Beverly

If I could make a plea for BlueSky, it’s this: Please make a point of sharing links to articles, essays and more that you LOVE, that you enjoyed, that expanded you in some way.

I’m always surprised by the dominance of hate-shares, complaint shares on here. And I think it has a riptide effect.

They thought they had it locked up because the media wants them to win and had the Democrats on the back foot, and now the Democrats have the initiative and they have no plan. Watching them freak out is giving me life.

Was wonder why doge went up to 13 cents.

I don't know who first said "Walk into a room like you are a punishment sent by God," but I think about it a lot before stepping into a certain kind of meeting.

Bora tomar água pra essa gatinha ficar mais tranquila!

Unethical court, unethical rulings

Withdrawals and protests are roiling the PEN America Literary Awards. Less than a month out from the 20th incarnation of its flagship World Voices Festival, the protests against PEN America’s response to the war on Gaza are continuing to mount. In just the last…

Writers are declining awards from PEN America because they have abdicated their stated aims as an organization in choosing not to stand for Palestine! Some are people dear to me!

Black-owned children's bookstore says threats forced them to close A children’s bookstore in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, considered to be the first Black-owned in the state, is closing less than a year after it opened because of numerous alleged death threats, ...

Liberation Station, a Black-owned children's bookstore in Raleigh, had to close because of death threats.

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

[puts finger to earpiece]

i’m getting breaking news that DEI was not in fact responsible for the problems at boeing

This frog only has one star on yelp...

Israel to dismantle UNRWA without replacement body to manage aid for Palestinians in Gaza ***

This is a forced starvation tactic. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IVF is an expensive and painful process. Robbing folks, especially rich folks, of their heirs. Doesn’t seem like it will go over too well. It’s quite an inconvenient thing to have to hop on your jet and go to another state for injection. And those embryos are property.

A glass one, not a metal one, so you can see if it’s full of scale, and a few packets of vinegar to clean it yourself if it’s not.

I wish more hotels would put an electric tea kettle in the room.

I do not want that coffee tasting hot water from the Nespresso machines.

Please be for real.

most crisis and suicide lines will contact the police without your permission, trans lifeline is committed to not involve police. please make sure your loved ones have the number

Fresh basic income pilot results, this time from Arlington, Virginia where 200 people got $500 a month for 2 years. The findings:

Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.

www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...

A throw back to the 5 Hs of the 80s

Grey striped cat in sumi ink and color pencil

71 of #100DayDrawing2023

This week it’s Cats I’ve Painted Recently, starting with this one in sumi ink & color pencil!

#kidlitart

Upon arriving at the hospital a third time in the middle of her miscarriage, Watts said a nurse reassured her that “everything’s going to be OK.” Meanwhile, that nurse, whom the hospital has not identified, called the police, Watts said. In a call with a 911 dispatcher shared by CBS News, the nurse said Watts “didn’t want to look” at the fetus. She also alleged Watts “didn’t want the baby and she didn’t look,” according to the 911 audio. Watts said, however, this was not true. “I said I did not want to look,” Watts said Friday. “I have never said I didn’t want my baby. I would have never said something like that. It just makes me angry that somebody would put those type of words in my mouth to make me seem so callous and so — so hateful.”

Brittany Watts, the Black Ohio woman who was charged after having a miscarriage in her bathroom toilet, says a nurse called the police on her:

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

as much as the imaginary of pregnancy criminalization is dominated by checkpoints, period trackers, and intensive surveillance, these kinds of arrests are so much more likely to come via health care workers

There’s an Earth, Wind and Fire joke here

Services collapse at Nasser Hospital, leaving Palestinians with few options for care The largest remaining health facility in Gaza can no longer provide vital medical services.

"...there is no longer a health care system in Gaza. These systematic attacks against health care are unacceptable and must end now so that the wounded can get the care they need. The entire health system has been rendered inoperative.”

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/nasse...

Recently elected City Council member (and Central Park Five exoneree) Yusef Salaam says he's skipping an event with NYC mayor Eric Adams after he was pulled over last night by police in Harlem without any explanation — which he says proves the need for the police-transparency bill the mayor vetoed