bematthe
@bematthe.bsky.social
Data Scientist, anthropologist, beagle wrangler, gardener, artist, chronically ill, couture enthusiast, odd.
Tech Bros mistaking innovation for desperation.
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tech Bros mistaking innovation for desperation.
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
One of out #beagles, Harper, is preparing to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Two of his siblings seem to understand something isn't right, and have been attentive but gentle.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
One of out #beagles, Harper, is preparing to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Two of his siblings seem to understand something isn't right, and have been attentive but gentle.
Just gave someone a complement, and they responded with "I'd like to think this is sarcasm..." so going back to never complementing ever again because my unreasonable paranoia that it's going to upset them has been legitimized.
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just gave someone a complement, and they responded with "I'd like to think this is sarcasm..." so going back to never complementing ever again because my unreasonable paranoia that it's going to upset them has been legitimized.
My contribution to the November Random Photo: A strawberry almost as big as my spouse's hand
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My contribution to the November Random Photo: A strawberry almost as big as my spouse's hand
But when I say I don't want to live next door to, or have a government with, a lower GRE score than I have, suddenly he's saying I'm the bad guy? ;)
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
But when I say I don't want to live next door to, or have a government with, a lower GRE score than I have, suddenly he's saying I'm the bad guy? ;)
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We knew a chunk of this tree would fall eventually... And if it had to fall and crush a large portion of my garden, at least it did so at the end of the season.
#gardening
#gardening
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We knew a chunk of this tree would fall eventually... And if it had to fall and crush a large portion of my garden, at least it did so at the end of the season.
#gardening
#gardening
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Exactly.
October 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Exactly.
This is becoming so common that someone's going to have to come up with new word to refer specifically to the practice of telling a Jewish person that they are antisemitic if they don't agree to hate another group of semetic people.
Worth noting, as is now fairly common, that the professor who is a target of claims that his pro-Palestine politics are antisemitic is once again Jewish.
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is becoming so common that someone's going to have to come up with new word to refer specifically to the practice of telling a Jewish person that they are antisemitic if they don't agree to hate another group of semetic people.
Just made pasta sauce from scratch, using all ingredients from my garden, completely unsupervised. I don't know that I've ever done any cooking beyond boiling pasta. Someone call the Vatican, because I'm pretty sure this is legit miracle.
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Just made pasta sauce from scratch, using all ingredients from my garden, completely unsupervised. I don't know that I've ever done any cooking beyond boiling pasta. Someone call the Vatican, because I'm pretty sure this is legit miracle.
Isn't holding a vigil for someone who thought being gay was wrong at Gay Church dishonoring their memory/wishes? I'm just saying, if people were to have a vigil for me at a football stadium or chewing gum manufacturing plant, I'd haunt them with a vengeance. Jus' sayin'
September 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Isn't holding a vigil for someone who thought being gay was wrong at Gay Church dishonoring their memory/wishes? I'm just saying, if people were to have a vigil for me at a football stadium or chewing gum manufacturing plant, I'd haunt them with a vengeance. Jus' sayin'
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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
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If you can't handle me at my worst, then honestly, you're missing out on some of my best jokes.
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If you can't handle me at my worst, then honestly, you're missing out on some of my best jokes.
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Twenty states have comprehensive data privacy laws, and a few states and localities have biometric privacy laws too. But for wearable users elsewhere, their data privacy environment “is not super regulated,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @Prospect.org.
prospect.org/health/2025...
prospect.org/health/2025...
RFK Jr. Wants a Wearable on Every American Body
Despite his past criticisms of the data privacy risks associated with ‘smart’ technology, Kennedy’s HHS is now pushing wearables on Americans. Experts say the privacy concerns are jarring.
prospect.org
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Twenty states have comprehensive data privacy laws, and a few states and localities have biometric privacy laws too. But for wearable users elsewhere, their data privacy environment “is not super regulated,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @Prospect.org.
prospect.org/health/2025...
prospect.org/health/2025...
If any church that believes this comes to you asking for funds for their mission trip to "save souls and bring them to Christ," you know it's a scam. This ilk has driven more people from Christianity than anything could. They just want you to fund their vacation/Instagram exploitation porn.
Is gutless equivocation killing journalism and abetting fascism? The answer might surprise you.
August 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If any church that believes this comes to you asking for funds for their mission trip to "save souls and bring them to Christ," you know it's a scam. This ilk has driven more people from Christianity than anything could. They just want you to fund their vacation/Instagram exploitation porn.
So, it's officially happened at least TWICE that I've randomly, out of nowhere, had the song "No One Mourns the Wicked" from Wicked stuck in my head, only to look at the news and go "oh...huh..." jus' sayin'
August 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
So, it's officially happened at least TWICE that I've randomly, out of nowhere, had the song "No One Mourns the Wicked" from Wicked stuck in my head, only to look at the news and go "oh...huh..." jus' sayin'
Ended up with at least 19 of these little guys on my milkweed this year.
#gardening
#gardening
August 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Ended up with at least 19 of these little guys on my milkweed this year.
#gardening
#gardening
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Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
August 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.