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HearHerHands
@hearherhands.bsky.social
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She/Her | Deaf, chronically ill, disabled | Fiber Arts | Service Dog Handler 🐕‍🦺 (Opinions my own) in MD 🦀

profile pic: a beautiful artistic profile of Jennifer as a mermaid with her hair in a long fishtail braid wearing a fluffy shawl- by @bybyony
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Rep Ansari is wearing an orange blazer and sitting at a folding table in front of Mike Johnson's office with a sign that says 'Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein Files - under line Change My Mind.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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all schnauzers (ok dogs too) are people!! just ask them.

my schnauzer
a salt and pepper miniature schnauzer with clipped hair wearing a pumpkin sweatshirt with a hood and a stuffed satin green pumpkin stem is standing on a black rug in front of a tan wall with his head hanging in a 'why on earth are you doing this to me.' expression.
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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adding alt text to the image mentioned:

(those fucking jerks trying to make it harder to help our neighbors not starve)
a photo of grocery store shelves overlaid with the words 'retailer notice' USDA Food and Nutrition Service U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE USDA SNAP Supplenests Retailer Notice REMINDER: SNAP-EBT Authorized Retailers Must Comply with the SNAP Equal Treatment Rule. • YOU MUST OFFER ELIGIBLE FOODS AT THE SAME PRICES AND ON THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO SNAP-EBT CUSTOMERS AS OTHER CUSTOMERS, EXCEPT THAT SALES TAX CANNOT BE CHARGED ON SNAP PURCHASES. • YOU CANNOT TREAT SNAP-EBT CUSTOMERS DIFFERENTLY THAN ANY OTHER CUSTOMER. • OFFERING DISCOUNTS OR SERVICES ONLY TO SNAP PAYING CUSTOMERS IS A SNAP VIOLATION UNLESS YOU HAVE A SNAP EQUAL TREATMENT WAIVER.
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The average American (US-ian) has only been to 4. With alt text. I have been to 18 of the 20.
Ine average American has only been to 4 1. Orlando 2. New York City 3. Las Vegas 4. San Francisco 5. Boston 6. Miami 7. Chicago 8. Washington D.G. 9. Los Angeles 10. New Orleans 11. San Diego 12. Denver 13. Seattle 14. Philadelphia 15. Phoenix 16. Dallas 17. Houston 18. Nashville 19. San Antonio 20. Honolulu
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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again - adding ALT text so everyone has access
Eleanor Mueller @Eleanor_Mueller 00 On this press call with the House Freedom Caucus, Johnson tells reporters: "We worked on rescissions, and there'll be more of that, we expect, in the days ahead." @Eleanor_Mu... • 1h Johnson adds: "Now, we would like to do another reconciliation bill this fall, before the end of the calendar year, and potentially a third one in the spring, where we will also show more and more fiscal responsibility." 9:12AM OCT 10, 2025 143.1K Views
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Adding alt text: (PS this kind of alt text is dead easy - what would any good person do.)
At 9:27 am today, October 10, 2025, OMB Director Russell Vought posted on social media: "The RIFs have begun." This corroborates credible information Plaintiffs began receiving earlier this morning from multiple sources that OMB has directed federal agencies government-wide to begin issuing RIF notices today. See Huddleston Declaration, filed herewith. For all the reasons explained in Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (EC 17), these RIFS violate the Antideficiency Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, including by requiring agency employees to unlawfully work during the shutdown, unlawfully laying off employees during the shutdown, and improperly using the shutdown as the basis for the layoffs. Plaintiffs therefore request an immediate TRO halting OMB from ordering agencies to implement RIFs, and halting the issuance of any RIF notices by any Defendant pending the Court's already-scheduled October 16, 2025 hearing on Plaintiffs' motion. Plaintiffs are available at any time for an earlier hearing. Plaintiffs provided notice to counsel for Defendants this morning of these developments and requested confirmation that RIFs are not being issued today. At 9:56 am, counsel for Defendants confirmed: "Our understanding is that RIFs are taking place at certain agencies, and we are gathering the details to put in today's filing as the court ordered." DATED: October 10, 2025 Respectfully submitted, Stacey M. Leyton Barbara J. Chisholm
October 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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my pretty ring arrived from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social !!

highly recommend checking them out.
a white person's hand wearing a silver star ring with eight points and a alexandrite in the middle.
September 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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good morning! er ... ish?

anyway, as a service dog handler seeing posts about therapy dogs - just a big ol' reminder that these are DIFFERENT types of dogs trained for completely different jobs. If you want a thread about what each dog does and why let me know.

My service dog:
a salt and pepper miniature schnauzer is wearing a navy blue service dog vest with neon yellow and white lettering that denotes his training program and his service dog position - says 'DO NOT PET' he is laying on a carpeted floor and looking up at the camera with his tongue out. his person's sneaker clad foot and edge of skirt are beside him.
September 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Just 40 days ago, Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by an unhinged Trump supporter and the story has basically already vanished from the national consciousness.

DO NOT LET IT
Just 40 days ago, Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by an unhinged Trump supporter and the story has basically already vanished from the national consciousness. DO NOT LET IT a photo of Melissa Hortman, a blonde white woman with a shoulder length bob standing in front of an American flag and a gold picture frame.
September 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A split screen with the top part having a banner on red in white lettering that says: "The "guns don't kill people" people sure seem to think a book can make you gay. @NoahGarfinkel and a photo of shelves upon shelves of many colored books like in either a library or a bookstore.
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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starkly. "The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America," Luttig told the Guardian. In Luttig's view, the court under Roberts is "acquiescing in and accommodating the president's lawlessness. And it is doing so without briefing, without argument, without deliberation - and without even a single word of explanation of its decisions." For Luttig, this is more than just the 6-3 supermajority of the court expressing its conservatism. This is a fundamental distortion of the American legal system. "The supreme court was never intended to function like this. Never before has it entertained such challenges from the president, and never before has it decided them so flippantly."
August 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Early morning in the park
A view of a sidewalk in a park looking out towards the city street - the entrance is flanked by two white stone and brick tower type monuments that are topped with metal cornices (?) my architecture knowledge fails me. Behind the entrance is a city street flanked by brick and formstone row houses.
July 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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great ... we managed for most of the morning. now back to my hourly walks around the block with the pups
two miniature schnauzers - one is salt and pepper the other is black and silver. the salt and pepper is more curly fluffy and in a pet cut. the black and silver is smooth and in a special schnauzer cut. they are walking on the pavement beside the person on leashes.
July 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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that could be one of those shirts that is just the names all in a row

(afraid I am not good at explaining so an image)
A black t-shirt with lettering in white that says: Kamala, Michelle, Elizabeth, Sonia, AOC & Ruth
July 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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They are worth it.
a black cat is draped over a person who is covered in a blue blanket. his ears are pointed out in opposite direction on the sides of his head and he is sticking out a tiny portion of his pink tongue. a fluffy black and silver schnauzer with natural ears and a very smooth coat is laying across a blue sofa. between his front paws is a bright green tennis ball. a salt and pepper schnauzer with a pet haircut and a shorter beard with light eyebrows is looking up at the camera. he is standing in front of a mural - but you can only see a few petals on the mural in a white color- he is wearing a blue collar and a black leash with blue accents.
July 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I can't remember how to turn it back off of dark mode :/ so this is the best I can do (I am deaf too but what hearing I have I can do this kind of thing with a lot of struggle.)
Still here because we believe everybody deserves healthcare for their families. And 22 hours later, we’ve worked through the night its been a night where we - you know - are focused on the fact that we would be taking healthcare away from elderly people, from our children, and we won’t leave until we vote no.
July 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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truly would not be able to make it through ... everything, without these fluffy butts.
a salt and pepper miniature schnauzer is laying on his side on a white flowered bedspread with his tummy up for pets - a person with a white hand and a long sleeved grey fleece is petting his tummy
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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resharing with alt text or the image on this. also yikes
Elon Musk @elonmusk "We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."
June 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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After the vet, where he got a very nominal exam because they wouldn't give him a current vaccination record document without seeing him. We had to do a whole Nasty Critter bath (tm) and then a snuggle on the sofa in my crocheted blanket.
a miniature schnauzer is snuggled up on the sofa against a blue blanket wrapped person, he is wrapped in a crochet blanket with hexagons in colors of green, pink, tan, and grey.
June 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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walked to the vet in a torrential downpour and back. so incredibly wet and dirty on both of us. ew.
miniature schnauzer in a yellow raincoat at the end of a black biothane leash walks beside a human who is wearing a blue raincoat and green Tain boots.
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Good morning. I am super sad right now so I would love to see all your dogs and cats and fluffy buddies on the sky. Here are my two besties.
Two miniature schnauzers sit on a bench that is wood slats with the back in a curved arch - the dog on the left is darker salt and pepper with lighter finishings (his chest and legs and eyebrows and beard) and big natural ears. His mouth is open and his tongue is out. The dog on the right is lighter, slightly less bulky looking in a lighter grey and silver with still lighter chest, legs, and eyebrows. They are both looking at the camera and sitting on the bench in an upright sit position with their leashes coiled up in front of them.)
June 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I have joined in the round for the Brooklyn Raglan Lite by Tori Yu in yarn from Republic of Yarnia @isasaxonists.bsky.social in Sololos Symphony which is just perfect for pride.
A knitted t shirt with a one by one ribbed collar and a yellow cable cast on in crochet - the sleeves are a seed stitch pattern and it's all over pooled dye in dark navy, light blue, and pink.
June 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Same. I have only owned the latest service dog that I raised. (It was honestly a surprise that I was given ownership. But an honor too._

But I think it's totally fair. (mine is the lighter one)
Two miniature schnauzers sit on a hill covered in grass with a whole bunch of full trees behind. On the left is a dark and slightly shaggy schnauzer with natural ears. He is sitting up. On the right is a lighter salt and pepper with pointed (cropped) ears. He is laying down in a down stay.
May 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Reshared with accurate alt text

also this is NOT how you do it. You need to specifically share what is ON the image otherwise it is pointless and useless for blind and low vision folks.
ALL OF US #AltCitizen When the People of the United States consciously undertake to raise themselves as citizens, and the Nation and the States in their several spheres, to the highest pitch of excellence in private, State, and national life, and to do this because it is the first of all the duties of true patriotism, then and not till then the future of this Nation, in quality and in time, will be assured. Theodore Roosevelt Beside a black and white photograph of Theodore Roosevelt - a white man with short hair, specacles, and a handlebar mustache covering one half of his mouth rakishly.
May 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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adorable case in point
a squishy faced miniature schnauzer is laying on the corner of an l-shaped sofa with his head on the lap of the person sitting by him. she is covered in a blue electric blanket.
May 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM