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Reluctantly middle aged 💾. Imma post like you’re sitting next to me while we watch bad TV. Deal. Alt: Circle photo of white woman w/ chin-length auburn hair & large sunglasses holds a cocktail. Over a rectangle photo of blue sky with live oak branches.

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See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 5h

Is anyone else as unreasonably frustrated as I am that toenails and fingernails keep growing? The fact that I have to continue to maintain them is just exhausting.

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 8h

It’s so rare that someone truly well off is trying to abuse food stamps. We’re talking about families who are just barely outside the criteria. Their kids can still be hungry and I am happy for my tax dollars to feed them.

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know how I can more clearly articulate that I am ok with some error in the system to ensure everyone in need is served. I just do not care if we accidentally feed more children and families than we should have. 1/2 🧵

KXAN News @kxan.com · 9h

Texas needs to get its SNAP benefits error rate from 8% down to 6%, or many in the Lone Star State could lose their food assistance. Some states have an error rate of 24%.

Texas SNAP benefits could be in jeopardy when new rules take effect

Starting with the 2028 fiscal year, states with an error rate of higher than 6% will start losing federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. If the reform were to t…

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See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 1d

First cook out of Samin’s new book #goodthings. Stewy Harissa Chickpeas With Winter Squash

Photograph of a bowl of a stew. The predominant color of the stew is a reddish orange. It is chunky with chickpeas and squash pieces. A white dollop of Greek yogurt is on top of the stew. It is sprinkled with green herbs. You can see a cut lemon on a red cutting board off to the side of the bowl of stew.

Photograph of a book “Good Things” but Samin Nosrat.

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Book #46 of 2025. #booksky 💙📚

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

On her 26th birthday, Dana and her husband are moving into their apartment when she starts to fee...

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See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Austin Texas.

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Austin Texas.

A male presenting person stands in a crowd with his back to the camera. They hold a sign over head that reads “This is my 1st Amendment Right!! You can’t have it!!” There is an American flag banner on the top of the sign. The back of the sir shirt reads “Wake me when I’m free. Tupac Shakur”

A person in a crowd holds a sign that reads “Our Society was Built by Immigrants.” In the background is the Austin skyline.

Two people stand on a curb in a crowd. The male presenting person holds a sign styled to look like two lotería cards. The card on the left has the image of a hand raising the middling finger. It reads “Mierda.” The card on the right has an illustration of three melting ice cubes. It reads “Hielo.” The female presenting person smiles to the camera wearing a broad sun hat, bright yellow shirt, khaki pants, reddish brown fanny pack, and white sandals.

A crowd walks down the 1st street bridge. The Austin skyline is on the background.

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Austin Texas.

A crowd stands in front of the Texas Capitol. In the foreground is the back of a person wrapped in the American flag. From the capital the Texas and American flag fly.

A crowd walks down Congress Ave. away from the Texas Capitol. The Capitol building is in the background. In the foreground are two female presenting people holding signs. One sign has a drawing of the face of the Statue of Liberty. She looks sad. The words “resist” and “persist” surround her. The other sign has a drawing of a crown in a red circle with a line through it. It reads “No Faux Kings.”

A couple carry an American flag between them as they walk the streets of Austin in a protest march. The male presenting person wears a cowboy hat, button up long sleeved shirt, jeans, and boots. The female presenting person wears a chambray sleeveless dress with a yellow belt and a sun hat.

A crowd walks away from the Texas Capitol seen small in the background. In the foreground a group of three people walk under an umbrella holding an American flag in front of them. Next to them a female presenting person carries a sign that reads “Chinga la Migra.”

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Austin Texas.

Sign at No Kings protest in Austin Texas. It reads “Chingatumaga Pendejo No Mas Naranja No Kings”

Sign held up in a crowd in front of the Texas Capitol. It reads “No Dictators. No Fascists. No Kings.”

Sign held up in a crowd in front of the Texas Capitol. On the left is an illustration of a frog person standing in front of police in riot gear. It reads “Resist.” On the right side it reads “Thank You Portland.”

Sign held up in the crowd in front of the Texas Capitol. On the left is a photograph of the Statue of Liberty. On the right it reads “with liberty and justice for all.”

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3d

Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.

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See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 3d

You know it’s a problem when you’ve needed to search for the image of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho wielding an automatic weapon on the floor of Congress so many times that you just keep it in its own folder now like your headshots and wedding photos.

Movie still from Idiocracy. A Black man with long hair wearing American flag colored clothes and yelling wields an automatic weapon shooting fire.

See Reeves @seereeves.bsky.social · 4d

Book #45 of 2025. Just a little brain candy break. #booksky 💙📚

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi returns with Starter Villai...

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