Beverly Fells Jones

Author, Inspirational Speaker, Trainer, The Prime Directive, Hypnotist, Mother of 2, Mimi of 2, #sussexsquad #personcoach #thinkrich

[Beverly Fells Jones @BeverlyFellsJon]

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[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

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[Beverly Fells Jones @BeverlyFellsJon]

@chesternhpress @BabyD1111229 No it isn't. Pure baking soda for cooking. It is baking powder that has addictives.

[Queen of Carni @MissB53]

This headline. THIS HEADLINE. 🤦‍♀️

“Eating just ONE egg a day increases your risk of diabetes by 60%”

I need everyone to sit with that for a second.

I eat 6 to 12 eggs a day. Every single day. For the past year.

And in that same year I:
🥚Reversed type 2 diabetes
🥚Reversed insulin resistance
🥚Reversed sleep apnea
🥚Stabilized my blood sugar
🥚Balanced my hormones
🥚Eliminated perimenopause symptoms
🥚Lost 140 pounds
🥚Got my brain back

On EGGS. Beef. Bacon. Butter.

This is exactly the kind of fear propaganda that kept me sick for 47 years. Headlines designed to keep you terrified of real food so you keep buying processed garbage and prescription pills instead.

Eggs are one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. Complete protein. Choline for your brain. B12 for your nervous system. Healthy fat for your hormones. The yolk alone is a multivitamin.

They don’t want you to know that. A healthy population is a terrible business model.

I was headed for an early grave. Eggs didn’t almost kill me. Believing this kind of nonsense almost killed me.

Never again. 🥚🥩👑

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Your second chance is waiting.

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

An older lady visits her doctor’s office, where she is seen by one of the newly qualified, young doctors. After about four minutes in the exam room, she suddenly burst out screaming and ran out into the hallway.

An older doctor stopped her, calmed her down, and asked what was wrong. She told him the whole story. After listening, he guided her into another room and told her to relax and recover.
The older doctor marched straight down the hallway, found the new doctor, and demanded,

"What’s the matter with you? Mrs. Terry is 63 years old! She has four grown children and seven grandchildren - and you told her she was pregnant?"

The new doctor calmly continued to write on his clipboard and without looking up said, "Does she still have the hiccups?"

🤣🤣

[Beverly Fells Jones @BeverlyFellsJon]

@StephenFleming @CrazyVibes_1 @ThatAlabastard Make the map a cloth label sewn on the back so it doesn't get lost. There should be a tutorial on using permanent pencils or markers.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Five months ago, Rep. Melissa Hortman was murdered by a right-wing extremist.

RETWEET to honor her life 💙

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Holy shit! After Megyn Kelly gave a free pass to pedophiles Trump and Jeffrey Epstein to fuck children, this 14-year-old girl just gave Kelly a brutal reality check. 😳👇

[The Carnivore RN @wilsonhlthcoach]

55-year-old patient goes in to see his doctor because his feet have become numb and tingly.

Doctor: You have neuropathy and diabetes. Here's a prescription for insulin & supplies to check your blood sugars. Here's a prescription to help with the neuropathy, a BP med, and a cholesterol med just in case. Also, here's a referral to a diabetic dietitian.

Dietician: You need to check your blood sugar first thing in the morning, and before & after every meal. Give yourself insulin depending on your results. Also, here's a diet plan I want you to follow. Eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, and fiber. Eat lean proteins and low-fat dairy. Eat complex carbs like rice and potatoes.

Patient spends a year staying strict with the diet. Loses a little weight but is constantly hungry and has cravings. Fasting blood sugars are 150-180. Post-meal sugars in the mid-200s. Patient always covers morning and meals with insulin.

Patient begins to slack on diet because he's always so hungry. Blood sugars are always high. Patient sees doctor for regular visits and labs.

Five years go by. Patient has a heart attack and needs a couple stents.

Doctor: Keep taking the statin, your cholesterol looks great. Here's a prescription for a blood thinner. Here's info on a heart-healthy diet. Avoid red meat, eggs, saturated fats, and sodium. Cook with "heart-healthy" seed oils.

Another five years go by. Patient has another heart attack and needs a quadruple bypass. Has surgery, sits in the hospital for one week then a PT rehab for two weeks.

Doctor: You now have chronic kidney disease. Here's a prescription for another BP med, a med to help you pee, and a med to help with pain. Also, here's a prescription to help you sleep and help with anxiety and depression.

One year goes by. Patient begins to develop an injury on his toe that won't heal. Goes to see the doctor.

Doctor: We need to remove your toe.

Patient has surgery then sent to a PT rehab then sent home. Mostly uses a wheelchair to get around. A few months later develops another injury on another toe.

Doctor: We need to remove that toe too.

Patient has surgery then sent to PT rehab again. Goes home. Starts to have a painful heel injury that won't heal.

Doctor: We need to remove the heel of your foot.

Surgery and PT rehab yet again. Stuck in a wheelchair. On a whole list of meds. Trying to stick to a diabetic heart-healthy diet. Always hungry. Blood sugars still spiking, fasting sugar still high, always covering with insulin.

Goes to visit a family member who eats carnivore. Eats only steak & eggs for a few days. Notices how satisfied his appetite feels. He doesn't have cravings. He's not constantly hungry. Eats 1-2x per day. Post-meal blood sugars 120. He's shocked! Even his fasting blood sugar is never that low. Fasting sugar is 90-100. He doesn't have to give himself insulin the entire time he's visiting his family member.

He feels that he could've avoided all the health issues altogether if he had done carnivore as soon as he was diagnosed with diabetes.

Goes back home. Sees his doctor and tells him how he ate and how low his blood sugars were. Doctor freaks out and says it's not a good way to eat. Tells him and the wife that he needs to stick to his diabetic "heart-healthy" diet. They listen. They go home and right back to where they were. Him always hungry, having blood sugar spikes, taking insulin.

This is the perfect patient for healthcare, insurance, and big pharma. They stay sick and their life is prolonged while these organizations collect the money from their illness.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Rolling Stone just confirmed it; Disney pulled Jimmy Kimmel because they feared Trump would retaliate.

Emergency meetings. No rule broken. Just pure political fear.

This isn’t cancel culture. It’s corporate fascism.

Reshare. Boycott. Expose.

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

How Charlie Kirk died does not redeem how he lived. 🔥

I can’t say it any better than Pastor Howard John-Wesley of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Washington D.C.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

IKYFL

[Cornbread Mafioso 🖕🏾 @Soulful1865]

Black American History Facts that's should be taught in your everyday schools.

[🟥SANGO'S✊🏿WRATH🟩 @DetroitBabalawo]

The Avalon Village is the prototype for distressed & neglected communities that aim to become eco-friendly, resilient, & self-sufficient. Founded in 2008 by "Mama Shu" the village's mission is to create a safe, nurturing, & healing space within the city of Highland Park, MI.

[Justin McLamore @JustinBPerfumer]

"Black people have revolutionized poverty and made it look so cool that people think we like it."

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima]

Everyone getting started exactly 🥹🥹🥹🥹

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day In 1841, Madison Washington led The Creole Rebellion: One of the Most Successful Slave Revolts in History.

A THREAD

[Beverly Fells Jones @BeverlyFellsJon]

@SkylerforNY 💙💙

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

A MAGA account with 500k followers just quote tweeted me with homophobia because I called out misogyny.

Help me stay off MAGA Twitter. I’m Skyler, and I’m the 24 year old chair of my local young Dems. Please RT this, drop a 💙 and follow as I work to get out young Dems!

[Robert J Ellingsworth 🆓 @BY1959]

We Understand the Assignment Too. 💙