Heliotropist
@heliotropist.bsky.social
genX (she/her) tugging at the delicate eye area 🌈 Upper Valley🌈 🐈⬛✡️⛸️🦻🏼🥄🎶💿🎨💅🧶🌳 Talkin’ ‘bout my Sandwich Generation / profile pic is a tabby cat lying with his paws across a long, old, elaborately carved knife; banner is a partly cloudy sky over a rural road
Serenity Now! #caregiving #dementia
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Serenity Now! #caregiving #dementia
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Hitting like on every northern light photo
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Hitting like on every northern light photo
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Maybe it’s my current state of mind, but 50 year mortgages and 15 year car terms are reasons to revolt in the most iconic ways
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Maybe it’s my current state of mind, but 50 year mortgages and 15 year car terms are reasons to revolt in the most iconic ways
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In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
Listening to my mom chat on the phone with her oldest friend, who doesn’t know that my mom has dementia. I’m valiantly resisting the urge to fact check as she shares wildly inaccurate details about our lives. It’s really hard, even though I know it doesn’t matter.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Listening to my mom chat on the phone with her oldest friend, who doesn’t know that my mom has dementia. I’m valiantly resisting the urge to fact check as she shares wildly inaccurate details about our lives. It’s really hard, even though I know it doesn’t matter.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him
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It's party city for me this coming weekend. Need to launder all my going out clothes. Friendsgiving, sex reveal, graduation/birthday party...
I need $200 for substitute care for Ma. I would really like to go hang out with my friends, but I must also be responsible. If you can help:
I need $200 for substitute care for Ma. I would really like to go hang out with my friends, but I must also be responsible. If you can help:
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Paypal.me
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's party city for me this coming weekend. Need to launder all my going out clothes. Friendsgiving, sex reveal, graduation/birthday party...
I need $200 for substitute care for Ma. I would really like to go hang out with my friends, but I must also be responsible. If you can help:
I need $200 for substitute care for Ma. I would really like to go hang out with my friends, but I must also be responsible. If you can help:
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You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns
I thought I was on top of this stuff, but I just looked and there were a bunch more content filters to reset since the last time I’d checked. 🙄 (is an eyeroll rude? I meant it to be…)
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I thought I was on top of this stuff, but I just looked and there were a bunch more content filters to reset since the last time I’d checked. 🙄 (is an eyeroll rude? I meant it to be…)
Finished watching #Wayward on Netflix with my mom. Created by and starring Mae Martin, and with Toni Collette at her intense best, it’s a fun, dark, twisty thriller. Engaging characters, compelling story lines, and I’m always a sucker for anything set in Vermont. Recommend.
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Finished watching #Wayward on Netflix with my mom. Created by and starring Mae Martin, and with Toni Collette at her intense best, it’s a fun, dark, twisty thriller. Engaging characters, compelling story lines, and I’m always a sucker for anything set in Vermont. Recommend.
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Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
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any democrat running in the midterms can win by simply stating that there will be hearings and trials
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
any democrat running in the midterms can win by simply stating that there will be hearings and trials
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So to this administration, merely showing up to protest and yell at ICE and CBP agents is a justification for violence. Bovino is really just frothing for opportunities to kill people.
Overnight court filings seem to be giving us a peek at what U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino said in his deposition so far (it apparently continues today):
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So to this administration, merely showing up to protest and yell at ICE and CBP agents is a justification for violence. Bovino is really just frothing for opportunities to kill people.
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We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Actually gonna need to move the clocks back two hours thanks.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Actually gonna need to move the clocks back two hours thanks.
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Please don't worry. I speak for all stoners when I say I will not waste my precious and expensive gummies on your child
It’s that time of year again so I will say: no one is tricking your kids into taking weed gummies. This is a moral panic.
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Please don't worry. I speak for all stoners when I say I will not waste my precious and expensive gummies on your child
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this is evil
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this is evil
Everything is terrible, but I just got back from a lovely autumnal walk with @greenmtgirl.bsky.social and it felt so good. A little ranting, a little venting, lots of friendship & support. Definitely worth getting sweaty & spending my last spoon. 😊🍁
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everything is terrible, but I just got back from a lovely autumnal walk with @greenmtgirl.bsky.social and it felt so good. A little ranting, a little venting, lots of friendship & support. Definitely worth getting sweaty & spending my last spoon. 😊🍁
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"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
Excellent thread about Bovino’s appearance before Judge Ellis. Worth reading all the way down.
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
news.wttw.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Excellent thread about Bovino’s appearance before Judge Ellis. Worth reading all the way down.
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages