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elikaortega.bsky.social
Élika Ortega
@elikaortega.bsky.social
3.3K followers 1.4K following 2.5K posts
Assist. Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Dog person. Rose person.
Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish
https://elikaortega.net
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Enjoy this blooming Christmas (Thanksgiving?) cactus.
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Husband just texted this:
A chow chow in bed wearing a sleeping mask. On top of the blankets is a tray with various breakfast foods. Caption reads “dress for the job you want”
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I had never thought of flautas as a "non-taco."
cc @miblogestublog.bsky.social
A photo of very fancy looking flautas from a new restaurant. The caption reads: flautas filled with curried potatoes are one of the non-taco options at Molino Chido.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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🤯🤯
From the Denver Art Museum
A painting called Blood and a Single Tree (2018) by Julie Buffalohead. A red room with some crows, raccoons and a dead looking deer. A human figure in a black suit and a lynx head sits in a chair. Museum card: Julie Buffalohead Ponca, born 1972 Minnesota Blood and a Single Tree 2018 Oil paint on canvas Native Arts acquisition funds and funds from Loren G. Lipson, MD, 2018.302 The ribbonwork motifs drawn by the Crows in chalk and found draped on the backs of the deer and raccoon are symbols of identity, pride, and belonging for Ponca people. To your right is similar ribbonwork created by Mary Bacon Rind (Osage). Los motivos de los trabajos con listones dibujados por los crows en tiza y encontrados sobre el lomo de venados y mapaches son símbolos de identidad, orgullo y pertenencia de los ponca. A su derecha pueden ver un trabajo con listones similar creado por Mary Bacon Rind (osage).
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Northern lights visible in NW Denver! 😍😍
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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sunset in Denver tonight
Houses’ roofs, power cables and an insanely intense orange-purple cloud
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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*Wild* afternoon ahead.
Two decks of cards, a bridge for dummies book, a notebook and pen, a suit indicator, and a card shuffler on a table.
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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What @alexsaum.bsky.social said 👇👇👇 but with the cool poster the organizers made
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Ready to fight all the vampire women, mummies of Guanajuato, werewolves, Dracula, and others.
Iykyk
Small woman wearing a stuffing muscle top, a blue cape and a Blue Demon mask flexes
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Happy Halloween from your friends the fungi growing in things all the time!!
Scary, moldy jack o’lantern lit with blue neon light.
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Realized this morning my jack o’lantern got crooked and *so moldy*. But maybe it’s kinda perfect???
A moldy spooky jack o’lantern
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Iykyk
Four loaves of pan de muerto. Two sesame seed and two sugar
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Amigues en CDMX y más allá:
El 5 de noviembre a las 10am voy a charlar con David Pruneda sobre Binding Media para el CISAN, UNAM.
Yo estaré virtualmente pero la sede oficial es la Torre de Humanidades II en CU. También se va a transmitir en vivo vía el YouTube de CISAN www.youtube.com/cisanunamweb
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Early morning perfection
A white and tan dog naps on a couch covered by a blanket. It’ the blue hour. A window in the back has the blind drawn almost all the way down. A small painting of the ikea monkey in a gilded frame is next to the window.
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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💛🧡💛🧡🌽
Bright yellow leaves against a blue sky An ear of corn on the stalk
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Delightful Fall rose blooms. Somehow brighter and bigger than Spring ones.
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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It’s not that rare for people to stop in the street to say hi and pet this guy👇🏽 or scream from their cars “I love your dog!”

But today we unlocked the guy-runs-out-of-his-house-to-say-“your dog is super cute!” level of neighborhood canine stardom.
Basset hound sitting on top of someone’s purse and making sad puppy eyes Basset hound looking cute af while he demands a bite of my snack.
October 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Leaves were peeped again.
Colorado blue sky and golden fluttery aspens
October 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Same
October 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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My writing career summed up in one image:
Small chicken sitting at a big table. Looks confused.
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The leaves were peeped.
forest landscape from Conifer, Colorado. Blue sky day, green pines, yellow fluttering aspens, low grasses. Not pictured three dogs.
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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In which I was called “vieja borracha” by one of the luchadores rudos because I was rooting against him—>lucha libre banter with the audience achievement unlocked.
September 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Delta Jr.
September 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Nbd
September 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Lucha libre at CU Boulder right now!!
September 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM