a dozen or so US metro areas.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Some thoughts on the panic around gender-affirming care. Also: US health care = three vulture capitalists in a trench coat.

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“Do No Harm” — not so harmless

Environment, ecotheory, bike commuting in the city that never sleeps.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

if he’s been accepted to Columbia, they’d be screaming nepo dei baby.

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