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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I just reread a romcom that was published in 1995 (What the Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie) and saw this:

Quote from a 1995 romantic comedy novel calling a character a stuffed shirt like Donald Trump.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It’s been a rough year.

Image of old white lady with gray hair, looking unhappy and raising her middle finger

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I’m still working on this blanket- it’s about 3ft long now - but here it is.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Leonard Cohen often had the words:

Verse from Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy”

“I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
And I’m neither left nor right
I’m just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
That time cannot decay
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
This little wild bouquet
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Question for rabbis and/or Bible scholars or anyone w/ thoughts - in Genesis, the creation story in my Bible says “male and female he created them.” Not male OR female, male AND female. Has that been used to support LGBTQ+ positions? It seems like it could.

Quote from Genesis: “God created man in his image;
/ in the divine image he created him; / male and female he created them.”

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This poem, "The Farthing Peace," is in Jo Walton's alt history novel, Ha'Penny. In this novel, the Farthing Peace was a deal made by the group of politicians known as the Farthing Set. They made a deal with Hitler after he had bombed Britain, & pulled out of the war. This is how I'm feeling today.

Our fathers taught us that the world was free
Willed it to us in their history
Taught us to rule it and ask no praise
Walking as tall as the Lord of Days.
Then the sirens called and they ran away
Claimed what they had said had been meant in play
Asked how had we taken so seriously
The laws they had made, and they bade us flee.
We fought, then we fled, when we met defeat,
They appeased it as peace, claimed the victor's seat,
Starved us of money, and men, and might,
And pinched us and prodded us into the night.
Till they found, when they ended beneath the sod,
Just what was meant by a Jealous God.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.

Me, gray haired fat lady holding a dark violin and a bow. Wearing a gray Christmas sweater with a plaid shirt collar exposed. Background is a tall lamp , white ceiling, and assorted clutter

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Tybalt on the left, Maia on the right.

Perverted tan and white cat, lying on his side, looking up but not looking guilty as he plays with a pink bra.

Torbie cat (mix between tortoiseshell and tabby) curled up around her favorite cat toy, shaped like a banana and stuffed with catnip. Cat is lying on a pale carpet and a pink square filled with catnip is nearby. Talk to your cats about drugs.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A perfect exemplar of the Biblical womanhood the fundies keep railing about.

Medieval image of the biblical Judith holding a sword with the decapitated head of Holofernes on it. Judith is wearing a double horned headdress. The voluminous white sleeves of her shift show under the short-sleeved reddish shirt and the top of a large green skirt. Judith is white with a matter-of-fact look on her face, as if she decapitates oppressors all the time. She is decidedly plump, pregnant, or both. I like the idea of women, pregnant against their will, taking revenge.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Wouldn’t you trust that face?

Torbie cat with a smart-ass expression on her face. Background is bookcases stuffed with books, a patterned throw on a gray couch, and an ugly pink lamp which goes with nothing.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I read this so you don’t have to. Dear Lord, there’s a second issue with Donald Duck as Thor.

Cover of actual comic book, what If …? Donald Duck Became Wolverine. Red and yellow black
ground, Donald Duck beckoning in classic Wolverine pose, dressed in iconic yellow and blue Wolverine costume. His claws are extended and have marshmallows on them.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Tybalt, the lighter colored cat, is a king of cats, names for the character in Seanan McGuire’s Toby Daye series. Maia, the dark torbie, is named for the anthropomorphic star in the Mary Poppins book.

Two cats, sitting in a short column , looking out a screen door. Cat closest to screen is a tan & white tabby. Cat behind is a dark torbie

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Did Emma get a new power? That does not look like a representation of her telepathy or diamond form.

Scene from an upcoming X-Men book showing Emma Frost and Kate Pryde fighting. Emma appears to be pushing Kate back with some sort of wind or force.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Sometimes on social media, I feel I need this.

Rectangular button with pink background. Text reads: I’m a boomer, but the flower child kind, not the Fox News kind. Sorry about those.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

I adored this and still do. When I was a kid, she had not written the sequels, but my library had her books about the Austin family. They weren’t fantasy, but I still read them over and over.

Cover of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

I saw this on Threads and liked it. It’s how I feel.

Image of Tim Walz with the quote, “The fascists depend on fear. The fascists depend on us going back. But we’re not afraid of weird people…. We’re a little creeped out, but we’re not afraid.”

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

I’m a big fan of this book, too.

Cover of Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot. The cover image is of the first Congress with faces crossed out and red letters spelling things like “human trafficker” and “drug smuggler” written over them.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Today’s infuriating snippet from #Project2025 I guess we’re redefining the word “special.”

From Project 2025, “Ultimately, the Left does not believe that all men are created equal - they think they are special.”

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

I am only on p. 48 (of 920) in #Project2025. One of the things that makes it so difficult to read is the hypocritical tone taken throughout. They write to poor working people as if they were poor working people. And it’s full of gems like this: did you know that “wokeism” = slavery?

Quote from Project 2025: “Left to our own devices, the American people rejected European monarchy and colonialism just as we rejected slavery, second-class citizenship for women, mercantilism, Wilsonian globalism, Fascism, Communism, and (today) wokism.”

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Belinda is teased by kids for being fat. Her mom talks to her about various flowers and how they’re all pretty: tall irises, short pansies, etc. It’s been decades since I looked at it but I was impressed by it at the time