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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

As in, "Pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top, don't kill me, Mr. ICE Man"?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Tolkien is spinning like a top in his grave...

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For Thankful Thursday: From Robert Emmons at UC, Davis explaining the two key components of practicing gratitude: 1. We affirm the good things we’ve received 2. We acknowledge the role other people play in providing our lives with goodness Learn more here: www.mindful.org/an-introduct...

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How to Practice Gratitude

Practicing gratitude has incredible effects, from improving our mental health to boosting our relationships with others. Explore ways you can be more appreciative in our mindful guide to gratitude.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Maybe we should call it April Fools (and Fanatics) Day.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

That tracks. The white kids will be waiting tables and dropping balls at better spots on the golf course.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The kids look thrilled. I guess it's time for their shift at the meat packing plant.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Well, I'm hopeful, too...but he's certainly become the pied piper of anyone who wants follow a disrespectful, dishonest, indecent, angry, resentful, and hateful tune into oblivion. I am still reeling from the knowledge of just how many people that is.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com you can search essentially every marketplace in one go so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)

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BookFinder.com: New & Used Books, Rare Books, Textbooks

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Lord love you for sticking with it over there and doing whatever good you could.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

And how bad must that something be if it’s worse than what we already know?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've wondered for a long time why it is that human beings often elevate the greediest and most power mad among us to rule over us...and why we don't recognize insatiable greed and lust for power as the pathological illnesses that they are and ensure suffered are committed...not elected.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Also works for "aggressively ignorant."

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 15/02/2025

One of the best videos you'll ever see The US Army blowing up a swastika in occupied Germany, 1945

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In celebration of Black History Month, here's a groundbreaking TV star, chef, entrepreneur, teacher, and benefactor that I had never heard of: Lena Richards. "Mama Lena," as she was known, was to New Orleans cooking as Julia Childs was to French cooking - in 1949. Truly a remarkable woman:

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Meet Lena Richard, the Celebrity Chef Who Broke Barriers in the Jim Crow South

Lena Richard was a successful New Orleans-based chef, educator, writer and entrepreneur

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I will accept this comparison to a Komodo dragon as a compliment and, at my age, is most apt.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

None at all. No ill effects whatsoever (other than excess calories).

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Well, I can attest to living through salmon croquettes made from a can that expired six years earlier.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The basic assessment report is free, and you can purchase more detailed reports if you’d like to learn more. End

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’d like to invite you to consider your own virtuous strengths – and those you hope to see in our leaders - by taking the Values In Action (VIA) strengths assessment you’ll find here: www.viacharacter.org/surveys/take... 7/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

...especially in the crucial time when we are deciding, once again, whether we mean liberty and justice for all…or only for some. 6/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As our government transitions from being a nation of laws, we’re going to be on our own to govern ourselves and support those who are willing to serve – virtuously – in local leadership roles,...5/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Transcendence (spiritual strengths such as gratitude and hope) 4/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Courage (emotional strengths such as bravery and perseverance) Humanity (social strengths such as love and kindness) Justice (community strengths such as fairness and leadership) Temperance (protective strengths such as self-regulation and humility) 3/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Based on what the father of positive psychology and his team could decipher from the writings of antiquity, across time and across cultures, research suggests that humanity has aspired to certain virtues for 2500 years or so: Wisdom (cognitive strengths such as discernment and perspective) 2/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We have failed to come to a crossroads in America because the paths of what we say and what we do have failed to converge. Worse, our stated values and our actions have diverged so sharply from one another, that it seems we will never again come to the crossroads where character meets behavior. 1/?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

She and Matt Gaetz got a Groupon 2-for-1?

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Is this a job for the Mounties? Fingers crossed!

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

OMG, too true! Just went to my childhood friends and family group and white people my age are going out of their way to hate it. They're even getting Millennial kids in on backing them up to prove that it's not because they're old...and not even realizing they're proving it's because they're white.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

At least when the subs were there...

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The coolest thing you'll see today. THIS, too, is DEI.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Stay. Do what you can, as long as you can.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding

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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This cartoon is on point (We are in the Gary Larson age now)

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thanks for posting. That was my understanding (and everlasting disappointment), too...that the majority of SC women went for Trump.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

From Scientific American: "For the first time in 25 years, the FDA has approved a new type of painkiller. Suzetrigine, sold as Journavx, is as effective as opioid medicines, but is not addictive." Uh oh. When have we heard THAT before? Oh, yeah...right before (and during) the US opioid crisis.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A lot of us came to Bluesky after Facebook announced they'd stop fact checking...but, is there any fact checking here? At all? Seems like we'd better be careful that we don't end up like magas, believing and sharing information just because it fits our narrative.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The fact that I felt fear in the pit of my stomach when I posted on my senators' and representatives' social media pages, asking them to put "The Constitution" as one of the checkboxes of topics I'd like to address with them, tells me everything I need to know about what I should be doing more of.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Painting by Jonathan Harris.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy Black History Month from the Pentagon...

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Popping nicotine pouches? When he could be aiming for Ronny Jackson level snorting up stuff behind a display board? What a piker.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

And, God bless them, the band understands the assignment and will play on until the end is here.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Go, you. Congratulations. Best wishes making a difference in achieving liberty and justice for all.

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Bebe @palpea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Charlotte, it occurred to me today that I hadn’t seen anything from you in several days and, when it did, I felt like I’d missed a crucial connection to the reality in DC. So good to see you. Sending you wishes for safety and continued communication to those of us who depend on voices like yours.

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