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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇

@mishellbaker.bsky.social

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Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy etc. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. Currently 29% Novelist 63% Vidyagamer 2% Polyglot 6% Dungeon Master Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 14d

What I try to do with my feed here is create the social media *I* would want to see.

I do a lot of life that way, now that I think about it.

Anyway, if you need a break from the usual social media vibe but don't want to be completely cut off, feel free to haunt just my feed for a bit. :)

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 1h

You may never see your most beautiful self in the mirror, because we are at our most beautiful when we gaze on things that fill us with love and happiness.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 1h

Wow. I think I just slept 12 hours.

See? Told ya it would self-correct if I stuck to the plan. Sorry for sleep deprived babblings yesterday. 😂

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 1h

Right? Some days it's like having a gorgeous painting for a ceiling.

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My Civic Workout @mycivicworkout.bsky.social · 16h

TEN-MINUTE WORKOUT:

With mainstream outlets increasingly failing to speak truth to power, all of us should be thinking about where we get our news.

Check out this list of independent media by TrustworthyMedia.org.

Trustworthy Media – Independent media, nonprofit journalism, community-based news

TrustworthyMedia.org

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16h

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

This reminds me of a YouTube classic:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5...

It's okay to not like things

YouTube video by 8O8X

www.youtube.com

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

I really like liking things.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

It somehow manages to sound a bit like machinery but also poignant and yearning... there's just no other piece quite like it.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

Matt's work has been so generous, giving him a SOLE exception to a "5 days a week every week in-office" mandate. He gives so much to them and it's nice to see they actually had some humans making decisions who knew him and knew to give back.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

Nurses are the BEST. Especially the ones that make the grim jokes. 😂

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, it was always "other people" for me, too, until October 2022. Honestly, I think I live better, now that I really am aware.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

When you see people in videos "standing around doing nothing but pointing their phones at" something, they are not doing nothing. They are doing journalism and reporting, since journalists aren't allowed anymore.

Not every one can do jiu jitsu, guys. We all do what we can.

Do what you can.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly, anytime I hear my kids talking with *anyone* and trying to fit into their vibe I feel like I'm watching someone take a photo and convert it to some really low-res format to save disk space.

Just... erasing all the little nuances of their thoughts to fit into the container.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Wait, there are other stages?

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

And I pretty much never hit a deadline, so this checks out

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Yet another thing I'm procrastinating tbh

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

If I can't pull out the grim humor THIS month, when can I?

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

I guess my attitude about death is basically, "Everyone else is doing it, why not"

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Right??? I am HILARIOUS

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not sure this particular one counts as wisdom, but I do see your point, and I am pleased to provide this service.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

This exactly.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

You can blame him for many, many things, but not this future atrocity.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

But for the record, if every Halloween after my demise, my handle turns to Zombie Mishell Baker, please know that I made Matt swear to do this, on my deathbed.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Sometimes I almost type a joke and then I'm like, "People are really not as comfortable with the idea of my demise as I am, therefore that is actually not funny to anyone but you, Mishell" and I take my hands away from the keyboard.

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