Claudette
@claudette.bsky.social
Antifascist. Liberal down to my stem cells. 🏳️🌈 SoCal temperate Ocean, books, cats, biology, cold water SCUBA. RN for pay. "I'm living for good friends and food and music." -- thank you Stephan Pastis
Yes!!
I'm starting a newsletter. Free & short: just 5 things each week that are strange, beautiful, or otherwise captivating me.
One of my attempts to break free of the social media age and try to re-capture what I used to love about the Internet.
First one launches Monday 1/13.
Join me here:
One of my attempts to break free of the social media age and try to re-capture what I used to love about the Internet.
First one launches Monday 1/13.
Join me here:
Glacial Errata
A weekly list of 5 strange, forgotten, or oddball things.
glacialerrata.beehiiv.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yes!!
Hhahaha awesome!!!
This was drawn before the Greenland Sharks started boycotting America Online.
January 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hhahaha awesome!!!
Thanks to The Guardian for publishing the truth.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza
As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thanks to The Guardian for publishing the truth.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This! Exactly this. No real change, just quietly resuming.
Rayne Fisher-Quan: "There is something phenomenally painful in watching a material backlash erupt in response to a movement that was never allowed to be anything more than aesthetic."
January 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This! Exactly this. No real change, just quietly resuming.
Now reanimating stupidly for encore 4 years later. Zombie state. Thank you, Catbus, for the relevant reminder.
relevant @mrssocialista.bsky.social giga-banger courtesy fb memories
January 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Now reanimating stupidly for encore 4 years later. Zombie state. Thank you, Catbus, for the relevant reminder.
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I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.
January 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.
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The roots of today's horrors are well documented.
Deep thanks to heroes keeping origins visible.
Deep thanks to heroes keeping origins visible.
😡
Of course, can't allow their curious wide eyed progressive children to discover/learn or to know the TRUTH of atrocities committed upon those of African and Native Ancestry!
Of course, can't allow their curious wide eyed progressive children to discover/learn or to know the TRUTH of atrocities committed upon those of African and Native Ancestry!
December 22, 2024 at 6:32 PM
The roots of today's horrors are well documented.
Deep thanks to heroes keeping origins visible.
Deep thanks to heroes keeping origins visible.
This. Absolutely this.
"This violence isn’t on the evening news. It’s buried beneath their marketing, their endless paperwork, their fine print. But make no mistake: this is violence."
High time we addressed corporate violence-for-profit, and how & why it benefits the capitalist state's "monopoly on physical violence"
High time we addressed corporate violence-for-profit, and how & why it benefits the capitalist state's "monopoly on physical violence"
Today in #Austin, a group of "Luigis" rallied against corporate healthcare + in solidarity with Briana Boston with a banner reading "Deny, Defend, Depose: Greed Kills, passing out flyers + posing for photos with passersby. From flyer (see Alt Text): "When will we stop waiting and take what is ours?"
December 22, 2024 at 7:48 AM
This. Absolutely this.
Reposted by Claudette
❤️
No moral to this story, except that I feel strongly about the surface of the earth, and by strongly I mean joy, awe, epiphany, and love.
December 21, 2024 at 5:26 AM
❤️
It only gets better with multiple viewings.
This is Summit. He carefully selects a new stick every morning from his hotel's stick library. Thinks every beach should have one of these. 13/10
December 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM
It only gets better with multiple viewings.
Please let this be true!
This Date In Manka Bros. History - Dec 17, 1937:
‘El Pantalon’ - mythical Flamenco dancer who brings candy and justice to Spanish villages - debuts as a serialized movie series and is an immediate hit.
mankabros.com
#HollywoodHistory #hollywood #flamenco #zorro #TCM #satire #parody #spain #dance
‘El Pantalon’ - mythical Flamenco dancer who brings candy and justice to Spanish villages - debuts as a serialized movie series and is an immediate hit.
mankabros.com
#HollywoodHistory #hollywood #flamenco #zorro #TCM #satire #parody #spain #dance
December 17, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Please let this be true!
Reposted by Claudette
The Marx Brothers — Zeppo, Groucho, Chico, Harpo
December 5, 2024 at 8:22 PM
The Marx Brothers — Zeppo, Groucho, Chico, Harpo
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WIFE: You're very quiet. What are you thinking?
ME: They should call the receipt the cashier gives you a 'buyography' and the one from the self-checkouts an 'autobuyography'.
HER: Sometimes it's ok to say 'nothing'
ME: They should call the receipt the cashier gives you a 'buyography' and the one from the self-checkouts an 'autobuyography'.
HER: Sometimes it's ok to say 'nothing'
December 16, 2024 at 11:15 AM
WIFE: You're very quiet. What are you thinking?
ME: They should call the receipt the cashier gives you a 'buyography' and the one from the self-checkouts an 'autobuyography'.
HER: Sometimes it's ok to say 'nothing'
ME: They should call the receipt the cashier gives you a 'buyography' and the one from the self-checkouts an 'autobuyography'.
HER: Sometimes it's ok to say 'nothing'
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This is excellent
December 14, 2024 at 5:04 PM
This is excellent
Reposted by Claudette
December 10, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Found what fell out of your post before it got Posted (btwn 'the' and 'animosity')
"well deserved"
"well deserved"
Pretty sick, really. But a very real reflection of the animosity so many Americans feel towards private health insurers and HMOs.
December 7, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Found what fell out of your post before it got Posted (btwn 'the' and 'animosity')
"well deserved"
"well deserved"
Yup! And they were proud of it.
For The Investors!!!!
For The Investors!!!!
The specific guy who got got literally ordered the creation of an AI to figure out which patients were so terminally ill that if denied coverage they would die before being able to appeal the denial, and then set that AI up to automatically deny all coverage requests from people flagged that way.
December 7, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Yup! And they were proud of it.
For The Investors!!!!
For The Investors!!!!
100%
December 7, 2024 at 9:13 PM
100%
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There are times when you come across something that makes you grateful to be alive in this very moment. This is one such thing. The acting! The cinematography! The script! The stunts! All A++++++! What a time to be alive!
December 6, 2024 at 5:01 PM
There are times when you come across something that makes you grateful to be alive in this very moment. This is one such thing. The acting! The cinematography! The script! The stunts! All A++++++! What a time to be alive!
🐟 love!
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation... “fish returning to the upper Klamath within a month of the dams being removed was sooner than many expected.”
Salmon Are Returning to the Undammed Upper Klamath River Even Sooner than Expected
Officials in California and Oregon are already seeing coho and chinook salmon returning to the now free-flowing upper Klamath River.
www.outdoorlife.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:06 AM
🐟 love!
Why I called the Los Angeles Times yesterday to say, "I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you."
Read to the end for boots-on-the-ground POV re: PSS flushing LAT endorsement.
Ended last of my family's LAT subs after 45 years.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Read to the end for boots-on-the-ground POV re: PSS flushing LAT endorsement.
Ended last of my family's LAT subs after 45 years.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Los Angeles Times Owner Plans to Launch Tech-Driven “Bias Meter” On Articles Next Year
Patrick Soon-Shiong says that his team is building a product where "the reader can press a button and get both sides" of a story.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Why I called the Los Angeles Times yesterday to say, "I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you."
Read to the end for boots-on-the-ground POV re: PSS flushing LAT endorsement.
Ended last of my family's LAT subs after 45 years.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Read to the end for boots-on-the-ground POV re: PSS flushing LAT endorsement.
Ended last of my family's LAT subs after 45 years.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...