Beth Boyle Machlan

Beth Boyle Machlan

@bethmachlan.bsky.social

Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her https://linktr.ee/bethmachlan?utm_source=linktree_admin_share

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Replying to @terrainfirma.bsky.social

MY DAUGHTER SYNERGIZES ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS TO DELIVER HIGH-QUALITY SOLUTIONS

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Tangential to the Cheesecake Factory talk is that their workers are genuinely elite tier 1 operators in the food service industry. I have a friend who manages bars and restaurants and he will instantly hire anyone with Cheesecake Factory experience. They are like the Marines minus the war crimes

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Disgusting behavior from an ex-president, refusing to defend the microwaved pasta bowls of the world-renowned Tummyache Factory.

I really hope this means that the Dem establishment learned their lesson and are now going in guns blazing on “THEYRE WEIRD”

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

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I'll hand it to Obama here, this is a great line

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

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“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

publishersweekly.comCatapult to Be Sold, End OperationsThe independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was told “continued empl...

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

I wonder if Jan CBS has read the Handbasket piece outing Tommy, yet?

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

I think it's very interesting that a betting site thinks it has a roll in the news cycle, and idea that has been reinforced by news outlets partnering with betting sites! At what point are the bets being offered attempting to become news themselves?

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When my kids were little, we went to a Halloween event described as a “bat show.” We assumed a bat show would have actual bats, or bat experts, or something bat-specific; instead it was just some stuffed bats. Now we call any event that doesn’t live up to expectations a “bat show.”

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Replying to @solomonrmissouri.com

What you should know…. In the vast history of bigotry the bigots have never had a point. Bigots singular motivating force is their fear

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Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

presswatchers.orgThe world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press WatchOur top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

union person@junlper.beer

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

I think he just wants it bc Obama got it.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

1. I think the president of the United States really believes "there's never been anybody" who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than he does. He really believes he "settled eight wars." He really believes he stopped "the total obliteration of the world" by going to war with Iran.

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Rachel Campos-Duffy claims Ukraine has killed "a million kids on the Russian side"

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At last we have created the Wire Mother from the groundbreaking research study “Don’t Create The Wire Mother”

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.