Samantha Beeney

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

YouTube video by AntiFlagVEVO Anti-Flag - Racists (Lyric Video)

Just because they don't know they are racists and facists doesn't mean they aren't

YouTube video by anon2world Anonymous: A Message to Democratic Law Makers of the House and Senate

A Message to Democratic Law Makers from the House and Senate - and US Citizens.
#Anonymous
youtu.be/wbPWEmL18GI

Idaho is trying to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges and eliminate gay marriage. Here is the actual document from the Legislature. #gaymarriage #lgbtqia #ObergefellvHodges

Everyone has their favorite pet names for the piece of orange garbage that's currently squatting in the Oval Office.
These are my 3 favorite nicknames for him:
1. Tangerine Palpatine
2. The Tangerine Tyrant
3. Mango Mussolini

Tell me your favorite nickname.

How the FUCK is firing ONE THOUSAND VA employees going to help Veterans get care let alone quality care. From one region alone they fired WELL over 50 humans who ensure that the front line employees have working computers, phones, and other necessary tech to do their jobs.

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.

When someone puts their life on the line to defend this country in uniform, we in turn, promise them health care after their service.

Trump froze all hiring at the VA at a time when the VA is experiencing a shortage of doctors & nurses. Unacceptable. Our veterans deserve better.

I've known you were a honeybadger since BBS, I however have definitely become truly feral since those days lol

Violence is not the answer. It is a question, and the answer is yes. (At least in this case)

@gayprideapparel.com Just saw your post elsewhere about Meta and their shit so I came to follow you here!

Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

YouTube video by All Seasons Music The Ink Spots - I Don't Wan't To Set The World On Fire (Official Audio)

This song has been stuck in my head for two days, so I'm sharing.

Oh, hell froze over? Makes sense.

Since his maternal grandparents supported the Nazi party and apartheid, it was definitely an apple and tree situation.

We know what Musk meant. In video interviews, his father said that maternal grandparents supported Hitler while in Canada then moved to South Africa and fit right in with the pro-apartheid. Interview is on X. 🍎 🌳

Apparently, the lighting really doesn't matter when about half the people choose not to see.

Since today has been shitty, here is a kitty. Also, apparently, a baddass poem. Here is Hades for the cat tax.

The Office of Personnel Management just asked every agency to send a list of all their probationary employees (those employees that have worked for the government for less than 1 or 2 years depending on the agency) and able to be fired without being given a reason. List is due 1/24.

Trump's executive order that all federal employees must "return to work" immediately disproportionately affects individuals in the workforce with disabilities who are able to use it as part of their reasonable accommodations. If they can't return to the office, they will be fired.

Sharing info for those who need it. America is made up of refugees and immigrants. Many of those who come to our country this way work way harder than those flying monkeys that got sworn in today.

These executive orders are repulsive. For some reason Musk, a Nazi billionaire with triple citizenship is giving victory speeches and salutes like it is the "good old days". A large part of the population is oblivious. What the actual FUCK.

Plus this guy was not even on the ballot either. This is a digrace and these executive orders are repulsive.

It's a good day for watching Star Wars and building Lego sets to work on those fine motor skills. Watching Rebels and building Captain Rex.

Me either, which is why I am on BlueSky

I had to block the accounts of two "prominent" public figures whom I could not get off my FB feed otherwise. Verified accounts, no interaction before. So that wasn't on the 2025 Bingo card.

Birds outside as a metaphor for people leaving Meta and TikTok