Amy Hornburg Heilveil
@despinahh.bsky.social
My interests include illuminated manuscripts, botanical illustration, calligraphy, nature photography, artistic swimming, and hockey
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This plan is utterly insane and would cause catastrophic environmental degradation and loss of outdoor opportunities throughout the west — it would accelerate the decline of forests and wildlife, and seriously restrict hiking, camping, fishing, birding, hunting, etc.
June 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This plan is utterly insane and would cause catastrophic environmental degradation and loss of outdoor opportunities throughout the west — it would accelerate the decline of forests and wildlife, and seriously restrict hiking, camping, fishing, birding, hunting, etc.
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I went looking for the heron again yesterday, he did not disappoint. It took several return trips to the location, but he gave another very brief photo op. This bird’s plumage is so exquisitely beautiful it was unbelievable.
Great Blue Heron
#Birds #photography #nature
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons
Great Blue Heron
#Birds #photography #nature
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons
April 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I went looking for the heron again yesterday, he did not disappoint. It took several return trips to the location, but he gave another very brief photo op. This bird’s plumage is so exquisitely beautiful it was unbelievable.
Great Blue Heron
#Birds #photography #nature
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons
Great Blue Heron
#Birds #photography #nature
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons
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Whitehouse social media doesn’t seem to understand they’re generating *evidence* at this point, not content.
April 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Whitehouse social media doesn’t seem to understand they’re generating *evidence* at this point, not content.
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Sad, yet true.
When you are an entomologist and have to admit your research organisms have more backbone than the department Chairs on your campus. #AcademicChatter #PUI
April 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Sad, yet true.
April 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I adore cacao drinking cups. I have 2 that were made by a friend, which are not this intricate, and I treasure them.
Drinking Cup for Cacao, Guatemala or Mexico, Maya, 550–700, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
April 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I adore cacao drinking cups. I have 2 that were made by a friend, which are not this intricate, and I treasure them.
April 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Pink geranium bloom close up #bloomscrolling
April 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Pink geranium bloom close up #bloomscrolling
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April 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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A solid 63 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes some v old Kufic Quran leaves; several legal texts, some #neolatin works; more 17th C Papal texts, Ethiopic texts, Sistine diaries, and classics; a 12th C glossed Priscian and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes some v old Kufic Quran leaves; several legal texts, some #neolatin works; more 17th C Papal texts, Ethiopic texts, Sistine diaries, and classics; a 12th C glossed Priscian and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 14 of 2025
In total sixty-three manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this past week. The top contributor, as in recent weeks, was Barb.lat with twenty-six manuscripts. Unusually it was very closely followe...
www.wiglaf.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A solid 63 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes some v old Kufic Quran leaves; several legal texts, some #neolatin works; more 17th C Papal texts, Ethiopic texts, Sistine diaries, and classics; a 12th C glossed Priscian and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes some v old Kufic Quran leaves; several legal texts, some #neolatin works; more 17th C Papal texts, Ethiopic texts, Sistine diaries, and classics; a 12th C glossed Priscian and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
I adore the way the scribe used simple figures to create such whimsy.
The Manuscript of the Week is a 15th C compilation of medical treatises, RIA MS 23 P 10 (iii). The scribe has used a selection of whimsical line fillers & run-over symbols to enhance the "mise-en-page". Read more & see the @diasdublin.bsky.social digital copy here: isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
April 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I adore the way the scribe used simple figures to create such whimsy.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
White hydrangea close up in the sun. #bloomscrolling
April 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
White hydrangea close up in the sun. #bloomscrolling
March 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Endangering the lives of women.
The Trump administration abruptly pulled funding last week for a research grant meant to protect pregnant women from domestic violence because it was categorized as a “DEI” study.
Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
www.huffpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Endangering the lives of women.
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Same, little pepper, same
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Same, little pepper, same
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EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!
March 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!
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BREAKING: The Trump administration opens investigations at more than 50 universities as part of its anti-DEI campaign.
More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump's anti-DEI campaign
More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity and equity programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students.
bit.ly
March 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration opens investigations at more than 50 universities as part of its anti-DEI campaign.
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Once saw a post justifying the practice of blocking as "I've known you for 12 seconds and they've all been unpleasant" and I think about it almost every time I block someone for a one-off comment. If the first interaction is this bad why should I facilitate a second?
March 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Once saw a post justifying the practice of blocking as "I've known you for 12 seconds and they've all been unpleasant" and I think about it almost every time I block someone for a one-off comment. If the first interaction is this bad why should I facilitate a second?
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Miniatures for the book of Esther in a bible which is contemporary with King Louis IX's stay in the Holy Land and probably commissioned for him.
BnF MS 5211; Bible de Saint-Jean d'Acre; 13th c (1250 CE-1254 CE); Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem; f.261r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS 5211; Bible de Saint-Jean d'Acre; 13th c (1250 CE-1254 CE); Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem; f.261r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Miniatures for the book of Esther in a bible which is contemporary with King Louis IX's stay in the Holy Land and probably commissioned for him.
BnF MS 5211; Bible de Saint-Jean d'Acre; 13th c (1250 CE-1254 CE); Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem; f.261r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS 5211; Bible de Saint-Jean d'Acre; 13th c (1250 CE-1254 CE); Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem; f.261r
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
Not the land of opportunity
March 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Not the land of opportunity