Beth
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A curious person on an internet voyage.
Flight attendants just asked our plane if a passenger named Young Hacker was on board, whichāhow is that his legal name?
2 days ago
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A difficult but important read. Taylor Cadle was raped repeatedly by her foster father while aged 9-13. She reported it and a corrupt investigation by police did nothing. Then she heroically recorded her own rape to convict him. Incredible work by
@raeoflion.bsky.social
and
@julialurie.bsky.social
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3 days ago
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Christmas can be a depressing holiday. BeholdāYour aging parents! Your personal failures! Eat some sugar and enjoy your physical decline. Your brother, who never tried at anything, is doing so much better than you at life. Toast to another year of your mediocrity. At least youāre still alive.
4 days ago
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Is he auditioning for Scrooge in the next version of A Christmas Carol? Because these quotes are basically stolen Scrooge quotes.
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5 days ago
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Four Christmas movies to know me by
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5 days ago
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6 days ago
I had to check to see if this is real (yes) and they do in fact have a place on the website to ask and answer consumer questions.
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Has anyone tried
#Freefry
,
#Qobuz
, or
#Deezer
for music? Curious to hear reviews.
6 days ago
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Really enjoying The Mavericks' Hey! Merry Christmas! album, which my parents were shocked to learn was not a band from the 1970s.
6 days ago
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Thatās right kids, get ready to feel the acute pain of writing furiously for hours in a tiny booklet for your exams. None of you grew up doing this and spoiler, itās gonna hurt.
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6 days ago
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When I was in high school the only
#coffee
I had available at home was was instant, so thatās what I drank daily for four years. Now my mom has a grinder, a French press, and a double lidded airtight container for beans. Sheās definitely gone further than I ever expected!
7 days ago
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Donāt forget to festoon your excavator this holiday season.
7 days ago
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My parentsā dog has a rather fancy diet.
9 days ago
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Iāve been home in
#UpstateNY
for two days, which means Iāve seen ten different bird species and heard all about the mating rituals of the pileated woodpecker.
9 days ago
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Itās the time of year where I go home to visit my parents and am given the wifi name and password to a network they havenāt had for at least three years. No one knows the current network password. I guess that makes it extra secure!
10 days ago
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Wrapping presents gives me a lot of joy, even when I know they will be opened minutes later.
11 days ago
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Jacob Grier
11 days ago
Sharing my favorite annual playlist to compile: a song each from the bands and musicians
@blueskybeth.bsky.social
and I saw in concert together over the past year.
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Beth & Jake 2025
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0DwJ35bb0kyESJI2JijcuA
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Making party cocktail menus is fun when itās done with
@jacobgrier.bsky.social
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13 days ago
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Lucky for me, I ended up with quite a nice assortment of cookies from the swap. šŖ āļø
13 days ago
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Throwing a holiday party today and very sad that my last minute work trip and next-day trip expenses deadline meant I canāt partake in the cookie exchange I was so excited to host. At least I get to attend it, which almost didnāt happen.
14 days ago
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If you are so sick you are coughing every minute for literal hours, do not travel. Do not get on a plane. Wear a N95 or K94 or equivalent mask. Take a cough suppressant like codeine. Make someāanyāeffort to limit contagion. Anything less is unbelievably selfish. Seat30B on DL2167, this is about you.
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Dark humor is 100% the way to grieve a bad life event. Which is why I told my newly divorced boss, āWelcome to Club D!ā and high fived her earlier today.
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18 days ago
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Spending a week in a labyrinthine office building in a frozen tundra. A bit like Severance, a bit more fun and hopefully without a lobotomy.
19 days ago
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Who steals a poodle? Honestly.
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19 days ago
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Imagine if Biden wrote this a few years ago. The delusion only increases with age.
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19 days ago
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Balmy out tonight (8° F).
21 days ago
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Sure feels like the right time of year to take a trip to the Midwest!
24 days ago
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I paid Providence Medical Center $414 in October. Today the related radiology center says they have no record of payment and sent me a separate bill. Itās the only time I have ever gone there in my life. This will take me hours. Yet another example of the nightmare that is American health insurance.
24 days ago
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Donāt forget your pets when amassing your advent calendars this year. Aubie has really been enjoying three types of Canadian jerky.
25 days ago
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I am unequivocally in support of low and mandated nurse-to-patient ratios. This is an upsetting and deeply harmful deregulation for elderly care, which is already quite bad in America.
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26 days ago
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Menotti Minutillo
about 2 months ago
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Canāt wait to ugly cry at the Ben Folds concert in a few hours among hundreds of people
26 days ago
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dopdx.com/p/best-holid...
Sharing an excellent list of holiday markets in Portland, Oregon for anyone looking to shop local and feel cheerful this month. I did not know about the German market!
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Best Holiday Markets in Portland
Updated November 2025 With the holiday season in full swing, we've put together a list of local holiday markets in Portland that will check everything off your list this year. We're willing to bet t...
https://dopdx.com/p/best-holiday-markets-in-portland
27 days ago
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I once toured a house for sale in Napa, California that only had jalousie windows. It was wild.
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27 days ago
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@jacobgrier.bsky.social
surprised me with an advent calendar this morning and it is truly *the jam.* I am very excited to try every flavor!
28 days ago
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I donāt know who staged Aubieās squirrel on the plant like this at our last house party, but itās been entertaining me ever since.
28 days ago
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about 1 month ago
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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All the flights to Syracuse for Christmas are $900, which has me in a quiet rage.
about 1 month ago
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Seattleās airport welcome sign showcases the ālocal beautyā of Rowena Crest in Oregon, which is both funny and sad.
about 1 month ago
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Jacob Grier
about 1 month ago
Traveling abroad on Thanksgiving means you can make up whatever tradition you want, such as doing Armagnac bone luges in Paris. Happy Thanksgiving from me and
@blueskybeth.bsky.social
!
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Very entertained by Appleās wallpaper suggestions, which are never of me or me and other people together but of my dog or my boyfriend. Itās like the algorithm chose for most photogenic and I didnāt make the cut š
about 1 month ago
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Jeff Lazarus
about 2 months ago
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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apnews.com/article/grey...
#Greystar
Properties led the way to price fixing to ensure profits well beyond supply and demand. I donāt think $7 million is enough punishment for a powerful real estate company amid inflation and a nationwide housing shortage. Greystar owns 30+ properties in
#Portland
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Largest US landlord to pay $7 million to settle rentāsetting algorithm lawsuit
Real estate giant Greystar has reached a $7 million settlement with nine states over its use of rent-setting algorithms that officials say drive up housing costs.
https://apnews.com/article/greystar-realpage-lawsuit-settlement-rents-ded01ee0e9f1b92f38aebb82311c7470
about 1 month ago
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Iām in Geneva this week and they graciously offer
#lactosefree
yogurts at the breakfast buffet for folks with a
#dairy
#alllergy
. This morning, however, they had lactose-filled yogurts with identical packaging in the section labeled ālactose free.ā I took one.
about 1 month ago
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www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Totally relatable story about decluttering.
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Experience: I found an old Rembrandt in a drawer
I guessed it would be worth a couple of hundred pounds at most, but it was a preparatory print for his famous 1639 etching The Goldweigher
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/21/experience-i-found-an-old-rembrandt-in-a-drawer
about 1 month ago
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If you have
#COBRA
and pay fees on time, but your company does not forward your fees to the health insurer, e.g.
#UHC
, the insurer thinks you have no
#coverage
and *denies every visit within that time period*. Itās on you to resubmit every claim or face thousands of dollars in
#medical
bills. Fun!
about 1 month ago
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This morning the wolf barked bossily at me until I followed him outside and onto the dirt, where he happily settled down to chomp his chew with my full attention.
about 1 month ago
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I have had United Healthcare for one year and I can say with confidence it is the worst health plan I have ever experienced.
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Working for a health insurance company means I am well equipped to call about scary denied claims and reprocess othersā mistakes and understand that insurers are not looking to make care easy for members. They are looking to make care profitable. I do not take it out on customer service.
about 1 month ago
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www.thecut.com/article/draf...
Thankful
@jacobgrier.bsky.social
isnāt a sports fan (aside from his own teams).
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When Your Husband Spends $300,000 on DraftKings
Four women on how sports gambling turned their relationships upside down.
https://www.thecut.com/article/draftkings-sports-betting-gambling-addiction-relationships.html
about 2 months ago
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Made a strange sound to get the wolf to consent to the photo.
about 2 months ago
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