Bethan

@bethan.bsky.social

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neurosalty desert rat / tech policy & sci fi nerd / regulatory PM for some game studios / mender / former USARNG

Image is a set of 3 pics, each very similar, showing a tiny white poodle sitting in a line behind a garden gnome and a little goose wearing a yellow raincoat holding a yellow umbrella. The poodle seems like part of the decorative group in the first two pics, and in the third is looking at the camera.
Image is of a stack of books, focusing on the top book, which is a sepia photo of a dark haired woman on a dark horse on a heathery-looking field. The photo is captured from the back, as the woman looks right. The image says Enemy Women in red font, with the authors name, Paulette Jiles, below it.
Image is of pine trees backlit by early morning sun
Image is early sunrise over lake Sammamish, with a sliver of moon and some ducks in the water.
Image is a screenshot from the linked article that says, “Accusations of forgery seem to have become part of the ICE playbook, especially with Latino people, as recounted by other U.S. citizens who have been detained. "They kept telling me I'm a criminal because I'm showing false papers, and that my penalty was going to be much higher because I'm hiding the person who created them," the woman said.”
Image is of the Storm court at Climate Pledge, from the far end of the section 12 club ADA seats. The court has mystic players in red and stork players in green,, and many fans in the stands
25 April photo memories. The two photos on the left are Hiro, a white toy poodle who is snuggled against my forearm - in one pic he’s snoozing, and in the other pic he’s got a blep. The other three photos, on the right, are of trees and plants.
Rainier is out in the distance, visible from the south Bellevue park & ride
Video is a late 50’s or early 60s style black and white video of a white woman with light brown hair dancing with a cocktail
Image is of a small hand printed poster. The paper has an image of Octavia Buttler, with yellow rays of light coming from her left eye, as though her left eye is a sun. Along the side of the poster, the message says “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns Octavia E. Butler Celebrate people’s history”
Screenshot of my beer app profile, geekl0ve
Red ranunculus blooming in a grey pot
Cat on blanket on my legs with Twilight on in the background
Image is of a white, 16 oz paper cup that has line drawings of pastry items printed on it in dark blue ink. The coffee is dark brown and there’s an orange peel floating in it. The cup sits on a red coaster, a desk with fake wood grain. A plushie yellow banana slug is in the background with a skeleton rider.
pcmag.com US Reportedly Shelves Plan To Ban TP-Link Routers for Now The US wants to avoid angering Beijing ahead of an April meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Reuters says. OUR EXPERT Michael Kan Senior Reporter く Edited By: Chloe Albanesius February 12, 2026
Image is of the blue sky through the giant window near G8 at SFO
Image is a screen cap from the weather app and shows the temp feels like 38 degrees due to wind chill
The NYT spelling bee game says that “animania” is not a word.
Image is of a (I think) cedar tree against pre-dawn sky, growing from a garden supported by a high, tan-colored stone retaining wall, that forms an alleyway with another garden wall. The retaining wall has a sconce that is still lit.
Birds listed are American Robin, pacific wren, golden crowned kinglet, American crow, Canada goose
Video is of a field in the woods with some mist
Pic is of a tiny white skinny long legged poodle curled up next to a human lap where the human is wearing a pale blue sweater and faded jeans
My elderly dog Hiro a 5.5 pound white toy poodle with dark eyes and nose and a plain haircut.
Brooke Shields in a Castle for Christmas wearing a tartan ball gown
Image is a screenshot from an email header on this mail from Seattle Times says, “Could a centrist coalition shake up WA’s 2026 legislative session?” Then the intro to the email and article link says, “new moderate coalition forming…”
Image says, “The name antifa and the logo with two flags representing anarchism and communism are derived from the German antifa movement. Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, credits Anti-Racist Action (ARA) as the precursor of modern antifa groups in the United States.”
Image is of a tiny white dog sleeping on my arm
Here's our book club's booklist for the next year, in case you're looking for something nerdy to read. Sci fi  --Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky --Mal Goes to War, Edward Ashton --Orbital, Samantha Harvey --A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter Miller --Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler Tech policy --A Brief History of Intelligence, Max Bennett --Enshittification, Cory Doctorow --A City on Mars, Kelly & Zach Weinersmith --Technoskepticism, The DISCO Network  --The Shame Machine, Cathy O'Neil
Image is screen shot of spelling bee game from NYT saying that monotonize is not a word
Image is of the bar at a great Mexican restaurant in king county
Image is of the court at Climate Pledge with Yueru at the free throw, a score board showing 40 - 30, and a bunch of fans.
Pic is of a tiny white dog in sling being carried by me at Home Depot
Video is of Storm vs Aces game court and stands
Image is a book cover with pink and cream liquid-looking swirls and says the title Annie Bot, A novel, Sierra Greer. In the upper right corner it says “slyly profound … a brilliant pas de deux” — New York Times Book Review
Image is of a short hair tabby cat with light eyes laying on a blanket on my lap while staring at me
Image is the bar at Black Bottle Bellevue
Image is looking down at a tiny white dog asleep on the lap of someone wearing a green Seattle Storm hoodie and sitting on a straw-yellow chair
Image is of the right side of jeans with a square patch filled with a fabric that’s a simple blue and black flower on a white background. There are rows of simple sashiko stitching around the patch on the denim, holding the patch fabric in place.
Pic is of Hiro the tiny white poodle asleep on my arm
Image is focused on an old turquoise blue vase that’s holding two kinds of bulb flower, one that’s pink with many little blooms per stem, and one that’s red and like a little tulip. The vase is on a paperback called Weapons of the Weak. On the wall in the background is various art and a tv playing a YA vampire movie
Pic of Johnny blue skies on stage
Video is of a very crowded concert area at Showbox SoDo
Image is under the hood of my car, visible by looking through the windshield, near’ish the wipers, at a bunch of tiny bright green baby spiders suspended in almost invisible web.
Image is a screenshot of the email saying Sturgill Simpson will be at Showbox on 4/19
Image is of many small rocks, painted with uplifting messages and bright colors, and set into the ground where two sidewalks intersect.
Pic of paperback book The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas.
Image is the under arm of an ivory shirt, with a little puckering along the seam where the stitches were put in.
Image is looking down at the tiny white poodle asleep, snuggled a bit into a cozy aqua cable sweater
Image is of a hanging basket with a withered plant inside, a wooden post to the left, and tree foliage in the background. There’s also a nest in the pot (see rt’d post).
Image is of Hiro the tiny white poodle curled up on my lap
Image is of a plastic hanging basket from last year, with dead plants and a cute tiny nest dug into the soil.
Image is of a tiny white poodle looking away from the camera
Video is of sunlit woods that are mostly pine with a few madrona and cedar.
Image is of an Isabel Marant pink silk blouse with cream and black paisley-style flower. The fabric shows two mends and another pinned spot that’s about to be mended.
Image is of some rude person’s profile page that has been blocked by me.
Image is of old denim with a black recycled patch and bright blue embroidery cross-stitches in a grid
Image is from spelling bee the times New York game, and shows that the word ‘vittle’ is not in their word list.
Image is of a big bee on a stucco wall
Graffiti message in black block letters on a grey background, copied from image using optical character recognition: “THEY'RE BUILDING A CONCENTRATION CAMP THEY ROUNDED up 200 HOUSELESS You WOULDNT SEE IT COST US 850 MILLION. They coULD HAVE bought THEM EACH A HOUSE Instead THEY- STARVE AND FREEZE IN A - WAREHOUSE”
Pic is of a tiny white dog sleeping on me with my green plaid shawl covering part of him