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Carla Jean

Carla Jean

@beerbabe.bsky.social

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Passionate science nerd, geospatial industry enthusiast, science and women's health advocate, new mom. Semi-retired freelance beer writer.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · Nov 13

I should maybe reintroduce myself here. I am a former well-known beer writer (mostly retired from that currently) who used to be prolific on Twitter (RIP). I just became a mom at 41 years old, and my daughter turns one in a few weeks. From NY, living in Maine and working in geospatial tech.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 15h

Mills entering the race just means Collins is a shoe-in at this point.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 16h

Ohhhhhhhh..that's the feeling.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 16h

The problem with an "every man" candidate is that they reflect the values of "every man" and some of those are very very shitty.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 19h

Ah. In that case, I think we could be doing a better messaging job to fight the perception that you can't run for a local office and have a full time job.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 21h

Ok but there's a hell of a difference in time and financial commitment from a protest to running for office. Who can do that and still have a full time job that pays bills?

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 1d

If we're gonna apply AI to more stuff, let's apply it to things like THAT.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow that's not removing a 'façade' ...

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 2d

OMG is it really as simple as our food being too fatty? Mind blown.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 2d

Children/toddlers/babies should be exposed to, and taught to name animals from their local flora and fauna before safari and exotic animals. The only reason kids media are obsessed with lions and gairaffes in baby attire is from circuses, which are derived from colonalism and promote 'other' ness.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 7d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know anything at all, sir?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: A pardoned January 6 rioter was charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries

MIKE JOHNSON: Terrible. That's the first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

Before leaving the house for daycare, my 23-mo old looked at me and said, "I need BOOTS" (e.g. rain boots). It is not raining, doesn't look like rain at all. I let her wear them and pack her regular shoes in her bag.

It's now **pouring** outside.

Girl was right!

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

I am basically unable to do the Very-Important-Overdue-Thing-That-Is-My-Entire-Job today becasue of the AWS outage

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, yes. Most of the large city names in the US are unique at least, there's no Boston Florida or Phoenix Alaska but Portland Maine is Maine's biggest city so it's confusing.

However, I totally agree that doing it for any other city is pretty pretentious.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

For Portland, Maine folks, it's actually helpful for the other portland to have adapted to calling themselves PDX, so I dont' have to ask "WHICH PORTAND" every time.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

War is peace.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

I.. can't even.
We don't want to kill you (even though we have said multiple times that we do), we just want to shit on you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

Whoever set up that course should be liable for this. As an archery coach, 75% of our certification is "how to set things up so accidents are nonexistent" and anyone setting up a fucking axe throwing area should know better.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people?

Who could have foreseen this?

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

Oh good I see they're circling back to "what if... we traded for things we don't have..." it's like the tech-bros re-inventing busses and raw milk enthusiasts suggesting pasturization

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

I'll say it again: if "paid" protesting was a thing, there would be tons of evidence in bank statements and taxes. Show me ONE pay stub. Just one.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d

This is spot on and I'm sure my dad will slip that phase into his life at some point after this.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d

In less than a year they are gonna make Santos in charge of ethics or something.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d

If it was a "barely visible" "optical illusion" then show is better pics of the flag.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d

They are also doing this sneaky thing to widen the amount of products on shelves to hide the fact that there aren't as many choices

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d

And it's not only more expensive it is smaller. Fewer in a package, smaller, thinner products. It's all a smokescreen.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I forgot about the drugs.

a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting on a plane and says help me i 'm poor .

Alt: a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting on a plane and says help me i 'm poor .

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