Heather Bryant
@hbcompass.bsky.social
News and information for and with communities. Journalism person, writer, artist, photographer and maker. Co-founder of Tiny News Collective. Building carefully.org Writing at hbcompass.io Managing journalism.wtf She/her
I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how so much of the interaction I feel like I'm witnessing is oriented around users correcting one another.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how so much of the interaction I feel like I'm witnessing is oriented around users correcting one another.
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I kinda think the tail actually being attached to the fox's body might have been one of the creative limits to keep.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I kinda think the tail actually being attached to the fox's body might have been one of the creative limits to keep.
Where XanderCat could choose to lay and where he does choose to lay.
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Where XanderCat could choose to lay and where he does choose to lay.
If you haven't read this or haven't read it in a while, it's a very grounding experience at this time.
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you haven't read this or haven't read it in a while, it's a very grounding experience at this time.
While Land Before Time was certainly emotionally devastating as a child, I didn't clock it as a horror film.
Screenshots are from the results of searching "horror" on Netflix.
Screenshots are from the results of searching "horror" on Netflix.
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
While Land Before Time was certainly emotionally devastating as a child, I didn't clock it as a horror film.
Screenshots are from the results of searching "horror" on Netflix.
Screenshots are from the results of searching "horror" on Netflix.
That feeling when the USPS is asking for us to help fund cancer research while this administration has cut numerous programs and grants for cancer research.
October 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
That feeling when the USPS is asking for us to help fund cancer research while this administration has cut numerous programs and grants for cancer research.
Hey, remember that time the Washington Post killed their already planned election endorsement at the behest of Bezos who was cozying up to Trump and then a bunch of people lectured everyone to not cancel their subscriptions as a means of expressing that they didn't approve of the capitulation?
September 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hey, remember that time the Washington Post killed their already planned election endorsement at the behest of Bezos who was cozying up to Trump and then a bunch of people lectured everyone to not cancel their subscriptions as a means of expressing that they didn't approve of the capitulation?
First time reading this person and, maybe I'm jaded, but I was floored by this sentence. This is just recklessly, almost painfully, naive. The post, while making some good points, falls apart trying to create equivalences when there is significant asymmetry both contemporarily and historically.
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
First time reading this person and, maybe I'm jaded, but I was floored by this sentence. This is just recklessly, almost painfully, naive. The post, while making some good points, falls apart trying to create equivalences when there is significant asymmetry both contemporarily and historically.
The gunman hasn't been caught and the investigation is barely 24 hours old. If you look up the authors, two don't exist, one has another obviously generated book and the fourth claims bylines in real magazines but does not appear in those magazine archives.
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The gunman hasn't been caught and the investigation is barely 24 hours old. If you look up the authors, two don't exist, one has another obviously generated book and the fourth claims bylines in real magazines but does not appear in those magazine archives.
There are already generated books available on Amazon claiming to be "deeply researched" accounts of Charlie Kirk's death yesterday.
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There are already generated books available on Amazon claiming to be "deeply researched" accounts of Charlie Kirk's death yesterday.
I actually tried to solve this important societal issue and made ~40 candles that smell like fresh bread but got self conscious that they might not be as good as I'd hoped so I didn't put them on my shop and now I've held onto a case of bread candles since last fall and society is crumbling. My bad.
August 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I actually tried to solve this important societal issue and made ~40 candles that smell like fresh bread but got self conscious that they might not be as good as I'd hoped so I didn't put them on my shop and now I've held onto a case of bread candles since last fall and society is crumbling. My bad.
PixelCat says go read a book.
August 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
PixelCat says go read a book.
A first in all my years of gardening. A squirrel planted a cooked chicken drumstick in our hanging fuchsia. I know it was a squirrel because I accidentally interrupted their first attempted retrieval.
The squirrel did return and get their drumstick yesterday morning.
The squirrel did return and get their drumstick yesterday morning.
August 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A first in all my years of gardening. A squirrel planted a cooked chicken drumstick in our hanging fuchsia. I know it was a squirrel because I accidentally interrupted their first attempted retrieval.
The squirrel did return and get their drumstick yesterday morning.
The squirrel did return and get their drumstick yesterday morning.
Shout out to my middle of the night brain for this scribble on my phone to keep track of a new thought on something I'd been working through. Thankfully, I understand just enough to reconstruct the thought.
July 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Shout out to my middle of the night brain for this scribble on my phone to keep track of a new thought on something I'd been working through. Thankfully, I understand just enough to reconstruct the thought.
PixelCat has today figured out much better than I do.
July 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
PixelCat has today figured out much better than I do.
It's flamingos. Somehow.
May 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It's flamingos. Somehow.
If you need something to laugh at, this is causing people to do double takes in the dairy department at a Safeway near me.
May 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
If you need something to laugh at, this is causing people to do double takes in the dairy department at a Safeway near me.
The cover for the bound book of Trump's executive orders.
April 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The cover for the bound book of Trump's executive orders.
Ah, okay, now I see it. 3/3
April 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ah, okay, now I see it. 3/3
oh, wait there might be something there ... 2/3
April 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
oh, wait there might be something there ... 2/3
Did any of y'all happen to hear of anything yesterday going that was a like giant, global collection of events of national significance and like, I don't know, maybe the kind of thing that should be a pretty significant area of coverage for national news organizations on the day after? 1/3
April 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Did any of y'all happen to hear of anything yesterday going that was a like giant, global collection of events of national significance and like, I don't know, maybe the kind of thing that should be a pretty significant area of coverage for national news organizations on the day after? 1/3
Ten minutes after Senator Cory Booker's speech ended. 2/2
April 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ten minutes after Senator Cory Booker's speech ended. 2/2
Ten minutes after Senator Cory Booker's speech ended. 1/2
April 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ten minutes after Senator Cory Booker's speech ended. 1/2
The Washington Post had a banner about Booker breaking the record and it is already gone. It was up for maybe 10 minutes.
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Washington Post had a banner about Booker breaking the record and it is already gone. It was up for maybe 10 minutes.