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Rebekah 🍉
@grrrl.bsky.social
teacher + doctoral candidate + mama to a teen & cat • reader of good books • watcher of bad TV • brokenhearted ex-pat • recovering loudly • she/her/y’all

used to be @grrrlmeetsworld over on the bad place

words here: https://grrrlmeets.substack.com/
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Everything may be terrible, but I bet you can find one good thing for today.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Evergreen
This is simply too much information
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
my fall writing retreat was just what I needed. I outlined and planned my edits, and got a HUGE jump on my last chapter.

The girlfriend who I went with was born 2 years before I graduated from high school.

I sometimes forget that I’m the old lady in the room 👵
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
quick, blame the poorest of people so no one blames the billionaires

Racist fool
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
you know the dissertation writing is going well when you suddenly forget if there's a comma between an author's name and the date in the in-text citations
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The more you know 💫
In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it.

Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying?

You're not immune to copaganda.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
in other news, I will never understand why most episodes of Real Housewives almost-always include scenes where they order something from a restaurant
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It always brings me joy when I can joy-scroll bluesky — tonight’s Aurora celebrations made my day.

Even my nephews in Tennessee (who I desperately miss) got to see a peek 😭😍
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
What’s up with this?! I hope this gets rectified ASAP

@safety.bsky.app @bsky.app @support.bsky.team
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
sometimes it’s pretty great to live up north
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM