Beau Brent
@furtivebacon.bsky.social
Love carrots, writing, dogs, ancient history, Carthusian vocations, secularism, tiger lillies and the European project.
Is NPR a nonprofit for qualified expat contributions from overseas?
May 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is NPR a nonprofit for qualified expat contributions from overseas?
Listen, I will pay up to 10€ for gochujang whatever happens.
April 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Listen, I will pay up to 10€ for gochujang whatever happens.
Those firms should lose their other clients.
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Those firms should lose their other clients.
I often try to find the compassionate answer. I don’t know what it is here. The injustice seems so great that it is hard to empathise with the other side.
April 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I often try to find the compassionate answer. I don’t know what it is here. The injustice seems so great that it is hard to empathise with the other side.
This is the worst form of clickbait nonsense. Be better.
March 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is the worst form of clickbait nonsense. Be better.
The lack of follow up questions challenging his own actions is shocking.
March 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The lack of follow up questions challenging his own actions is shocking.
That seems less magical than the photo suggests, but perhaps it is all there under the snails and next to the squirrels. The rats must have bow ties.
March 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That seems less magical than the photo suggests, but perhaps it is all there under the snails and next to the squirrels. The rats must have bow ties.
It looks a lovely place. Full of magic mushroom circles and fairies at night and those bioluminescent fish and fays and beautiful things that can steal your heart.
March 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It looks a lovely place. Full of magic mushroom circles and fairies at night and those bioluminescent fish and fays and beautiful things that can steal your heart.
It is not here in Belgium for sure.
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It is not here in Belgium for sure.
This must be the Canada people
always speak of.
always speak of.
March 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This must be the Canada people
always speak of.
always speak of.
The breach itself aside, it astonishes me that detailed war plans are done in group chats at all and that this seems relatively common.
March 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The breach itself aside, it astonishes me that detailed war plans are done in group chats at all and that this seems relatively common.
There are both a reason and justification for the tariffs, they just aren’t good or convincing.
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There are both a reason and justification for the tariffs, they just aren’t good or convincing.
What can the law really do in the face of a Justice Department that is completely beholden to a Dictator? The rule of law depends on now-abandoned principles.
March 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What can the law really do in the face of a Justice Department that is completely beholden to a Dictator? The rule of law depends on now-abandoned principles.
What can they do? CNN, MSNBC, Fox, The Hill, syndicated local news… all owned by Republicans. The left have sold off almost all the public squares.
February 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
What can they do? CNN, MSNBC, Fox, The Hill, syndicated local news… all owned by Republicans. The left have sold off almost all the public squares.
Surely the best way to handle a rotten Kennedy is for this family to put a better one forward. If good people do not run, their opinions don’t matter a lot.
January 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Surely the best way to handle a rotten Kennedy is for this family to put a better one forward. If good people do not run, their opinions don’t matter a lot.
Like many western countries, the UK has long suffered a growing gap between the richest and everybody else. If growth is just for the rich and stagnation for everybody else, is it really growth at all?
January 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Like many western countries, the UK has long suffered a growing gap between the richest and everybody else. If growth is just for the rich and stagnation for everybody else, is it really growth at all?
I admire Angela Merkel’s aspirational world view and genuine desire to create positive change, but also I have visited Germany more lately and seen the vast seas of migrants in even smaller cities. Her aspirational world view has also now created a situation where the far right could take Germany.
January 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I admire Angela Merkel’s aspirational world view and genuine desire to create positive change, but also I have visited Germany more lately and seen the vast seas of migrants in even smaller cities. Her aspirational world view has also now created a situation where the far right could take Germany.
If you use phrases like “sponge off” to describe those who get help from the government, surely fairness dictates that you have to use the same phrase to describe the trillions of dollars in tax cuts given to the richest Americans.
January 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you use phrases like “sponge off” to describe those who get help from the government, surely fairness dictates that you have to use the same phrase to describe the trillions of dollars in tax cuts given to the richest Americans.
While the article suggests that nuance requires we not draw the conclusion that fizzy water will help you lose weight, the title abandons all nuance and suggests it won’t help you lose weight, which was also not proven.
January 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
While the article suggests that nuance requires we not draw the conclusion that fizzy water will help you lose weight, the title abandons all nuance and suggests it won’t help you lose weight, which was also not proven.