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Heather Ash

@writermath.bsky.social
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Writer, Educational Therapist, Birdkeeper, Rouser of Rabbles. My pronouns are Try/Me.

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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"President Trump falsely claims..." You'd only need to issue a correction once or twice. Ever.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After Saint Dolly gave you the most precious gift of *seeing* you, Mr. Mathers? THIS?
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the things I appreciate about @doctorow.pluralistic.net's writing is that he tells it straight, but doesn't dwell in the dystopia. He's clear-eyed about where things could go right, with multiple resource links to support his thinking. pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/f...
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Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is so deeply cool and unexpected (to me.) I've seen the Obama china pattern, and it's beautiful. Now I have a few more Chicago places to add to my visit list. www.npr.org/2026/10/03/n...
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Theaster Gates bets on fine china
The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was able to register online because I have that updated license, but depending on your state, you may have a different deadline or more hoops to jump through. DO IT NOW!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Zaslav did incredible damage to Warner Bros IMO. And yet it gets worse. bsky.app/profile/oocc...
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish I could say this was a surprise, but nothing good can come from private equity and monopolies. bsky.app/profile/nbed...
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Signed up for the YouTubeTV free trial so I can watch NU's opening night. My TV antenna unfortunately doesn't work on computers, and my TV is packed for the painting. :( GO WILDCATS!!!!!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One street in my old town did this every year. The same street that handed out full-size candy bars. It was as close as you can get to a Spielberg movie IRL.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Michael McDonald is my high school's famous alum. We went to the same junior high. So when the stories talk about 14 year-old him and his girlfriend in middle school... ick. It's a sweet story with a happy ending, though! Very pleased for all involved.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Part of the "good at messaging" may be the "good at leading."
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But I have a cashiers check now. And closed the account.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION! Even if the DMV offered to register you at your new address when you got your drivers license renewed. Because... bureaucracy?
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One bank says it received a significant transfer from another bank that says it absolutely blocked the transfer. If I walk into the "receiving" bank tomorrow and withdraw this money, after spending DAYS trying to convince them that it's not real money, do I get to keep it?
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And creating a religious office as part of the military. WTAF
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Which three were those again?
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Asking seriously: Is something wrong with US banks right now? Three different banks, mistakes in all. One of them shows an account I don't have. One of them says a money transfer has been completed when that's impossible.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do want to give MASSIVE PROPS to Forbright Bank. Actual people who actually care and will problem solve. They only offer branch-based business accounts. Yes, I did briefly consider moving to Maryland for about ten minutes.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp, BMO is holding my business bank account hostage until The System decides to release the fraud hold that no one at BMO can/will explain. They seem pretty sure 1-2 days, "if" The System decides.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And #allybank is just as bad with its overseas call centers not allowing you to escalate anything past their script readers. I guess it's gold bars under the mattress time?
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now putting #bmo in the rearview mirror. Despite everything getting "fixed" in the branch two days ago (after closing), today I found a hold on my account. Every time I call, it's a rigamarole where I'm blamed for the error (because I don't know my own legal name? and neither does the paperwork?)
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Women, DO NOT change your name when you get married. Don't substitute, append, hyphenate, NONE OF IT. Because one day, you'll be divorced and opening business accounts in your unmarried name, and more than one bank will decide you really meant to use your married name. Illegally. #chase #bmo
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I take issue with your GIF. That's not math.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can confirm. theonion.com/doctors-say-...
theonion.com
Doctors Say Digging Own Grave Keeps Bones Healthy After Menopause
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dudes are routinely surprised that I will get out of the car if they're trying to "dominate." (This is probably a bad decision on my part.) Just here to amplify the message that men ought to quit thinking women are "passive" and can be abused without consequence.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Contributor's copy received! Thrilled to be included in this anthology and to read my fellow contributors' stories.😍 Available from your favorite bookseller on October 6th!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And the Overton Window shifts again...
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You mean, like, for decoration?
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Add Northwestern to the cowards list. I have never been ashamed of my alma mater until their first capitulation, and the ongoing acts of capitulation that followed thereafter (because DUH!)
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just replenished my mosquito granules in the bucket I keep on my patio for this exact purpose. (Plus plants and the tray the animals drink from.) Of course, I stayed too long at Saturday's block party and the backs of my knees became a mosquito buffet within minutes.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I wouldn't have been able to close my business credit card, checking, and debit accounts -- one of which was listed under a version of my name I never used. Don't think this would've happened to a *male* business owner. Anyone know a bank that respects women business owners? It's not #Chase! 3/3
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today was printing old statements and not only was my name still the old one, but somehow all the accounts had reverted back to the beginning, wrong information... including that password that the branch manager had to call in to get removed. Thank god I remembered it, or... 2/3 (more to say)...
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It took me three tries over two days in December to set up a Chase Business Account b/c they pulled in an old account with my ex and applied all his info to my business -- including a password I didn't know. HOURS. Finally fixed it. Easily processed my name change in January. #Chase 1/2....
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You guys. I'm going to be INSUFFERABLE tomorrow on the drive back to school. "I watch meth labs on TV. I teach math labs in real life!"
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Insert your own Order of Operations joke here. I'll start: Please Eliminate Meth Doings At School
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Update to the update: my kid *didn't* know about the meth operation itself that was discovered. He knew exactly what it would take to hide a meth operation. I feel compelled to point out that Wells Hall is also where the math department's housed. A meth operation within a math operation....
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Forgot to UPDATE THIS: It was an illegal meth operation. Which at least one of my kids knows about, because he and I watched all of BREAKING BAD last summer. (TV is educational!) You don't make meth with tetrachloroethylene. Pity. apnews.com/article/mich...
apnews.com
Man charged with possessing meth lab chemicals in Michigan State building
Michigan State University scrambled to relocate some final exams after police said they discovered a man inside an academic building with household substances that could make methamphetamine.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I forgot myself! I knew it and I forgot!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hey, we have a Midwestern, American Pope! We can make this happen!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly was an uncredited producer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. (You may already have read how she personally reimbursed producer Gail Berman -- the only female producer -- the difference between her royalties and those of the male producers. Context for below. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"There is no need to get sarcastic." One of the best scenes in movie history.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm probably paraphrasing her response to someone asking if all the dumb blonde jokes bothered her: "No, because I know I'm not dumb, and I know I'm not blonde." Then she'd LAUGH!
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/verm...
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: Everything that Trump puts his name on now, we replace with her name when he's out. And the stuff that's dumb, we sell it off for books for kids.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gulf of Dolly.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SAME! Raised my kids on it, too. I knew Dolly Parton as an actress long before I understood her "other" career was singer/songwriter.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don't think Saint Dolly would approve of all the words I just yelled right now. Truly an angel among us (and I say that as an atheist.) A model human for all to follow. A genius artist. Going to queue up this podcast again. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
wnycstudios.org
Dolly Parton's America : About | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Heather Ash @writermath.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
See Writer-Me in the internet wilds! I can't wait to meet my fellow authors and discuss the origins of my story "21 Sesame Street." Anthology's out October 8th, but you can pre-order now at B&N, Bookshop.org, and other booksellers! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-speculat...
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A Speculative Detective Agency Anthology Celebration
Meet the editors and authors of one of the most exciting speculative fiction anthologies out this year.
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