Becky D 🍂🍁🍂
@bexrousse.bsky.social
Birds & cats & life in Maine. Public health nerd, they/them. Down by the water.
Banner: Closeup of ruddy red galaxies drifting in a cat's olive green eye w/narrowed pupil. PFP: Blonde me w/undercut, big glasses, floppy bangs & a certain kind of smile.
Banner: Closeup of ruddy red galaxies drifting in a cat's olive green eye w/narrowed pupil. PFP: Blonde me w/undercut, big glasses, floppy bangs & a certain kind of smile.
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Becky D 🍂🍁🍂
@bexrousse.bsky.social
· Jun 17
🚨I IMPLORE YOU to use alt-text when you post any image, screen cap, or post of a screed/tidbit from this or a different site. Otherwise people using screen readers are seeing a steady flow of
"OMG"
"This seems bad"
"👀"
"Well that's not good"
with no context
& that is INCREDIBLY ANXIETY-INDUCING
"OMG"
"This seems bad"
"👀"
"Well that's not good"
with no context
& that is INCREDIBLY ANXIETY-INDUCING
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November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
Eek--I KNEW I should have used the California forest scorpion instead of the red fox in my list! (Also extra-memorable because it was a small family of them clinging to the side of my mattress when I changed the sheets one otherwise-boring morning...)
Also banana slugs because 💛
Also banana slugs because 💛
Seeing dozens of "Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild" and I just wanna say INVERTEBRATES ARE ANIMALS TOO because I haven't seen anyone list a single one yet
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Eek--I KNEW I should have used the California forest scorpion instead of the red fox in my list! (Also extra-memorable because it was a small family of them clinging to the side of my mattress when I changed the sheets one otherwise-boring morning...)
Also banana slugs because 💛
Also banana slugs because 💛
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ICE convoy retreats from Manhattan's Chinatown after hundreds of New Yorkers confront them.
Around two dozen car/vans have sped out of the garage, with NYPD officers clearing the path. One guys tries to stop them, NYPD officers come chasing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ICE convoy retreats from Manhattan's Chinatown after hundreds of New Yorkers confront them.
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"I hope you get the worst fucking hemorrhoids and can never sit down," one protester says heckling the masked feds staring down from the parking garage above.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"I hope you get the worst fucking hemorrhoids and can never sit down," one protester says heckling the masked feds staring down from the parking garage above.
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I was waiting to use a bathroom in India and the only other person waiting was an amazing looking man who after a moment of standing silently beside me turned and extended his hand and said, “I’m Tom.”
That is my Tim Stoppard story.
RIP maestro
That is my Tim Stoppard story.
RIP maestro
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I was waiting to use a bathroom in India and the only other person waiting was an amazing looking man who after a moment of standing silently beside me turned and extended his hand and said, “I’m Tom.”
That is my Tim Stoppard story.
RIP maestro
That is my Tim Stoppard story.
RIP maestro
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ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.
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I've heard from my friends in Churchill that the ice has arrived and the bears are finally heading out to break their over 150 day fast. (this photo is from a few weeks ago) Hudson Bay is still a long way from fully frozen, but at least they can get out and start hunting. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I've heard from my friends in Churchill that the ice has arrived and the bears are finally heading out to break their over 150 day fast. (this photo is from a few weeks ago) Hudson Bay is still a long way from fully frozen, but at least they can get out and start hunting. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿
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Today's weather spectrum:
- Dark, cold
- Sunrise or 4pm not sure
- Squinty rude sunshine blades
- Dusk, 40°F, 12pm
- Tiny graupel
- Sleet
- Tiny sleet
- Copper sunlight daggers
- Sneaky rain
- 4pm or sunset not sure
- Reprise daggers but chilly
- Gloom
- Dark, cold
- Dark, cold
- Sunrise or 4pm not sure
- Squinty rude sunshine blades
- Dusk, 40°F, 12pm
- Tiny graupel
- Sleet
- Tiny sleet
- Copper sunlight daggers
- Sneaky rain
- 4pm or sunset not sure
- Reprise daggers but chilly
- Gloom
- Dark, cold
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Today's weather spectrum:
- Dark, cold
- Sunrise or 4pm not sure
- Squinty rude sunshine blades
- Dusk, 40°F, 12pm
- Tiny graupel
- Sleet
- Tiny sleet
- Copper sunlight daggers
- Sneaky rain
- 4pm or sunset not sure
- Reprise daggers but chilly
- Gloom
- Dark, cold
- Dark, cold
- Sunrise or 4pm not sure
- Squinty rude sunshine blades
- Dusk, 40°F, 12pm
- Tiny graupel
- Sleet
- Tiny sleet
- Copper sunlight daggers
- Sneaky rain
- 4pm or sunset not sure
- Reprise daggers but chilly
- Gloom
- Dark, cold
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Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Red fox
Fisher
Humpback whale(s)
Flying fish
Moose
Red fox
Fisher
Humpback whale(s)
Flying fish
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Elk
(being chased/followed by an elk is scarier than you might think)(they're huge)
Bighorn sheep
Crow
Whitetail deer
Redtail hawk
(I almost put Bison, but I saw them in a wildlife preserve, so not exactly "in the wild")
Elk
(being chased/followed by an elk is scarier than you might think)(they're huge)
Bighorn sheep
Crow
Whitetail deer
Redtail hawk
(I almost put Bison, but I saw them in a wildlife preserve, so not exactly "in the wild")
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Kangaroo
Wombat
Koala
Echidna
Bilby
… my excuse is like Juliet‘s, only it’s Australia. (List is basically in order of difficulty.)
Kangaroo
Wombat
Koala
Echidna
Bilby
… my excuse is like Juliet‘s, only it’s Australia. (List is basically in order of difficulty.)
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Red fox
Fisher
Humpback whale(s)
Flying fish
Moose
Red fox
Fisher
Humpback whale(s)
Flying fish
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Neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
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Broke: Department of Defense
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Broke: Department of Defense
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
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could be a great day to preorder 👀 @haymarketbooks.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
could be a great day to preorder 👀 @haymarketbooks.org
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& here's a pic with yours truly for size comparison
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
& here's a pic with yours truly for size comparison
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okay she's done, and available from my site - the huge lino print "Transgender Goddexx Destroys Fascism". Just 3 made. shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/tran... #art #printmaking #trans #witchsky
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
okay she's done, and available from my site - the huge lino print "Transgender Goddexx Destroys Fascism". Just 3 made. shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/tran... #art #printmaking #trans #witchsky
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Curious about my writing? All of my books are half off for the next few days at itch! That means everything is $1.50 or less! $10 for EVERYTHING!
Fantasy, horror, mystery... novellas, novels, story collections!
It's always a great time to support indie creators 💜
itch.io/s/168857/bla...
Fantasy, horror, mystery... novellas, novels, story collections!
It's always a great time to support indie creators 💜
itch.io/s/168857/bla...
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Curious about my writing? All of my books are half off for the next few days at itch! That means everything is $1.50 or less! $10 for EVERYTHING!
Fantasy, horror, mystery... novellas, novels, story collections!
It's always a great time to support indie creators 💜
itch.io/s/168857/bla...
Fantasy, horror, mystery... novellas, novels, story collections!
It's always a great time to support indie creators 💜
itch.io/s/168857/bla...
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there should be more thursday-based holidays, based purely on their ability to utterly fuck up a work week
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
there should be more thursday-based holidays, based purely on their ability to utterly fuck up a work week
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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he'll yea bröther 🍦
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
he'll yea bröther 🍦
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One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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this is an insane response for basically any shooter profile and motivation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration orders 500 more National Guard members to Washington after shooting, Hegseth says.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this is an insane response for basically any shooter profile and motivation