Eris's Avatar

Eris

@edbecker.bsky.social

Retired math teacher/mathematician, although one can never entirely retire from mathematics . Raised liberal, and proud of it ! Expatriate Southerner. Amateur musician, woodworker. Professional curmudgeon.

67 Followers  |  29 Following  |  6 Posts  |  Joined: 07.01.2025  |  2.2308

Latest posts by edbecker.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image 25.07.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 374    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 7
Video thumbnail

McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."Β 

If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?

01.07.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 22972    πŸ” 6559    πŸ’¬ 1270    πŸ“Œ 551
Post image

Yes, I agree β€” it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

26.06.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 25618    πŸ” 14724    πŸ’¬ 708    πŸ“Œ 705
Classical Gas on Mountain Dulcimer! (Mason Williams)
YouTube video by GO dulcimer Classical Gas on Mountain Dulcimer! (Mason Williams)

Every once in a while, I have to post something that is just plain nice to hear!
Enjoy!
youtu.be/OstTBGKb1Ik?...

30.04.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*β€”and who could blame him?

Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump β€œdeport” American citizens.

This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🀬

Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.

30.04.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4976    πŸ” 2522    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 349
Video thumbnail

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

28.04.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 33576    πŸ” 9244    πŸ’¬ 631    πŸ“Œ 710

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

03.04.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 39967    πŸ” 8118    πŸ’¬ 266    πŸ“Œ 334

Usually the post speech rebuttal is either tedious, or overly dramatic.
Or too long.
Kudos to Senator Slotkin for not being any of the above!

05.03.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Season 2 of β€œThe President Trump Show” is a mess. Even worse than Season 1. The writers are increasingly resorting to cheap stunts to get the audience's attention, with no regard to plausibility. A real president would never be this stupid, petty, or irresponsible.

04.03.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1309    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 5

For the record, I didn’t fuck around and I am nevertheless being made to find out.

03.03.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1031    πŸ” 168    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 8
Post image

Yes, as everyone knows, things were so much better for America in the 1930s when one European country, perhaps anticipating Lindsey Graham's suggestion, built up its military.

But Lindsey isn't going to let a little thing like history get in the way of shameless obsequiousness to Donald Trump.

02.03.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2087    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 450    πŸ“Œ 46

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

28.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 20082    πŸ” 4980    πŸ’¬ 937    πŸ“Œ 276

History will remember this dayβ€” when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

28.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 23166    πŸ” 5104    πŸ’¬ 724    πŸ“Œ 201

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.

28.02.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12883    πŸ” 2607    πŸ’¬ 767    πŸ“Œ 158

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

28.02.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 65247    πŸ” 10171    πŸ’¬ 3287    πŸ“Œ 623

You have conspir’d against our royal person,
Join’d with an enemy proclaim’d, and from his coffers
Receiv’d the golden earnest of our death

28.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 428    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
Heroes
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Heroes

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

28.02.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13855    πŸ” 4024    πŸ’¬ 429    πŸ“Œ 196

Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to have Pete Buttigieg's salary reduced to $1 in November 2023. Does she think Sean Duffy should keep his job if planes can't manage to stay in the sky?

18.02.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 28273    πŸ” 4869    πŸ’¬ 624    πŸ“Œ 142
Post image

This is the ad Washington Post refused. Post it all over the Internet.

17.02.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
Post image

Monday thought:

10.02.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 44830    πŸ” 8115    πŸ’¬ 614    πŸ“Œ 382
Post image 08.02.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 18178    πŸ” 4045    πŸ’¬ 235    πŸ“Œ 132
A gray tabby cat with green eyes sits upright, wearing a blue collar with a small tag. The background features semi-transparent white curtains with a black floral pattern, and the cat is perched on a cardboard cat bed with a lemon design along the edge.

A gray tabby cat with green eyes sits upright, wearing a blue collar with a small tag. The background features semi-transparent white curtains with a black floral pattern, and the cat is perched on a cardboard cat bed with a lemon design along the edge.

β€œThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats”

08.02.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10140    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 234    πŸ“Œ 64
Post image

Trump’s Chief of Staff with the Deborah Birx Inject Bleach Face as Trump says we are going to invade Gaza.

05.02.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4127    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 51

So, tell me again how voting against Harris was going to be good for the Palestinians in Gaza?

05.02.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tonight, I spent about 40 minutes listening to a joint presentation by Trump and Netanyahu.
A couple of things struck me:
Trump saying that Palestinians should get out of Gaza. And Trump also indicating that the US will take over the Gaza strip.

05.02.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spread this widely.

26.01.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

A very valid fear, unfortunately .

26.01.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.

I guess now we’ll find out if it was ever really about grocery prices. (spoiler alert - it wasn’t)

24.01.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
13.01.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

In the same sense that lice, boils, and locusts were God's gifts to Egypt.

13.01.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2571    πŸ” 394    πŸ’¬ 328    πŸ“Œ 43

@edbecker is following 20 prominent accounts