Beth Anne E
@practicalchoker.bsky.social
I carried a watermelon.
Made it the entire holiday season, and then the very last song I heard on the radio before they stopped playing Xmas tunes was the godforsaken Xmas Shoes song, and it is in my head, and I am profoundly angry about this turn of events.
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Made it the entire holiday season, and then the very last song I heard on the radio before they stopped playing Xmas tunes was the godforsaken Xmas Shoes song, and it is in my head, and I am profoundly angry about this turn of events.
I am about halfway through 'Red Clocks' by Leni Zumas and in the current... *gestures vaguely*... it is gutting me in the most beautiful way.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I am about halfway through 'Red Clocks' by Leni Zumas and in the current... *gestures vaguely*... it is gutting me in the most beautiful way.
There are your standard bad days, and then there are Unexpected Drywall Installation bad days...
July 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
There are your standard bad days, and then there are Unexpected Drywall Installation bad days...
All things considered, I do think the @nytimes.com should have held off with today's Strands theme...
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
All things considered, I do think the @nytimes.com should have held off with today's Strands theme...
Can't believe they were already sold out of @scalzi.com When the Moon Hits Your Eye at AwesomeCon already this morning 😞
April 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Can't believe they were already sold out of @scalzi.com When the Moon Hits Your Eye at AwesomeCon already this morning 😞
Finally!
Cory Booker seems to have started a filibuster on the Senate floor.
C-SPAN here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
C-SPAN here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
April 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Finally!
Thank a union, today and always
🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday.
Here's the union's email:
Here's the union's email:
February 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thank a union, today and always
There is, though. It's just that it's us. This is the moment when you're horrifically ill and puking everywhere and wishing a grown-up would come clean it up and bring you a Vernors, and then you realize you are the grown-up and no one else is coming.
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
There is, though. It's just that it's us. This is the moment when you're horrifically ill and puking everywhere and wishing a grown-up would come clean it up and bring you a Vernors, and then you realize you are the grown-up and no one else is coming.
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History you need to know: The Montgomery Bus Boycott went on for almost a year.
February 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
History you need to know: The Montgomery Bus Boycott went on for almost a year.
It's good to have a brother on a chilly day.
January 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's good to have a brother on a chilly day.
Dear Canada,
That 51st state thing was in poor taste...but have YOU considered an 11th province? The Timmies advance guard is already here.
Sincerely,
Michigan
P.S. Also open to being part of Ontario.
That 51st state thing was in poor taste...but have YOU considered an 11th province? The Timmies advance guard is already here.
Sincerely,
Michigan
P.S. Also open to being part of Ontario.
January 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Dear Canada,
That 51st state thing was in poor taste...but have YOU considered an 11th province? The Timmies advance guard is already here.
Sincerely,
Michigan
P.S. Also open to being part of Ontario.
That 51st state thing was in poor taste...but have YOU considered an 11th province? The Timmies advance guard is already here.
Sincerely,
Michigan
P.S. Also open to being part of Ontario.
If you haven't read The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, it sounds like you'd like that one, too!
January 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If you haven't read The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, it sounds like you'd like that one, too!
Haven't put up a cat picture in a bit.
January 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Haven't put up a cat picture in a bit.
Them: "Why would you want to get out of teaching?"
Me: "Well, I just flunked a kid for turning in an AI generated paper about the benefits of AI in the classroom, so..."
Me: "Well, I just flunked a kid for turning in an AI generated paper about the benefits of AI in the classroom, so..."
December 12, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Them: "Why would you want to get out of teaching?"
Me: "Well, I just flunked a kid for turning in an AI generated paper about the benefits of AI in the classroom, so..."
Me: "Well, I just flunked a kid for turning in an AI generated paper about the benefits of AI in the classroom, so..."
Post-Thanksgiving-weekend food comas
December 1, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Post-Thanksgiving-weekend food comas
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Happy Thanksgiving from the AFL-CIO!
Every day, we’re so thankful for our unions and working people across the country. We hope that you have a restful and meaningful day, and that you know that we’re grateful for your solidarity.
Every day, we’re so thankful for our unions and working people across the country. We hope that you have a restful and meaningful day, and that you know that we’re grateful for your solidarity.
November 28, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the AFL-CIO!
Every day, we’re so thankful for our unions and working people across the country. We hope that you have a restful and meaningful day, and that you know that we’re grateful for your solidarity.
Every day, we’re so thankful for our unions and working people across the country. We hope that you have a restful and meaningful day, and that you know that we’re grateful for your solidarity.
Told my husband we had to watch this asap, as a testing rig in No Effort November would be fantastically sketchy. Was not disappointed!
November 24, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Told my husband we had to watch this asap, as a testing rig in No Effort November would be fantastically sketchy. Was not disappointed!
A good Caturday to you.
November 23, 2024 at 7:17 PM
A good Caturday to you.
Hot take: I'm coming to hate the Mark Harmon retrospective narration on NCIS: Origins.
November 19, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Hot take: I'm coming to hate the Mark Harmon retrospective narration on NCIS: Origins.
Big cat on small perch. Smaller cat on big perch.
November 17, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Big cat on small perch. Smaller cat on big perch.
Ngl, I switched to Oil of Olay 7-in-1 bc you had posted that Krissy uses it, and it's honestly pretty great.
November 13, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Ngl, I switched to Oil of Olay 7-in-1 bc you had posted that Krissy uses it, and it's honestly pretty great.