bethhicks.bsky.social
@bethhicks.bsky.social
He’s such a butt pustule.
Trump on the turkeys he's about to pardon: "I shouldn't say this. I was gonna call them Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't pardon them. I wouldn't care what Melania told me."
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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This fucking timeline, I tell ya. The gutter. The dumpster. The dirtiest asscrack of humanity.
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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It hits different when they're arresting white women. They signed up to terrorize Black and brown people.
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Once again: read @mariahblake.bsky.social's "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"

bookshop.org/p/books/they...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fancy ginger beer is one of Iife's greatest pleasures.
I do not drink because I have almost no tolerance for it anymore (one margarita is too much).

If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking:
-fancy ginger beer
-coconut water
-premium juices like lychee and guava
-apple cider with cinnamon
-Italian sodas
-sparkling water

Lots of options!
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
HAPPY MONDAY WOOT!!
IT’S HERE!!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 1d
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You know you're too online when you initially learn about shitty Christian Nationalist podcaster Andrew Wilson and lament that your favorite Wilson brother has fallen so far from the glory days of "Whip It."

I am so very happy to be mistaken.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I have been leaning into music as my anxiety has been spiking lately (because of *waves hands*) and it truly does make a difference 💞
Go to that gig. listen to that song, dust off that record player, learn to play that guitar.
Music helps us through. Life can be overwhelming at times. Music can help, I promise you that

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November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Better Off Ted was ahead of its time.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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If it weren't for the nature and bird accounts I follow I would have succumbed to poster's madness long ago. Just try to watch this half-minute of owl floof w/o feeling more relaxed.
A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a reminder that you don’t have to do the holidays “right.” This can be a tough time for people and however you get through and over, well done.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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quick Q, what else is higher in blue states
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It’s a fuck racism and fuck AI kinda Sunday.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I’m a VO artist and audiobook narrator so people assume I hate AI because I’m afraid it’ll take my job(s). Nah. I hate it because it sucks, it’s contributing to climate change, it‘s dehumanizing, and also it sucks.

I’m a freelancer. Job precarity is kinda my thing.
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Bluesky is on fire this morning.
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world

And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It’s always about the racism. Particularly targeting Black people and Black woman. They stole the term woke from Black culture, fucked its meaning, and used it to stoke anger. Utter bullshit.
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I love New York. Fuck AI.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Celebs interviewing celebs podcasts are multiplying at an alarming rate. It feels a little circle-jerky.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I was lucky enough to direct Ted Danson for an audiobook essay. That man was a total gem and loved collaboration. While on Zoom, he took a call from his incredible wife, Mary Steenburgen. The love in his voice knocked me out. Seeing them together on season 2 of "A Man on the Inside" is a delight.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Started it as soon as I got home and my butt hit the couch. It is SO SO good. Love that they found a way to keep Stephanie Beatriz's wonderful character in the show without straining reason.
Hi, the new season of “A Man on the Inside,” a TV show I worked on, hits Netflix today. Ted Danson is in it! Also Mary Steenburgen, Gary Cole, Max Greenfield, David Strathairn, Lisa Gilroy, Stephanie Beatriz, Jason Mantzoukas, and many more funny people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM