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Beca Leckman

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The only good news story is the one where the guy who looks exactly like Michael McDonald turned out to be the son of Michael McDonald
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I just noticed the tag line on the poster, "How long can you survive?" My guy, making it through 112 minutes to the credits was it for me.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
😂
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 02/07/2026
america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)
a bloomberg info graphic showing four different dramatically declining types of spaces in order 'Bars and Nightclubs' 'Bowling Alleys' 'Marinas' and 'Movie Theaters' from 2001 to 2025 text on top reading 'Fewer Places to Relax and Socalize' 'US establiments per 100,000 people' 'Note: movie theaters includes dirve-ins.' 2025 population data based on US Census. Sources US Bureau of Labor Statistics, World Bank, US Census'
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What that says to me is we’re one vote from basically no rights being secure. A court that could flip on this easy a question could flip on anything.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/06/2026
Mahjong is having a moment. to.pbs.org/4u5DCWW
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Mahjong thriving as players embrace community and connection
Once a pastime viewed by some as old-fashioned, the game of mahjong is having a moment. In recent years, players of all ages have been strategizing and socializing at mahjong tables from coast to coas...
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Running to subscribe! Thanks. 👍
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Which one?
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Hard yep.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.
SCREENSHOT SAYS:
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Hubs and I don't have any children, and the Breeding Season Intern hasn't moved in yet.
Two of us. There are TWO adults in this house.
I have a service set for twelve people.
WHY ARE WE ALWAYS OUT OF BOWLS?!?!

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I AM HORSE VET
PEOPLE OF THREADS I AM A HORSE VET
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
the last decade of the tech industry and America
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/11/2025
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Best thread of the week!
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/08/2025
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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ernie from sesame street is standing on a balcony with his mouth open and pointing .
Alt: Ernie from sesame street starts crying.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
As a keeper of bees, I fully support the Free Bees initiative! 👍
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
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a close up of a person 's face wearing a knitted hat
Alt: A close up of a person's teary face, from The Blair Witch Project.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I also rode a hotel elevator in the 80's with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Mexico, and my one takeaway was surprise that he was shorter than 8th grade me. And my new takeaway from this thread is Arnold must have spent a lot of the 80's in elevators.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
...but we actually got to eat ours! And it was good.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The average American has three friends.
The Plastics
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Yes, this.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*
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What It Feels Like, Right Now
When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
as a california native I feel qualified to say this may be the most california headline ever
from the san francisco chronicle: 

Prison Overhaul
California to spend $239 million turning San Quentin into a Scandinavian-style rehab center with a farmer's market and podcast studio
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/ MOSA / @mosaisms.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Politics affects everyone.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses.
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I love this time of year because people will post something super dramatic and vague like “Nooooooo” and I can’t tell if it’s about football or *gestures outside window* all of this.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The woman is all of us.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.
Amsterdam street filled with cars in gridlock in the ‘70s.
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Winning headline:
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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two men standing next to each other with the words i 'm glad we had this talk written below them
Alt: James Holden and Amos stand next to each other, with the words "I'm glad we had this talk," written below them.
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
 
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
 
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.
 
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
 
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
 
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
 
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
 
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.
 
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
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Geraldine @everywhereist.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
9 years later, I'm still thinking about this:
screencap of a tweet from 2016 that reads "I'm not saying that David Bowie was holding the fabric of the universe together, but *gestures broadly at everything*" from Katie Loewy
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Beca Leckman @mzbeca.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
www.santacruz.org/listings/big...
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Bigfoot Discovery Museum - Visit Santa Cruz County
Our collection includes exhibits of local history, tied in with local Bigfoot sightings, Popular Culture as it relates to the public view of Bigfoot, and actual evidence in the form […]
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"we find that only a small portion of product reviews on the web uses affiliate marketing, but the majority of all search results do" www.404media.co/happy-affili...
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Happy Affiliate Marketing Day to All Who Celebrate
Black Friday: A good encapsulation of why the internet is the way it is.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Anyway… Here’s a visualization of all the curse words being used on Bluesky in real time. Each word is a cute fluffy little profane cloud. It’s oddly soothing. H/t @bagpuss.org #SwearSky swearsky.bagpuss.org
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Bluesky profanity, as it happens
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
it absolutely rules to keep seeing the worst people on the internet come on to this site to post “well well well i’m really going to TRIGGER some people here huh,” and them me just hitting one button and never thinking about them again lmao
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
me *driving past the apocalypse*: Horses
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?” 2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 24/07/2023
Threads is good for something—Barbie memes
It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” 

And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “THEY WON’T BE HAPPY UNTIL WE ARE ALL GAY”It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” 

And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “AN ALIENATING AND PERVERSE FILM” It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” 

And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “A PINK ACID TRIP THAT FEELS LIKE BEING SLAPPED BY LOTS OF CONFUSINGLY ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE”It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” 

And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “THE FEMINIST AGENDA WILL KILL US ALL”
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