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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 9h

This is why science is important. Smh

ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 17h

That dullard is Javier Milei, Argentina "president" that has his lips locked firmly on Trump's behind so he can get that $20B bailout, so Argentina can send tariff free soybeans to China, cuz China won't buy ours.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 20h

The uninformed and uneducated masses are easier to control. Keep them stupid, hungry and fighting each other for survival and they won't know or won't care they are being manipulated and robbed. It's the GOP philosophy in a nutshell.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 20h

I'm now married to a wonderful man that is the opposite to the hateful patriarchy bs I was abused under. My mom, because she refused to escape that, turned more MAGA as time went on. Brothers, too. I left them and all that behind for my health. My new family isn't blood, but they are better.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, I was rebellious from the beginning. What my dad said he hated I made a point to love. But living poor and under the thumb of him and in that type of community, options to break free were few. Education, books, they helped me escape. It took me 36 years to escape but I did it.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 22h

I can confirm that many women from daughters to wives attached to such toxic men tend to feel their value is only tied to their fathers or husbands. I was one of them. So was Mom. What kept me from being MAGA was education. Literature, history and science, and art. Education helped me break free.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 22h

Weretober 2025 Day 15 SOCKEYE
Just an old boi carrying his old jack-o-lantern around!

An old sockeye salmon carrying a withered jack-o-lantern in it's mouth.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I could get a few, but cannot attend furcons. I see like 4 on there my mate would love.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

And now, we are waking up yet again, caught in another historical loop of battling the elite and their rise to power. We haven't been a pro-active country with the aim to prevent atrocity. We've been a reactive country, only rushing in once the fires have already been lit. When will we learn?

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

We've bent ourselves to their wills. We've given them the division they wanted. We drown ourselves in distractions so we don't care about the cracks in the columns. We've given in to the violence as a norm, our grief and rage quickly dissipating to apathy. When atrocities happen, we shrug. (5/6)

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

The "leaders" spent decades white-washing our lives, pushing patriotic propaganda, stripping to the bones art, science and history from our classrooms, and encouraging distractions, division and violence. All to benefit their agendas. And what have we done? (4/6)

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

the willful exploitation of cheap labor. All to profit the rich and greedy. We let them lead us about with fake promises, lies and let them embed themselves into our heads, rent free, even as they kept making our ability to achieve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" harder. (3/6)

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

We became this way as a nation because our roots are rotten. Our foundation was sloppy. And we kept putting people in power that did not, nor ever have the people, let alone humanity, at their best interest. We built this country on the genocide of the indigenous, the backs of the slaves, and (2/6)

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

"This is not the America I know."
"How did we get like this?"
"Why isn't anyone doing anything?"

There are so many comments and questions concerning the current state of this country. My mind chews on each one, sometimes in frustration, knowing the obvious answers that many seem to not know. (1/6)

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

Our American education system is heavily focused on white-washed and propagandaized history and "teaching to the test." We have gutted art, science, history and social studies/government to make sure kids are raised to work and not think or question authority.

ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 1d

Weretober 2025 Day 14 WOOLY RHINO
I think he has enough pumpkins to make pie with.

Brown wooly rhino with three pumpkins stacked on his horn.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 2d

Weretober 2025 Day 13 PHOENIX
He's faaabulous!

A very brightly rainbow colored Phoenix rising from the flames of a jack-o-lantern. He's faaabulous!

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 3d

Weretober 2025 Day 12 HELLCAT

A cute black hellcat with red bat wings, horns and tail pops out of a pentagram surrounded by jack-o-lanterns.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 4d

If you turn it sideways it looks like a teddy bear head. Or a dog. I love near perfect reflections.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 4d

The horror I feel watching the videos are these victims begging for anyone to save them from being kidnapped, and nothing happening. No one stepping in. No rush of the masses stepping in and physically saving them. From their view it's traumatic from both being kidnapped and watching no one help.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 4d

"You have to be this wide to ride this toilet."

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 4d

Exterior vin numbers are located on the driver side dash near the defrost vents. Usually recessed under the windshield itself.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 4d

Weretober 2025 Day 11 WESTERN DRAGON
It's his turn to light the jack-o-lantern.

Blue dragon with red wings and spines lighting a jack-o-lantern with his flames.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 5d

I was married to an abusive narcissist for 18 years. Flattering only increased his hunger to have more attention. He raised the bar for me to praise him each time, increasing his aggression to make sure I complied. After the divorce he kept trying to "own" me. How did I break free? I ignored him.

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ToF Beastie @therianoffour.bsky.social · 5d

The "conquer Freedom" part is what worries me. Conquer means to gain control of, subdue, or defeat. To eliminate or minimize. This is worrisome with the verb she chose to use.

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