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Heide Estes

@hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
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Jewish, queer, post-covid crip, neurospicy, she/her. Environmental crisis/justice keeps me up at night. Live on Lenape land. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hcommons.social/@hestes, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
This is an impressive innovation, and a massive improvement over burning agricultural waste in the fields or in pits, though my understanding is that once the syngas is burned, the process becomes carbon neutral.
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
cool! voynich might have been mis-bound, scrambling the pages. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oc… @LisaFaginDavis
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
i keep confusing sam altman with sam bankman-fried and as ai goes roguer i’m less sure it’s a bad comparison
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
parallels between SpaceX and the India Company: vast, powerful, and greedy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/opinion/…
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
The US could make AI data centers build out solar arrays and windmills. Instead, we are building more gas-fired electric production capacity than any other country … in fact, more than the next eight biggest developers.
graph: countries with the largest in-development gas-fired capacity. US is #1.
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
With 300-plus articles in three weeks (tallied by @ibramxk ), the media hounded Dr. Jason Arday to death after a guy ran his PhD thesis through AI and claimed fraud. Don’t believe it’s because of race? William O’Reilly has published thousands of stolen words in several books and articles; he’s […]
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
private equity is terrible for the US. it already gutted local news and contributed mightily to the nationwide housing shortage, and is hard at work gutting medical practices, nursing homes, and hospitals. moderately the good news: its business model — buy a corporation, load it with debt, sell […]
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
how..is..it..legal… that trump keeps paying foreign corporations billions of US taxpayers’ dollars *not*to*build* wind farms www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/climate/…
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
@BRMiller gorgeous header photo!
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Hegseth is: - testing everyone in the military for testosterone levels - booting everyone who’s transgender - denying promotions to (and effectively firing) women and Black officers Is there any possibility of doubt that he’ll go after enlisted women next? #kinderküchekirche […]
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
basic fail … or the system designed to waste as much of my time as possible?
screenshot of chatbot conversation. Chat asks an either/or question. I answer, neither. chatbot replies, please input ‘yes’ or ‘no’
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
25 years from now, if not sooner, the rest of the world will have abundant cheap renewable energy, and the USA will still be trying to transition away from fossil fuels, and will be trounced in international markets […]
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
listening to horowitz playing beethoven with headphones because i lived in lower manhattan and the war planes practicing for the air show this weekend is the sound of 9/11
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Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
an incredible story about being the subject of investigation by the fbi and cia, because an unidentified person called in a tip. harpers.org/archive/2013/09/life-as…
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Life as a Terrorist, by William T. Vollmann
Uncovering my FBI file
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