Elizabeth Bee
@cookiesandyarn.bsky.social
The possible replacements will continue until morale improves...
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Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a medievalist: ah, that would be the rodent damage.
Me, a medievalist: ah, that would be the rodent damage.
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume
Me, a translator: The gap is also present in the original
Me, a translator: The gap is also present in the original
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a Sinologist: The essay topic is 吾猶及史之闕文也.
1. Exordium: The Sage laments that the virtue of former historians no longer obtains.
2. Propositio thematis: Of old, historians left gaps in texts rather than fill them with baseless hearsay
Me, a Sinologist: The essay topic is 吾猶及史之闕文也.
1. Exordium: The Sage laments that the virtue of former historians no longer obtains.
2. Propositio thematis: Of old, historians left gaps in texts rather than fill them with baseless hearsay
May 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a medievalist: ah, that would be the rodent damage.
Me, a medievalist: ah, that would be the rodent damage.
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I know a lot of people who could fall for this, and it might have been me if I hadn’t seen this thread.
Your phone buzzes.
You tap the notification from your banking app. You unlock it with your thumbprint.
This is what you see.
A genuine notification from your official banking app. There's no way to fake that. This must be a genuine call. Right?
🧵 2/4
You tap the notification from your banking app. You unlock it with your thumbprint.
This is what you see.
A genuine notification from your official banking app. There's no way to fake that. This must be a genuine call. Right?
🧵 2/4
May 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I know a lot of people who could fall for this, and it might have been me if I hadn’t seen this thread.
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My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
I keep forgetting how to spell tariffs. I always want to make it two r's.
Solution: you can't spell tariffs without FFS.
Solution: you can't spell tariffs without FFS.
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I keep forgetting how to spell tariffs. I always want to make it two r's.
Solution: you can't spell tariffs without FFS.
Solution: you can't spell tariffs without FFS.
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The Trump admin invoked a virtually unheard of, and virtually never used, provision of immigration law to try and deport Mahmoud Khalil.
If you think they're not going to experiment with criminal laws to go after DEIA practices, you're fooling yourself. & SCOTUS might make it easier for them.
If you think they're not going to experiment with criminal laws to go after DEIA practices, you're fooling yourself. & SCOTUS might make it easier for them.
A very chilling and important @leahlitman.bsky.social explainer on how a sleeper Supreme Court case—you probably haven't heard of it—could open the door to *criminal prosecution* of entities that practice and promote DEIA. slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Dangerous New Supreme Court Case Could Open the Door to Prosecutions for DEI
No one observing the past few months could question that the Trump administration is intent on dismantling DEIA programs and civil rights in the process.
slate.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Trump admin invoked a virtually unheard of, and virtually never used, provision of immigration law to try and deport Mahmoud Khalil.
If you think they're not going to experiment with criminal laws to go after DEIA practices, you're fooling yourself. & SCOTUS might make it easier for them.
If you think they're not going to experiment with criminal laws to go after DEIA practices, you're fooling yourself. & SCOTUS might make it easier for them.
20 years ago or so, my Roman history professor described the republic as falling in significant part because senators wanted the toga but not the work. I think about that sometimes.
March 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
20 years ago or so, my Roman history professor described the republic as falling in significant part because senators wanted the toga but not the work. I think about that sometimes.
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I had a walk today and thought about the relationship between civility, discomfort, and abuse.
Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
January 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I had a walk today and thought about the relationship between civility, discomfort, and abuse.
Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
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I was ready and willing to participate in a judicial ethics inquiry into Kozinski’s behavior. He resigned before one took place.
He didn’t want due process.
He wanted to get away with it.
He didn’t want due process.
He wanted to get away with it.
January 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I was ready and willing to participate in a judicial ethics inquiry into Kozinski’s behavior. He resigned before one took place.
He didn’t want due process.
He wanted to get away with it.
He didn’t want due process.
He wanted to get away with it.
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This is the best SHUT THE FUCK UP video thread there is on the internet. It’s about 46 minutes long. It covers not just the what to do (shut the fuck up) but goes into painful DETAIL about how not shutting the fuck up can mess up your life.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
bsky.app/profile/chri...
anyway seeing a bunch of people today who know more about the topic putting it better than me (I am, to reiterate, just a silly little guy)
here's a video my friend with a criminology background recommends, if it'd help to hear realistic examples and reasons: youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?...
good thread ⬇️
here's a video my friend with a criminology background recommends, if it'd help to hear realistic examples and reasons: youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?...
good thread ⬇️
December 27, 2024 at 7:57 PM
This is the best SHUT THE FUCK UP video thread there is on the internet. It’s about 46 minutes long. It covers not just the what to do (shut the fuck up) but goes into painful DETAIL about how not shutting the fuck up can mess up your life.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.
December 19, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.
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Old bluesky folks won't shut about blocking as One Weird Trick cuz it's great, so great, and we want newcomers to embrace the idea that you just don't have to deal with that shit anymore!
You're not creating an echo chamber; you've dug an outhouse.
You're not creating an echo chamber; you've dug an outhouse.
November 18, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Old bluesky folks won't shut about blocking as One Weird Trick cuz it's great, so great, and we want newcomers to embrace the idea that you just don't have to deal with that shit anymore!
You're not creating an echo chamber; you've dug an outhouse.
You're not creating an echo chamber; you've dug an outhouse.
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Rahaeli has a literal lifetime's experience in social media Trust and Safety. Please listen to her.
Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
November 15, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Rahaeli has a literal lifetime's experience in social media Trust and Safety. Please listen to her.
Well, that was a lot of moderately embarrassing hullabaloo that was ultimately solved by an enormous stroke of luck.
I'm still updating ALL of my backup verification options. For everything. In the universe.
I'm still updating ALL of my backup verification options. For everything. In the universe.
October 26, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Well, that was a lot of moderately embarrassing hullabaloo that was ultimately solved by an enormous stroke of luck.
I'm still updating ALL of my backup verification options. For everything. In the universe.
I'm still updating ALL of my backup verification options. For everything. In the universe.
Today's learning is to check your backup emails regularly, because the one you thought you'd fixed might not be fixed and now you're locked out of two accounts that depended on each other for verification.
It truly doesn't matter for most stuff but for a couple things... replacement accounts ahoy.
It truly doesn't matter for most stuff but for a couple things... replacement accounts ahoy.
October 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Today's learning is to check your backup emails regularly, because the one you thought you'd fixed might not be fixed and now you're locked out of two accounts that depended on each other for verification.
It truly doesn't matter for most stuff but for a couple things... replacement accounts ahoy.
It truly doesn't matter for most stuff but for a couple things... replacement accounts ahoy.