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Carleen Tibbetts

@carleentibbetts.bsky.social
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Sometimes poet. Haver of many English degrees. Rat lover and crystal collector. Virgo INFJ. Bipolar rock ‘n’ roller. Will block both red and blue MAGA. Venmo @Carleen-Tibbetts

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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 7h
My husband’s response to a bracket breaking that they replaced (it was placed too high and she was biting down on it) coming off again is “Let’s just take these braces off!” It’s so infuriating. It doesn’t cost anything to replace them and it’s important that she gets her teeth fixed.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 22h
Need tips on how to make friends in your 40s when you’re unemployed and the 2 close friends you have are usually too busy to talk to you (one lives across the country).
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have seen a disturbing amount of MAGA ads during the Bears game. Including Trump and Dept of War (pushing trade schools).
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
People ask whether these guys are true believers or just massively invested in the hype, and at the point where you are trying to lobby *the pope* to say you are creating the machine god, there is no meaningful distinction.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
What’s a little blasphemy between friends 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness
An Anthropic delegation at the Vatican tried to lobby the Pope's advisers to convince him that AI models could be conscious.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There was a story on the local Chicago news about a woman paying people to feed exotic nuts to squirrels and rats in a nearby park. People were mad, and this woman was fined, but she paid the fine and just kept doing it. I eagerly await the updates.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At my grandmother-in-law’s 100th bday last night we got a message from JB Pritzker, our distant relative, wishing her a happy bday. I’m also getting a facial paid for today in the fancy hotel they booked us in. Going back to a life where every single purchase must be budgeted before pay day.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Heck of a picture.
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A picture of Trump's likeness on the Heritage Foundation building (located next to a gas station) in DC in May.
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty)
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A movie about being trapped inside a whale? Wasn’t that Pinocchio?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026
the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We paid over 1k to patch our roof and fix a collapsed ceiling last month. Now there is more water damage in the same spot. I’ve contacted a different roofer to see if he can fix it because clearly the other guys had to come out twice and still fucked up.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok what sites AREN’T training AI!??
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel like I can’t do anything anymore. This job market, turning student loans back on, the midterms, rape culture. Everything feels so harsh and bleak.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really over seeing peoples’ expensive vacation photos on social media.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No shit
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rufus ends up with Lisa Loeb!!???
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The right is going to use AI footage against the left and it will be so hard to discern reality from Trump propaganda.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A societye that hath high expectaciouns and social pressures about sculptinge bodyes at the gym, but verye litel shared public commitmente to expandinge the heart and mynde wyth fiction, poetrye, drama, and art -- that societye ys bound to grow more callous and hollowe wyth each passinge year.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t even go on Instagram. This is too upsetting and overwhelming. I hope all rapists get their lives ruined, but we all know they will be protected by other powerful men.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My Instagram is nothing but posts about the Cornell rapists but it seems like nobody is talking about them here!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m so mad at everything I don’t even know where to direct my rage.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GoFundMe, the largest crowdfunding site, has seen an over 20 percent increase in fundraisers for tuition and related expenses over the past year
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GoFundMes for College Tuition Are Up This Year
Students facing acute challenges affording their tuition are increasingly turning to crowdfunding. Experts warn it’s a temporary fix to systemic affordability issues.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m addicted to Gossip Girl. I’m on the final, short season and I don’t want it to end!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufus and Lily get divorced? Fuck this!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump banning loans for majors that don’t make enough money is catastrophic!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am not buying this Dan and Blair shit.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuck rape culture and fuck the overwhelming majority of men. Almost every single woman I know, myself included, has been molested, sexually assaulted, or raped. This news cycle has me spewing fire.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Math Teacher’s Duplex Too Depressing To TP theonion.com/math-teachers-duplex-t…
Math Teacher’s Duplex Too Depressing To TP
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Marxistmonday
No Alternative to capitalism?
We could have worker co-ops and community owned but worker-run companies. And produce for human needs, not profit.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gen Z needs to take a look at their broccoli mops and puffy 80s socks before they criticize Millennials for using “lol” in texts or wearing ankle socks or skinny jeans. Wide leg pants are not flattering!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To say that Trump has a vocabulary of ten words is a stretch.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The United States of Israel.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We went apple picking in rural Illinois and this year there were no visible Trump signs in the yards.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You don’t have to dress like a goth on the outside to be a goth on the inside.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a reminder, she’s the Secretary of Education not the Secretary of Labor
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Indiana Jones Pop-Tarts (2008-2009): These frosted, brown sugar-cinnamon toaster pastries were a promotional item for "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and part of the "printed fun" line, featuring movie-related images and trivia printed onto each pop tart
A Pop-Tarts box, with imagery from the Indiana Jones series. The words "Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon" are written in the classic Indiana Jones font. There are two toaster pastries with white icing and brown filling, each with an outline of a character (Indy) and an item (his whip) printed on them
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David @dsalmon1449.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can tell its AI because they’re on beat
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/09/2026
sorry you wanted luxury gay space communism, this is dystopian sex cult network state space capitalism
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're still trying to raise funds to help my elderly parents and brother who is disabled get into a permanent home after a house fire. We have some estimates and all of them are pretty far out of our reach. Would greatly appreciate any shares of this link! gofund.me/ac93c03d5
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Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark
On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Abort the Court! They’re a bunch of toadies! They’re gonna get us all killed!
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I do wish voting bad only impacted the people who vote bad instead of those of us who wish it was legal in America to vote good
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Enough with the Walton Goggins commercials!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why does nobody arrest the war criminals at the UN? Why?
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I could really use a good thing happening to my family right about now!
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Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t like my kid’s ELA teacher and I can’t wait for conferences when he finds out that both her parents have graduate degrees in English/CW.
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