beau manchot
@beau-manchot.bsky.social
looking for the universe in everyday things (and finding it)
early 40's white pan soapmaker, painter, poet + boring day job.
recovering perfectionist.
#AuDHD, queer, neurospicy.
aspirationally: crafty, hopeful, daydreamy, soft, femme.
he/him.
early 40's white pan soapmaker, painter, poet + boring day job.
recovering perfectionist.
#AuDHD, queer, neurospicy.
aspirationally: crafty, hopeful, daydreamy, soft, femme.
he/him.
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The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
This year, statues of tall men clad in all black with masks drawn up to hide their faces are disrupting the serenity of a Charlotte church's Nativity scene.
The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.
The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.
As anti-ICE Nativity scenes spark outrage, faith leaders grapple with politics at the pulpit | CNN
As Nativity scenes depicting ICE draw attention and outrage, faith leaders are grappling with politics in religion and urging a closer reading of the Christmas story.
www.cnn.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
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this is very good and important to see
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
this is very good and important to see
re: the ACA and doing away with pre-existing conditions: in college, when I was first prescribed antidepressants, this was my first thought. if I take these, I'll never be able to get health insurance again. that seems like such a foreign thought now, but it could be back.
One time I was having coffee w/ a group of friends, and we discovered that every person at the table had been denied health insurance in the 1990s for having taken anti-depressants, except for one who'd been denied for having discussed them w/ her doctor, though she didn't get a prescription.
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
re: the ACA and doing away with pre-existing conditions: in college, when I was first prescribed antidepressants, this was my first thought. if I take these, I'll never be able to get health insurance again. that seems like such a foreign thought now, but it could be back.
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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We are God's Plan to change the world. Created in the image of the Creator, discipled and commissioned by embodied human God-With-Us, and empowered by the Spirit within us. We are the miracle. There's no swooping. Just loving God, ourselves, each other, and Creation with all we are, day by day.
Literal eschatology—the expectation that an outside power will one day swoop in and "set everything right"—is a recipe for tragically unconstructive discontentment. It discourages both working to change present circumstances and looking for happiness in the present.
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We are God's Plan to change the world. Created in the image of the Creator, discipled and commissioned by embodied human God-With-Us, and empowered by the Spirit within us. We are the miracle. There's no swooping. Just loving God, ourselves, each other, and Creation with all we are, day by day.
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today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
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“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
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i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems
November 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems
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just keep passing around the same 20 minutes of executive function
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
just keep passing around the same 20 minutes of executive function
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Big day for people who care about other people
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Big day for people who care about other people
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
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Whatever it is-- breathe into it. Not w/ a gasp or a gulp; w/ a smooth, even draw, in, out. Easy does it, no pressure, no rush.
Breathing won't solve all our problems-- but it's inextricably entwined w/ the specific problem of somatic dysregulaton. Frame breathwork as one tool.
Breathing won't solve all our problems-- but it's inextricably entwined w/ the specific problem of somatic dysregulaton. Frame breathwork as one tool.
September 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Whatever it is-- breathe into it. Not w/ a gasp or a gulp; w/ a smooth, even draw, in, out. Easy does it, no pressure, no rush.
Breathing won't solve all our problems-- but it's inextricably entwined w/ the specific problem of somatic dysregulaton. Frame breathwork as one tool.
Breathing won't solve all our problems-- but it's inextricably entwined w/ the specific problem of somatic dysregulaton. Frame breathwork as one tool.
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Me, today, almost in tears because life.
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Me, today, almost in tears because life.
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Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
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We should normalize saying “it's really none of your business” when people ask very personal questions
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We should normalize saying “it's really none of your business” when people ask very personal questions
where can I buy it? take my money!!
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
August 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
where can I buy it? take my money!!
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Reminder to trans people in the US that our struggle is intrinsically connected to the struggle of Palestinians, because it is the exact same people who disregard or abhor our lives.
August 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Reminder to trans people in the US that our struggle is intrinsically connected to the struggle of Palestinians, because it is the exact same people who disregard or abhor our lives.
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 117 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 117 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 117 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 117 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
pretty sure I'm... bread
Tag yourself, I am extremely Skeleton Bitch
June 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
pretty sure I'm... bread