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Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin
@beckybewriting.bsky.social
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Writer of fiction, grants, scripts, & to-do lists. My posts consist of film, classic lit, tv, art, progressive stuff, and random nerdy stuff. She/her/hers. Joined 2024. Part of the twitter diaspora.
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AI is going to bite us in the ass, one way or another.

Because it was oversold to greedy people who aren't really interested in the details...like... does the tech actually work?
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!

¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!

#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
A graphic showing windmill mushrooms with x's through them with this text overlay. DID YOU KNOW? MOST MUSHROOMS ARE SOLD EACH YEAR BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS! REMEMBER: STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH WINDMILL FARM WORKERS, DON'T BUY WINDMILL MUSHROOMS! #BOYCOTTWINDMILL MUSHROOMS!
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Cover of the cincinnati enquirer Headline reads: Suburban grandmas take on ICE in red Ohio Over a photo of older looking white woman. The caption reads: Demonstrators from a new grassroots group called Butler County for Immigrant Justice gathers outside the chamber after a meeting of the Butler county commissioners on Nov 18 Photos by REHE CHOU KER Victoria Moorwood HAMILTON, OH - A group that's grown almost 70-strong shows up weekly to commissioner meetings in a conservative Ohio county to protest officials agreement with ICE. They re mostly grandmas. "I'm here because I'm outraged. I'm here because I'm angry," Cassie Stevens, who lives in Hamilton, said at a Butler County Commissioners meeting Nov. 18. *I'm here because I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say 1| did not remain silent." For 17 weeks, this group of Butler County residents has spoken at the commissioners meetings in Hamilton, Ohio. They want commissioners to cancel Sheriff Richard Jones agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs En-forcement, which has allowed the Butler County Jail to detain people facing de- reactar cotars to the county, in reoru ary. More than 70 people sat, stood and spilled through the doors at the commissioners latest meeting. Most were white women who sported silver and white cropped hair. After the meeting, Commissioner T.C. Rogers argued that the county's cooperation with ICE agents is necessary because of a surge in migration. they took their protest outside, braving the November rain with fleece jackets and handmade signs. Commission meetings prompt residents to band together Sharon Meyer, who lives in Hamil- "They use the dehumanizing term 'illegals' just like they use the n-word." ton, criticized the county's agreement with ICE and said it sends one mes-sage: "If you don't look like us, bring a passport to Butler County." Some people cried as speakers Butler County for immigrant Justice See GRANDMAS, Page 9A
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
soylent green but with muppets: thread
A green and happy looking Oscar the Grouch. Easter Moss Cake or some shit that looks just like Oscar.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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itsamia.bsky.social
Did the math. If I were paid for each download on that piracy website, I'd have at least 500+ USD more than I do now. I gave up counting after 100 tbh.

What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "AI doesn't care if you live or die." Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "talk to humans" Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "Fuck this!" Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "you don't have to accept this future."
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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angryoldmarxist.bsky.social
Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Regarding behavior, there's a chapter on sexual morality that begins with one of the least popular Christian virtues: modesty. Here's what CS Lewis had to say:
The text reads: "We must now consider Christian morality as regards sex, what Christians call the virtue of chastity. The Christian rule of chastity must not be confused with the social rule of ‘modesty’ (in one sense of that word); i.e. propriety, or decency. The social rule of propriety lays down how much of the human body should be displayed and what subjects can be referred to, and in what words, according to the customs of a given social circle. Thus, while the rule of chastity is the same for all Christians at all times, the rule of propriety changes. A girl in the Pacific islands wearing hardly any clothes and a Victorian lady completely covered in clothes might both be equally ‘modest’, proper, or decent, according to the standards of their own societies: and both, for all we could tell by their dress, might be equally chaste (or equally unchaste). Some of the language which chaste women used in Shakespeare’s time would have been used in the nineteenth century only by a woman completely abandoned. When people break the rule of propriety current in their own time and place, if they do so in order to excite lust in themselves or others, then they are offending against chastity. But if they break it through ignorance or carelessness they are guilty only of"
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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pacoshuman.bsky.social
What's the name? Colorblind nightmare?
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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teamsmithy.bsky.social
Happy Doctor Who day!
teamsmithy.bsky.social Matthew 'Krakatoa' Smith @teamsmithy.bsky.social · Feb 15
The Busy World of Doctor Who
The Doctors Who in the style of Richard Scarry.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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apxbrown.bsky.social
This is mad cool.

And I feel for all my Asian friends who now got another insurmountable hurdle to jump for elder approval.
mayorwu.boston.gov Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 3d
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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komaniecki.bsky.social
Asked ChatGPT for the sheet music to “Jingle Bells.” Okay
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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jasonkirk.fyi
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair

By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social

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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels. In the center of the cartoon is the title: STUPID THINGS YOU HEAR IN A WHEELCHAIR PANEL 1 A woman in a cardigan spreads her hands beatifically. WOMAN: Open your heart and Jesus will heal your legs! PANEL 2 A passenger sitting on a plane grouses to the person next to him. MAN: I saw this guy get pushed onto the plane in a wheelchair and then he stood up! This whole "disability" thing is a scam! PANEL 3 A man rushes through an airport, rolling a suitcase: MAN: You're so lucky you don't have to walk places like normal people! PANEL 4 A man points and laughs. MAN: You got a license for that thing? Haw haw! PANEL 5 Below the title of the strip, a smiling woman clasps her hands. WOMAN: You're so brave! PANEL 6 A woman in a wheelchair angrily speaks to a cheery woman pushing the chair. WOMAN: Let go of me! PUSHER: But I'm helping you! PANEL 7 A man rubs his chin as he rambles. He's drawn in front of his words, so we can't see every word. MAN: Have you really tried to walk? Have you tried seeing a doctor? Have you tried yoga? Have you tried going gluten free? Have you tried exercise? Or this thing I saw on YouTube? Have you tried positivity? Have you tried healing crystals? Have you... alkaline water? Maybe... diet? Have you tried... more water? ...for Munchausens? ...essential oils? ...superfoods can... have you... PANEL 8 A woman smiles eagerly and leans in. WOMAN: So can you have sex? PANEL 9 Two men walk away from a store carrying a bunch of grocery bags, and looking at a disabled parking sign. Nearby, a wheelchair user overhears and looks annoyed. MAN: Man, I wish I was disabled!
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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ninaturner.bsky.social
11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.

The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.

Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
Crab that is a greenish yellow color. A cabbage patch kid in the same color dress.
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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stitchingandbaking.bsky.social
I recommend reading this in the snobbiest way imaginable. This lady needs to ask herself “Do I sound like the villain in a Jane Austen novel?”
therealgchu.bsky.social TheRealGChu @therealgchu.bsky.social · 4d
for anyone that wants to read the actual story: www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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for anyone that wants to read the actual story: www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Jane Austen fans: check out Budget Sense and Sensibility! The creator Ben Fensome has done a Budget P&P too) youtu.be/E-kIJfHFJmM?...
Budget Sense and Sensibility | Part 1
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November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Apple Family II https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/apple-family-ii
Apple Family II
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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unraveledpress.com
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Another evergreen linocut.

#printmaking #linocut #art #artsky #crafts #traditionalart #prints #blockprint #ink #printsky
Linocut of a plague mask with a red eye and two red banners reading RFK took our vaccines away
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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quinnae.com
We are ruled by people who think the only problem with the Nazis is the fact that they kept records.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM