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babsbeaty
@babsbeaty.bsky.social
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St Paul, MN. Coffeeshops, city life, books and progressive politics. Bad church lady. Pretty good enneagram teacher and coach. https://linktr.ee/babeaty
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Your last meme saved is your moral philosophy.

Where is the lie
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Dimension. Subtlety.
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Time to share my favorite picture. My daughter and my partner. He and I didn’t meet until she was halfway across the country in college. Now they are besties and bring so much delight to my life.
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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If those arrests are unlawful, they damn well better.
Text: In response to O’Hara’s warning, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told MS NOW, “Does [O’Hara] want his officers to intervene as our law enforcement arrests the convicted murderers, rapists, and gang members, which have been arrested in Minneapolis’ streets over the last 48 hours?”
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I mean…
Buggs Bunny in a black top hat with Elmer Fudd in a bridal veil cradled bride-like in his arms.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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You are probably right but I am choosing to believe a DJ created this loop and has barricaded themselves in the booth.
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Last week I talked to a group about using the enneagram to get through the holidays. One woman decided to just go to Mexico for three days. 😂

Your results may vary, but my Surviving the Holidays with the Enneagram guide will help you release your stress.

Buy it here: tinyurl.com/598sm3zw
A crowd of people releasing candle-lit paper lanterns into a dark blue night sky
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Counterpoint: I took my box of obsolete cables to the recycling station 3 months ago tyvm
A crowded bookcase full of books, rustic pottery and other precious heirlooms like pieces of wood I found in far away places and a salt shaker a friend found in the trash. Rustic pottery mug from the 2003 Earth Mother Blind Jam Close up of book shelf with two tea cups (one broken), a broken dirty green glass bottle, a slab of rock and a Laura Roslyn Saint candle Too many plants that require tidying up
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Spiritually: Fargo
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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`Tis the season to start turning the ginormous Christmas cactus so we can see the blooms.
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Got a bunch of holiday gatherings coming up you are already stressed about? Do you already know who is going to get on your last nerve?

I've created a guide for surviving the upcoming holiday-based events using the enneagram. Just $20 for an easier Thanksgiving!

www.bethbeaty.com/surviving-th...
Swirling tiny white lights and large white snowflakes on a dark blue background. The text reads: Surviving the Holidays with the Enneagram
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I need to think about something nice and unimportant and detached from current events.

Look! It’s my socks!
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I swear no one has seen The War Next Door but my daughter and me. It is a late 90s sitcom about a Bond type agent who quits and moves to the suburbs only to have his arch nemesis buy the house next door. They play out their geopolitical drama via lawn care and football parties.
A blonde, white all-American looking young man in a T-shirt is wrapped from shoulder to knees in a green garden hose. He look resigned, but also somewhat amused. Like a patient but tired dad. Next to him is a taller older thinner man with black hair, black neatly trimmed facial hair and a black suit. Everything about him says he is up to no good, but in an elegant, arrogant way. The tall man has his arm around the man wrapped in hose, and they are both looking into the camera as if posing for a picture.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Other properties have handled it just fine
Barry, a white, buff blond cartoon man pulls his red track suit - and artificial chest skin - to expose he is a cyborg— not a robot you idiot!
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It’s a Sewer Rat by Caitlin Seida Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that’s seen some shit. It’s what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in. It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and bites you in the ass. Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily. It’s a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Taaaake banh mi (take banh mi)

Happy Friday, Bluesky
A hand holds a bahn mi - Vietnamese sandwich. Deli sandwich, plastic bag and white and blue plaid placement are in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Text over a black and white image of a church stained glass window surrounded by rubble. The text reads: Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Interestingly, Pew Research surveyed over 10K voters (3x more than Dr Flannel) did not get the same results.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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And that not even counting this bull crap
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A friend of mine @justinhelmer.bsky.social was in St Cloud not the bluest place in the state
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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It’s a beautiful fall day. Perfect for fighting for democracy
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Does it count as “restaurant parking” if I’m gonna go into the restaurant but right now I need to just sit alone in the quiet car for a few … or several … minutes?
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Sneaking into the conference keynote speech 20 minutes early with all the other introverts
A conference room with several round tables in view. All of them are either empty or have one person sitting alone
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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It's been another energy-sucking day. Breathe. Care for yourself. Laugh at my stickers. You deserve it.

If you want to see the back story to these stickers (which make me so happy) use the linktree in my bio to find it on your favorite non-Bluesky social media platform*
A sticker reading "You deserve some [symbols replacing a swear word of your choosing] oxygen is in the foreground. The letters are in a deep blue, except for the swear symbols which fade from red to yellow. The sticker leans against a blue coffee mug with a white bear on it. There is a pile of identical stickers next to the mug. Behind the pile of stickers is a blue leather notebook, two pens and a pair of glasses. The background is out of focus but appears to be a living room
October 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM