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Carla Jean

@beerbabe.bsky.social

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Passionate science nerd, geospatial industry enthusiast, science and women's health advocate, new mom. Semi-retired freelance beer writer.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · Nov 13

I should maybe reintroduce myself here. I am a former well-known beer writer (mostly retired from that currently) who used to be prolific on Twitter (RIP). I just became a mom at 41 years old, and my daughter turns one in a few weeks. From NY, living in Maine and working in geospatial tech.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 1d

See, this is why no one trusts a word from you, newspapers. You swallow the cop stories hook line and sinker.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 2d

The very very warm version of brrr

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 2d

Bah... introverts nightmare: Joined a book club, I don't know anyone in it (trying to make friends locally) and the meetup was at a coffee shop that was absolutely packed and I couldn't find them. 😭

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

So she moved those 10 cars herself?

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

Find. A. Better. Method. Than. Paywalls.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d

Good Lord this is bleak

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 4d

You know they are just bombing boats to provoke a war right? Then they can have all the justification they need to do whatever because it's "wartime." And then the Haliburtons and Planatirs get rich AF

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5d

We really need Dem leadership to get off the "we're fighting for healtcare" train and get on the "GET THESE FASCISTS OUT OF HERE WITH THIS MITLITARISTIC NONSENSE" train.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5d

I know its a sticking point w/ shutdown, but the contrast of "here's some of the most autocratic, facist and deranged shit we've ever done" with the Dem's response of "Don't you want healthcare?" is insane.

Who's worried about healthcare when they're literally turning the military on civillans?

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

"… well c'mon generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last!

gotta go out and get those Reds
the only good Commie is one who's dead

and you know that peace can only be won
when we've blown ‘em all to kingdom come..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

… well c'mon mothers throughout this land
pack your boys off to Vietnam
c'mon pops, don't hesitate
send ‘em off before it's too late
be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box
… and it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn...

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

… well c'mon on Wall Street
don't be slow
why this is war a-go-go
there's plenty good money to be made
by supplin' the Army with the tools of the trade
just hope and pray that if we drop the bomb
they drop it on-the Vietcong

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

… well c'mon generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last
gotta go out and get those Reds
the only good Commie is one who's dead
and you know that peace can only be won
when we've blown ‘em all to kingdom come

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

put down your books and pick up a gun
we're gonna have a whole lot of fun

it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn
next stop is vietnam

5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why
whoopee! we're all gonna die

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

The lyrics to that, if you aren't familiar:
… Gimme an F…
Gimme a U…
Gimme a C…
Gimme a K…
… What's that spell?
What's that spell?
What's that spell?
What's that spell?
What's that spell?
… yeah, c'mon on all you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again...

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

You know what else sucks? Music is so corporately owned and controlled that we can't even get good protest music to the masses anymore. Where's our "I'm-Fixin-to-Die-Rag"?

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah... today's speeches are gonna end up in the history books.

In the bad way.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously, UN.
Like WTF

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 7d

"If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence. That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean."

That's a direct quote.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 7d

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump to generals: "We want 'war,' bc we want to have no wars. But you have to be there, & you know, sometimes you have to do it. I am settled so many wars since we're here. We're here almost nine months and I've settled and yesterday we might've settled the biggest of them all, though I don't know"

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 8d

Uh... United Nations? Hi. You, uh, might need to see this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 9d

Do you need a pdf of the style guide I'm pretty sure I have one