Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Place of work continues to ask me to hold more beers. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Robert I don’t give a fuck about ice cream colors 100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dear universe, please be less dystopian for like literally just 5 seconds for the entire world. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You gotta love it when you literally just blew up your life and then your place of work is like hold my beer www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific MissionThe agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My dudes, my fucking dumb-as-fuck dudes … A woman’s intuition always knows. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’m really getting tired of the phrase “disillusioned young x” being conflated with “deluded young x” 123
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bro stop huffing your own fumes www.wsj.com/opinion/doge...wsj.comOpinion | DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It GoingA cadre of gifted, creative and patriotic thinkers can uncover wasteful spending and reduce federal debt. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Beauty contest. Woof. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comExclusive | Pentagon Wants Only the Fittest Troops to Attend Upcoming Hegseth SpeechServicemembers must meet waist-to-height standards and have “impeccable” grooming. 000
Reposted by Bettina WatkinsNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Out of concerns about antisemitism, I’m joining my friend Robert Kraft in banning Israel critic Macklemore from my stadium. Here’s a link for Kanye West tickets at that same stadium. by Jerry Jones 161344203
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Junior year, zero period, debate class Saw second plane on TV in classroom 000
Reposted by Bettina WatkinsA. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all 694702689
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Guys, Jon Ossoff is now in my ads in a black v-neck t shirt. It’s catching on. New Dem uniform?? 100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The interesting thing is, when you go into SAHM spaces, they are vehemently for this and if you comment on how single mothers will be hurt … it’s not received well. Amazing how willing people are to squabble over scraps instead of demanding better for everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...nytimes.comOpinion | JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Remind me again how many times I’ve heard “we are going back to gold standard science” in the last 1.5 years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department reportHHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I don’t give a shit about other places being worse. The entire point is that we are supposed to be the ideal, we are supposed to be better. Idgaf about your cronyism relativism. 020
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Brb digging up the articles from last week about conditions for workers in Brazil’s beef industry 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Definitely not waste or abuse of taxpayer dollars www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/whitehouse.govArcade 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Added 160k+ jobs … primarily in crazily underpaid sectors whoo! (This is sarcasm.) -food service -government education (public schools etc.) -leisure and hospitality 000
Reposted by Bettina Watkinsderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon 866207756
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Important study from Dr. Dan Dan (or just DanDan as we called him in college). 110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Like I said, mystery meat. I am waiting on the edge of my seat to find out where exactly it’s coming from … and if it’s actually beef … 010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026On the one hand if we stop reproducing the species dies out, but on the other no one ever gives birth to the next Donald J Trump Decisions, decisions … 010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026How much of this mystery meat is coming from countries with endemic mad cow disease (kidding, ignore me) 110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026How’s that Harvard application going my dude www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comAcademic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by his universityResearcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracy 010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026There is a special place in hell for people who make cute AI videos of dogs and try to pass them off as real 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Going to need everyone to email this to the NYT editorial board: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidenceScience is humanity’s best insurance against threats from nature, but it is a fragile enterprise that must be nourished and protected. The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates a natural orig... 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026And now the NYT with Alina Chan. Guys I can’t with the clickbait. Stop promoting fringe theories that have no actual evidence. Conjecture is not evidence. 021
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The Guardian promoting David Relman’s questions on COVID-19’s origins is a bit infuriating. He’s a microbiologist; think he’d appreciate the opinions of the world’s best virologists, but like every bro from Stanford, he thinks he knows best. 100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Classic www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump shows off article on lower drug prices that says Biden deserves credit, not himUS president credits himself with lowest drug prices in 60 years, when article says drop is more likely due to Biden 020
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Everywhere I go at work now someone asks me if I’m looking for a detail (I’m not) or a deployment (I’m not), because of how many responses we have going. Sign of the times? 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026You’ve got to love a dude who rejects the core of Franz Boas’s work while ALSO using Franz Boas’s work to refute anti-semitism. Like bro. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Wild how much of this is from the actual statement. Gamers don’t want slop. Stop it. 010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Dark Souls. Any of them. If I’m going to suffer through that many boss pulls, I’m going to need a game like Clair Obscur or Witcher 2/3. 110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Guys, going to need you to add, “are you 18 yet?” to your list of things not to say to young people 100
Reposted by Bettina WatkinsProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A year ago, RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya killed federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D (& each wrote pathetic OpEds celebrating their actions) @jmcoller.bsky.social lays out how wrong they were—see data on the new mRNA flu vaccine, 5-yr data on melanoma vaxx, & more www.statnews.com/2026/08/06/m... 11266123
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Cardboard cutout of Jay at a solemn event That is all I need a drink 000
Reposted by Bettina WatkinsAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/08/2026(2/4) Today CDC employees everywhere honor the life of Officer David Rose who sacrificed his life for the safety of those at CDC. Roses are being placed on the Roybal memorial that holds his name, the street entering campus was renamed in his honor, 17010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026You’ve got to love hacks who think they understand the genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2’s furin cleavage site better than world class virologists. 100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Well I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for my service hours today for Officer Rose but now I’m definitely doing something, if I have to deal with tomorrow. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026You know he’s an epidemiologist because he actually gets the number right. 100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Between this and RFK, Jr.’s throat goat comment, I can’t. 010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The fact that it’s closer than we thought means there’s a lot more work to do either way before November. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026PSA for those who might not be aware, everything you write on government systems as a fed employee can be subject to a FOIA … or, apparently, download by a man with a dead brainworm. When deciding whether to create an electronic personal record on a system that may be susceptible … don’t. 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026AES seems about as squeaky clean in the personal background arena as Ossoff (that is, very squeaky clean). I remember the early attack ads for Ossoff that were literally just a video of him dressed as Batman at a party. That was the worst they could find. 020
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Throwing this paper out there, since it is kind of one of two seminal papers on this topic www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comGenetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemicDNA of mammalian wildlife species susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 was detected along with SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in environmental samples from animal stalls located at the market epicenter of the emer... 000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is what someone who doesn’t have friends (friends who work in hospitals, friends with cancer, friends who are good at math) says. Third leading cause of death for a couple years there. Leading cause of death in some groups with lower cancer and CVD rates. 100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Just looking at comments in less liberal-friendly spaces, it’s clear most people of the “if you’re out-of-status you should be deported” have no idea how fucking broken our immigration system is compared to other countries. 110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My high was immediately ruined by 4 guys in a cybertruck and a Mercedes telling me about their plans to spend the next four days golfing and doing shots of fireball 100