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Bette Vile

@bette.bsky.social

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Mosaic, art, jokes, cats and Irish countryside. Trainee lifeboat crew. Like Davis, not like Midler. Just mine: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ma7vfaiknc5jzum7pukdgmqw/feed/aaaoxhzy4iv5s

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · Jul 21

chuffed with how this came out. oil pastels are my thing now!

#art #oilpastels #artsky

little oil pastel art work of a cottage at night.

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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 9h

Dying is the easy part. Living while haunted by the ghost of who you could’ve been is where it gets tricky.

Follow me for more uplifting thoughts...

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 19h

omg that's so bittersweet. what a strange kind of loss

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 1d

love that! I didn't know who the stray emails were meant for until I got one from her aunt. She gave me the person's actual email so I can forward on anything important but also me and the aunt were good penpals for a while and she told me all about her pet giant tortoise. I miss her

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 1d

they just get this look like I won't trust them anymore as a doctor, while we're both sat there looking like extras in a horror movie

Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 1d

a short story about blood

When I pulled my cardigan on, I thought I'd caught a wet wipe in my sleeve but it was blood pouring out my arm.

The doctor was terribly embarrassed, but made a little joke about throwing in a free shower as she cleaned me up.

I find medical staff are far more flustered about this happening than I am.

Once someone took my blood into one vial and used a syringe to separate it out into three, but the needle snapped and splattered my blood across me, him and the entire cubicle. He looked horrified and said “I've been doing this for 25 years and that's never happened to me before."

I couldn't help but reply “I bet you say that to all the girls" and I thought for a second he might cry.

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 2d

just remembered this banger exists so I'll be listening on repeat all day

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 2d

not that many people live here. am I the only person not making moonshine?

Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 2d

in a waiting room and the two people beside me are moaning about how the pubs are too expensive and listing all the people they know making moonshine instead

a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with his hand on his chin and a book in front of him .

Alt: a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with his hand on his chin and a book in front of him .

media.tenor.com

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 2d

When someone asks how I stay sane while being extremely online

Figure six a man being bombarded by invisible rays saying I don't feel a thing

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Anne Ford @amsawford.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one the founders of antifa”

Black and white photo of Marlene Dietrich, in a top hat and white tie tuxedo, looking straight at camera

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 2d

I have been getting stray emails for someone with a very similar name to mine for about 15 years and I'm deeply invested in her life now lol

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 3d

yeah, in the handful of times I met him, he seemed like one of the good ones

Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 3d

can't find a scrap of wrapping paper on this island, so I guess my friend's 40th gift is arriving in baking paper

Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 3d

everything is edible, but sometimes only once

Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 3d

Also I was catching up with an old friend in reception before we went out to lunch, and suddenly he was there chit-chatting with us?
Great to see you after all these years friend, also Gordon Ramsey is here for some reason? sure.

Anyway, I liked gordo

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 3d

when I was working reception, Gordon Ramsey came in and he was on a call saying "oh hell!"

He apologised to me for swearing and like okay, thanks man, but hell is barely a swear and you're here editing a show called The F Word. We good.

Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 4d

In Gordon Ramsey's Voice:

Reconnect me 'BIG FUCKING TV' can't find the the 'fucking shit router Wi-Fi network Run the Google Home app to connect to a new network Otherwise, check your fucking shit router network

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 5d

this is what you get when you soak a german shepherd in mountain dew

Smiling chihuahua with black and tan shepherd coloring, bug eyes and missing front tooth.

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 3d

they shouldn't have started building AI until they could make printers that actually work.

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✮ ⋆ ˚｡ kaiya ⋆｡°✩ @sloppyghoul.bsky.social · 3d

im like if roadkill was a girl

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 4d

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · Dec 15

I get knocked down, then I get settled in, i have a lovely little nap

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👻Spook of URL😱 @dookofurl.bsky.social · 5d

it took a lot of hard work and dedication to completely ruin my life

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 4d

It’s almost disorienting to see something this nakedly wonderful put in place by a non Scandinavian Western government in 2025.

Way to go Ireland.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Bette Vile @bette.bsky.social · 5d

when tech bros say AI will be revolutionary for workers, remember they said that about the internet too.

and in the decades since having the internet, do we work less? do we earn more? are our lives better?

alas.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 5d

I hope you can handle me at my worst because that is pretty much all the time

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