Bea
@beasbooknook.bsky.social
Reader. Author PA. Copy editor and proofreader. Cat herder. Opinionated. Sometimes breathing. Too complicated.
For the evening crowd - Review & Giveaways - beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...
Blog Tour Review & A Giveaway: Holidays and Homicides - A Short Story Collection by Rosalie Spielman, Catherine Bruns, Gin Jones, Annie McEwen, Lena Gregory, Jennifer Fischetto, Anne Marie Stoddard, K...
A space for talking about books.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
For the evening crowd - Review & Giveaways - beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...
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Speaking of movies I’ve watched more than six times, I just found out that Labyrinth is going to be in theaters in January for it's 40th anniversary. Just sharing this info for anyone else who might want to snag tickets.
a woman in a white dress and necklace is standing in front of a wall .
Alt: Labyrinth ballroom scene gif
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Speaking of movies I’ve watched more than six times, I just found out that Labyrinth is going to be in theaters in January for it's 40th anniversary. Just sharing this info for anyone else who might want to snag tickets.
Sigh. My cat, who has ignored the tabletop Christmas tree since I put it up almost 2 weeks ago,has suddenly decided it looks like fun. He's been batting the ornaments, which are plastic, and trying to chew the fake branches. 🤔
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Sigh. My cat, who has ignored the tabletop Christmas tree since I put it up almost 2 weeks ago,has suddenly decided it looks like fun. He's been batting the ornaments, which are plastic, and trying to chew the fake branches. 🤔
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This. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
My clients deal with this nonsense all the time.
Also, they can't force you to pay for services under an IEP. I had a client here in VA who was told they wouldn't implement her son's IEP unless she paid $3000 to be a "classroom sponsor. "
My clients deal with this nonsense all the time.
Also, they can't force you to pay for services under an IEP. I had a client here in VA who was told they wouldn't implement her son's IEP unless she paid $3000 to be a "classroom sponsor. "
Your friendly reminder that school staff are not to be trusted when it comes to special education accommodation.
They will tell you things that are untrue. They will misrepresent the law.
Why?
Because special ed is incredibly expensive per student.
They will tell you things that are untrue. They will misrepresent the law.
Why?
Because special ed is incredibly expensive per student.
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
My clients deal with this nonsense all the time.
Also, they can't force you to pay for services under an IEP. I had a client here in VA who was told they wouldn't implement her son's IEP unless she paid $3000 to be a "classroom sponsor. "
My clients deal with this nonsense all the time.
Also, they can't force you to pay for services under an IEP. I had a client here in VA who was told they wouldn't implement her son's IEP unless she paid $3000 to be a "classroom sponsor. "
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Also because it's Pansexual Pride Day as a reminder this is LGBTQIA+ friendly space.
We punch fucking Nazis and Fascist folk in this space 😤
We punch fucking Nazis and Fascist folk in this space 😤
a person is holding a small rainbow flag on a pink background
Alt: a person is holding a small rainbow Pride flag on a pink background
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Also because it's Pansexual Pride Day as a reminder this is LGBTQIA+ friendly space.
We punch fucking Nazis and Fascist folk in this space 😤
We punch fucking Nazis and Fascist folk in this space 😤
I hate shopping for health insurance. The plans I'm looking at for next year cover most but not all of my Rxs and none of my cancer docs or some of my cancer docs & some of my Rxs. And asthma & arthritis med prices are increasing in January. 😓😓😓
Why the EFF don't we have national health care???
Why the EFF don't we have national health care???
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I hate shopping for health insurance. The plans I'm looking at for next year cover most but not all of my Rxs and none of my cancer docs or some of my cancer docs & some of my Rxs. And asthma & arthritis med prices are increasing in January. 😓😓😓
Why the EFF don't we have national health care???
Why the EFF don't we have national health care???
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Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.
Blog Tour Review & Giveaways: Holidays and Homicides - A Short Story Collection
beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...
beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...
Blog Tour Review & A Giveaway: Holidays and Homicides - A Short Story Collection by Rosalie Spielman, Catherine Bruns, Gin Jones, Annie McEwen, Lena Gregory, Jennifer Fischetto, Anne Marie Stoddard, K...
A space for talking about books.
beasbooknook.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Blog Tour Review & Giveaways: Holidays and Homicides - A Short Story Collection
beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...
beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
My cat is so silly. He enjoys the laser toy, chasing the red dot. Like my previous cat, he knows that my hand controls the dot. So, when he "loses" the dot, he stops chasing and looking, comes over to me, and stares at my hand. Of course, the red dot isn't there but he hasn't caught onto that yet.
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My cat is so silly. He enjoys the laser toy, chasing the red dot. Like my previous cat, he knows that my hand controls the dot. So, when he "loses" the dot, he stops chasing and looking, comes over to me, and stares at my hand. Of course, the red dot isn't there but he hasn't caught onto that yet.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. No Star Wars Trek, Marvel or LOTR.
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. No Star Wars Trek, Marvel or LOTR.
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Gift link. This looks the White House is trying to disappear an unwanted mother in a custody grab. Disgusting.
wapo.st/48qWW9C
wapo.st/48qWW9C
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Gift link. This looks the White House is trying to disappear an unwanted mother in a custody grab. Disgusting.
wapo.st/48qWW9C
wapo.st/48qWW9C
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Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
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Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!
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Every Western European country scores higher on the global ranking of freedom and democracy than the U.S. does, according to Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit that ranks countries according to measures such as election process, rule of law and individual rights.
U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain in New Security Policy
An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.
www.wsj.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Every Western European country scores higher on the global ranking of freedom and democracy than the U.S. does, according to Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit that ranks countries according to measures such as election process, rule of law and individual rights.
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ICYMI: Sign-ups for the 2026 #TBRChallenge have begun. All the details and a list of dynamite optional month themes are over at my blog wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/all-... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
All Aboard! Sign-Up for the 2026 #TBRChallenge
A public librarian-written blog about romance novels, baseball, and other random natterings.
wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
ICYMI: Sign-ups for the 2026 #TBRChallenge have begun. All the details and a list of dynamite optional month themes are over at my blog wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/all-... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
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Turn up to your local Democratic party meeting, they will have you running for 3 different offices if you show willing.
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Turn up to your local Democratic party meeting, they will have you running for 3 different offices if you show willing.
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If Republicans can show up to ban books, Democrats and independents could show up to keep democracy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If Republicans can show up to ban books, Democrats and independents could show up to keep democracy.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Birthright citizenship is the explicit text of the Constitution. It's not open to interpretation. Anyone willing to eliminate it is willing to eliminate anything and everything else the Constitution explicitly provides.
Please note that any "centrist" pundit who blithely discusses the "merits" of arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship is either a fascist enabling fascism or a clueless clown enabling fascism.
December 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Birthright citizenship is the explicit text of the Constitution. It's not open to interpretation. Anyone willing to eliminate it is willing to eliminate anything and everything else the Constitution explicitly provides.
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In line to become U.S. citizens, they were asked what country they’re from. If they were from certain countries, they were pulled out of line. Just horrible. The very antithesis of what America is. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this. Every single one.👇 www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In line to become U.S. citizens, they were asked what country they’re from. If they were from certain countries, they were pulled out of line. Just horrible. The very antithesis of what America is. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this. Every single one.👇 www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...