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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1h

Getting out the first aid kit requires taking your eyes off the trauma.

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 12h

Came here to say that

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe it's an appendix but somewhere in there he has examples of his own work in editing iterations and there is great comfort in seeing someone share that level of their writing process

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 13h

Not to mention the peculiar problem of having to be alert for giant flying cows and cement mixers.

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 13h

More Blue Cheese Please!

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 13h

Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people.

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 13h

I know I'm a small minority but I am engaged enough to have a print subscription to my local newspaper... in part so I can just flip right by the opinion pages.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 13h

I keep mine unplugged when not in use and this keeps it docile and domesticated

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 13h

I know I'm a small minority but I am engaged enough to have a print subscription to my local newspaper... in part so I can just flip right by the opinion pages.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 14h

Thunderclap right over the house and it's hard to say if the cats or I jumped highest. May need to go hide under the bed to get my heart rate back in the normal range.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 14h

I've started training myself to drive a little under the speed limit. Really aggravates giant trucks w thin blue line decals. Not that I'm suggesting anything here or anything.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly little reminder that you have a 100% success rate at surviving everything you have encountered thus far.

It might have left you bruised, maybe even totally fucked up, but you are here to tell the tale if you want.

And 100% success IS perfect. So you are, in fact, perfect at something.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly little reminder that you have a 100% success rate at surviving everything you have encountered thus far.

It might have left you bruised, maybe even totally fucked up, but you are here to tell the tale if you want.

And 100% success IS perfect. So you are, in fact, perfect at something.

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 1d

Something about everyone wants to lead the revolution and no one wants to do the dishes

The Black Panthers' most potent weapon was *feeding black children.*

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

"if you see a public health or environmental issue that may immediately threaten human health or the environment, call 911. Then call our environmental emergency line at 505-827-9329" - NM Environmental Department

www.env.nm.gov/general/repo...

Report Tips or Complaints

www.env.nm.gov

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

I haven't needed to entirely go no contact w family bec I have solid strategies for avoiding contact lol. They are who they are and they can go be who they without invading my peace when I wish to preserve it.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

A good school board candidate CAN do SO MUCH for things like kids' access to quality books and rights to use the bathroom

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

I got huge wearable icepacks a few months ago

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

*that MLG, not the

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

I've had this suspicion for months now the MLG called the NM national guard to "fight crime" and then had them do basically nothing just to preempt Trump.

I still remember the last round when he declared Albuquerque a war zone and tried to fuck w us and I bet she does too.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

Yet again my city council person makes me proud. First & only campaign sign I've ever had up in my yard.

Albuquerque Journal @abqjournal.bsky.social · 2d

The city of Albuquerque is proposing changes to its traffic laws that would require drivers to stop at crosswalks in an attempt to keep pedestrians and bicyclists safe.

Proposed Albuquerque ordinance toward traffic safety includes requirement to stop at crosswalks

www.abqjournal.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2d

awesome!

Don’t let fascists into your space.

they deserve the discomfort; social norms matter; access to bathrooms can shape mobility & timing across space (lots of research on this)

Also:
I am vexed at the extra reading this Regime makes me do just to keep up with their crimes.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

Intentionally picked the fox article instead of the wapo for *reasons* lol

My life would be so much happier if I had a worse memory

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

Despite spending centuries steeling an entire continent and committing genocide to do it, we are shockingly unwilling to consider access to land & resources as a main driver of violence. So much simpler to pretend it's other people doing their religion wrong than to honestly face our own sin.

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

What does this remind me of? 🤔

Oh, right, now I remember

Ivanka, Jared force Secret Service to rent apartment just to use bathrooms, report says

www.fox13now.com

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

ProTip: leave your phone on DND all day and avoid obnoxious family member who only ever call on your bday and use it as an opportunity to fuck w you

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