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Heather Wylie

@unxpctdisvry.bsky.social

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Artist. Family historian. M.A. English. Storyteller. Coffee lover. M.A. History. Book fondler. Writer. Clean air lover. Climate concerned. She/her. More: https://www.hwylieart.com/welcome

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · Jul 7

I'm Heather. I'm a Texas-based artist and illustrator. I primarily work with acrylic and digital mediums. I love working with animals and animal imagery. You can find my available art, prints, and books on my website: www.hwylieart.com

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1h

I did - he’d never heard of the program before and wanted to know how it work. So, I explained the app. He wanted to know how we store our book. It makes me very curious about other people’s homes!

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1h

Just explained 1,000 books before kindergarten to our pediatrician. That sounds like a lot, but anyone who has read one kid’s book ten times in a row knows it’s a very accomplishable goal 😅

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

— Waking up in 2025

Motto

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?

Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.

~ Bertolt Brecht

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 4h

So gross.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 7h

Archives in the news!

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social

#archives #digipres

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 5h

I’m so sorry!

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 5h

Lovely pictures!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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DisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 9d

October is spooky season, so the Multi DISciplinary Screening is old school disability horror

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET

Free on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...

Multi DISciplinary Screening Series. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET.

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 18h

I love that movie!

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 19h

Kind of a sad read about how butterflies are losing their vibrant colors in a drab world.

As the World Becomes Drab, Butterflies Follow - bioGraphic

With monocultures increasingly replacing diverse forests in the tropics, brilliance has become a burden.

www.biographic.com

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 21h

❤️

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 23h

Parent loss is horrible. I’m so sorry. Thinking of you.

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

I understand!

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 2d

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

😩

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

How do I block all the AI slop? Also so far ai so just made my life 1000000 times more annoying.

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the last day of my sale!

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 4d

I'm having a sale on all of my physical paintings. You can find them by clicking the link below. I don't usually have sales, so this is a great opportunity to click the link and check out some original artwork.

www.hwylieart.com/store/c2/Ava...

Available Art

Art by Texas Artist Heather Wylie

www.hwylieart.com

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Being such a responsible company, I’m sure they’ve gamed out the potential societal harms and have a plan for mitigating them. 💀

Are deepfakes of dead people rewriting the past?

While OpenAI's Sora has some guardrails around the likenesses of living people, protections around the likenesses of those who have died appear to be an afterthought.

www.nbcnews.com

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

It really shouldn’t!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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