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heather bussing
@heatherbussing.bsky.social
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writer, photographer, employment lawyer, ridiculous dog person, avid Sofalist

I also wrote a book on Pay Equity called Get Pay Right
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steventdennis.bsky.social
The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
A harrier on the hunt from this weekend 🪶
A northern harrier, a large but somewhat thin bird of prey with brown feathers, is seen mid-flight. The bird is backlit by early morning sunlight and is staring intently towards the camera.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe
A small lake framed by tree branches in the foreground. The water is calm and reflecting a clear blue sky. The trees on the far side are mirrored in the water and tall hills are in the distance
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
Weenies
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
I am STILL discombobulated from the time change.

Sigh
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe
Vineyards after harvest. The leaves on the vines are turning yellow. In the background are forested hills. The sky is clear with whispy clouds.
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
I agree with @stevevladeck.bsky.social. But I never would have understood this without his explanation. Thanks!
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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biblioraptorphd.bsky.social
I have somehow never read Breakfast of Champions and holy hell in three pages Vonnegut sums it all up - colonialism, racism, income inequality, and a guy who owns a car dealership who reads a scifi novel and takes away the wrong idea
The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. Actually, the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines. • The sea pirates were white. The people who were already on the continent when the pirates arrived were copper-colored. When slavery was introduced onto the continent, the slaves were black. Color was everything. tonster. Here was the core of the bad ideas which Trout gave to Dwayne: Everybody on Earth was a robot, with one exception-Dwayne Hoover. Of all the creatures in the Universe, only Dwayne was thinking and feeling and worrying and planning and so on. Nobody else knew what pain was. Nobody else had any choices to make. Everybody else was a fully automatic machine, whose purpose was to stimulate Dwayne. Dwayne was a new type of creature being tested by the Creator of the Universe. Only Dwayne Hoover had free will. Trout did not expect to be believed. He put the bad ideas into a science-fiction novel, and that was where Dwayne found them. The book wasn't addressed to Dwayne alone. Trout had never heard of Dwayne when he wrote it. It was addressed to anybody who happened to open it up. It said to simply anybody, in effect, "Hey-guess what: You're the only creature with free will. How does that make you feel?" And so on. It was a tour de force. It was a jeu d'esprit. But it was mind poison to Dwayne.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe

flock it
A flock of seagulls flying above a jetty at dusk. Waves from the ocean are crashing behind. In the background is a triangle shaped rock with a small arch at the bottom where the waves are making a hole. The sky is clear and orangy-yellow with mist at the horizon line
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe

flock it
A flock of brown pelicans rests along a sandbank while gulls float in the water and hang out on the beach behind the pelicans. A rocky cliff is in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
Gosh
paulisci.bsky.social Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe

flock it
A flock of sanderlings at the tide line facing the camera. The birds are small and mostly white with brown coloring on their heads, necks, and wings.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe

I would like to report a murder
A flock (or murder) of crows takes flight from a tree. There are about a dozen crows, each in a different shape and stage of flying. The tips of the tree branches they left are at the bottom of the image.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
A huge loss of brilliant thinkers and writers. I loved Teen Vogue. I haven't been a teen for a very long time, but the quality of the reporting made me a subscriber.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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glasscatty.bsky.social
Good night peeps, sweet dreams.
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe

flock it
A huge flock of seagulls take flight all at once filling the image with birds.
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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mitchellepner.bsky.social
We raised our daughter in NYC. Over the years, her friends spoke English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish, German, Javanese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Farsi, Hebrew, Klingon (basic), Latin (high achievers) & Ancient Greek (off the charts).
A mayor who speaks Arabic in a commercial does not faze me.
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe

(how I feel about time changes)
Close up of a giraffe head and neck. The giraffe is looking at the camera and sticking its tongue out to the side. I hate it when we change the clocks either way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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guggenheim.bsky.social
Landscape with Factory Chimney by Vasily Kandinsky, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137159
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
November 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe
Sunset over the ocean with a tiny island in the distance. The water is a deep dark blue. There is a strip of marine layer on the horizon line. And the sky has big clouds in oranges, peach and yellow from the sunset.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
I had a case where the bad thing happened between 1 am and 2 am on the day the time changed in the fall.

But that hour repeated when the time fell back at 2 am. So I had to clarify whether they were there at the first 1:30 am or the second one.

Just stay in tonight, please.
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
I really do not care which direction the time changes. I hate it both ways.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
heatherbussing.bsky.social
breathe
Sunset from the beach. The sun is on the horizon line and gentle waves reflecting the orange light roll towards the beach. A rip tide makes interesting lines in the water.
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM