Heide Estes

Doctor with fibromyalgia (@fibroindiangirl) "You know what is frustrating ? Most of the time i try so hard to understand my body with chronic illnesses . I read, I learn, I adapt, but then there are those days when I just can't take it. I mean, seriously, why do I have to go through this? I wish I could just catch a break sometimes. Life’s not fair, and it’s hard not to wonder, “What the hell, man?” But I keep pushing forward because, well, what else can I do?"

All hail the bibliographic essay! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social

www.historians.org/perspectives...

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.

“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.”

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

Someone outside the US: So, let me get this straight. The groundhog...

Me: Is clairvoyant, yes

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.

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.

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

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.

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]

🟥⬛🟧⬛🟥
⬛🔳🟥🔳🟩
🟩🟧🟨🟨🟩
⬛🔳🟥🔳🟥
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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.

One infection = 5 yrs of brain damage

Being dynamically disabled by Long Covid looks like……

YouTube video by Czech NHL 14-year-old Nela Lopusanova INSANE Michigan goal at U18 Women's Worlds #shorts #hockey #slovakia

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

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

Two Tries. Zero Indictments. I love how Letitia James lives rent-free, utilities included, inside Donald Trump’s head

“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-...

(I got 93%)

okay so the answer to question 8 (short test) is A, but I put C because I can’t go to my doctor to go tested, and I have no idea when that might be possible.

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

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

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

No Kings, October 18. I’ll be in Freeport, ME. Find your local event.

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

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.

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

Representing, this Labor Day.

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

Watch Valerie’s whole speech here: www.instagram.com/reel/DLrDU-_...

Goodnight 💚 we hope you get some rest this weekend

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

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

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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.

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...

Two coyotes in front of a bridge in central park.

The Central Park coyote couple.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...

Good morning Bluesky! I'm boosting an opportunity to run the special collections and archives division at Case Western Reserve University. You have a great team, exciting collections, and supportive peers. Can answer questions ❤️

@sharpnews.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social

oooof.

i don’t do an exercise “program” any more, i just try to mix it up and do a lot of different things. swim, weights, yoga, walk…

before long covid, it was bike, hike, walk, run, yoga, capoeira, swim, kayak.

just … get activity, most days, enjoy it, and enjoy feeling fit and strong.

are so big.

i keep reminding myself of what rabbi tarfon said:

"you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it" (pirkei avot 2:16).

yet i keep thinking that i am not doing enough.

and i keep wondering, is there *anything* i could do, that would be enough?