Be Your Own Light
@beyourownlight.bsky.social
Polymath with interests in technology, math, photography, guitar, and spirituality. Teacher & Student of "A Course in Miracles".
Disclaimer: this account frequently posts satire calling out politicians who do and say stupid things
Disclaimer: this account frequently posts satire calling out politicians who do and say stupid things
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What would you give for a little peace of mind?
What would you give to leave the past behind?
If it required nothing more than accepting it was so...
Would you give that little willingness?
Could you let it all go?
What would you give to leave the past behind?
If it required nothing more than accepting it was so...
Would you give that little willingness?
Could you let it all go?
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Everything Trumpiggy does starts from the premise: how do we avoid the law/rule. He should be rotting in a cell for all the crimes he has committed and the criminal behavior he has fostered.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Everything Trumpiggy does starts from the premise: how do we avoid the law/rule. He should be rotting in a cell for all the crimes he has committed and the criminal behavior he has fostered.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken his silence on a U.S.-backed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, saying Moscow is ready for “serious” discussions about the draft proposals."
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken his silence on a U.S.-backed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, saying Moscow is ready for “serious” discussions about the draft proposals."
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Bear Wants to Give Cub to Humans... And After That Leopard Attacks!
YouTube video by Atlas Animal
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Ukrainian forces have cleared 11.5 km² of Russian positions near Pokrovsk, forcing Russians to deploy operational reserves in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad areas due to heavy losses, according to Commander in Chief Syrskyi.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ukrainian forces have cleared 11.5 km² of Russian positions near Pokrovsk, forcing Russians to deploy operational reserves in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad areas due to heavy losses, according to Commander in Chief Syrskyi.
Putin cannot admit a loss and Ukraine will not be free until Russia's petro/military/civil infrastructure is in total ruins.
Talks only become possible when Moscow is convinced that delaying or escalating will cost more than engaging.
A 15-Point Plan to Get to a Ukrainian-Russian Settlement
Editor's Note: A Ukrainian language version of this article is available / Будь ласка, зверніть увагу, що українська версія цієї статті доступна. I
warontherocks.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Putin cannot admit a loss and Ukraine will not be free until Russia's petro/military/civil infrastructure is in total ruins.
This was never going to be a short war.
Ukraine will be free when Russia's refineries, ports, and military/civil infrastructure are ruins.
Ukraine will be free when Russia's refineries, ports, and military/civil infrastructure are ruins.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 A very fast path to peace is not profitable for Ukraine, - Kallas
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This was never going to be a short war.
Ukraine will be free when Russia's refineries, ports, and military/civil infrastructure are ruins.
Ukraine will be free when Russia's refineries, ports, and military/civil infrastructure are ruins.
This always needed to last long enough to destroy Russia's ports...
Ukraine will be free when Russia's ports are rubble.
Ukraine will be free when Russia's ports are rubble.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 A very fast path to peace is not profitable for Ukraine, - Kallas
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This always needed to last long enough to destroy Russia's ports...
Ukraine will be free when Russia's ports are rubble.
Ukraine will be free when Russia's ports are rubble.
Putin knows he's losing and only going to lose ground from here...
🤡 Putin wants to discuss with US legal recognition of Crimea and Donbas as Russian territories
Putin wants to discuss with US legal recognition of Crimea and Donbas as Russian territories
Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has said that the legal recognition of Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as Russian territory must be one of the key issues in negotiations with the United States.
www.pravda.com.ua
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Putin knows he's losing and only going to lose ground from here...
Giving thanks for the light in each of us — for love that grows when shared, for hearts that forgive, for hope that refuses to fade.
Wishing you peace, warmth, and connection today.
Happy Thanksgiving 🌻
Except Donald Trump
Wishing you peace, warmth, and connection today.
Happy Thanksgiving 🌻
Except Donald Trump
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Giving thanks for the light in each of us — for love that grows when shared, for hearts that forgive, for hope that refuses to fade.
Wishing you peace, warmth, and connection today.
Happy Thanksgiving 🌻
Except Donald Trump
Wishing you peace, warmth, and connection today.
Happy Thanksgiving 🌻
Except Donald Trump
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Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
Problematically, the tool is trivial to fool with a VPN and the foreign governments already use VPNs to hide their origin.
If you see a "fishy" account, don't be re-assured by X's guess at origin.
If you see a "fishy" account, don't be re-assured by X's guess at origin.
The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Problematically, the tool is trivial to fool with a VPN and the foreign governments already use VPNs to hide their origin.
If you see a "fishy" account, don't be re-assured by X's guess at origin.
If you see a "fishy" account, don't be re-assured by X's guess at origin.
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Texas, we've taken small and local too far and we're paying for it: in hard earned dollars, in poor reliability, in poor quality, in poor service. If these services were an employee, you'd fire them.
Texas, it's time for a change.
Texas, it's time for a change.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Texas, we've taken small and local too far and we're paying for it: in hard earned dollars, in poor reliability, in poor quality, in poor service. If these services were an employee, you'd fire them.
Texas, it's time for a change.
Texas, it's time for a change.
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Texas ISD school systems yield poor reading and math scores for graduates. School construction costs double comparable projects in other states. ISD taxes so high they are driving seniors out of their homes - total tax rates more than triple that of other states (including income taxes).
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Texas ISD school systems yield poor reading and math scores for graduates. School construction costs double comparable projects in other states. ISD taxes so high they are driving seniors out of their homes - total tax rates more than triple that of other states (including income taxes).
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Texas has over 7000 separate water systems - again, too small to design for the resilience of larger scale. Boil Water Notices are almost unheard of throughout most of the country, but in Texas, we see them several times a year and our water prices and MUD taxes are sky high.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Texas has over 7000 separate water systems - again, too small to design for the resilience of larger scale. Boil Water Notices are almost unheard of throughout most of the country, but in Texas, we see them several times a year and our water prices and MUD taxes are sky high.
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Every winter, storms crash fragile power grids for millions of customers. The northern US sees far worse storms without the outages that affect millions when reliable power is life.
Our coops are too small for the redundant systems needed for reliability.
Yet our prices are sky high.
Our coops are too small for the redundant systems needed for reliability.
Yet our prices are sky high.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Every winter, storms crash fragile power grids for millions of customers. The northern US sees far worse storms without the outages that affect millions when reliable power is life.
Our coops are too small for the redundant systems needed for reliability.
Yet our prices are sky high.
Our coops are too small for the redundant systems needed for reliability.
Yet our prices are sky high.
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Texas, this is going to be an uncomfortable conversation:
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Texas, this is going to be an uncomfortable conversation:
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
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Trump's corruption is testing this generation of Democrats for leaders. Some, like Schumer and Jeffries are failing that test. Others like Newsom, Kelly, Sherrill, Spanberger, Mandami and more are being forged in Trump's fascist fires.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
If Senator Mark Kelly does not win the Democratic Nomination for President he should be the Senate Minority/Majority Leader. He is what a leader looks, talks and acts like….
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump's corruption is testing this generation of Democrats for leaders. Some, like Schumer and Jeffries are failing that test. Others like Newsom, Kelly, Sherrill, Spanberger, Mandami and more are being forged in Trump's fascist fires.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
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Oh, I'm pretty sure that all of these idiots are soft targets for foreign SIGINT... no way they have the personal discipline and awareness necessary to be "a brick in the wall of a digital fortress".
Just assume that Russia, China, and the rest may as well have offices in the West Wing.
Just assume that Russia, China, and the rest may as well have offices in the West Wing.
We can be absolutely certain that the Witkoff leak shows only a very tiny portion of the exchange.
Witkoff is not experienced in SIGINT. He is a realtor, out of his depth and an easy mark for any intelligence service. There are certainly recordings.
Witkoff is not experienced in SIGINT. He is a realtor, out of his depth and an easy mark for any intelligence service. There are certainly recordings.
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Oh, I'm pretty sure that all of these idiots are soft targets for foreign SIGINT... no way they have the personal discipline and awareness necessary to be "a brick in the wall of a digital fortress".
Just assume that Russia, China, and the rest may as well have offices in the West Wing.
Just assume that Russia, China, and the rest may as well have offices in the West Wing.
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"Device Hoarding"??
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Device Hoarding"??
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
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I'm good. Are y'all ok out there? 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm good. Are y'all ok out there? 🤔
Trump's corruption is testing this generation of Democrats for leaders. Some, like Schumer and Jeffries are failing that test. Others like Newsom, Kelly, Sherrill, Spanberger, Mandami and more are being forged in Trump's fascist fires.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
If Senator Mark Kelly does not win the Democratic Nomination for President he should be the Senate Minority/Majority Leader. He is what a leader looks, talks and acts like….
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump's corruption is testing this generation of Democrats for leaders. Some, like Schumer and Jeffries are failing that test. Others like Newsom, Kelly, Sherrill, Spanberger, Mandami and more are being forged in Trump's fascist fires.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
Look for those who aren't bending to Trump.
Texas, this is going to be an uncomfortable conversation:
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Texas, this is going to be an uncomfortable conversation:
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
We've taken independence too far.
Our experiments with energy coops, ISDs, and MUDs have left us with high priced, inefficient, fragile systems.
Our Texas infrastructure is shit.
"Device Hoarding"??
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Device Hoarding"??
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
Folks: THAT is proof that closing our wallets to the billionaires is having an effect. They're having to make up new sins to demonize our closed wallets.
Fuck their "Device Hoarding". I'm not giving these billionaire assholes a damn penny more than I have to.
Holy Freaking Shirt Balls! $3 TRILLION in 11 months?
HTF do you even do that?
Oh, right.
Tax cuts for the rich do it every time.
HTF do you even do that?
Oh, right.
Tax cuts for the rich do it every time.
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Holy Freaking Shirt Balls! $3 TRILLION in 11 months?
HTF do you even do that?
Oh, right.
Tax cuts for the rich do it every time.
HTF do you even do that?
Oh, right.
Tax cuts for the rich do it every time.