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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 3h

Totally!

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 5h

If I could live my best life, I'd make batches of soup a few times per week, & someone else would bag it up, & another person would deliver it to folks in my community who want soup that week.

Imagine if I could just make delicious soup for people for free.
Imagine if we had a soup network.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 7h

This is a terrible no good very bad idea.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 7h

And the alt text is great, too! 🤓

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 7h

Oh WOW! 😄

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry, some disabled folk may not be able to go to pubs, ever & if they are able to enjoy beer, I feel that they should be able to.

Beer is wonderful!

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 8h

That tax would be really ableist, though. Lots of disabled folk cannot go to pubs (right now), and penalizing a class of people who are already overly financially burdened isn't cool.

I'm in the USA though, & we have the ADA to help fight for us.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 8h

Right?!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 8h

Seems that they are 🤷‍♀️.

Conservative business owners have this nasty habit of thinking that people who don't share their views owe them, while they owe nothing to anybody.

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

Ew.

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

*"coffee with a cop" crap. "Crap" wasn't actually in her marketing materials - it was only implied... Might be in the coffee, though 😬.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

"Muster the Rohirrim!"

a man with long blonde hair and a beard is standing in front of a man with a beard .

Alt: Meme shows Théoden, the King of Rohan, from Lord of the Rings. He says "muster the Rohirrim!"

media.tenor.com

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

Ma'am, market freedom does not mean you have the freedom to force people to buy your mediocre coffee.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

LOL! 😂

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks!

Still socially isolating due to covid, so I am blessedly unbothered by most holiday music. Mostly, I just wish it'd stay in its lane 😅.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

Shocking that nobody wants to go somewhere to buy things where they feel unwelcome. Lol!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, a lot of us are already mad at this business owner for her "coffee with a cop" stunt.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

If you aren't already boycotting Bison Coffee over their "coffee with a cop crap," you might want to start now.

PDX-local.

bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 11h

Another business owner quoted to prop up the White House's misinfo is Loretta Guzman, owner of Bison Coffee in Cully.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, it's a "free market" right? We all have the freedom not to support her shitty business, and we're choosing to use it.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 9h

I bet they got no business for those few days lol.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 10h

Many of us also already blocked him.
Like, that was an insta-block for me.

I now have an exceedingly low tolerance for "throw people under the bus to save ourselves" ideology after watching Dem leaders fail with it for decades. That's DARVO shit.

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 10h

I am too autistic for modern tech iconography!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 10h

I was wrong!

The wire below the battery icon does mean, "plug in charging wire."

The lone battery icon (that is red because it's almost dead) means "charging."

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 11h

I am so tired of modern tech iconography. Pictures are not universally understood, which is why a picture is worth a thousand words.

Is it too much to ask for my device to read "charging," if it's charging?!

Wtf does a battery with a cord attached to it mean? Is it connected, or not connected?!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, I give her FULL credit.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you.
Now I know I can fully blame Mariah Carey for the monstrous earworm that plagued me every holiday season for a decade+ when I worked retail & in restaurants.

The only holiday song I hate more is Love Train.

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