Betzi Bateman
@betzib.bsky.social
Avid upcycler when not in an MCAS flare, budding linocutter. Splitting time between Cambridge and Hardwick, MA. Still masking because covid isn't over. She/her
Please keep donating to food banks. Many more will be choosing between buying food or their medication.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Please keep donating to food banks. Many more will be choosing between buying food or their medication.
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The world’s richest man’s legacy
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The world’s richest man’s legacy
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"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
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You probably already know this, but it's important to spread the word.
“There’s too many Americans on SNAP!”
Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.
Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.
The government encourages this & then blames the poor.
Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.
Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.
The government encourages this & then blames the poor.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You probably already know this, but it's important to spread the word.
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As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
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We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
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Ideally money, to an existing food bank. I've seen tons of pop-up mutual aid efforts in my small city in the last week. While I applaud the desire to support neighbors in need, imagine navigating dozens of random Facebook posts and email accounts to find food when you need it. Let's make it easy.
If you can afford it, it's a good time to give a donation to your local food bank.
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Ideally money, to an existing food bank. I've seen tons of pop-up mutual aid efforts in my small city in the last week. While I applaud the desire to support neighbors in need, imagine navigating dozens of random Facebook posts and email accounts to find food when you need it. Let's make it easy.
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📌 Everyone needs to listen ‼️
Brava Mallory ~ 📍Michigan 🐥
Brava Mallory ~ 📍Michigan 🐥
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📌 Everyone needs to listen ‼️
Brava Mallory ~ 📍Michigan 🐥
Brava Mallory ~ 📍Michigan 🐥
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“If they need SNAP they should work”.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“If they need SNAP they should work”.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
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So all the historic photos, artworks, etc, that were in the East Wing……were they removed before demolition or are they part of the rubble?
And if they were removed, where are they?
And if they were removed, where are they?
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
So all the historic photos, artworks, etc, that were in the East Wing……were they removed before demolition or are they part of the rubble?
And if they were removed, where are they?
And if they were removed, where are they?
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The Trump Administration wants to take away SNAP, because desperate starving people with desperate starving children may do desperate things, & he's looking for any excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Now is a great time to contact your local food banks & ask how to best donate & volunteer.
Now is a great time to contact your local food banks & ask how to best donate & volunteer.
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The Trump Administration wants to take away SNAP, because desperate starving people with desperate starving children may do desperate things, & he's looking for any excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Now is a great time to contact your local food banks & ask how to best donate & volunteer.
Now is a great time to contact your local food banks & ask how to best donate & volunteer.
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Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...
September 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
September 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
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Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
Super pissed I need to find out what a groyper is now.
Excuse me while I hate tap into the search bar.
Excuse me while I hate tap into the search bar.
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Super pissed I need to find out what a groyper is now.
Excuse me while I hate tap into the search bar.
Excuse me while I hate tap into the search bar.
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In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate.
DALLAS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social the filmmakers will host Q&A @texastheatre.bsky.social on 10/14
thetexastheatre.com/film/the-lib...
DALLAS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social the filmmakers will host Q&A @texastheatre.bsky.social on 10/14
thetexastheatre.com/film/the-lib...
September 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate.
DALLAS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social the filmmakers will host Q&A @texastheatre.bsky.social on 10/14
thetexastheatre.com/film/the-lib...
DALLAS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social the filmmakers will host Q&A @texastheatre.bsky.social on 10/14
thetexastheatre.com/film/the-lib...
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In case anyone was desperately in need of cat toys or tote bags, the shop is back open.
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
Visit OctopusGallery's Shop!
Pay what you can crafts and art. Lots of upcycling and creative reuse but mostly cat toys.
ko-fi.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In case anyone was desperately in need of cat toys or tote bags, the shop is back open.
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
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🧵Kid got covid Feb 2024. It was very mild, fever of 38.5C. Sore throat for a day.
But then, he kept getting recurring sore throats every other week for 3 months. And then he raced other kids one day & everything went to hell.
Absence seizures, bed bound kind of fatigue, tremors,
1/x
But then, he kept getting recurring sore throats every other week for 3 months. And then he raced other kids one day & everything went to hell.
Absence seizures, bed bound kind of fatigue, tremors,
1/x
Imagine the parents of chronically ill children who realized that they were lied to when they were told that Covid was mild in children, and even that it was good for their immune systems. They are gonna be enraged. 5/
September 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🧵Kid got covid Feb 2024. It was very mild, fever of 38.5C. Sore throat for a day.
But then, he kept getting recurring sore throats every other week for 3 months. And then he raced other kids one day & everything went to hell.
Absence seizures, bed bound kind of fatigue, tremors,
1/x
But then, he kept getting recurring sore throats every other week for 3 months. And then he raced other kids one day & everything went to hell.
Absence seizures, bed bound kind of fatigue, tremors,
1/x
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Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
September 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
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An excellent, short video on boiling raw milk, women's unwaged household labor, and home economics! Regarding raw milk (that is to say unpasteurized), it was always dangerous, even when squirted directly from the teet. Cows have all kinds of diseases that they pass through their milk.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
An excellent, short video on boiling raw milk, women's unwaged household labor, and home economics! Regarding raw milk (that is to say unpasteurized), it was always dangerous, even when squirted directly from the teet. Cows have all kinds of diseases that they pass through their milk.
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This doctor (moi) says it’s especially important for everyone to get the updated COVID vaccine because vaccines wane, there are new variants and every person, regardless of age, is susceptible to the damage COVID causes.
Get Vaccinated
#Vaccineswork
Get Vaccinated
#Vaccineswork
‘Especially important’ for seniors to get updated COVID vaccine, doctor says #Canada
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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‘Especially important’ for seniors to get updated COVID vaccine, doctor says
Infectious disease experts say updated COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in Canada this fall are a crucial tool to protect vulnerable people from severe illness as the virus continues to circulate.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This doctor (moi) says it’s especially important for everyone to get the updated COVID vaccine because vaccines wane, there are new variants and every person, regardless of age, is susceptible to the damage COVID causes.
Get Vaccinated
#Vaccineswork
Get Vaccinated
#Vaccineswork