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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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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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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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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 · 08/07/2025

NYT opinion editor chatted with his conservative op-ed writers about the Trump bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

screenshot. Matt Labash: Even if I hate the bill — and I do — it also seems to deeply irritate Elon Musk. And anything that irritates Musk as much as Musk irritates the rest of us should earn grudging credit as a karmic delivery system.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us [and] protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

rageskeeting: declaration of independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

flexing cause the news is too awful

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

also, this. also real. also documented. reminds me of photos of Nazis laughing while they kill.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

65 million Nope, not the number of undocumented migrants in the US. Not the number of green-card holders. That is the number of hispanic folks living in the US. More than 80% are US citizens. It’s not about crime, it’s not about drugs, and it’s not about illegal immigration.

Tweet from Laura Loomer: “Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I had no idea: in addition to the 120k people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them US citizens, who were interned during World War II, in the 1930s and 1940s the US deported 1.2 million US citizens and 800k others for “being Mexican.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My dad was serving in the US army in Germany when I was born in the local hospital (not even on the base). But I’m white, so presumably I’m safe from deportation?

screenshot of headline from the Austin Chronicle, June 4, 2025: “Texas man born to US soldier on US army base abroad deported.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

27 months in, still on disability with Long Covid (brain damage, fatigue), I’ve “retired” and moved to Maine. Catherine will join me in retirement in August.

panoramic photo of ocean dotted with islands, several cloudbanks, deep gray to bright white

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

long covid… a critter on my back, weighing me down, sucking the energy out of my body and mind. and the bloodwork is all normal.

carton: person in a doctor’s office with an enormous bug clinging to their back and head, and open mouth surrounding the top of the head. Doctor: “well, your bloodwork came back fine, so I don’t think it’s anything we need to worry about.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“action figure” results. i did this the other day and i have no idea how to get there again, sorry.

action figure: Black woman with afro, big gold hoops, sparkly gold jumpsuit. Her accessories: distorted disco ball, mic, gold-rimmed sunglasses, a record, one gold platform shoe, and two mystery items.

action figure: white dude with black pants, no shirt, no chest hair, two watches, money, phone, handbag

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I tried Stats for Dummies & hit the wall at standard deviations. 1. how does it make sense that with less skill and less luck I still beat the NYT average by half a guess? 2. what can i read to learn about statistics, and is it possible without math? i recall some algebra and calculus exists.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Who’s rallying today? Where? I’m in Red Bank, NJ.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

STILL ACCEPTING PAPERS THROUGH 15 SEPTEMBER. Medieval Ecocriticisms (3): Theory and Approaches. ICMS, WMich, Kalamazoo, 8-10 May, 2025. Submissions: icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...

STILL ACCEPTING PAPERS THROUGH 15 SEPTEMBER. Medieval Ecocriticisms (3): Theory and Approaches. ICMS, WMich, Kalamazoo, 8-10 May, 2025.
* Hybrid session: we would love this session to connect people working in and from different geographic, cultural, linguistic contexts
* Scope: ecocriticism in connection with gender, sexuality, race, religion, dis/ability, and more; any discipline(s), global Middle Ages
* We welcome single-field or interdisciplinary proposals from grad students, early career researchers, established scholars
Submissions link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6349

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Just keep reloading. timwalzfixedyourbicycle.com

Text in image: Tim Walz will never have ‘more of a comment than a question, really.’”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

NASA maps of world and North America showing current locations and spread of wildfires. firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs...

NASA World map showing huge extent of wildfires across Africa, South America

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

J. D. Vance defended and even glorified the actions of a teenager with an illegal assault rifle who shot and killed two unarmed men. He could be our next president. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8e4...

J. D. Vance: “We want to promote the type of virtues that exist in Kyle Rittenhouse,” a teenager who shot three men, killing two, during protests against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconson, in 2020.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

Vetted list of doctors in several countries in the Americas who will tie your tubes. US tab is sorted by state. Because Project 25 not only wants to make abortion and the morning-after pill go away: they’re coming for contraception as well. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Project 25 screenshot: “Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Trump and the people who pull his strings want a theocracy, not a democracy. They will allow, if not promote, climate disaster. They will dismantle rights and protections for women, non-Christians, and people who are LGBTQ+ and/or disabled. I am terrified.

Race for the presidency is between codger and dodger. Codgers are trustworthy — dodgers tend to be scoundrels. Roger Bowen, Portland Press Herald

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

First sightings of the season.

Red winged blackbird in flight over a pond with a rocky edge.

Brown toad, brown leaves, crumbling gray asphalt. Almost monotone.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Singular “they” for the ages.

Today we are giving a pride month shout out to singular they, which has been in use for centuries. Among its most famous users: Chaucer, Shakespeare and Jane Austen.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Spouse calls ‘em Number One and Number Two. Tried not to do this. Failed.

White lady with two small dogs in lap: White dog’s shirt says Thing 1. Gray dog’s shirt, Thing 2.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

I wanna get her a booster seat so she can see out better. (Will be getting her a doggie car restraint soon — that was a short ride at fairly low speeds.)

Small gray and black dog in a car with gray seats, trying to see out the window.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

The dogs are getting along better every day. Coco, foreground, has been with us for three and a half weeks, Stella for almost a year. Both are ten years old. #DogsOfBsky

Small gray dog in foreground, head of small white dog visible behind her, part of head of white human in the background.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Newest addition: Coco, ten-year-old Havanese whose person passed away, is settling in well, and timid Stella is getting used to having her around. #dogsofbsky

middle-aged white lady on a big armchair holding a small dog, another small dog next to her

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

The state of not being able to see actual words in the hex.

NY Times Spelling Bee hex with (fake) word IRRITATIO spelled out above it.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

This is bad. Very bad. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/c...

Graph showing dramatically increased ocean temperatures in 2023 compared to previous years, and even higher temps in the first months of 2024.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Cindy Sherman’s new work is amazing. Images: Two late middle aged, gray-haired women with gray paint covering most of their faces. One face at rest, the other grimacing. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/a...

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Stella is finally taking treats out of my hand consistently, but only on the couch, so I have started teaching her “come.” At the moment, if she gets up and walks halfway down the sofa, she gets the treat.

Small white dog in blue sweater sleeping on brown sofa.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Six months with Stella. Yes she is totally allowed on the couch. It is her job to learn to be a pet. She’s doing a good job. #DogsOfBluesky

Image: small furry white dog sleeping on a brown and maroon sofa. Dog ramp at right so she can get down if she wants.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

“Harrumphant.” Who knew that this was the word we needed? Carolyn Hax, WaPo, 12/2/23.

Screen shot of text with the word “harrumphant” circled in red

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Stella does this adorable thing where she looks at me every half minute or so while we are walking, and I finally got a non-blurry picture.

Small white dog walking on grassy green field with gray coat, teal harness, and leash, looking up toward the viewer and smiling.

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