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Rebecca M.

@chocoholicbec.bsky.social
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Bookworm, singer, nerd, spoonie, ND, Jewish, useless bisexual. Tired leftist. History lover. White, cis, she/her. User icon via picrew: picrew.me/en/image_maker/296093

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“'No one bothered to check whether the accusation was true.’” So, an Australian Jew who was born in Israel but emigrated to Australia at 18 years old and never served in the Israeli military and is pro-Palestine was listed as a ‘sponsor’ for the event b/c she donated to the crowdfunding campaign.
“I am Jewish. I was born in Israel. I emigrated to Australia when I was 18. I did not serve in the military. I have never expressed any anti-Palestinian views. I really wanted to believe that "zionist" wasn't a dogwhistle for "Jewish" but I don't know what else it could be here.

No one bothered to check whether the accusation was true. The first I heard of any of this was this morning, when Freeplay told me they were refunding my donation and removing me as a sponsor because my mere name being listed "has created an untenable environment" for their speakers. I was stunned”
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Illegitimi non carborundorum
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a flash mob where we all start crying at the same time
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I wish I had inherited my mum’s strong arched nose! Instead I ended up with my WASP dad’s nose, with barely a bump to be seen. Not a small nose either, tbf, but with nothing particularly interesting to it.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026
Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/10/2026
12 Words and Phrases from The Simpsons -taps sign -d'oh -say the quiet part out loud -old man yells at cloud And more! www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...
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12 Words and Phrases from The Simpsons
A perfectly cromulent way to embiggen your vocabulary
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This puts unrealistic pressure on the rest of us to be doing something arty when the prize committee calls. I can't be "doing the laundry" or "picking my nose".
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026
This is the most 2026-ass lede. Perfect encapsulation of the entire era.
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Late to sharing this but I literally think about this once a day 🤠♥️✨
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
HERMES* QUIVERS BEFORE HER *I tried finding an Ancient Greek god of footwear, but it appears no such deity exists. So I went for the closest I could think of, which was a god *associated* with shoes.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Try our new service, Shamm-AI. The only LLM that generates two answers per prompt and asks you to say which one is more helpful, but then vehemently disagrees with your choice and starts arguing with you about it
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
FUCKING THIS. The process of inquiry is almost the WHOLE POINT. It's why we keep fucking going when the experiment fails, the hypothesis doesn't work out, the chords are discordant, or the words don't come together.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026
The grammatical 'colon' and the anatomical 'colon' are not etymologically related. The anatomical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kolon’ which means “large intestine.” The grammatical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kōlon’ which means “limb.” Both are a means to an end.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Queer romance IS resistance. It is radical to imagine happiness, and community, and joy, when people are trying to kill you, erase you, oppress you, or deny you the right to live a full life in so many ways.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/10/2026
All people deserve to live in peace and freedom. Remembering today the lives lost three years ago, and all of the lives lost since.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, good, my permanently-perky pregnancy nips are fashionable right now. I genuinely don't know how to feel about that.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026
Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Save the king from rockslides” “save the king from drowning” listen, mobile game ads, we’ll talk when you make a game where I guillotine the king for his crimes.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/10/2026
one thing about me that consistently seems to shock people is that I do actually believe that all people have the right to live in freedom, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, disability, or age. like I do actually believe that and I apply it to *everyone*
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Or occult porn!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Everyone knows what Zionism is. It's--"
A screenshot showing part of the table of contents from the "Types of Zionism" page on Wikipedia. The image is not long enough to include everything, but the types listed are:

• Proto-Zionism
• Political Zionism
• Practical Zionism
• Labor Zionism
• General and Liberal Zionism
• Revisionist Zionism
• Religious Zionism
• Cultural Zionism
• Revolutionary Zionism
• Reform Zionism
• Secular Zionism
• Christian Zionism
• Post-Zionism
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You’re laughing? A coyote runs into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and you’re laughing
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wish you and bébé croissant the best of health! (My foetus is known as The Bean, from what it looked like on ultrasound, and, in private, Tiny Freeloader. To be very clear, I am over the moon about finally a) being pregnant and b) making it to the 2nd trimester. The nickname is loving, not mean!)
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My first (miscarried) pregnancy, I was puking from literally the day my implantation bleeding started, also five days before my period was due. It's wild how fast it can be! Weirdly, my other two pregnancies (one ectopic, one currently in progress) were total breezes nausea-wise.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The version of Zionism the Israeli government put forward is racist" is a completely defensible and true statement. But that's not what the resolution says, is it?
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is because most Gentiles assume Jews are just Christians without Christ, and miss the fact that there are a lot fewer of us and that being in community as one people, even with people you disagree with or even hate, is a big part of what it means to be Jewish. Peoplehood, not just religion.
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Rebecca M. @chocoholicbec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The live action Jungle Book (1994). No idea if it was legitimately scary or if I was just a massive wuss when I was three; I suspect the latter.
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OOC QOTD: “We say ‘rats deserting a sinking ship’ like it’s a bad thing, but when you think about it, why shouldn’t the rats save themselves? If a whole ship is going down, what exactly are a bunch of rats gonna do to stop it?”
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
I feel like “everyone could use a snack and a nap” is applicable at basically all times these days
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I cannot help but notice that leftist groups do not, for the most part, demand that all lefty Catholics only attend churches that dissent from the teachings of the Church hierarchy on abortion and queer rights. They broadly understand that sometimes one has a cultural link to people with bad views.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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