Gräfin "The common welfare was my business!"berg🗽🇺🇦🏳️🌈
@grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social
Sh*t's goin' down in Boston, and the Devil deals the cards.
In the pocket of Big Dame.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
In the pocket of Big Dame.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
Pinned
I'm telling myself this is the bit where it looks as if all is lost but the heroes persevere.
I was thinking "When they do Yet Another 'Pride and Prejudice' the people who think the Keira Knightley one is the good one will have to put up with people who think the *latest* one is the good one" & I looked up the cast & most of them are in Sleve McDichael/"Curtains for Zoosha?" territory for me
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I was thinking "When they do Yet Another 'Pride and Prejudice' the people who think the Keira Knightley one is the good one will have to put up with people who think the *latest* one is the good one" & I looked up the cast & most of them are in Sleve McDichael/"Curtains for Zoosha?" territory for me
The worst things are the murdering fishermen & kidnapping people off the streets & starving Sudan & betraying Ukraine & denying healthcare to people, including children, & the sex crimes & corruption & bribes & leaks, but this also makes me sick to my stomach.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The worst things are the murdering fishermen & kidnapping people off the streets & starving Sudan & betraying Ukraine & denying healthcare to people, including children, & the sex crimes & corruption & bribes & leaks, but this also makes me sick to my stomach.
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Apparently Aldi might have roule? I imagine getting over there would be like a cross between Roller Derby & one of those Nickelodeon shows from my youth where everyone ended up covered with slime but an expedition might be worth it!
I could hit Total Wine at the same time.
I could hit Total Wine at the same time.
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Apparently Aldi might have roule? I imagine getting over there would be like a cross between Roller Derby & one of those Nickelodeon shows from my youth where everyone ended up covered with slime but an expedition might be worth it!
I could hit Total Wine at the same time.
I could hit Total Wine at the same time.
I subscribed to this but if I find out I'm being mass-blocked by strangers my amour-propre will be wounded.
this labeler tells you a bunch of useful things but the killer app is the flag for if somebody’s caught 20+ blocks in a 24-hour period and I never want to be without it again
bsky.app
December 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I subscribed to this but if I find out I'm being mass-blocked by strangers my amour-propre will be wounded.
My only theory is that Mitt is one of those guys who does actually believe in a Heaven & a Hell & texts like Mark 10:25 are worrying at him.
"On the tax front, it’s time for rich people like me to pay more," writes ... Mitt Romney? Lots here to debate, but could this op-ed be the germ of a permission structure, or a bipartisan consensus, or maybe common sense? Let the conversation begin. gift link🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My only theory is that Mitt is one of those guys who does actually believe in a Heaven & a Hell & texts like Mark 10:25 are worrying at him.
Another member of the More Dead Kids Caucus
NEW: A bill restoring money for pediatric cancer therapies was defeated in the Senate.
My colleague @samsteindc.bsky.social — who has covered this wrenching story ever since the funding was first removed at Elon Musk's behest last year — reports on why Bernie Sanders helped defeat the bill.
My colleague @samsteindc.bsky.social — who has covered this wrenching story ever since the funding was first removed at Elon Musk's behest last year — reports on why Bernie Sanders helped defeat the bill.
A Pediatric Cancer Bill Fell One Vote Short. Bernie Cast It.
The Vermont senator is holding out for a bigger health care package. Advocates are asking: Is the price worth it?
www.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Another member of the More Dead Kids Caucus
It's been a TERRIBLE week for "I am a professional communicator; everyone is mad at me for something I said; it has to be that they are too stupid to understand me; it can't be that I expressed myself badly or said something untrue or had a bad take."
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It's been a TERRIBLE week for "I am a professional communicator; everyone is mad at me for something I said; it has to be that they are too stupid to understand me; it can't be that I expressed myself badly or said something untrue or had a bad take."
So, so bloody tired of people who are all "I'm gonna storm the barricades!" in their Substacks, or their column for the Nazi paper, & "I'm onwy a smowwwl bean" when they get pushback.
If you're only a smol bean you were never going to be much use in any struggle, were you?
If you're only a smol bean you were never going to be much use in any struggle, were you?
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
So, so bloody tired of people who are all "I'm gonna storm the barricades!" in their Substacks, or their column for the Nazi paper, & "I'm onwy a smowwwl bean" when they get pushback.
If you're only a smol bean you were never going to be much use in any struggle, were you?
If you're only a smol bean you were never going to be much use in any struggle, were you?
Reposted by Gräfin "The common welfare was my business!"berg🗽🇺🇦🏳️🌈
somebody’s mad that people didn’t like her article about how Mister Trump’s McMansion is fine, actually
Not what the piece says JESUS CHRIST
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
somebody’s mad that people didn’t like her article about how Mister Trump’s McMansion is fine, actually
Reposted by Gräfin "The common welfare was my business!"berg🗽🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Have conviction in what you know is true: adults should not have sex with children. To do so is harmful, shameful. Find a community that knows this truth also. Reify this in person, without the intermediation of social media. We are a much larger community than they are
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Have conviction in what you know is true: adults should not have sex with children. To do so is harmful, shameful. Find a community that knows this truth also. Reify this in person, without the intermediation of social media. We are a much larger community than they are
So speaking of the South End here is some Freudenberg lore: when my parents were first An Item stateside (as opposed to in Tübingen when they first got together) they lived in a hearse, & then a friend of theirs who was a nun found them a tiny apartment on St Botolph's St, long before gentrification
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
So speaking of the South End here is some Freudenberg lore: when my parents were first An Item stateside (as opposed to in Tübingen when they first got together) they lived in a hearse, & then a friend of theirs who was a nun found them a tiny apartment on St Botolph's St, long before gentrification
This is a lovely movie and I recommend it!
December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is a lovely movie and I recommend it!
Apparently people are trying to do the trendy "two letters from one word, two letters from another" neighborhood name thing in Boston?
These people must be thrown into the Harbor to teach them a lesson.
We are the land of the bean & the cod & do not DO this sort of thing.
These people must be thrown into the Harbor to teach them a lesson.
We are the land of the bean & the cod & do not DO this sort of thing.
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Apparently people are trying to do the trendy "two letters from one word, two letters from another" neighborhood name thing in Boston?
These people must be thrown into the Harbor to teach them a lesson.
We are the land of the bean & the cod & do not DO this sort of thing.
These people must be thrown into the Harbor to teach them a lesson.
We are the land of the bean & the cod & do not DO this sort of thing.
I'm such a lightweight I went "My goodness! The film from another reality that leaked into ours was based on a novel?"
Batter up! Goncharov get Oblimov’s lazy ass up. (Always felt the need to read this)
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm such a lightweight I went "My goodness! The film from another reality that leaked into ours was based on a novel?"
It's always the guys you expect. (I am making a joke but also choking on anger that this is who has power over us, these are the voices that are heard.)
House Dems have released more photos provided to the oversight committee from Jeffrey Epstein's estate.
More images of Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates in this batch.
New to this batch: David Brooks and David Blaine.
More images of Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates in this batch.
New to this batch: David Brooks and David Blaine.
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's always the guys you expect. (I am making a joke but also choking on anger that this is who has power over us, these are the voices that are heard.)
Possibly my most Millennial trait is my powerful thirst for craft beer.
The famous Chicago columnist Mike Royko once conducted a beer tasting. Budweiser finished last. His review: “Tastes like it was brewed through a horse.”
In our defense: Craft and microbrews as a group account for more sales than any of them.
In our defense: Craft and microbrews as a group account for more sales than any of them.
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Possibly my most Millennial trait is my powerful thirst for craft beer.
Going slightly above & beyond for a patron (lending her my ergonomic rubber seat cushion that I'm not using at the moment) just because I'm so sad about the expectations that we be standardized, interchangeable worker units.
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Going slightly above & beyond for a patron (lending her my ergonomic rubber seat cushion that I'm not using at the moment) just because I'm so sad about the expectations that we be standardized, interchangeable worker units.
Coach🤝Me:
Struggling to get buttoned shirts that fit properly all down the line (Ms Gold-Digger should have let him keep his hoodies)
Struggling to get buttoned shirts that fit properly all down the line (Ms Gold-Digger should have let him keep his hoodies)
December 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Coach🤝Me:
Struggling to get buttoned shirts that fit properly all down the line (Ms Gold-Digger should have let him keep his hoodies)
Struggling to get buttoned shirts that fit properly all down the line (Ms Gold-Digger should have let him keep his hoodies)
Another thing it would be fun to do as a person with billions of liquid assets is pay for people's med school if they agreed to go into primary care.
A lot of what's frustrating the person on the street about healthcare comes down to not enough PCPs who don't have enough time, & it just gets worse.
A lot of what's frustrating the person on the street about healthcare comes down to not enough PCPs who don't have enough time, & it just gets worse.
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Another thing it would be fun to do as a person with billions of liquid assets is pay for people's med school if they agreed to go into primary care.
A lot of what's frustrating the person on the street about healthcare comes down to not enough PCPs who don't have enough time, & it just gets worse.
A lot of what's frustrating the person on the street about healthcare comes down to not enough PCPs who don't have enough time, & it just gets worse.
I got a sample bottle of one of those fancy shampoos called, like, The Tress Emporium's Amethyst Elixir and my hair is LANK.
Again, what a relief! Back to drugstore John Frieda I go!
Again, what a relief! Back to drugstore John Frieda I go!
December 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I got a sample bottle of one of those fancy shampoos called, like, The Tress Emporium's Amethyst Elixir and my hair is LANK.
Again, what a relief! Back to drugstore John Frieda I go!
Again, what a relief! Back to drugstore John Frieda I go!
It's funny because Dickens wrote a bunch of other Christmas stories & if he hadn't written "A Christmas Carol" we'd probably be, like, "'The Cricket on the Hearth' is great!"
December 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's funny because Dickens wrote a bunch of other Christmas stories & if he hadn't written "A Christmas Carol" we'd probably be, like, "'The Cricket on the Hearth' is great!"
Has this ever been more relevant? www.everettpatterson.com?p=1835
José y Maria | Everett Patterson Comics
www.everettpatterson.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Has this ever been more relevant? www.everettpatterson.com?p=1835
Clara Barton was christened Clarissa Harlowe Barton.
Imagine setting expectations for your daughter that high, & then she just breezes past them & becomes a national heroine & saves countless lives.
Imagine setting expectations for your daughter that high, & then she just breezes past them & becomes a national heroine & saves countless lives.
December 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Clara Barton was christened Clarissa Harlowe Barton.
Imagine setting expectations for your daughter that high, & then she just breezes past them & becomes a national heroine & saves countless lives.
Imagine setting expectations for your daughter that high, & then she just breezes past them & becomes a national heroine & saves countless lives.
We're trying to figure out whether, had the Pilgrims landed in Virginia as planned & the Puritans followed, we'd all think of the *Mid-Atlantic Seaboard* people as the know-it-all, holier-than-thou workaholics.
Or is it the four strenuous seasons & the soil full of rocks that shape character?
Or is it the four strenuous seasons & the soil full of rocks that shape character?
December 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We're trying to figure out whether, had the Pilgrims landed in Virginia as planned & the Puritans followed, we'd all think of the *Mid-Atlantic Seaboard* people as the know-it-all, holier-than-thou workaholics.
Or is it the four strenuous seasons & the soil full of rocks that shape character?
Or is it the four strenuous seasons & the soil full of rocks that shape character?