Heather Palmer
@zbuckbuck.bsky.social
My dog was the best, most courageous little pirate ever. I don't return follow unless you're a purveyor of sordid history.
Is there an Uber service to bring you a sandwich you left on your own kitchen counter because a pet needed your immediate attention and then fell asleep on your lap before you had a chance to go back and get the sandwich?
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Is there an Uber service to bring you a sandwich you left on your own kitchen counter because a pet needed your immediate attention and then fell asleep on your lap before you had a chance to go back and get the sandwich?
Free admission to Indiana Dunes State Park tomorrow, with scavenger hunt.
Opt Outside on Black Friday with Indiana DNR.
Spend time with us outdoors and win prizes.
www.in.gov
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Free admission to Indiana Dunes State Park tomorrow, with scavenger hunt.
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"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
A classic manifesto for the courage of being yourself: www.themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e...
A classic manifesto for the courage of being yourself: www.themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e...
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
A classic manifesto for the courage of being yourself: www.themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e...
A classic manifesto for the courage of being yourself: www.themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e...
Indiana Dunes Outdoor Adventure Festival! Different events every day, from Friday, September 5 through Sunday, September 21. Events at both the state park and the national park.
INDIANA DUNES OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FESTIVAL
Sunset at Mount Baldy
www.dunesoutdoorfestival.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Indiana Dunes Outdoor Adventure Festival! Different events every day, from Friday, September 5 through Sunday, September 21. Events at both the state park and the national park.
Robot battles and DIY jewelry event at American Science and Surplus. Fun for kids, free to attend! With auctions & food. This coming Saturday at their Park Ridge location, 4-7 pm. sciplus.com/our-stores/
August 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Robot battles and DIY jewelry event at American Science and Surplus. Fun for kids, free to attend! With auctions & food. This coming Saturday at their Park Ridge location, 4-7 pm. sciplus.com/our-stores/
It's the second anniversary of Sea Rocket being released at Montrose Beach. She's the one I feel most attached to (inasmuch as one can become attached remotely, by following @chicagopiping.bsky.social posts). I would love to see Indiana Dunes get their own Piping Plovers someday.
Chicago Has 3 New Piping Plovers at Montrose: Meet Searocket, Prickly Pear and Wild Indigo
Three endangered piping plover chicks were released into the wild Wednesday at a protected site at Montrose Beach in an effort to aid in its species recovery. It marks the first time plovers have been...
news.wttw.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's the second anniversary of Sea Rocket being released at Montrose Beach. She's the one I feel most attached to (inasmuch as one can become attached remotely, by following @chicagopiping.bsky.social posts). I would love to see Indiana Dunes get their own Piping Plovers someday.
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Going to buy the hair helmet and bike around town dressed as the Sun King
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Going to buy the hair helmet and bike around town dressed as the Sun King
These American Science & Surplus events are a great place to take kids (of all ages). June 6th in Geneva, and June 7th at Park Ridge location. More info here: sciplus.com/our-stores/
May 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
These American Science & Surplus events are a great place to take kids (of all ages). June 6th in Geneva, and June 7th at Park Ridge location. More info here: sciplus.com/our-stores/
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The little man who lives in the crisps:
April 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The little man who lives in the crisps:
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Cyanotype egg sculptures by Amy Heller.💙
April 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Cyanotype egg sculptures by Amy Heller.💙
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With a church dating back to the mid 12th century together with an 18th century rectory (now Rowley Hall) but nothing else, Rowley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire is the village that perhaps never was. It is also possible that later 18th century improvement of the parkland surrounding
January 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
With a church dating back to the mid 12th century together with an 18th century rectory (now Rowley Hall) but nothing else, Rowley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire is the village that perhaps never was. It is also possible that later 18th century improvement of the parkland surrounding
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Monte loves having his butt scratched, and has started throwing his ass towards people and looking back at them with an expression of crazed insistence.
March 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Monte loves having his butt scratched, and has started throwing his ass towards people and looking back at them with an expression of crazed insistence.
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Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀
March 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀
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Let’s get ready to 🚲 babies!
3 miles closer to connecting Chicago 🌆 to the Indiana Dunes 🏖️ to Michigan 🌳 and back!
3 miles closer to connecting Chicago 🌆 to the Indiana Dunes 🏖️ to Michigan 🌳 and back!
Construction Begins on Marquette Greenway Trail Segment
INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK, Ind.– Construction is underway at Indiana Dunes National Park on a segment of the Marquette Greenway Trail. This segment is located between the national park’s Paul H. Dou...
wimsradio.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Let’s get ready to 🚲 babies!
3 miles closer to connecting Chicago 🌆 to the Indiana Dunes 🏖️ to Michigan 🌳 and back!
3 miles closer to connecting Chicago 🌆 to the Indiana Dunes 🏖️ to Michigan 🌳 and back!
Chicago folk! Come protest for National Parks! 1.5 mile walk from the SSL Portage/Odgen Dunes Station.
Hey all you lovers of dunes and wild spaces! Come out THIS SATURDAY 12pm at the Portage Lakefront & Riverwalk Circle to show your support for National Parks!
Huge, huge thanks 🙏 to @milonguerica.bsky.social for organizing and securing permits. Please pitch in if you can!!!
Huge, huge thanks 🙏 to @milonguerica.bsky.social for organizing and securing permits. Please pitch in if you can!!!
March 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Chicago folk! Come protest for National Parks! 1.5 mile walk from the SSL Portage/Odgen Dunes Station.
Beavers! Today! Wilson Shelter is a two mile hike (of mostly Dunes State Park trail) from Dune Park Station. Posted on Fb by Friends of Indiana Dunes.
March 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Beavers! Today! Wilson Shelter is a two mile hike (of mostly Dunes State Park trail) from Dune Park Station. Posted on Fb by Friends of Indiana Dunes.
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Harangue your senators & representatives by phone, letter, email, AND in person (at their regional or DC office) until they have no choice but to stand up for the people and places we love.
Indiana Dunes National Park workers could be affected by Trump administration orders
“I cannot remember a time in my tenure — I started with the National Park Service in 1972 — when there was such a movement to reduce the number of NPS employees."
www.nwitimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Harangue your senators & representatives by phone, letter, email, AND in person (at their regional or DC office) until they have no choice but to stand up for the people and places we love.
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If you’d like to learn about the history of the Underground Railroad in the Calumet Region, consider attending the LWV-HFA’s Black History Month presentation by Dr. Larry McClellan next Wednesday!
February 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If you’d like to learn about the history of the Underground Railroad in the Calumet Region, consider attending the LWV-HFA’s Black History Month presentation by Dr. Larry McClellan next Wednesday!
19 F sunset at Indiana Dunes National Park. The tiny glow in the background is the sunset reflecting off Chicago buildings - it lasts maybe 10 minutes on clear days.
Those mounds in the shelf ice are about the size of my Honda Fit. I get why people try to climb them. (It's super dangerous).
Those mounds in the shelf ice are about the size of my Honda Fit. I get why people try to climb them. (It's super dangerous).
January 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
19 F sunset at Indiana Dunes National Park. The tiny glow in the background is the sunset reflecting off Chicago buildings - it lasts maybe 10 minutes on clear days.
Those mounds in the shelf ice are about the size of my Honda Fit. I get why people try to climb them. (It's super dangerous).
Those mounds in the shelf ice are about the size of my Honda Fit. I get why people try to climb them. (It's super dangerous).
This is true. I volunteer/foster for a local humane society, and Facebook private groups are their primary means of communicating and coordinating with a couple hundred volunteers and fosters. This is on top of the visibility it gives the animals on their public page. They'd be screwed without it.
If you can leave facebook, instagram, and threads that's great, but a lot of non-profits and indie creators have no choice but to stay for promotion and fundraising. Just try to remember that when making grand declarations of disgust and condemnation aimed at everyone who keeps using meta. 🧵
January 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is true. I volunteer/foster for a local humane society, and Facebook private groups are their primary means of communicating and coordinating with a couple hundred volunteers and fosters. This is on top of the visibility it gives the animals on their public page. They'd be screwed without it.
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In 2002, New Scientist published an article stating that around 80% of the remains found at Machu Picchu were female. And I still haven’t forgiven them for not titling the article “Not So Machu After All”
December 19, 2024 at 5:14 PM
In 2002, New Scientist published an article stating that around 80% of the remains found at Machu Picchu were female. And I still haven’t forgiven them for not titling the article “Not So Machu After All”
They're so loud. This is from this past Spring, near BZ's South Gate.
The Canadian Geese are potentially just as terrifying, as half of them seem to have acquired a stronger taste for human flesh than the usual amount.
The Canadian Geese are potentially just as terrifying, as half of them seem to have acquired a stronger taste for human flesh than the usual amount.
November 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM
They're so loud. This is from this past Spring, near BZ's South Gate.
The Canadian Geese are potentially just as terrifying, as half of them seem to have acquired a stronger taste for human flesh than the usual amount.
The Canadian Geese are potentially just as terrifying, as half of them seem to have acquired a stronger taste for human flesh than the usual amount.
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The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat