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Rebecca

@rebeccal.bsky.social
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... or Beck or even Becky. Not very serious. Canadian, 50-something, writes, still careful about covid, mother to some interesting young adults, generally kind. She/her.

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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Locally to me, a person was filmed while in mental health crisis and the video went horrifically viral - a thing they wrote about later on as being just devastating. It is cruel and it should not happen.
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 02/09/2026
Made a sketch artist game where you have to draw the character based on witness testimony neal.fun/unusual-susp...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Marine biology fact: a seal with a satellite transmitter hat on its head is the funniest thing in the world.
Photo from a recent paper in marine biology progress series.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Things are very fraught right now, so here is this: I have a new deodorant and the smell of it makes me feel overwhelmingly nostalgic. I realized what it smelled like today:
Two pages from the baby book "Pat the Bunny" where  a little boy is smelling flowers and then a scented page where the reader - a BABY - can also smell the flowers.
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Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One thing that's very scary about US aggression towards Canada is how every time it happens, Americans liberals don't really seem to treat it as a major issue. Have the Dems come out forcefully about Canada? All I ever really see are Dem governors asking us to go there on vacation.
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This isn't a thing I typically post, but I spent some time last night helping this person develop a plan to escape a family that’s been hurting her (and am also working on helping her optimize this page, including putting up a budget). #mutualaid #transmutualaid gofund.me/a0e7fa4f4
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Donate to Escaping a toxic family, organized by skye angel
I need to get away from toxic parents that constantly dead names me, gets gender wrong, treats me l… skye angel needs your support for Escaping a toxic family
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There's a lot of things I won't get over from the past decade, but people's willingness to try to memory hole the extremely deadly pandemic we all lived through and killed actual people, on their watch and partly because of their idiocy, is high on that list.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I sent a fairly furious email to Tim Hortons and got a bland response back that Harry Potter is "iconic" and "magical", which makes me feel like Tim Hortons was really, really unprepared for any sort of negative response.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Did I just sprint across the road to tell the mom of the yard full of little kids - who I have never met - that we have a tornado warning? Was she deeply unimpressed? Did said tornado not show up? All yes.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I have a young adult with ARFID and this cookbook has been a literal life saver. I really recommend it.
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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Isn't this just Christ-washed child trafficking?
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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A 51st state joke in a review of a Canadian film in the Hollywood Reporter is why “most of us aren’t like that!” falls on unbelieving ears, America. Centrists finding annexation jokes funny is how it gets normalized. I am not sure how many times you have to learn this lesson at the world’s expense.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 30/01/2026
Pedro Pascal has paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara after her tragic passing “Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️ The one and ONLY Catherine O’Hara”
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Does THIS look like the face of a biter? (Yes, very much)
A black and white cat with yellow eyes glares menacingly. She is very pretty.
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🐤 ChristophersDad ❌️👑 @christophersdad.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
“Getting sick frequently at school is not inevitable, and it isn’t because kids are just harbingers of viruses. It’s more because the buildings they inhabit do not have adequate ventilation and filtration systems to reduce illness transmission” - @mjnabuurs.bsky.social, @onschoolsafety.bsky.social
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The scariest Christmas story: Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, Except for A DRACULA
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Fantastic (this is sarcasm) news this morning: town council (100% old people) recently declared it to be "Christian Heritage Month" in town AND I have found out that my mother-in-law (who is both dying and who has also never liked me) is coming over for much of next week.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Is everyone talking about Star Wars? Here is my Star Wars story - I grew up in the 70s but I never, ever saw a single Star Wars movie because my dad had taken great and permanent offense to them for some reason and so the only property adjacent thing I ever saw was the Star Wars Holiday Special.
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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 09/11/2025
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
A friend's favourite Halloween story is when they - a teenager in the 90s - went trick or treating with friends, and stopped at an old guy's house who rolled his eyes to see teens, told them to "wait a fucking minute" and came back, tossing packs of cigarettes and bottles of beer in to their bags.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It's cold and rainy and we had THREE trick-or-treaters (a spiderman in a winter coat, a unicorn in a winter coat and a baby holding a wee pumpkin bucket).
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
weekend plans
The Invisible Man (1933). Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin. The caption reads, “Even the moon's frightened of me, frightened to death.”
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Weird because I could have sworn the NYT told us we shouldn't worry about these viruses and should just get back to brunch
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
One of my kids and I are taking turns reading chapters of House of Leaves but we managed to lose the book someplace inside the house, which feels like a thing that would happen in House of Leaves. It was under a chair, anyhow, so now I have to read my chapters today.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks. please share! more info downthread!
a pink and blue menu for Roxy's Dinera red and cream menu for Lenny's Diner and Pisserya red-toned menu for Six Kitties Cafeteriaa green and purple menu for Lucky's Cat Food Cafeteria
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Made the mistake of looking at the town Facebook group and I have "learned" so many "things': 1. solar energy is a scam and is bad for the environment 2. conservatives are being hate-crimed by leftists, of whom there are lots and lots in my tiny rural town 3. the only good electric car is a Tesla.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I am going to peel and roast a lot of beets this afternoon and I am reminded that doing so will make my kitchen look like I have other, darker hobbies.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Anyone else getting just dozens of spammy new followers or is this a special thing that's just happening to me?
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Trying out a Halloween name and I am unsure about it.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
It's a long and mostly stupid story but I am apparently going to a workshop next week on how to tell if dolls are haunted, so if you have any possibly-haunted dolls, please let me, a soon-to-be-expert, know.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is an emergency - not for me but for one of my children's friends - does anyone know anything about getting emergency medical funding in Arkansas? (I'm Canadian and know nothing.)
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm looking for fun multiplayer games that should be light-hearted, modestly empty-headed (they don't have to be dumb but no strategy games) and not scary. Peak has already been played and was beloved. Suggestions?
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My oldest daughter told my youngest daughter that she COULD wear a costume to her Halloween wedding, and I don't know what she expected, but youngest daughter is carefully crafting her THE FLY FROM THE 1958 MOVIE THE FLY COSTUME.
It's the man-sized Fly-human hybrid from 1958's The Fly and not at all an appropriate look for your sister's wedding.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Is YOUR child texting about P.G. Wodehouse? Get to know the signs: BRB = Bertie’s Rum Bother LMAO = Lest Maiden Aunts Occur JFC = Jeeves Favours Caution BTW = Bold Tie Warnings WTAF = Well Then, Augustus Fink-Nottle STFU = Sir, That Fedora’s...Unfortunate
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
don't worry
Ahhhhh-ppPPPPFFFFFF!
Haha, sorry. Don’t worry.
This isn’t the famous virus
we all hate. It’s actually a
different
virus which
also makes
you sick
in the
same
way.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If you are Kayla and have a straying boyfriend named Matt, NEVER FEAR because your absolutely furious best friend just called my 55 year old husband not-Matt on your behalf ("I just have some questions, MATT!") and promises to KEEP CALLING NUMBERS till she tracks Real Matt down.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My parents - who are in their 70s - have sprawling comfortable outside seats underneath the branches of some mysterious sheltering berrying tree and endless amounts of boxed white wine - and their casual friendly hospitality makes me feel that my natural state is "modestly drunk at my parents".
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My youngest child bought a 1970s bartending book at a library sale and made the interesting discovery that drinking habits and tastes have changed radically and that people also used to put a lot of egg whites in their cocktails.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine -related questions below in response to this post, and I will of my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc July 2025 edition.
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a cartoon spongebob squarepants character is smiling and looking at the camera
ALT: a cartoon spongebob squarepants character is smiling and looking at the camera
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
1/2 I have been asked to help find resources - both online and specific to Kingston, Ontario - for a young child who has tentative ADHD, ODD and autism and comes from a family with very limited financial resources. They had a terrible year in school.
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💀minous Cinema ® 🕷️ @furiouscinema.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Cat People (1942, Dir: Jacques Tourneur) #filmsky
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I need very specific book recommendations! My MIL is starting a short course of chemo to try and extend her life (she has stage 4 pancreatic cancer), so I'm loading up my old Kindle for her (despite my feelings about Amazon - it's what I have.). She loves country music, romance, small towns. (1/2)
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Found something for you. You will love it." - text from my youngest, who was out getting plywood with her dad and THIS IS WHAT SHE FOUND:
A very small porcelain doll in a faded green dress with big gaudy flowers on it. Her hands are reaching out.
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
How much rhubarb did I end up chopping and freezing last night? TWENTY POUNDS.
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Jason Rainville @jasonrainville.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy pride! I hope to do some research for organizations to donate to, but if any LGBT folks want to share commission info, paypal/Kofi/support links or any other ideas for helpful organizations, please post below!
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Rebecca @rebeccal.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My uncle, who I am not ENTIRELY talking to, sent me two GARBAGE BAGS FULL OF FRESH RHUBARB from my grandma's garden, so I guess I will be spending the next couple of days cutting up rhubarb and wistfully thinking about what ties us together - but mostly just cutting up rhubarb.
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
For the Covid-Conscious, Our Fundamental Weakness Isn’t Empathy. It’s Enabling. guinesspig.ghost.io/for-the-covi...
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For the Covid-Conscious, Our Fundamental Weakness Isn’t Empathy. It’s Enabling.
In the children’s book ‘The Giving Tree’ by Shel Silverstein, a tree loves a boy.  She gives him shade. She gives him apples. She lets him swing from her branches. Eventually the boy grows up and want...
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Time to get out your air cleaners and respirators. Don’t have any? Start with canadastrong.ca #Wildfires
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