Dorie

@doriec.bsky.social

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PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies. Interested in how Spanish language education can perpetuate racism against Spanish speakers. Pronouns: any 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈

Zendaya dramatically falling to the floor in awe during Holland’s umbrella lip synch
My dog, a blue heeler pitty mix, sitting in an awkward position while making direct eye contact with me that makes me feel uncomfortable.
A white man filming a selfie style video in TJ Maxx with the caption “Mitch McConnell is alive and well”. At the end, he holds up a Halloween pumpkin knickknack with a sunken wrinkly face that looks comically similar to Mitch McConnell.
Screenshot of an AP news article Headline: Montana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking pole Photo: a man standing on a mountain next to a cairn with a steel-tipped hiking pole impaled into his chest area just below his left arm
A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched on a small twig. The wind is making her feathers all tussled
My hand holding a small terracotta bowl with three gifts that crows have brought me: a white plastic bead, half of a pistachio shell and a dirty dime.
A red shouldered hawk fledgling perched on the roof of.a shed in my backyard. It has its mouth open, mid screech and is all floofed up #BirdPhotography #MorningWalk
A beat up dirty dime in the palm of my hand with grass in the background
A pair of American crows perched side by side in the rain on the roof of a shed
A montage of three photos titled “Characters who let the baby escape and years later face him as an adult as a threat” with photos of Voldemort and Harry Potter, Scar and Simba, and a 20 year old Messi with Lamine Yamal as a baby
Keyne, lamine yamal’s younger brother, at the World Cup final
Lamine Yama smiling while holding his adorable toddler brother Kenya
A closeup of the juvenile crow explaining how to tell a crow is just a baby using three visual clues: 1 pale blue eyes compared to an adults dark brown/black eyes 2 pink around and inside its mouth and 3 dull brownish feathers compared to shiny black adult feathers
A juvenile American crow perched alone on a broken branch.
A bonded pair of American crows perched together side by side on a branch. Crows mate for life and share nesting and parenting responsibilities equally. These two have been visiting me daily since I befriended them almost 3 years ago. #BirdWatching #corvids
An unedited iPhone photo of the sky which is an eery orange pinkish color. The smoke from the Canadian wildfires has made the sun bright orange and hazy, similar to a sunset, but during daytime hours.
An American crow perched on a branch with its head upside down
An American crow perched on a shed in the rain. It’s mid blink, showing its nictitating membrane (a translucent third eyelid that crows use to clean their eye or show aggression).
An America crow perched on the roof of a shed looking back over his shoulder at the camera. #BirdPhotography
Dime sized hail scattered across a walkway and grass yard
A turkey perched on a handmade wooden fence staring directly into the camera lens
The American flag except the blue rectangle is replaced when algae green #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly
A male Pileated Woodpecker sitting in a tree stump in between pecking sessions
A white plastic bead resting in the palm of my hand
An American crow standing on a shed with one leg slightly raised. Its mouth is ajar as a way to cool itself off from the current heat wave. Timeline cleanse #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk
An American crow perched on a shed on one foot with its mouth slightly open
A handwritten note on floral stationary with the Bible verse JEREMIAH 29:11 as the header. The note reads: HELLO GUYS! GOOD DAY (smiley face) MY FAMILY IS IN NEED OF HELP. YEO HAS A HUGE BALANCE IN THE HOSPITAL. AND IT ADDED FROM YESTERDAY AND TODAY. PLEASE HELP US SETTLE IT SO THAT THEY CAN GO HOME. WE NEED $175 + $150 FOR TODAY MEDICINE. GOAL: $325 Under that digital text has been added that reads: Please help us. So that we wont have big balance. Yesterday we had to pay $275-$100 today (donation from a good donor) =$175 but adding a new shot of $150 again. Goal to pay for Yeo to go home is $325. Please help. We cannot afford to pay more. I dont have work yet. We still have outstanding balance in the hospital for 2 months of stay $1156 PP/CA/VM: punkgator The image was originally posted on BlueSky by @mommyjstrong.bsky.social with the text: Good day Bluesky Fam! I badly need help my son is in the hospital again. Pleas help us to let him go home. We cannot afford to let him stay longer we dont have money anymore. Help please PP/CA/VM: punkgator #mutualaid #skyfund
An American crow taking off in flight over a field of white clover
Alexis Rose saying “I love that journey for me”
An orange tabby cat sitting pretty while basking in the natural light from the window
An orange tabby cat sleeping in a comfy bed
Spiderman pointing meme where three different versions of spiderman are each pointing at each other
Shawn Hunter from the 90’s sitcom Boy Meets World with his iconic 90s hairstyle featuring a hard center part.
Me in running gear holding a 1st place finished medal for my age group. I’m standing in front of a mural featuring Kamala Harris.
Screenshot from my run stats on Strava. Banner: you reached a 25 week streak! 🔥 Distance: 4 miles Average pace: 8:49 /mile Moving time: 35:18 Elevation gain: 154 feet
My hand holding a small plate filled with food for the crows including scrambled egg, peanuts in the shell, mixed bird food, dog kibble and corn
The cover of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter (the iconic, pansexual alien "mad scientist" from the planet Transylvania in the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show) taking off his long black robe to reveal his sexy black lingerie
A selfie of me holding a giant bouquet of pink peonies that is so big it covers most of my face and torso
My had holding a large bouquet of peonies in a variety of shades of pink
A fully open pink peony with a small closed bud by its side
A pink peony bud not yet ready to bloom covered in raindrops
An oil painting called “a man thinking” by Frederick Arthur Bridgman with white text superimposed that says “Maybe we should rename ‘artificial intelligenace’ as ‘plagiarised information synthesis system’... ... and call it PISS rather than Al?” The painting is of a man sitting alone seemingly pondering something in a dark room
A youth/big kid to women’s shoe size conversion chart showing the equivalent sizes for kids to women’s shoe sizes. Note that this is a general chart and may not be true for all brands. You can look up brand specific conversion charts when shopping Kids 3.5 = women’s 5 Kids 4 = women’s 5.5 Kids 4.5 = women’s 6 Kids 5 = women’s 6.5 Kids 5.5 = women’s 7 Kids 6 = women’s 7.5 Kids 6.5 = women’s 8 Kids 7 = women’s 8.5
Screenshot of my digital receipt for a pair of kids’ size 5 running shoes totaling $58.
A collage of text-based graphics in a pink and purple color scheme. The slogans on the graphics are: health care for all, tax billionaire and corporations, homes you can afford. Each graphic includes the header/footer “TOM STEYER FOR GOVERNOR”
Two stacked screenshots from x (formerly Twitter). The top tweet from @primediscussion says “I know people seemingly don't care about this anymore (like at all), but one of the biggest tolls paid by the last 2 decades of politics is a generation of children witnessing outwardly vile, unkind and dishonest people and behaviors repeatedly rewarded.” The bottom tweet from @jasminewsun says “if you're 21 now, Trump has been president or running for president since you were 10. this obviously had gargantuan consequences for Gen Z's views on democracy, virtue, success & basically everything else”
A woman with a serious expression sitting on the ground with her head resting on her fist. She is holding a sign that reads IF I DIE OF ME/CFS FORGET BURIAL JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA Lane seems to be at a protest and is sitting under a tent with a sign asking people to “sign our petition”
A meme captioned My cat staging it's own murder to have me locked up, because dinner was five minutes late featuring a photo of a cat laying supine with its limbs splayed and mouth open in agony as a curtain blind seemingly impales it’s adorable little belly.
Screenshot of a news article from Jalopnik titled Mark Zuckerberg Celebrates Over 7,000 Meta Firings By Bringing His Superyacht To Seattle. A photo of the super yacht is below the title. Article written by AMBER DASILVA posted on MAY 28, 2026 2:32 PM EST. Photo credit Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images
Black and white illustration of a killer whale rising to the surface to attack a yacht with RISE written in bold letters at the top
Screenshot of a social media post by Boze Herrington, Library Owl @SketchesbyBoze Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can't do things we've been doing for 5,000 years.
“Happy for you meme” with a little adorable black toddler with a grumpy face captioned “congrats. Happy for you. Nice”
A top down view of a blue high school track showing my feet lined up at a yellow relay exchange arrow. I’m wearing a pair of white and yellow puma deviate elite 4 shoes which I’m breaking in.
A moody dark green bedroom light by a single window. There are gold accents and plants all around
An orange tabby with piercing green eyes staring directly into your soul
Sweet little yellow buttercups growing in a field
An Allium flower sitting on its stem like a big fuzzy purple Pom Pom
A pileated woodpecker standing proudly next to a stump he is absolutely demolishing.
Me, a white woman with long curly hair, standing in front of an academic building wearing my doctoral regalia from UConn. I have a proud smile on my face because after 6 years of hard work, it felt damn good to be wearing that cap and gown!