Elizabeth Le Fen
@fenbeast.bsky.social
Martial artist with creaky knees. Only functioning pancreas in the fam. Fiber arts & STEM editing. She/her. Language NSFW. Opinions mine. My cat Anakin stares at you.
while I appreciate that my insurer wants to make absolutely certain that my health needs are met...
...I do not want to have to wrangle dogs for some random clinician to come to my house, NOR do I want to take time out of my busy day to meet with a clinician who doesn't know me.
So, thanks, but...
...I do not want to have to wrangle dogs for some random clinician to come to my house, NOR do I want to take time out of my busy day to meet with a clinician who doesn't know me.
So, thanks, but...
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
while I appreciate that my insurer wants to make absolutely certain that my health needs are met...
...I do not want to have to wrangle dogs for some random clinician to come to my house, NOR do I want to take time out of my busy day to meet with a clinician who doesn't know me.
So, thanks, but...
...I do not want to have to wrangle dogs for some random clinician to come to my house, NOR do I want to take time out of my busy day to meet with a clinician who doesn't know me.
So, thanks, but...
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One way you can tell the warrior ethos stuff is bullshit is that someone with an actual ethos wouldn't be afraid of being held responsible for his actions.
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
One way you can tell the warrior ethos stuff is bullshit is that someone with an actual ethos wouldn't be afraid of being held responsible for his actions.
Having learned yesterday that the mass on Koda's cheek is cancerous... and after thoroughly discussing the options for care... my son decided with no prompting from us that palliative care was the route we would take.
Cost is, of course, a consideration... but Koda's QOL was the deciding factor.
Cost is, of course, a consideration... but Koda's QOL was the deciding factor.
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Having learned yesterday that the mass on Koda's cheek is cancerous... and after thoroughly discussing the options for care... my son decided with no prompting from us that palliative care was the route we would take.
Cost is, of course, a consideration... but Koda's QOL was the deciding factor.
Cost is, of course, a consideration... but Koda's QOL was the deciding factor.
(1) Hegseth seems awfully eager to ascribe the decision to extrajudicially murder people to Adm. Bradley
(2) I've never before seen "have the back of" indicate "stab the back of" so very clearly.
(2) I've never before seen "have the back of" indicate "stab the back of" so very clearly.
Hoo boy that’s a big fucking bus, Admiral Bradley.
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
(1) Hegseth seems awfully eager to ascribe the decision to extrajudicially murder people to Adm. Bradley
(2) I've never before seen "have the back of" indicate "stab the back of" so very clearly.
(2) I've never before seen "have the back of" indicate "stab the back of" so very clearly.
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This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Trumpet-like noise from under my desk proved to be Holly, demonstrating why it was a mistake to forget to give her that probiotic treat.
Damn, this dog can fart.
Damn, this dog can fart.
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Trumpet-like noise from under my desk proved to be Holly, demonstrating why it was a mistake to forget to give her that probiotic treat.
Damn, this dog can fart.
Damn, this dog can fart.
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she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
Loki's "cortado los cojones" appointment is December 11 because I've halted one too many incipient or actual dog fights this week.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Loki's "cortado los cojones" appointment is December 11 because I've halted one too many incipient or actual dog fights this week.
After searching for 5 minutes or so, I finally unearthed the Post-It notepad from underneath one of the three (four?) yarn WIPs on my desk so I could make a to do list.
First item on the list: Clean desk.
I shall now clean my desk.
First item on the list: Clean desk.
I shall now clean my desk.
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
After searching for 5 minutes or so, I finally unearthed the Post-It notepad from underneath one of the three (four?) yarn WIPs on my desk so I could make a to do list.
First item on the list: Clean desk.
I shall now clean my desk.
First item on the list: Clean desk.
I shall now clean my desk.
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2. The reaction by the Trump regime is a distillation of animating force that has driven America to its current crisis: the impunity of elites.
www.editorialboard.com/elite-impuni...
www.editorialboard.com/elite-impuni...
Elite impunity deserves America's contempt
Let it burn within you.
www.editorialboard.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
2. The reaction by the Trump regime is a distillation of animating force that has driven America to its current crisis: the impunity of elites.
www.editorialboard.com/elite-impuni...
www.editorialboard.com/elite-impuni...
It's a little concerning that education institutions don't know what the First Amendment says.
This failing grade isn't a 1A issue. It's a "You didn't cite the kind of sources the assignment asks for" issue.
This failing grade isn't a 1A issue. It's a "You didn't cite the kind of sources the assignment asks for" issue.
Love that the institutions my entire career is based around have decided to collectively shoot themselves in the face
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's a little concerning that education institutions don't know what the First Amendment says.
This failing grade isn't a 1A issue. It's a "You didn't cite the kind of sources the assignment asks for" issue.
This failing grade isn't a 1A issue. It's a "You didn't cite the kind of sources the assignment asks for" issue.
There's an hour and 20 minutes of video associated with this ... this.... IDK what this is. I got through 18 minutes of it and that was about all I could take. Props to the video creator for suffering through this whole... whatever this is.
I just did it as a joke!
youtu.be/dxZV2DMSIe8?...
youtu.be/dxZV2DMSIe8?...
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
There's an hour and 20 minutes of video associated with this ... this.... IDK what this is. I got through 18 minutes of it and that was about all I could take. Props to the video creator for suffering through this whole... whatever this is.
I need to do this in cross-stitch and hang it on my wall.
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I need to do this in cross-stitch and hang it on my wall.
Another go-round between Loki & Angus (both are OK), PLUS several episodes of Loki casually peeing in the house, means I will be setting up an appointment for Loki’s neutering asap. We usually wait until 18 mo but he’s got a bad case of adolescence that needs to be nipped in the bud, as it were.
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Another go-round between Loki & Angus (both are OK), PLUS several episodes of Loki casually peeing in the house, means I will be setting up an appointment for Loki’s neutering asap. We usually wait until 18 mo but he’s got a bad case of adolescence that needs to be nipped in the bud, as it were.
Me, scrolling through my feed:
Oh Jesus.
Oh Jesus Christ.
Jesus CHRIST, that man
Spouse: put it away, your blood pressure is rising and he’s not worth it
Oh Jesus.
Oh Jesus Christ.
Jesus CHRIST, that man
Spouse: put it away, your blood pressure is rising and he’s not worth it
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Me, scrolling through my feed:
Oh Jesus.
Oh Jesus Christ.
Jesus CHRIST, that man
Spouse: put it away, your blood pressure is rising and he’s not worth it
Oh Jesus.
Oh Jesus Christ.
Jesus CHRIST, that man
Spouse: put it away, your blood pressure is rising and he’s not worth it
I went to the kitchen to have a cup of peppermint tea.
Then I added some of the leftover whipped cream.
Then I dropped a handful of chocolate chips in.
So I left the kitchen with hot cocoa.
Then I added some of the leftover whipped cream.
Then I dropped a handful of chocolate chips in.
So I left the kitchen with hot cocoa.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I went to the kitchen to have a cup of peppermint tea.
Then I added some of the leftover whipped cream.
Then I dropped a handful of chocolate chips in.
So I left the kitchen with hot cocoa.
Then I added some of the leftover whipped cream.
Then I dropped a handful of chocolate chips in.
So I left the kitchen with hot cocoa.
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Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
(gift article)
wapo.st/3MeOGki
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An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.
Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
(gift article)
wapo.st/3MeOGki
(gift article)
wapo.st/3MeOGki
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
Holly models the incomplete dog coat I accidentally started making her. Sorry the pics aren’t great. She was a reluctant model.
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Holly models the incomplete dog coat I accidentally started making her. Sorry the pics aren’t great. She was a reluctant model.
I had to break up a rather nasty dog fight this evening.
Loki, as usual, started it. Went after Angus (who outweighs him by 50 lbs and is a literal Rottweiler) HARD, and was likely to get his ass kicked (minimum) or body parts shredded (maximum)—if not for my intervention.
Unfortunately…
Loki, as usual, started it. Went after Angus (who outweighs him by 50 lbs and is a literal Rottweiler) HARD, and was likely to get his ass kicked (minimum) or body parts shredded (maximum)—if not for my intervention.
Unfortunately…
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I had to break up a rather nasty dog fight this evening.
Loki, as usual, started it. Went after Angus (who outweighs him by 50 lbs and is a literal Rottweiler) HARD, and was likely to get his ass kicked (minimum) or body parts shredded (maximum)—if not for my intervention.
Unfortunately…
Loki, as usual, started it. Went after Angus (who outweighs him by 50 lbs and is a literal Rottweiler) HARD, and was likely to get his ass kicked (minimum) or body parts shredded (maximum)—if not for my intervention.
Unfortunately…
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
Saw my first AI slop illustration from Shutterstock in the wild... and God do I wish I were in a position to order the author to substitute something else, but I'm not, I'm just a contractor proofreader.
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Saw my first AI slop illustration from Shutterstock in the wild... and God do I wish I were in a position to order the author to substitute something else, but I'm not, I'm just a contractor proofreader.