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I just found Viennese people to be really cold, I guess? The Turkish and Greek people I met there were genuinely very kind, though.

This was my constant experience in Vienna.

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Every time I tell people I used to live in Seattle they’re like, “It must have rained all the time, right?” and no not really except like November through February with the CONSTANT DRIZZLE. I was perpetually damp.

The kittens drink water the exact same weird way Miss Moneypenny did (with their paws???) so although she is gone, and that still hurts EVERY DAY, I like to think she’d be pleased that her legacy lives on.

Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The new @defunctland.bsky.social episode is everything to me. Kevin Perjurer always reappears in our hour of greatest need

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It’s beside the point, really, but who knew fascism would be so fucking cringe? Anyway, @eva.computer put together a list of official government bullshit for your blocking needs. Don’t give these trolls your time or attention.

Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I’m being so for real right now when I tell you that I have zero memory of buying this record. It’s like it just materialized in my house one day and I am CONFUSED.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Telling my sister that I make a full $20k LESS annually than she thought (and she is fully aware that I am working-class at BEST) and seeing her struggle to process that information was a highlight of last year. Girl, I’m AMAZING with money management because the alternative is starvation and death.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A fun thing I do a couple times a year is remind my financially-comfortable relatives that I have two degrees, work my ass off, and am still POOR (though less so than I used to be, thanks public education employment benefits), and watch their brains melt.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Yelling about US economic policy and the absolute bullshittery that is our current tariff nightmare in a wealthy elderly relative’s FB comments, la la la.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sometimes I watch Surya Bonaly’s 1998 Olympic free skate just to be able to feel something

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Our school’s health aide bought me lunch today, what a world, what a life, etc.

Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yeah, so this is Lasagna and I guess I am his de facto caretaker now until and unless his owners come back:

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Which I give him (and his bestie, the actual stray who lives under my deck) because I’m not a MONSTER.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Starting to get legitimately worried that my Spanish-speaking next-door neighbors have been disappeared. They’ve all been gone for more than a week, no one in or out of the apartment, and their cat has been living in my garage and begging for food.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The world feels pretty dark right now, but I’m not going anywhere. Plans for 2025: -Knit a sweater -Learn to embroider -Knit/sew stockpile of winter gear for our immigrant/refugee students for next winter -Be kinder to myself -Be kind to others

Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Anyway here are my favorite episodes: S1E14 Third from the Sun S2E11 The Night of the Meek S2E29 The Obsolete Man S3E3 The Shelter S3E9 Death’s Head Revisited S4E14 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Just wait until they discover that you can oscillate to The Planets

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spooky lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

One thing I really appreciate about my 🦋 feed algorithm is that my doomscrolling is regularly interrupted by a photo of a cat.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This page from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White resonates so so much with me. Because... I guess it just goes to show that each and every one of us can be the saving of the other. If that isn't such a quaint idea in these strange times.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Help, I started imagining Beaker (the Muppet) performing Kipling’s poem “Boots” in the style of this 1915 recording and now the thought won’t leave my brain: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZ5...

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a gif of beaker from the muppets playing a drum

ALT: a gif of beaker from the muppets playing a drum

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Okay, Michigan comrades, has ANYONE gotten through to an actual staffer at Gary Peters’ office? Because I’ve called DAILY, at different times of day, and it just funnels me to voicemail. Given his actions thus far, this isn’t encouraging,

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The third “ordinary girl” is Hannie Schaft, who was active in the Dutch Resistance and died a martyr at 24.

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Have you read “Three Ordinary Girls?” I might be due for a revisit. They were so, so brave.

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Rapid-cycling between exhaustion-righteous fury-terror-tiniestsparkofjoy-grief. It’s like 2008 all over again (thank you economy for crashing 3 months after I graduated college) but infinitely worse

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Every time somebody follows me on here, I’m like, dude, why? 😂

I just finished Ruth Ware’s latest book, One Perfect Couple, in less than 24 hours

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Glinder @glinder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

YES obligatory Oversteegen shoutout! I have been thinking of them a lot recently

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - UBI, affordable housing, universal healthcare, these are the things that lower crime and addiction rates…

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I think my cats just killed a mouse in the kitchen entryway but I can’t find the mouse so now I’m just stalking around the house shouting “WHERE DID YOU MONSTERS HIDE THE BODY”

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Dylan @tcdylan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

queer and trans people exist. we've existed since the beginning of recorded time and will keep existing until this dumb country is a crumbling whisp of a memory

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“Men Who Hate Women” scared the absolute shit out of me.

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I read it last year, and the end hit me like a kick to the sternum. Absolutely shattering.

I’m exhausted but I’m also fucking pissed and also stubborn, so.

I think about this a lot. We are responsible for each other.

Day what, 10? Let’s fucking go. Keep the pressure on. Be a nuisance. Get on a first-name basis with your elected officials’ staffers. Let spite fuel you. Your continued existence is an act of rebellion.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just added my elected officials’ office numbers to my saved contacts. Looks like daily calls are going to have to be the move going forward—I’m in this for the long haul, fueled by coffee and spite.

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Our district sent something like this out today, and it was such a relief

Dylan @tcdylan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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especially click through to the second post in the thread - we need to keep sharing how these orders would impact us to clarify what we need, build our mutual aid muscles, and keep shining a light on the actual human impact of these brutal orders

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Saaaaame tho. (And GR is miiiiles better than it was when we were growing up, lots more small businesses and focus on community investment)

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Please don’t. The world needs you. You’re always welcome to come hang in GR if you need a friendly face.

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Emily K @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

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Brenna @bee-yes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

AHHHHHH I am considering going to London next winter to see The Red Shoes & experience the gay adventures Soho has to offer. That’s something to live for, yeah?