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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 13h

Try a bialy / it’s like an English muffin and a bagel had a glorious baby that’s better than either of them.

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 14h

Bialys ARE my bagel order! (open face with a *modest* smear of cream cheese, real belly lox, tomato, onion and cucumber)

a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men .

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 14h

Alt: The men in Office Space just destroying a printer with a bat

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 22h

I’m also guessing she IS a bit of a harpy and that makes it hard for the writers not to write her that way 😬. I wish they hadn’t scuttled the Jack/Xander bromance - it was the only fun thing left for Jack!

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 22h

I could totally be remembering this wrong but I think Melissa Reeves is a conservative Christian and she originally left the show because her husband didn’t approve of the sex scenes. I wouldn’t be surprised if “no sexy stuff” was part of her agreement to return to the show.

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

And I think his timing was right. He basically took over the Howard Stern/morning shock jock audience just as everyone was moving from radio to podcasts in their commutes due to improvements in cell networks.

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve studied this a long time” 🙄

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

When you see scary things in the news, look for the helpers.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

I’m assuming this is not the Buena Vista next to Kissimee

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me of “ballet st” in Birmingham - pronounced to rhyme with mallet.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

A lawyer in a very prominent govt role doesn’t intentionally do fraud to save $50/mo 🙄

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

TIL Garrison Keillor is still alive 😂

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Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · 1d

The indictment of Letitia James makes clear that calling it an attempted coup is no exaggeration.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

It’s 💯 wrong and despotic and anti democratic but I think we’ve lost any right we had to call it “unAmerican”.

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

I always found this so weird. I’m Jewish (though not religious) but rudimentary religious education was enough for me to grasp that if you don’t accept the Pope as spiritual leader you are - by definition - a Protestant and not a Catholic. And I’m pretty sure they teach that in CCD?!?

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

The banks literally created a class of people who were “too big to fail” and the bankers didn’t care because their entire incentive structure is based on making huge fees and there are zero penalties for them when those deals go bad.

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me / when this goes to The Hague for war crimes, are the senators who didn’t vote to stop it vulnerable to being charged as accessories?

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 2d

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I’m with you, it was totally out of line and really - you can’t live in a place that chooses the most insane pronunciations and then get mad tourists don’t care (but at least woosta is fun to say).

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

They get very prickly about it 😂😂😂

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all joke but this thread is absolutely going to be entered into evidence when Bondi has “AG Antifa” indicted

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

Half the towns in New England… Peabody, Worcester, Chelmsford, etc