Beth Podel ✡️🍉🌹
@phenobarbidoll.bsky.social
She/her
Artsy, angsty, autistic, and alliterative. Community activist. Lover of storms, sunsets, and moonrises.
I never shut up about things that matter.
Artsy, angsty, autistic, and alliterative. Community activist. Lover of storms, sunsets, and moonrises.
I never shut up about things that matter.
Seventy pardons, because apparently ‘draining the swamp’ meant restocking it with everyone who got caught swimming in it. It’s giving Arkham Asylum — Trump out here doing his best Joker impression, flinging open the doors and saying, "Let chaos reign!"
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Seventy pardons, because apparently ‘draining the swamp’ meant restocking it with everyone who got caught swimming in it. It’s giving Arkham Asylum — Trump out here doing his best Joker impression, flinging open the doors and saying, "Let chaos reign!"
If somebody wants to strew rose petals on a bed to turn me on, this is the way to do it.
October 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
If somebody wants to strew rose petals on a bed to turn me on, this is the way to do it.
Sir, this is a desert.
October 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sir, this is a desert.
“Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit.” –𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵
October 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
“Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit.” –𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵
Trump’s NSPM-7 names “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” as “indicators of violence.” It even flags hostility to “traditional” family or moral views. It doesn’t make new laws—but it invites surveillance of dissent. That’s how authoritarianism starts. Not with jackboots, but with memos.
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Trump’s NSPM-7 names “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” as “indicators of violence.” It even flags hostility to “traditional” family or moral views. It doesn’t make new laws—but it invites surveillance of dissent. That’s how authoritarianism starts. Not with jackboots, but with memos.
If it weren't for double standards, Republicans would have no standards at all.
October 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
If it weren't for double standards, Republicans would have no standards at all.
Democrats are globally center-right. Even Progressives like AOC, Omar, and Tlaib—labeled “radical left” by Republicans—align with mainstream social democratic parties abroad. Meanwhile, Republicans sit on the right to far-right, often more extreme than conservatives elsewhere.
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Democrats are globally center-right. Even Progressives like AOC, Omar, and Tlaib—labeled “radical left” by Republicans—align with mainstream social democratic parties abroad. Meanwhile, Republicans sit on the right to far-right, often more extreme than conservatives elsewhere.
This is a moment to reflect — it shows how fragile centrist, establishment projects can be when confronted with grassroots pressure, political scandal, and eroded public trust.
September 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is a moment to reflect — it shows how fragile centrist, establishment projects can be when confronted with grassroots pressure, political scandal, and eroded public trust.
This is what grinds my gears about the Left. This is why we can't form coalitions, and without forming coalitions we can never win against Republicans. In the words of Dark Helmet, "Now you see why evil will always triumph. Because good is dumb.'
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is what grinds my gears about the Left. This is why we can't form coalitions, and without forming coalitions we can never win against Republicans. In the words of Dark Helmet, "Now you see why evil will always triumph. Because good is dumb.'
May 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I made a ladybug. I forgot to lay down a base coat, which would've made it much easier. Now I'm going to hide it in a park.
May 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I made a ladybug. I forgot to lay down a base coat, which would've made it much easier. Now I'm going to hide it in a park.
On the latest episode of 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴, they're transvestigating the Pope.
May 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
On the latest episode of 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴, they're transvestigating the Pope.
Maiden, Mother, Crone
She dances through springlight—untamed, becoming.
She burns in summer’s heart—creator, protector.
She whispers through autumn winds—seer, shadow, sage.
Three faces, one soul—cycling the moon’s eternal path.
I have entered the season of the crone.
She dances through springlight—untamed, becoming.
She burns in summer’s heart—creator, protector.
She whispers through autumn winds—seer, shadow, sage.
Three faces, one soul—cycling the moon’s eternal path.
I have entered the season of the crone.
May 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Maiden, Mother, Crone
She dances through springlight—untamed, becoming.
She burns in summer’s heart—creator, protector.
She whispers through autumn winds—seer, shadow, sage.
Three faces, one soul—cycling the moon’s eternal path.
I have entered the season of the crone.
She dances through springlight—untamed, becoming.
She burns in summer’s heart—creator, protector.
She whispers through autumn winds—seer, shadow, sage.
Three faces, one soul—cycling the moon’s eternal path.
I have entered the season of the crone.
May 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
March 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I will not key the car that nearly ran me over in the parking lot.
I'm told my em dashes and Oxford commas make my writing look like AI. What's an aging writer to do?
March 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm told my em dashes and Oxford commas make my writing look like AI. What's an aging writer to do?
My workspace is also my bedroom, and I love it.
I tutor, write, make music, and create art here. It's dark, moody, and totally mine—keyboard lit by candlelight, violin on the wall, floral arrangements straight out of a gothic fairytale.
And the bed’s right there when my work is complete.
I tutor, write, make music, and create art here. It's dark, moody, and totally mine—keyboard lit by candlelight, violin on the wall, floral arrangements straight out of a gothic fairytale.
And the bed’s right there when my work is complete.
March 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My workspace is also my bedroom, and I love it.
I tutor, write, make music, and create art here. It's dark, moody, and totally mine—keyboard lit by candlelight, violin on the wall, floral arrangements straight out of a gothic fairytale.
And the bed’s right there when my work is complete.
I tutor, write, make music, and create art here. It's dark, moody, and totally mine—keyboard lit by candlelight, violin on the wall, floral arrangements straight out of a gothic fairytale.
And the bed’s right there when my work is complete.