Heide Estes

Jewish, queer, post-covid crip, neurospicy, she/her. Environmental crisis/justice keeps me up at night. Live on Lenape land.

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2024-09-19 19:59:12

Michelle Wolf: In the US, “you should breastfeed … in the janitor’s closet under the bridge with the rest of the breast-feeding trolls.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA8LsMNqTQ

2024-09-16 18:45:33

Megan Cook waxes entertaining and engrossing on Chappell Roan and “camp medievalism.”
I have questions: what did they make mail and the plates out of? And how do I get some?
https://buttondown.com/ModernMedieval/archive/chappell-roan-darc/

2024-09-14 18:55:32

“international arseoisie” — Marina Hyde.
Well worth a full read.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/13/charlie-mullins-farewell-tour-britain-taxes-multimillionaires https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/13/charlie-mullins-farewell-tour-britain-taxes-multimillionaires

2024-09-07 01:15:39

Forgetting things all the time is a problem, but latching on to ideas and going down rabbit-holes might be worse. Why cooking is so much harder than doing the laundry.
https://imagine1community.blogspot.com/2024/09/some-metacognition.html

2024-08-19 12:01:46

“I am lucky that my wife [a physician!] understands medical billing, and so she is in charge of managing the insurance paperwork behind the extra therapies my youngest has needed. She gets it done, but even for her, a hyper-educated expert, it is a stressful, opaque and maddening process.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/18/jd-vance-parents-extra-votes-children/

2024-08-17 02:28:58

For JD Vance, words are weapons.
I wanted to know what he actually said, or agreed to, about post-menopausal women and free childcare, so I dug up the audio clip (shared on Twitter/X by Heartland Signal, a radio station in Chicago), and dug in.
Sometimes he lobs his insults directly, sometimes he only hints at them, but there are many, and they are ugly.
https://imagine1community.blogspot.com/2024/08/jd-vances-words-are-weapons.html

2024-08-11 21:57:36

I just learned that 80% of fish sold in the US is imported, mostly by huge conglomerates with completely opaque supply chains that hide slave labor and bombing coral reefs. Farmed fish is no better; it’s fed wild-caught fish from the same sources.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opinion/sustainable-seafood-sardines-anchovies.html

2024-08-09 01:05:04

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@npub16hp…87l4 :( :( :(

2024-08-08 15:35:45

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@npub124k…kul7 This is so gorgeous. I know that I carry my dad inside since he left the earth — I love the idea that I carry his heart. Thank you.

2024-08-08 15:33:44

Musk is trying to train Grok, his AI program, to be more MAGA, so he set a Xitter default to give it all tweets, all the time. Info on how to change the setting in the article.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2024/07/29/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-grok-tweets/74594089007/

2024-08-08 13:26:39

Tim Walz and his daughter Hope at the Minnesota State Fair. Joyful, funny, sweet. Watch, you’ll be glad.
https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/1698761196730540472

2024-08-06 14:33:25

I’ve been thinking about Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer, and about how the Hereford World Map projects difference onto Europe and Asia. I kept thinking there had to be a connection, and then Fox News made it for me, with a program that claims that Stonehenge was built by giants from Africa.
https://imagine1community.blogspot.com/2024/08/giants-king-arthur-olympic-athletes-and.html

2024-08-05 17:13:49

Rage-posting: Thirteen states, all led by Republicans, turned down a federal program to provide free meals to families with kids during the summer (the kids get free meals from school, when it’s in session). The feds pay for the food; states just have to share administrative costs 50/50.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/families-face-food-insecurity-republican-led-states-turned-112454975

2024-08-05 17:05:10

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@npub1nf7…k4qn sometimes I would cover my whole self with an old sheet to pet one of the cats. :)

2024-08-05 16:01:39

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@npub1elf…uv64 thanks — now at least I understand what the headline is trying to say about the chart.

2024-08-05 16:00:29

A good summary of P25’s proposals on public health, climate change, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ freedoms, racial equity, veteran affairs, and more, if you don’t want to read the whole thing. (I’ve read most of it. Grim.)
https://votersoftomorrow.org/gen-zs-guide-to-project-2025/

2024-08-04 15:22:45

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@npub1elf…uv64 the graph contradicts the headline. What am I missing?

2024-07-31 13:44:55

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@npub1q6e…mlpp I’ve only done this within Switzerland. I went to the train station, handed over a bag and some money, and when I arrived at the next station on foot, the bag was there.

2024-07-30 22:10:53

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@npub1u3t…c6ug it’s takes up a page or two in the P25 Manifesto, they hate it so much.

2024-07-30 21:56:21

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@npub1zcf…3ku6 ehhh… just telling dumb stories on myself in solidarity.

2024-07-29 19:00:16

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Also: calling people “monstrous” is a racist smear with origins in the Middle Ages.

2024-07-28 14:47:33

Tongue firmly in cheek on the tale of “The Old Man and the Shark.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/trump-shark-ev-boat-electrocution/

2024-07-28 12:32:03

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https://www.aier.org/article/the-true-cost-of-a-hamburger/

2024-07-28 12:30:59

Agriculture produces a third of the world’s greenhouse gases; half of that is from livestock. Climate change destabilizes crops and prices, while North Americans and Europeans keep eating more meat. I see a simple solution: Adjust farm subsidies so that the cost of meat gets real.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/opinion/food-climate-crisis-prices.html

2024-07-25 20:51:28

I decided it was only fair to run the same analysis of Biden’s speeches that I did for Trump’s yesterday. Biden’s stats show some decline since the 1980s, but unlike Trump’s, have held steady in recent years.
https://imagine1community.blogspot.com/2024/07/bidens-cognitive-state-stable.html

2024-07-18 17:43:29

Vetted list of doctors in several countries in the Americas who will tie your tubes. US tab is sorted by state. Because Project 25 not only wants to make abortion and the morning-after pill go away: they’re coming for contraception as well.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kITnt0G_HH6zlX4RminEXXqsNpqDtNZeimu9kBeBS9c/edit
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/112/808/723/234/431/619/original/54561395fae6023d.jpeg

2024-07-03 14:13:51

Trump and the people who pull his strings want a theocracy, not a democracy. They will allow, if not promote, climate disaster. They will dismantle rights and protections for women, non-Christians, and people who are LGBTQ+ and/or disabled.
I am terrified.
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/112/722/964/303/721/214/original/0e110bf6c65a970e.jpeg

2024-06-05 01:07:14

This is super disappointing. I’m going to write to Duolingo at the address they stipulate is for journalists and bloggers: press@duolingo.com.
I am also going to submit a bug report, here: https://www.duolingo.com/help/bug-report
https://www.advocate.com/news/duolingo-russia-lgbtq-content

2024-06-03 13:53:32

Singular “they” for the ages.
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/112/553/018/622/435/084/original/04583ee1510424cb.jpeg

2024-05-26 19:09:07

My doctor wants me to have another brain MRI because she still doesn’t know why I have the symptoms I have, but the insurance company has already delayed approval for a week and might reject it.
As I said to Catherine the other day, more or less jokingly, if they keep delaying it, maybe I’ll just die and they won’t have to pay for it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/science/medicare-seniors-authorization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u00.7r8o.WxkAqsTikudI&smid=url-share

2024-05-19 21:58:20

Spouse calls ‘em Number One and Number Two. Tried not to do this. Failed.
#DogsOfMastodon
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/112/469/991/213/934/099/original/b09989e371f97cbb.jpeg

2024-05-18 20:57:04

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@npub18u7…d8up thanks, I did not know this.

2024-05-12 13:08:25

Anna Jarvis invented Mother’s Day in 1908 and persuaded Congress to make it a federal holiday in 1914. But by 1920, it was so commercialized she called florists and greeting card sellers “charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and termites” and spent the rest of her life trying to get it rescinded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/the-inventor-of-mothers-day-disowned-the-holiday-and-so-should-we-all/275763/

2024-05-11 01:04:51

My wild fantasy of a rail system in New Jersey that serves everyone in the state, not just the commuters, through the addition of just two rail lines.
https://imagine1community.blogspot.com/2024/05/what-if-nj-transit-actually-served-new.html

2024-04-23 11:27:41

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@npub14s4…ltv3 even more worried.

2024-04-11 01:58:41

This is bad. Very bad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/ocean-heat-records.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.kWqo.6drt4k5EmLzi&smid=url-share
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/112/250/105/066/402/179/original/11e902246b74cc7f.jpeg

2024-03-14 13:35:49

Wikipedia provides what seems to me a very solid and detailed overview of the goals of Project 2025. If anyone has a better source, please do let me know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

2023-09-29 13:23:20

We got some rain.
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/111/148/648/043/041/855/original/1cece1a8cc174c03.jpeg

2023-09-15 14:24:26

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@npub18p4…xjng I am glad you published this article, but it would be even better with more data and less repetition.

2023-09-15 14:14:45

When I was living in Bonn, I calculated the cost of buying a used bicycle versus a monthly bus ticket for just four months, and bought the bike, which I then used for all my transport, including grocery shopping, as well as some leisure trips. The infrastructure and the culture completely support it. In suburban New Jersey, I can get to my office faster by bike than by car, including the time it takes to park the car and then walk to the lot. But the infrastructure is completely lacking in New Jersey, and car culture is actually hostile to bikers. New York City built bike lanes, and the number of bicylists has rised rapidly despite the on-going hostility of motor vehicle riders. How do we change car culture?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/08/03/why-do-german-speakers-ride-cargobikes-more-than-french-speakers-in-switzerland/?sh=6a7e26457a68

2023-09-10 11:37:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I have never bought or used a “women’s” wallet.

2023-09-10 11:28:04

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@npub153s…cvd9 it seems like the real failure is ERCOT not building more power lines for that corridor, but the utility either wasn’t asked or refused to take responsibility for it. Am Ii missing something?

2023-09-09 14:16:50

Writing the World in Early Medieval England, co-written by Nicole Guenther Discenza and Heide Estes, is out today from Cambridge UP and open access for the next two weeks, through 22 September. The early medieval English were diverse and well connected to the broader world. Their historical, documentary, liturgical and literary writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa; in addition to textual sources, they traveled abroad and interacted with visitors to England. The connections as well as the divisions they constructed still have impact today. Writing the World would be an excellent supplement for courses on early medieval England and/or Europe and will interest scholars seeking an overview of the way a wide range of texts described the world they knew and imagined.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/search?q=9781108932059

2023-09-08 14:04:49

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@npub1l79…sqkt Good graph. Do you know what the light blue line represents? Not identified in the key up top. Also wondering how cycling (ebike and … non) compare, if you’re the one that made this. When I was bike commuting an hour a day in NYC, I figure I consumed around an extra 500 calories a day, which also has a footprint, even though I’m vegan.

2023-08-08 17:09:44

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@npub18lj…80hq the world is a place of wonder. There’s a lot of dumpster fire going on but it’s not too late to change course.