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@tedbeaton.bsky.social
Amateur Homo Sapien. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
Those children, now women, some now dead women, were so utterly abused both physically and psychologically by perpetrators redacted from The Epstein Files, that anyone abetting any single one of those perpetrators, is a perpetrator themself.
#Epsteinfiles
#survivors
December 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sentence of the Day:

The sun was as bright as fireworks and the sky was so clear you could look right through it - like looking through a blue window.

Owls in the Family; Farley Mowat.
#Booksky
December 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sentence of the Day:

I’ve told you how cunning an enemy trauma can be.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Doing a little arithmetic today, I calculated that the day I reach retirement age has a high probability of coinciding precisely with the day the world ends.
#endoftheworld
#retirement
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Call them silly rituals all you want, I say, but we must preserve happy memories because there will be times ahead when we will need them.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Sentence of the Day:

It was about how being so fundamentally betrayed often made a person feel deserving of betrayal.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I didn't have the slightest idea how an adult version of me should look.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sentence of the Day:

It is truly impossible to say how many men there were, in part because I didn't keep count, and in part because my interactions with many of them were so similar.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Sentence of the Day:

And everything that had happened to me in Epstein's world had only confirmed that certain privileged men existed in a liminal space outside the law, no matter how dastardly their behavior.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sentence of the Day:

But his key requirement, other than looks, was vulnerability.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Frequently, Epstein told me something I needed to hear: that I was smart and full of potential.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Pathetically, I was trading on the only part of me that anyone seemed to care about—my body—while my soul remained on the sidelines, ignored.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Every night, as I lay in my bed, dreading the now-familiar creak of the door, I tried to remember a time when I'd been more than nothing.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Sentence of the Day:

When you grow up female, danger is everywhere.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I know about monsters.

Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
#booksky
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sentence of the Day:

The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood.

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
#booksky
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
If this weather keeps up, it will have been a long winter.
#canada
#elbowsup
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Alas, what freedom? such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sentence of the Day:

If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM