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Beth

@bethlynette.bsky.social
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Writer (as Bess Linnet) of one book and a lot of poems Latecomer to librarianship Please read Sophie Scholl and The White Rose by Annette Dumbach

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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 10h
have they finally figured out that when they vote with don they vote for vlad???
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 10h
he belongs to vlad
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 19h
this horrific man is a threat to the entire planet he should never have been allowed to run a second time he has brought shame on a nation that once strove for democracy he has rendered that nation an autocracy and should be removed from office
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I left FB maybe 2 years ago. I’m so glad I did.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
when will people clock they lost what they had of democracy
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's so sickening. The worst part is I don't even know if we'll be able to get him out of the job. Not now that he has a bunker and will soon have an arch with snipers. We are living through uncivil times. I hope we're here to see the pendulum swing back towards civility. 🙏
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hate what my home country has become, & I'm beyond thankful to be able to live legally elsewhere, in a country that has ended the barbaric practice of the #DeathPenalty. Any parent, & a gov't is essentially a sort of parent, knows you should lead by example. #Shame #EndTheDeathPenalty #StopKilling
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o... this article addresses concerns I have too, as the law continues to be considered in the UK
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Opinion | Assisted Death Is Not a Choice of Last Resort in Canada (Gift Article)
Assisted dying accounts for more than 5 percent of deaths in Canada.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
upright #poem #poetry #writtenbyahuman #aging #ageing
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every student deserves to feel safe at school. I’ll fight like hell to protect them in the U.S. Senate.
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Erica @madelinart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Chilean Puya are flowering in the Sheffield botanical Gardens. You almost have to know they are there to spot them as the bright blue flowers are hidden by a mass of serrated leaves. #bloomscrolling
Serrated sabre like leaves of dark green and scarlet hide outrageously cerulean and gold flowers at the heart of the Chilean Puya.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes they get it wrong, but often they get it right— please subscribe to the #nyt if you can
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
people who urge cuts to public spending mostly have private health insurance. #provemewrong
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jag tycker fortfarande att hissar är spännande :)
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#paris
Photo of church in paris
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Paris
Photo of shops in Paris
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I went to a recent Rejoin event and passer-bys cheered & gave us 👍. Back in the day they often jeered or worse. The public gets it. They want our star back. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Also, the biggest Remain marches included people from the entire country. Back then the world had more hope, but maybe Rejoin could help…
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Talk is cheap. The patent office doesn’t lie. Walmart's CEO swears they won't use surveillance pricing on its shoppers. But its own patent applications tell a different story: Walmart is building an arsenal of new technologies designed to squeeze consumers.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s so he can both profit and demean #unrehabilitated #abuser
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ballot box #poetry #poem #vote #votesforwomen #ballotbox #votehimout #madebyhuman
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nooooooooooo
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is bringing Steve Martin in The Jerk vibes. ”All I need is this thermos…” :)
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🇪🇺🇬🇧💞
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m voting yes
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People Say They Want to Die at Home. I Think About It Differently. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | A Good Death Isn’t Always at Home (Gift Article)
We have built a culture that views a death in the I.C.U. as a failure.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s... long ago we taught our cat to scratch at the kitchen window to be let in through the bathroom window (2nd floor apartment in #vermont). once it was a raccoon waiting. 😮
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On This Mexican Island, Raccoons Make and Play With Toys (and Also Sip Margaritas) (Gift Article)
Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💯
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
We demand Wilber’s immediate release so he can receive emergency medical care and recover safely with his family. ICE must be held accountable for this violence.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
aeon.co/essays/when-... love the #neuroscience of #poetry in this
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When a man becomes a father and a poetic revolution follows | Aeon Essays
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is quite something #snow #trains #britishtransport
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is incredible. thanks for posting. ❄️
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
people on podcasts keep laughing about his ballroom/bunker & his arch/weapon & i wish people would take the purpose more seriously. why would donald want these places? y'all think he's beyond ridiculous now, but he can still do so, so much damage. please see them as the threats they are. #stoptrump
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i am sorry for the loss of your friend. 💐
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deleted FB nearly a year ago. Took forever to deactivate, now done. Miss the birthday notifications & sometimes feel a little out of the loop but happy to be off. Never on Threads. Can't kick Insta. Post poetry there & people read it. Here that happens only sometimes. I know I should leave though.
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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is something very sinister going on in Sweden after the very tight elections, where anonymous social media accounts systematically spread stories about widespread cheating. www.dn.se/sverige/efte...
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Efter Borlänge – rasism och misstro mot valsystemet sprids
Nyheten om misstänkt röstfusk i Borlänge har gett skjuts till rasism och ifrågasättande av valsystemet, i sociala medier. Falska konton driver på.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
orwell knew it would happen
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
those of us-- & there are a LOT of us-- who've known he was a bought second-rate mobster THIS ENTIRE TIME are so angry the country allowed this soft coup by him and his masters, whoever they may be. he's never been the real don, and he knows it. that's why he's building the bunkers. #StandUpToTrump
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My sociology professor at UVM made it clear to us if we went back far enough— and it wasn’t even that far, 6 gens? Maybe 7 now?— we are *all* related. 🌏🌍🌎💚💙
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
pollyanna #poem #poetry
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
big glasses #poem #poetry
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | It’s Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I. (Gift Article)
It’s not too late to avoid the potential disasters of A.I. that Covid-19 and 9/11 taught us how to prepare.
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
sickening. so sickening.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join THE LIBRARIANS and Penguin Random House this Wed, Sept 23 6pm at the MLK Jr Memorial Library in D.C. for a FREE screening & conversation. A post-screening panel will follow. Join us for this impactful event in our nation's capital - register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-librar...
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
could he just stop
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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Centre was a gift from the world 3700 tons of white marble from Italy tapestries by Matisse woven by the ancient des Gobelins factory in France silk stage curtains woven by Japan Orrefors glass lighting and chandeliers from Sweden Not paid for by the US, gifted by us to honour JFK
Orrefors chandeliers in the foyerMatisse tapestry showing birds and fish, blue backgroundInterior view, round Orrefors chandelier, silk red Japanese stage curtainsCarrera marble being mined by Italy to donate in JFK memory
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm a secondary school librarian in London and from what I've seen, this is hard to achieve... To me it feels like internal exclusion, too often for my liking, is the start of this pipeline: internal > repeated > external > repeated > alternative placement > permanent exclusion? "home schooling"?
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But hopefully not against gang dancing 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻
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Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Made the mistake of taking my even smaller at the time person-- 13?-- to see "Fame" the film. Remembered the wonderful music. Had forgotten there's a pretty disturbing scene in there...
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