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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 1d

I just explained davening / shuckling to my partner as "religiously-sanctioned stimming".

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 4d

I just managed to get "Dynamic Duo", I'm very pleased with myself :D

Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone already written a pretentious article about frogs as a versatile symbol for various political / social movements in the 21st century? Cause if not I might have to.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 6d

Buy the game here:

store.steampowered.com/app/2015000/...

The Ghost and the Golem on Steam

Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, bandits, anarchists, and demons!

store.steampowered.com

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 6d

When I went into #ChoiceofGames’ Jewish shtetl-themed text adventure ‘The Ghost and the Golem’, I expected to do one, maybe two playthroughs and then put it down. I'm now coming up on 10+ playthroughs and I’m still going.

Rest of review here:

beccacpmiles.wixsite.com/beccamiles/p...

Game Review: The Ghost and the Golem

When I went into Choice of Games’ Jewish shtetl-themed text adventure ‘The Ghost and the Golem’, I expected to do one, maybe two playthroughs and then put it down. I'm now coming up on 10+ playthrough...

beccacpmiles.wixsite.com

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 10d

thinking of putting together a poetry chapbook, any advice? #poetry #writingcommunity

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Aug 28

I counted 26 instances of people being harassed for using the "correct" bathroom under the guidance.

Who could have seen this coming.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg...

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

Text Reads: “I was denied access to female lounge because of being transgender

I felt upset, alienated and othered. I was invited by other women patients to take part in a spa evening, but I was unable to join them because the hospital directors would not allow me to be in a female space. The patients were upset and outraged on my behalf, they felt it was unjust.

I felt like a hole had opened up, that I was a freak and not right for society.”
-Trans woman who faced issues with a healthcare provider in England.
tinyurl.com/trans-segregation-in-practice

Image of front cover of the trans segregation in practice report report on yellow and purple background

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Aug 3

#writingcommunity, what are your *practical* tips for getting past perfectionism?

Things like exercises, rituals, communities, specific writing books -- anything that isn't just "Stop being perfectionist / 1st draft should be bad / get words on page."

I know these things; I want to act on them.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Aug 2

One of my favourite things about watching TV with my partner is their compulsive need to know where all the actors went to school.

Bonus fun every time they go "Ugh, RADA, of course."

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm back in the archives (The Times this time) and I keep getting jump-scared by the name of this play from 1931.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 26

I would like to pinch his cheeks

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 26

calkestis.tumblr.com/post/6972630...

This one ^

calkestis.tumblr.com

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 26

I'm watching Andor purely because that gifset of the revolution boy with the big forehead and curly hair talking about oppression kept coming up on my feeds.

On ep 4 so I've met the revolutionary cinnamon roll in question. I'm not much of a Star Wars person but this series is pretty good so far.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 25

you ever realise your self-worth is reliant on you being one of the crazies who knows how to manage their symptoms and not make people uncomfortable and the second you slip on that all your supposed self-acceptance goes out the window and you feel unworthy of oxygen

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 24

Life in the UK is absurd. I'm checking the bus app to see where my bus is and it's waiting at Saxondale. That's not a place buses get stuck at it's a place where dragons get slain. Nonsense country.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 21

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life.

And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

Don't let them take away our rights behind closed doors

The EHRC's proposed Code of Practice would devastate trans+ lives and put everybody at risk.

This trans bathroom ban is set to become law with no debate, no scrutiny and no vote in Parliament.

We have to act now.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 18

Might have finished the slam poem I wrote most of the material for in early 2020. Now I just gotta wait to have a job that means I'm free in the evening and can go to open mics again. #writingcommunity #amwriting #poetry #slampoetry #spokenword

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 16

When the group chat's gotten downright טמא

Discord screen shot reading:

"Alright, I'm off to bed, none of any of these words are in the Talmud (not even the Midrash), we need Moshiach now, I'm gonna go hide in the Chabad tunnels, I'm out of Jewish memes, good night"

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 15

is this something idk

Text:

Rain and hot tears soaked my cheeks. My scarf was heavy on my head. I pulled it down. Someone splashed past, shooting me a wary look from under his hood. I recognised him as the brewer from whom my father bought his schnapps.

How soon, he must have thought, has the mad Jew’s daughter gone mad herself with grief.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 15

on my second go at 'Frankenstein's Golem' and thus far my MC is way more of a bitch this time around, it might make it easier for me to continue

#amwriting #writingcommunity #novel #specfic

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Katherine I @chesneycat.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is one of many reasons why @castofwonders.org Banned Books Week event this year is themed on joy. Joy matters.

PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Before we even knew this decision, I knew that my initial approach — that this is a fight we’d lose and we shouldn’t waste energy on — was the wrong one. We had to fight. We have to fight." @katherinelocke.bsky.social, whose book became part of Mahmoud v. Taylor www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus...

I Wrote One Of The Books At The Center Of SCOTUS' Scary Ruling. Here's What They Don't Want You To See.

"It’s hard not to feel a chill down your back when you imagine all of the possibilities that could come out of this case."

www.huffpost.com

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jul 1

God that one was like pulling teeth.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Jun 30

If you want to flood the Committees with requests to scrutinise Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson on trans rights, do it now!
She is due to be appointed the new chair of the EHRC
The pre-appointment scrutiny session is tomorrow (see thread below).
Another template letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jun 29

Would you keep reading from this opening?

Tentatively having another go at my novel 'Frankenstein's Golem.

#amwriting #writingcommunity #speculativefiction

Text:

“Why doesn't your father come himself?” asked the porter at Ingolstadt University.

Because he's dead beneath the ground, and has been less than a week, yet instead of sitting shiva here I am chasing up his debts.

I didn't say that, because as useless as my father had been, he did leave me with a few good lessons. One of them was to never let a goy know your bargaining position, especially if it's a weak one. I didn't know if the porter would know the ins and outs of Jewish residency permits, if he could figure out that my time left in Ingolstadt was limited by the Prince’s patience. But why risk it?

“He’s busy,” I replied, unblinking.

There, let him think me the messenger of an important scholar with little time on his hands, rather than the beggar daughter of a dead madman.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · Jun 29

Would you keep reading from this opening?

Tentatively having another go at my novel 'Frankenstein's Golem.

#amwriting #writingcommunity #speculativefiction

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