Best, Bets
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Taught my nephew Candle in the Wind 1997 tonight with @lauray.bsky.social, and I think we're crushing it as queer aunties.
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Taught my nephew Candle in the Wind 1997 tonight with @lauray.bsky.social, and I think we're crushing it as queer aunties.
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Imagine that a decade ago someone had told you that in 2025 Americans would be torrenting a handheld video of a Canadian television screen to see a 60 minutes broadcast about Trump‘s torture prisons.
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Imagine that a decade ago someone had told you that in 2025 Americans would be torrenting a handheld video of a Canadian television screen to see a 60 minutes broadcast about Trump‘s torture prisons.
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Life advice:
- be kind
- tip well
- read banned books
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- never enter into a verbal agreement with a squirrel
- dress like the Muppet you wish to be in the world
- be kind
- tip well
- read banned books
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- never enter into a verbal agreement with a squirrel
- dress like the Muppet you wish to be in the world
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Life advice:
- be kind
- tip well
- read banned books
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- never enter into a verbal agreement with a squirrel
- dress like the Muppet you wish to be in the world
- be kind
- tip well
- read banned books
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- never enter into a verbal agreement with a squirrel
- dress like the Muppet you wish to be in the world
Turns out that Tennessee is so gerrymandered that the street I grew up on is part of the dividing line between districts 7 & 5.
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Turns out that Tennessee is so gerrymandered that the street I grew up on is part of the dividing line between districts 7 & 5.
"no student should be forced to learn..." pretty much sums it up.
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"no student should be forced to learn..." pretty much sums it up.
The DNC really just sent me an email asking for money, lol. Nope.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The DNC really just sent me an email asking for money, lol. Nope.
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me.
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me.
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
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New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department
The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
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Quick story here on what I've heard about cuts at NCI and NIH, and a few other things:
February 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Quick story here on what I've heard about cuts at NCI and NIH, and a few other things:
I'm in the market for a needle minder.
September 15, 2023 at 12:59 PM
I'm in the market for a needle minder.
A little cross stitch project completed during my Rona recovery.
September 4, 2023 at 8:26 PM
A little cross stitch project completed during my Rona recovery.
Is it time to give up all the public opinion books I was supposed to read for a graduate seminar but never did?
September 4, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Is it time to give up all the public opinion books I was supposed to read for a graduate seminar but never did?
Hiiiiiiiiiiii - On Here now. Will see if my posting/lurking ratio changes.
September 4, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Hiiiiiiiiiiii - On Here now. Will see if my posting/lurking ratio changes.