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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 10h

I love that movie!

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 10h

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 · 12h

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 15h

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

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 15h

I understand!

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you!

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 16h

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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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 · 22h

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 · 19h

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 · 18h

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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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

Disappointing 😞

Maybe next time!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Okay quick thread of the sort of stuff you'll get if you pay a modest monthly or yearly amount to read Gravity Is Gone:

Today's newsletter, about the shutdown and RIFs and how employees are so in the dark that their bosses want them to email UP the chain if they get fired.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

I hope that you can get one without any issue!

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 1d

I was very worried when they brought our insurance card back and asked if we had another one that they weren’t going to let us get one - even though they had signs up all over the pharmacy about it. But I think that the person helping us was just new, because he didn’t bring it up again 🤷‍♀️

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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