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Beachbatcher 99

@beachbatcher.bsky.social

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Pacifist quaker ailurophile librarian. I believe in nature, the power of written words, empathy to all, and a universe vast enough for everyone to be loved. Peace, MTFBWY.✌️🦋🐈‍⬛📎🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇱🏴‍☠️❌️ Bad Batcher/long live CF99. #TechLives! "I have friends everywhere."

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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 1d

Caesar salad kits

Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 1d

Not a slogan but ...from the University of North Texas

Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 2d

From 1993 and still timely.

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 2d

From the Nobel Committee today:

“Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.”

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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 2d

Wait until he hears about AFAB people with autism...

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 3d

Dystopian fiction is NOT A HOW TO GUIDE.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 4d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 3d

Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 5d

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

Leo Buscaglia

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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #TechTuesday to all my fellow nerds. We make the world go round.
#NerdLife #TBBTech #Metadata

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mike @staykinduniverse.swifties.social · 5d

greta is our reminder to hold on to our sense of what is right & act accordingly despite all odds.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5d

This weekend, I went to a talk on what true nonviolence can accomplish— about how using your voice while refusing to stoop to their level come what may has changed the trajectory of nations.

It’s for exactly this ⬇️ reason. It makes totally plain who the enemy is no matter the propaganda.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 5d

My weird little nerd

Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 6d

An 85-year-old lady in my congregation told me today, "I've never met anyone quite like you...so never stop being unique," and honestly, that's one of the most sincere compliments I've ever received.

Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 6d

Do flexibility exercises each and every day, eat plenty of whole grains and vegetables, and drink lots of water.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 7d

It’s time to post this quote again…

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

― James Baldwin

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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like I've aged 10 years in 9 months.

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Androo Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 9d

I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately...

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 9d

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

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