@heidiblobaum.bsky.social
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
Love this nerdy account… mostly boring complaints about broken coffee makers, but occasionally you get a real gem
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Love this nerdy account… mostly boring complaints about broken coffee makers, but occasionally you get a real gem
Someone needs to air this as a Super Bowl ad
October 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Someone needs to air this as a Super Bowl ad
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Bare minimum for a conversation: Shaka when the walls fell, Temba his arms wide, Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra, Darmok at rest.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury, Pembroke, Hingham, Scituate, Marshfield, Norwell, Hull, Weymouth, Braintree, Quincy
August 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Bare minimum for a conversation: Shaka when the walls fell, Temba his arms wide, Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra, Darmok at rest.
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Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Last Exit To Springfield, Marge vs The Monorail, Homer Loves Flanders, Cape Feare, Itchy & Scratch Land, Bart Gets An Elephant, Homie The Clown, Lemon of Troy, You Only Move Twice and Who Shot Mr. Burns.
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Last Exit To Springfield, Marge vs The Monorail, Homer Loves Flanders, Cape Feare, Itchy & Scratch Land, Bart Gets An Elephant, Homie The Clown, Lemon of Troy, You Only Move Twice and Who Shot Mr. Burns.
Cute sleeping kitty #whiskerwednesday
August 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Cute sleeping kitty #whiskerwednesday
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
Back when I was cool, my nickname was H-Bomb.
First, H-Bomb Ferguson is an awesome name. Second, cities and states should have a low threshold for putting up markers for their musicians, artists, actors, poets, characters, etc. Those are the people who give these places their flavor. Ain’t nobody’s mayor or business titan named H-Bomb.
Robert "H-Bomb" Ferguson (1929-2006) was one of the first blues musicians I interviewed as a freelancer (1990). Last month while walking back to my hotel from a bookstore visit, I stumbled upon an H-Bomb Ferguson historical marker outside of a Newport, Kentucky, bar.
May 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Back when I was cool, my nickname was H-Bomb.
Today’s #whiskerwednesday find the cat challenge, mirror edition.
April 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Today’s #whiskerwednesday find the cat challenge, mirror edition.
On this #whiskerwednesday, I challenge you to find the catouflaged cat.
April 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On this #whiskerwednesday, I challenge you to find the catouflaged cat.
It shouldn’t be a surprise by now that most of the first targets for this admin — humanitarian work, social services, education — disproportionately employ (and support!) women and underrepresented groups. The cowards think we are weak and that they can get away with it. We cannot let them be right.
February 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It shouldn’t be a surprise by now that most of the first targets for this admin — humanitarian work, social services, education — disproportionately employ (and support!) women and underrepresented groups. The cowards think we are weak and that they can get away with it. We cannot let them be right.
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The IRC was founded in the 1930s, partly at the urging of Albert Einstein, to help Jews who were fleeing Hitler's Germany. For almost a hundred years they've been helping the most vulnerable humans on Earth. Today they sent all their donors this email. Trump is a cancer on the world.
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The IRC was founded in the 1930s, partly at the urging of Albert Einstein, to help Jews who were fleeing Hitler's Germany. For almost a hundred years they've been helping the most vulnerable humans on Earth. Today they sent all their donors this email. Trump is a cancer on the world.
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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
Just a normal day, letting my kid watch Indiana Jones movies so he knows who the bad guys are
January 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Just a normal day, letting my kid watch Indiana Jones movies so he knows who the bad guys are
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For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
January 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
Hello Bluesky! Quick intro: I’m a marketing technologist working for Rescue.org, remotely from Kansas City. Past lives: Russian scholar, rockstar, NYC, SF. Have a nice husband, a 9 yo son and here’s our new cat, Captain Emerald.
December 7, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Hello Bluesky! Quick intro: I’m a marketing technologist working for Rescue.org, remotely from Kansas City. Past lives: Russian scholar, rockstar, NYC, SF. Have a nice husband, a 9 yo son and here’s our new cat, Captain Emerald.
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If you haven’t already, take the time to read this. It is a remarkable, luminous account of what it means to fall through what remains of our society’s safety net - and describes how most of us probably aren’t as far from suffering the same fate as we might hope
Will be teaching this stunning piece in my memoir-writing class this winter. Beautiful, savage. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:53 AM
If you haven’t already, take the time to read this. It is a remarkable, luminous account of what it means to fall through what remains of our society’s safety net - and describes how most of us probably aren’t as far from suffering the same fate as we might hope
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Let's talk about peeing in space.
Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...
Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...
To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias (Published 2019)
The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. But NASA can learn from its failures as it aims to send women to the moon and beyond.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Let's talk about peeing in space.
Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...
Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...