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Hester Pangs
@hesterpangs.bsky.social
Clevelander.
Relapsed Catholic.
Into good music, good books, works of mercy.
Currently enjoying punk rock semi-retirement.
MRR callout ads and MRR apologies makes me realize how little changes besides the medium.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I knew crunchy/conservative women who lost kids unnecessarily to home births & to take away even the basic guardrails from THAT process to whatever this is truly gives me chills. Maybe if we weren't such an expensive country to have kids in, this wouldn't be as much of a thing people turn to.
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
a friend from my old church posted this article and it is BANANAS.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
apparently the same guy's been running a page with AI-generated Holocaust victims and it's very bad and weird!
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I'm legit mad about this bullshit and everyone reposting this going "what a badass lady environmentalist, we need people like her today" when Betty Klaric exists.
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
this was like back when we were in high school (not sure if someone found a Catholic mailing list or what).

Apparently they've still continued to be weird.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
a college friend of my mom's gave her this book sometime in the 1980s and I'm not sure if she ever read it but I came across it on the bookshelf and it continues to resonate for me over and over again, especially in these past few years. I've given copies away countless times.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I had one of my students put together a display for it this past week for the 50th anniversary and I'm pretty stoked with how it turned out (we have a lot of Great Lakes maritime history stuff here).
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's probably me spending most of my life in evangelical spaces but it's not lost on me that the parish that made me come back is a social one before and after.

Also this building looks cool.
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reading parish reviews of churches in Detroit and this guy would hate my church for having the nerve to be one where people actually know each other and act like it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's in the background here:
October 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
went to a liquidation at a record store / junk store in Eastlake today and brought this home among other things. I've never seen this Corita Kent art anywhere else and had no idea this existed.
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I still think about this random election sign that popped up at every polling place in Cleveland 2 mayor election cycles ago.
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you loved my radio show or someone else's on WCSB, please leave an online comment here! (there are now many more than two, but since this is being framed as just a few people in a bubble, it'd be nice to get a diverse show of people who care).

www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/resources/pu...
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This Croatian Cultural Club looks amazing. (photo from instagram by @atjart who's doing an amazing job documenting the Ohio/PA/WV panhandle region.

It's apparently open to anyone and still pretty active. They used to have an ethnic show on WWVA.
www.google.com/maps/place/C...
October 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Pretty sure I saw @clebsaints.bsky.social out in the wild today while walking back from the grocery store on my lunch break.
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Working with a researcher in Poland on coverage of the Holodomor and reading old newspapers where there are western opinion-havers blowing all this off is feeling way too familiar.
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
first personal ad I've found that namechecks Alice Donut
October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There's one of those globes with the cars at the sign museum in Cincy..
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
blurry sticker from the Happy Dog bathroom but great advice.
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
October 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Totally missed the lady with the Subgenius sign at the college radio protest today. Photo by @skrticx.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM