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bethiemac.bsky.social
Beth McClellan
@bethiemac.bsky.social
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She/her/hers • mom to two teens, dog & cat mom • Unitarian Universalist • nerdy • Gen X-er • neurodivergent • Subscribes to the radical belief that all people have basic human rights
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larrish.bsky.social
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Not sure you can get more Marie Antoinette than taking away food stamps right before Thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring you bribes over a badly cooked (Argentinian) steak. @elleisanisland.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
#WIP Wednesday.
Pattern is called Veggies Kawaii Cross Stitch.
This is gonna be a fun one.
Pattern by Coven Stitchery.
#crossstitch
#crossstitching
#countedcrossstitch
#crafts
#needlework
Pic is a cross stitch project on white cloth. All that’s on the cloth at this point is words that read “let’s get take out” in a dark bluish color. Just to the right and down from that is a smiling little greyish mushroom with pink little cheeks. There is some green object stitched next to it that sort of looks like a vertical oval.
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social
RANT #4 FUCK THIS FUCKING WORTHLESS PIECE OF ORANGE EXCREMENT. THIS VILE, SOULLESS EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING. I HATE HIM. I HATE HIM FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW SOMEONE SO FUNDAMENTALLY UNWORTHY, SO BLATANTLY IGNORANT, SO UTTERLY INCOMPETENT, SO MONUMENTALLY STUPID, COULD RISE TO SUCH A POSITION OF POWER. I’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW WHEN SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT HIM, THEY DON’T SEE WHAT I SEE AS CLEAR AS FUCKING DAY, A FUCKING DISGUSTING, RANCID, ASSHOLE THAT DOESN’T GIVE A SINGLE FUCK ABOUT ANYONE ELSE ON THIS PLANET EXCEPT HIMSELF. HE IS THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. BEYOND THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. THE ULTIMATE FUCKING DICKHEAD. FUCK HIM AND EVERY FUCKING IDIOTIC PIECE OF SHIT THAT VOTED FOR HIM.
September 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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researchbuzz.bsky.social
They might be a far-left extremist but ALSO they might be a Unitarian Universalist, so look carefully
desdemonasrocket.bsky.social Real Name is Monica @desdemonasrocket.bsky.social · Sep 16
Check your parenting skills
September 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:

“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
Started a new #crossstitch project.
Doing this for my best friend who is really into anything gardening.
Pattern by Snail Fishes Stitches.
#countedcrossstitch
#crossstitching
#needlework
Pic is green cloth, and cross-stitched on it is a tiny little yellow and brown flower, and two little red bugs with black antennae. It’s going to say “Gardener” but right now it just says “ardener,” in white blocky sorta whimsical letters.
September 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
Trump Orders Cabinet to Wear Three Pairs of Tube Socks to Make His Ankles Look Normal
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Trump Orders Cabinet to Wear Three Pairs of Tube Socks to Make His Ankles Look Normal
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to downplay Trump’s demand.
open.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
#WIP Wednesday
I’m mostly done with this one. Reading Frog by EnjoySVG. There is a little bit more to do on the right.
A very cozy design for fall.
#wipwednesday
#countedcrossstitch
#Crossstitch
#needlework
#crossstitching
Pic is a counted cross stitch project depicting a frog, sitting in a chair reading a book. On the left of said frog is a stack of books with a teapot on of the stack, and there is a flower sticking out of the teapot. There is a kind of rust colored fall leaf on the floor in front of the chair the frog is sitting in. This is all done on black cloth.
August 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
#WIP Wednesday.
“Reading Frog” by EnjoySVG.
So glad I’m done with that damn stack of books. I was a little bit off on the little teacup with the flower in it, which messed up the whole stack of books. I don’t think it’ll be noticeable.
If I did this again, I think I would do it with 3 strands.
Pic of a counted cross stitch project on black aida cloth, of a frog reading a book. Next to them is a stack of books, with a little teacup with a flower sticking out of it. Frog is wearing a scarf and an orange sweater.
August 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
Look at my hibiscus!
The one thing that looks good in my yard.
#bloomscrolling
Pic is of a large flower with wide bright pink petals, with a white center. Sunny day, other green vegetation surrounding flower
August 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
#WIP Wednesday!
Reading Frog design from EnjoySVG.
I’m working fast on this one. Making it for a housewarming gift for the leader of my book club I’m in, who likes frogs.
The colors aren’t super exciting to me though. I’ll be glad when he’s done.
#countedcrossstitch
#crossstitch
#crossstitching
Image is of a frog reading a rust-colored book, counted cross stitch on black cloth. Frog is wearing alike a rust-colored sweater and a black and khaki-green scarf. There’s a sort of little flower behind his head at the top.
July 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
Trying out growing some small cucumbers in my Aerogarden Bounty, the Quick Snack variety from Seeds ‘n’ Such. First attempt.
The trellis set up already means I’m thinking optimistically. 🙂
This is Rick Moranis’ cue to start singing: 🎶 “Pleeaase…grow for me-eee-eee…🎶
#aerogarden
#aerogardening
Picture if you can…gonna try to describe this here…pic shows an oblong bathtub-shaped container with a black lid, with 7 round circles on it. Container is probably about 20” long and about 8” deep. The round circles are covers for holes in the lid. Then there are two other circles in the lid, and those look green. Those holes are not covered with the black circles…in those green holes and where I have planted cucumber seeds. There is water in the container (which you can’t tell from the picture.) On top of the black lid of the container are these vertical bracket-like things. This is the trellis I spoke of in the post. I hope that description made some sense.
July 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
#WIP Wednesday
Moving right along on this pattern by EnjoySVG on Etsy.
Some of these big areas, like all the green on his head, are pretty mindless. Sometimes I love that.
Still not a big dan of stitching on black cloth, but I’m getting used to it.
#countedcrossstitch
#crossstitching
Counted cross stitch on black aida cloth. Depicts a cute cartoony (that is, not very realistic) frog wearing a green and black scarf and an orange scarf. Frog is holding a reddish-colored book in its hands.
July 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
It’s not a Wednesday, but, #WIP.
One of the joys of counted cross/stitch for me is watching the design reveal itself. It’s *just* starting to look like something.
#countedcrossstitch
#crossstitching
A needlework project in progress, held in someone’s hand. A black or very dark blue cloth, in a white plastic square frame. In the middle of the cloth, the unfinished design looks like a light green or gray cartoony-looking hand-like shape. Hand has three fingers. The hand looks like it’s holding something roughly triangular in shape. In the top left corner of the cloth is a needle minder (looks like an enamel badge) that looks like a goofy-looking rag doll with tufts of yellow yarn sticking out of its head.
July 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
First time stitching on black aida cloth. Not sure if I’m a fan.
Anyone have any hints?
#WIPWednesday
#countedcrossstitch
#crossstitching
Pic shows black cloth with a pattern of tiny little squares woven into the fabric, and the fabric is in a type of white plastic frame. In the center of the cloth is a needle threaded with embroidery floss, inserted into the cloth.
July 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
bethiemac.bsky.social
Supreme Court Rules That it no Longer Exists
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

I mean, kinda…
Supreme Court Rules That it no Longer Exists
The conservative majority unwittingly downsized themselves, legal experts said.
open.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
The sad and really scary thing is, this doesn’t sound THAT far out of the realm of possibility.

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Trump Warns if He Does Not Win Nobel Peace Prize He Will Bomb Norway
Trump said he deserved the Peace Prize for “dropping a million bombs on Iran.”
open.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
When you realize that what you were taught in school was selected so it wouldn't inconvenience you.
June 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
bethiemac.bsky.social
Otter has got the moves.
in-otter-news.bsky.social In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Jun 19
BREAKING NEWS: This otter dances better than me.
June 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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cardonebrian.bsky.social
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
What we learned yesterday.

The Times They Are a-Changin'
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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indivisibleneo.bsky.social
Today is the DAY!! #nokings #nokingscle
June 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM