Bethany Brookshire

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

If you love a book, tell someone. Recommend it. Loan your copy. Send a link. Ask for it at your library. Word of mouth goes further than you think.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

I saw people I knew who I usually didn't see outside of church or the farmer's market! It was COMMUNITY. That is what these spaces create. They create climate resilience. They create outdoor fun. They create COMMUNITY.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:03 UTC

...because to be a good person we need to care. And now caring means we need to witness. Caring means we need to suffer and post about how our hearts are breaking, and what we will boycott and not do. Witnessing has become caring and action, not action itself.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:02 UTC

ooooo, that's such a good phrase. I've thought about it as like, borrowing everyone's trouble, but I think poaching anxiety hits different. I feel like especially now, we don't just poach anxiety, we take it and we make it part of our own identities and personalities...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

I actually went to the pool with a friend this past weekend. I hadn't been to a pool in...literal years. Decades. And you know what? It was PACKED with kids, playing with each other and their parents. It was an escape from the blistering heat. It was FUN.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

I love this idea. Community spaces: libraries, public parks, public POOLS. These are vital for helping people get outside, bond with the outdoors, create community! They are also LOW CARBON LEISURE. prospect.org/sponsored/th...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

"cook your mind" is 100% how it feels.

@karenho.bsky.social notes do something to help others, and yes.

But also, I wish fewer people DID the speculation and rage bait.

You ARE entitled to your opinion. But that doesn't mean 1. It's a worthy one or 2. That the world needs it.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Hi sometimes your innie belly button can BECOME an outie.

Usually this is because of pregnancy. But sometimes...it ISN'T.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

But people can also develop outies because of fluid buildup in the abdomen or when an organ is very enlarged, like the liver, or a tumor growth. So if you find yourself in sudden possession of an outie belly button and you’re NOT pregnant, you might want to get that checked.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

But, innies CAN become outies if the pressure underneath them becomes too high. The most common cause for an innie belly button becoming an outie is a fetus. Pregnant people will often see their belly buttons pop out as the fetus takes up more space.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

Your belly button can go from an innie to an outie. Some people have naturally outie belly buttons, this is just about how the scar tissue of it forms as you grow, nothing to do with how it was tied. Most people have innies, where the buildup of fat and muscle around the belly button sinks it in.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

I get google alerts but i def don't see everything, so please do pass stuff on!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

I didn't know about it so thank you for posting it!! I was aghast when I found out people still used M44s I mean my god what is this 1936.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

This is great news.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

Now I'm looking at shift dresses. Though you know I think my gym shorts and sports bra/tank top combo is like, the bloomers and shift of 2024.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

But the presentation encourages us to IGNORE these things. Don't look at the man behind the curtain, the sweatshops, the lead in the toys. Look at the pretty life you COULD have.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

A good point! I haven't seen that particular series. But I also think there are parallels to the hollywood machine and our modern lives. We are constantly presented with aspirational things via social media, and often those things (fast fashion, etc) are cheap due to others' suffering.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

BEEN THERE, complete with 18" waist. y'know though cotton bloomers and shifts might be worth bringing back.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

Especially not now can you imagine wearing that many layers in this heatwave.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

It's funny because I actually usually LOVE historical drama, like certified Jane Austen girlie. And I think we all KNOW intellectually that life wasn't like that for most people, much like we know intellectually that people NOW are struggling. We just don't think about it when we order DoorDash.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:32 UTC

Sun kinks are not as hot as you think they are. Or, well they are hot. Just in a bad way.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

But then I worry she'd be an op-ed writer and that just makes me depressed. I worry she wouldn't be able to be head down producing a masterpiece of political thought for the ages, and instead blurting out topmost thoughts for pennies while people gasped "WHY is she always RIGHT?!" Until she wasn't.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:28 UTC

I continue to read Hannah Arendt and WOW she is 🔥 Her analysis of nationalism, the creation of the "stateless" and what THAT creates in terms of immigration (and deportation), her understanding of Palestine/Israel...she wrote in 1951 and it could apply PERFECTLY today. I wish she were here.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:26 UTC

It'll all be about the scandal of how we wore our jeans and did Ozempic.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

They'll have 3D brain implant vids of dramas about the Kardashians and Elon Musk, and forget the GoFundMes for medical care, how many people drive DoorDash or Uber, how people care about an issue passionately until the second it disappears from the front page.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

We love to think we'd be the ones all making housecalls in rich satins and drinking lemonade in long gloves. We'd be sending our kids to work in the fields or in factories. Welcome to The Jungle. I wonder sometimes what people will remember about now.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

I think about how we are in a 21st century Gilded Age a lot. People love thinking about the Gilded Age: railroads all brassy, mustaches most large, bustles most bustly. But they ignore the severe inequality, the racism, the sharecropping. The tenements. The disease.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:38 UTC

@cragcrest.bsky.social is a stats icon.

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