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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 1h

I instantly honed in on the "go skill yourself/get skilled" one.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

I can’t qWHITE figure out what’s wrong here.

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 1h

No way that picture is real, his ankles are way bigger than that.

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 1h

If you brag about passing a test, any test, it just means you thought you wouldn't pass that test.

Trump is bragging about passing the "that's a picture of a lion/draw a clock" test.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2h

Wasn’t that actually games 3 and 4?

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump totally pulled a “yeah, well, I didn’t want to invite you losers over anyway” before he ever got rejected by literally the best baseball players in North America.

Sounds like something a winner would do.

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 10h

You can actually be the person in power and not be in charge - it just means you are a weak-ass failure.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

Illinois’ benefits website warns that the Trump administration is to blame if SNAP benefits go away

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 18h

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void

The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

www.whatimreading.net

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA is so fucking dumb that they think Universities are swaying minds to a specific ideology while the Trump regime is telling universities to adopt a specific ideology.

I mean, you just can't be this fucking stupid.

Save the planet, try the moon, idiot.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

It's Don Jr.'s drone company or a defense manufacturer looking to make bank on the manufactured war with Venezuela.

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just food, for the first time in my life I went a full 24 hours without insulin a few days ago, which can literally kill a person.

It's because the insurance companies seemed to have locked down on insulin. I literally cannot get a backup supply anymore.

Resist Republicans in Florida @flwillregret22.bsky.social · 2d

YOU VOTED TO MAKE SURE 42 MILLION AMERICANS DONT EAT

42 fucking MILLION

PIECES OF SHYT ALL REPUBLICANS VOTERS TOO
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

I mean going after universities is epically stupid.

Who the fuck do you think is going to break crypto and expose everything?

Imagine crypto totally collapsed suddenly, all info exposed, razed everything. Just reset everything to zero.

What then?

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

My cat friend Bobby has exactly one toy he will engage with - that weird brown paper they put in shipping boxes. Like, literally a 12" x 3 foot sheet of grocery bag.

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

My MAGA parents literally have nobody younger than them on their side. Not one person. Nobody is showing up to their house this holiday season, literally nobody.

We are all isolating them by gathering elsewhere. They voted for isolation, so we got them what they want.

Merry fucking Christmas

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

My MAGA mom is literally named after my great aunt.

My aunt would ruin her entirely, fully for voting MAGA. She'd disown her for it.

My great aunt was woke as fuck. Instead of giving her farm to the government for imminent domain, she GAVE IT TO A GIRL'S DANCE GROUP. Like, what!?

She's my hero.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

"In a world where you sleep comfy cozy at a pristine 68 degrees come Heater..

'oh, you want your feet free? my butt-to-foot-strategy hasn't failed yet. Also, I don't care that its 12 hours to feeding time, make with the goods'

Will the kat cave krumble?

Tune in next caturday to fund out!"

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

heater facing her demons (shadows)

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

STOP PUNCHING MY HEART WWPJ.

It's not just seeing one parent every other weekend, it's the friends you don't see while he phones in a court order 4 days a month after beating your infant ass into different colors.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdA4...

We Were Promised Jetpacks - It's Thunder and It's Lightening

YouTube video by Fatcat Records

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

This University rejected Trump's "compact" so I fight along with some of them, but for real, they aren't much better than you think and when they eventually rip my healthcare away I will be the bullhorn until it kills me. I will shout until I literally die from it.

Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody is getting any raises, you can get promoted, but you don't get paid for it. Mini fascism.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

I built the museum with exactly one other person who is still there. One person. This is a world-class museum 3 years in.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

They don't care. Not the museum, the artists, nobody fucking cares. If they kill you it means they don't have to deal with the disabled one anymore. Trump is letting them happen.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

My PCP did all the things, but CVS and insurance blocked my life saving medicine.

I'm in the middle of a installation at a museum and if you don't know it's literal hell. 18+ hour days and without insulin it's a disaster waiting to happen.

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Betes @betes.bsky.social · 2d

So you have to get needles, which need a prescription. Like, you literally have to stab yourself with a needle and if you get the dosage wrong YOU FUCKING DIE.

It burns in a weird way, like someone poked you with a soldering iron.

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