Andy Hillier
@android81.bsky.social
French and theatre teacher, lover of music and opera, fervent linguophile, and couture sewing addict.
Sigh... Strasbourg... Love this city.
June 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Sigh... Strasbourg... Love this city.
If this isn't a commentary on the current state of our democracy, I don't know what is.
February 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If this isn't a commentary on the current state of our democracy, I don't know what is.
Dangerous and supremely inept.
“The American team has almost no experience in high-level international negotiation, no regional expertise on Ukraine and Russia, and no relevant foreign language knowledge."
‘Bloodbath by design’: Trump’s Russia negotiators criticized for ‘almost no experience'
After a week of disastrous messaging by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, resulting in a 180-degree turn and leaving European leaders and some Americans wondering what U.S. foreign policy is, th...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dangerous and supremely inept.
Which part of DEI do you have a problem with? Is it diversity, equity, or inclusion? Before you answer, define all three.
February 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Which part of DEI do you have a problem with? Is it diversity, equity, or inclusion? Before you answer, define all three.
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I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.
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An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
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We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
The world may be falling down around our ears, but I'm still going to teach poetry and the French Renaissance today.
February 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The world may be falling down around our ears, but I'm still going to teach poetry and the French Renaissance today.
I guess I should deal with this mess of a sleeve seam.
February 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I guess I should deal with this mess of a sleeve seam.
Do you ever feel like you only really get one day off a week because you spend Sundays riddled with anxiety for the coming week?
January 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Do you ever feel like you only really get one day off a week because you spend Sundays riddled with anxiety for the coming week?
No, you don't. You work for us, the American people.
KING: Even you said the images of J6 stirred up anger in you, 'the nation was embarrassed.' How do you reconcile those feelings with Trump's pardons?
MARCO RUBIO: I used to be a senator, and now I'm about to be sworn in as secretary of state. That's what I'm thinking. I work for Donald J Trump.
MARCO RUBIO: I used to be a senator, and now I'm about to be sworn in as secretary of state. That's what I'm thinking. I work for Donald J Trump.
January 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
No, you don't. You work for us, the American people.
She's an ugly, hateful person.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "These people would line us up in front of a firing squad & kill us if they could. We know exactly who the Democrats are ... Democrats, until you start writing big checks to Republicans & start voting Republican ... then we can start talking about unity."
January 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
She's an ugly, hateful person.
Melania's hat is giving Lucy Coe marrying Alan Quartermaine.
January 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Melania's hat is giving Lucy Coe marrying Alan Quartermaine.
Apt words, indeed.
He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.
January 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Apt words, indeed.
@emilymccdesign.bsky.social Welcome aboard!
January 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
@emilymccdesign.bsky.social Welcome aboard!
In the process of de-Christmasing the house. I don't know how y'all do this in one day!
January 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In the process of de-Christmasing the house. I don't know how y'all do this in one day!
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Pretty much.
January 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Pretty much.
Yes, I know it's after Christmas, but you better believe I'm lighting everything up and enjoying it while I can!
December 29, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Yes, I know it's after Christmas, but you better believe I'm lighting everything up and enjoying it while I can!
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"In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird
with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us
he wants to go to sleep,
but he's restless—"
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird
with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us
he wants to go to sleep,
but he's restless—"
December 26, 2024 at 4:30 PM
"In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird
with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us
he wants to go to sleep,
but he's restless—"
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird
with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us
he wants to go to sleep,
but he's restless—"
Merry Christmas! Just me enjoying some cocoa while being stalked by angry dinosaur chickens in the Rockies.
December 25, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Merry Christmas! Just me enjoying some cocoa while being stalked by angry dinosaur chickens in the Rockies.
Christmas Eve again.
December 24, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Christmas Eve again.
It's Christmas woobie season!
December 7, 2024 at 10:27 PM
It's Christmas woobie season!
@wmarybeard.bsky.social Everything I know about Ancient Rome, I learned from Mary Beard.
November 28, 2024 at 2:24 PM
@wmarybeard.bsky.social Everything I know about Ancient Rome, I learned from Mary Beard.