Rebecca M.
@chocoholicbec.bsky.social
Bookworm, singer, nerd, spoonie, ND, Jewish, useless bisexual. Tired leftist. History lover. White, cis, she/her.
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My favorite exchange on Twitter in the history of the site
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 AM
My favorite exchange on Twitter in the history of the site
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you think you'll set up a dungeons and dragons game and it will be heroism and tearful story beats but 32 weeks in the group chat is called something like "hagfuckers" or "tits out for lolth" and you're in a blazing row with a player who will only roleplay as an ordinary horse
February 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
you think you'll set up a dungeons and dragons game and it will be heroism and tearful story beats but 32 weeks in the group chat is called something like "hagfuckers" or "tits out for lolth" and you're in a blazing row with a player who will only roleplay as an ordinary horse
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When your post gets in the discover feed
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
When your post gets in the discover feed
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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New pronoun labeller just dropped! Instructions are in the thread and as this is something that becomes more useful the more people are using it, plz do pass it along
The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.
bsky.app/profile/pron...
bsky.app/profile/pron...
bsky.app
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
New pronoun labeller just dropped! Instructions are in the thread and as this is something that becomes more useful the more people are using it, plz do pass it along
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Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
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It’s D&D night!
BARD: I dunno, I think weapons that could destroy the world are a little above our paygrade.
GM: YOU CALL YOURSELF ADVENTURES?!?
BARD: I dunno, I think weapons that could destroy the world are a little above our paygrade.
GM: YOU CALL YOURSELF ADVENTURES?!?
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 AM
It’s D&D night!
BARD: I dunno, I think weapons that could destroy the world are a little above our paygrade.
GM: YOU CALL YOURSELF ADVENTURES?!?
BARD: I dunno, I think weapons that could destroy the world are a little above our paygrade.
GM: YOU CALL YOURSELF ADVENTURES?!?
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Do you have to ingest, inhale, or touch her to activate the toxin? That girl is POISON.
Does she deliver the toxin via bite or sting? That girl is VENOM.
Stay safe out there!
Does she deliver the toxin via bite or sting? That girl is VENOM.
Stay safe out there!
February 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Do you have to ingest, inhale, or touch her to activate the toxin? That girl is POISON.
Does she deliver the toxin via bite or sting? That girl is VENOM.
Stay safe out there!
Does she deliver the toxin via bite or sting? That girl is VENOM.
Stay safe out there!
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When the artist has never, ever seen a human baby but has definitely seen adult women make the fake-smile-pretending-to-listen-good-grief-will-this-NEVER-FUCKING-END face.
February 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
When the artist has never, ever seen a human baby but has definitely seen adult women make the fake-smile-pretending-to-listen-good-grief-will-this-NEVER-FUCKING-END face.
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Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
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It’s one of the things I think adults stand to learn from kids. How to navigate the world with the humility and curiosity that comes with knowing that you only understand a minuscule fraction of all things.
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
It’s one of the things I think adults stand to learn from kids. How to navigate the world with the humility and curiosity that comes with knowing that you only understand a minuscule fraction of all things.
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
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A poem for this evening. Not new...I wrote it a while ago. But one I come back to.
![A poem titled: "Recalling Ourselves." The body of the poem is in two columns, with the text starting in the left column and ending on the right. The text reads:
We are held together by memory,
each of us raveled tightly
around recollection
as if it were a certainty,
each telling our heart that
this past is the one.
We are great storytellers,
and rapt listeners.
But we are prisoners, too.
The histories we tell ourselves
about who we are
and why we are:
these are wax and twine.
We are stuck and bound.
Afraid.
Scared of the courage
it takes to set the past aside.
Fearful of a letting go
that might unwind us from ourselves.
[this is where the column break is]
But we are more than memory.
More than we recall.
Our long-told then
is just an echo of the now
and a shadow of the soon,
it is neither who we are,
nor who we must become.
It is merely
who we always said we were.
And if we can undo the twine
and melt the wax,
we might just find ourselves anew,
clean-woven from fresh yesterdays.
Then, binding up our old wounds
with the cloth of new remembering,
we can break bread
with all those selves
we never could recall before:
the dusty splinters of our soul
that were neglected,
and long held apart by memory.
- John Wyatt Greenlee](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtulckfwhlh3ndn4iqfcg3an/bafkreid6nwdqpqjihzm5mp3ripmhomj7k22csp3qbjwsnwckip4p4vcmoq@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 AM
A poem for this evening. Not new...I wrote it a while ago. But one I come back to.
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Apparently right wing antisemites are obsessed with the word goy now and in case no one has ever told you this it literally just means “nation”
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Apparently right wing antisemites are obsessed with the word goy now and in case no one has ever told you this it literally just means “nation”
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Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Something really interesting about this is that she’s not posting any of this stuff over here on bsky. Her feeds there and here are very pointedly different
Should I just do and delete one of these a day until we all die? (people literally send me screen shots because apparently I’m a notorious bitch).
Remember when everyone pretended to hate the LA Review of Books for like two months because of this person?
Remember when everyone pretended to hate the LA Review of Books for like two months because of this person?
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Something really interesting about this is that she’s not posting any of this stuff over here on bsky. Her feeds there and here are very pointedly different
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The oldest known image of an owl:
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
February 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The oldest known image of an owl:
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
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Fanfiction doesn’t exist to be “good” it exists because something went horribly wrong with you while you were watching a tv show and you’re gripped by madness
February 8, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Fanfiction doesn’t exist to be “good” it exists because something went horribly wrong with you while you were watching a tv show and you’re gripped by madness
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It's a mystery why they wouldn't run my Super Bowl commercial for ShammAI, the only LLM that tells you that your question is stupid and you should be able to figure this out yourself
February 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
It's a mystery why they wouldn't run my Super Bowl commercial for ShammAI, the only LLM that tells you that your question is stupid and you should be able to figure this out yourself
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Pretty sure it’s still me, actually, since nobody is gonna come up to you at a signing and tell you how much your slop meant to them.
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Pretty sure it’s still me, actually, since nobody is gonna come up to you at a signing and tell you how much your slop meant to them.
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.
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When the world’s expecting a #SuperbOwl but you fear you’ll only disappoint them
February 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
When the world’s expecting a #SuperbOwl but you fear you’ll only disappoint them
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so I'm sitting here and my 1 yo is playing quietly on the floor and the 3 yo walks up to him and goes "come, brother, let us return to our wicked ways!"
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
so I'm sitting here and my 1 yo is playing quietly on the floor and the 3 yo walks up to him and goes "come, brother, let us return to our wicked ways!"
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"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them"
Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social
But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊
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Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social
But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊
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February 8, 2026 at 1:13 AM
"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them"
Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social
But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊
(posted with permission)
Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social
But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊
(posted with permission)