Brandy
@brandyheinrich.bsky.social
Rustbelt born, Florida raised. Manic Pixie Nightmare Cryptid. I paint unicorns and hoard cats.
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rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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Pittsburgh, I need you to know that someone made a snow-tittysphinx.
January 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Pittsburgh, I need you to know that someone made a snow-tittysphinx.
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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Renewables muscle fossil fuels out of EU electricity market, says research https://aje.news/a6ihio
January 22, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Renewables muscle fossil fuels out of EU electricity market, says research https://aje.news/a6ihio
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'A sea of people': Thousands turn out for anti-ICE march in downtown Minneapolis
January 23, 2026 at 10:32 PM
'A sea of people': Thousands turn out for anti-ICE march in downtown Minneapolis
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
Fred Rogers was deeply political, but Meghan’s just too shallow to understand the message.
This is quite literally one of the stupidest human beings alive
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Fred Rogers was deeply political, but Meghan’s just too shallow to understand the message.
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We’ve been in WHO since 1948.
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 AM
We’ve been in WHO since 1948.
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RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
You know what I love?
Being subjected to misogyny on the professional networking platform. Even better? The dingus was *debating* the output of an AI he asked a loaded question of, claiming it was biased toward “woke” science data it was trained on.
So anyway, that guy is blocked now.
Being subjected to misogyny on the professional networking platform. Even better? The dingus was *debating* the output of an AI he asked a loaded question of, claiming it was biased toward “woke” science data it was trained on.
So anyway, that guy is blocked now.
January 22, 2026 at 8:07 PM
You know what I love?
Being subjected to misogyny on the professional networking platform. Even better? The dingus was *debating* the output of an AI he asked a loaded question of, claiming it was biased toward “woke” science data it was trained on.
So anyway, that guy is blocked now.
Being subjected to misogyny on the professional networking platform. Even better? The dingus was *debating* the output of an AI he asked a loaded question of, claiming it was biased toward “woke” science data it was trained on.
So anyway, that guy is blocked now.
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Please help the cats left behind after ICE kidnapped their owners.
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Please help the cats left behind after ICE kidnapped their owners.
Oh my god. What the fuck.
“Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing”
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Oh my god. What the fuck.
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Just imagine being the parent of a soldier from Canada or Denmark or Great Britain or France who was killed in Afghanistan in the one and only time Article 5 was invoked and the entire alliance came to America's aid, and hearing President Bone Spurs say this.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Just imagine being the parent of a soldier from Canada or Denmark or Great Britain or France who was killed in Afghanistan in the one and only time Article 5 was invoked and the entire alliance came to America's aid, and hearing President Bone Spurs say this.
I was asked in a job interview yesterday what my favorite book genres are. So I figure I’ll talk about that here, too! I read a lot of literary fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, as well as ecological nonfiction & general science and history.
(The interview was at a local library. 😉)
(The interview was at a local library. 😉)
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I was asked in a job interview yesterday what my favorite book genres are. So I figure I’ll talk about that here, too! I read a lot of literary fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, as well as ecological nonfiction & general science and history.
(The interview was at a local library. 😉)
(The interview was at a local library. 😉)
Rax, which was a roast-beef-sandwich chain until I think the late 1980s/early 90s. I only really remember the milkshakes, and specifically the blueberry - because the shakes were super thick & whole blueberries would get stuck in the straw. But *gooood looord* they were delicious.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 20, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Rax, which was a roast-beef-sandwich chain until I think the late 1980s/early 90s. I only really remember the milkshakes, and specifically the blueberry - because the shakes were super thick & whole blueberries would get stuck in the straw. But *gooood looord* they were delicious.
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love your friends, let your friends love you
January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
love your friends, let your friends love you
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As everyone is talking about how insane Trump Greenland attack is, reupping this post about how badly NYT sanewashed Trump's comments on Greenland.
He as much as told them he had to "possess" it bc he's a malignant narcissist worried about protecting his manhood.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
He as much as told them he had to "possess" it bc he's a malignant narcissist worried about protecting his manhood.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership - emptywheel
The NYT committed literal sanewashing in the latest of its series of stories bragging that four journalists got to watch Trump ramble for two hours: It described Trump's pathological need to possess t...
www.emptywheel.net
January 19, 2026 at 12:16 PM
As everyone is talking about how insane Trump Greenland attack is, reupping this post about how badly NYT sanewashed Trump's comments on Greenland.
He as much as told them he had to "possess" it bc he's a malignant narcissist worried about protecting his manhood.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
He as much as told them he had to "possess" it bc he's a malignant narcissist worried about protecting his manhood.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
L O L.
Um. Yeah. I’m in western Pennsylvania. The nearest movie theater to me is *four towns* away. The last movie I went to see I had to drive into Pittsburgh, which is almost an hour away. The one before that I drove over an hour because it was limited theatrical release.
Um. Yeah. I’m in western Pennsylvania. The nearest movie theater to me is *four towns* away. The last movie I went to see I had to drive into Pittsburgh, which is almost an hour away. The one before that I drove over an hour because it was limited theatrical release.
"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
www.avclub.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:04 AM
L O L.
Um. Yeah. I’m in western Pennsylvania. The nearest movie theater to me is *four towns* away. The last movie I went to see I had to drive into Pittsburgh, which is almost an hour away. The one before that I drove over an hour because it was limited theatrical release.
Um. Yeah. I’m in western Pennsylvania. The nearest movie theater to me is *four towns* away. The last movie I went to see I had to drive into Pittsburgh, which is almost an hour away. The one before that I drove over an hour because it was limited theatrical release.
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Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
I went out and had introverted artist social time at a regional org meetup, and talked a little bit about my current painting. Having peopled myself out, I’m home & curled up with a @tkingfisher.com story. My favorite line so far has been about the rarity of honest men and unicorns. 🦄
#booksky
#booksky
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 AM
I went out and had introverted artist social time at a regional org meetup, and talked a little bit about my current painting. Having peopled myself out, I’m home & curled up with a @tkingfisher.com story. My favorite line so far has been about the rarity of honest men and unicorns. 🦄
#booksky
#booksky
Universal childcare!! Love to see it!
Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc
January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Universal childcare!! Love to see it!