Reposted by BeckyRobert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 3hThis tragedy occurred on a street where the county recently completed a “pedestrian safety” project, but which local advocates pushed back against due to the lack of physical traffic calming & bike infrastructure. The warnings were ignored. 5186
Reposted by BeckyPWHL San Jose @pwhl-sanjose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026LAILA IS LOCKED IN!!🔒 We have signed 2026 USA Olympic gold medalist & University of Wisconsin defender Laila Edwards to a three-year Standard Player Agreement! 🗞️ bit.ly/4xjUJ97 16717
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 8hI was starting to research which PWHL team to support this season, and I learned that SAN JOSE is getting an expansion team!!!! Check that off my to-do list! 120
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The only higher power I believe in is the baseball gods, which is why I'm certain that only the Guardians, White Sox, Astros, or Atlanta can win the World Series this year. The curse of the World Baseball Classic Team USA is alive! 011
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Saturday afternoon baseball podcast advertising the hardware store, as my spouse is figuring out what he needs at the hardware store … 000
Reposted by BeckyRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026being online is often to be part of an open world RPG where everyone has forgotten what the current mission is or if there even is one 619320
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is great, and in general I do love dry Norwegian humor. 000
Reposted by BeckyFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Blah,” said Toad. 10340121
Reposted by BeckyBen Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality? 2136791123
Reposted by BeckyLisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Between this, the Flock cameras used to stalk women, the bots used to harass college girls, and the proposed legislation to check children's genitals, it's clear the end goal is to legally codify women's lack of privacy & thus advance the idea we are property to be monitored from birth. 03216
Reposted by BeckyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We want money and housing and healthcare, not a shortcut to living the most basic unfulfilled human existence that a coked up programmer can devise. Some of us are happy. Others of us fully imagine that we can become happy. Many of us aren’t afraid of what that costs. 452266
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Apparently Covid swept through our household, as my husband tested positive when he was the latest and hardest hit. And several nearby pharmacies are out of Paxlovid?!?! Get your vaccines, everyone! 211
Reposted by BeckyJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 201308685016
Reposted by BeckyShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026if you don't have a functional public transport system you do not have a city, these are the rules 335441
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This article is horrifying on several levels, but there’s some real insight as to the sort of person who treats a Waymo as their personal trash can. 041
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The anti-Prop 40 [California billionaire tax] ads that tout Newsom's opposition to it only reinforce my support of Prop 40! 010
Reposted by BeckyEmily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com 25904619
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There’s a masked guy at my local post office filming patrons in the parking lot. Is this because we have a contentious election tomorrow (special election for CA-14)? 000
Reposted by BeckyKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 183142642641
Reposted by BeckyBluesky USGS Quakebot @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026M4.1 #earthquake detected 3 km NE of San Leandro, California at 8/13/2026 8:30:04 AM PDT This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake informationearthquake.usgs.govM4.1 - 3 km NE of San Leandro, CaliforniaA magnitude 4.1 earthquake located 3 km NE of San Leandro, California was detected at 8/13/2026 8:30:04 AM PDT. This information is subject to change. Please visit the USGS event page for up-to-date details. 32914
Reposted by BeckyBradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026last thing* I can't stress how much the baseball loving people of bluesky can help by sending me MLB or AAA game baseballs - foul balls - batting practice - homers they all count! if you're interested, DM/email me. or AT LEAST spread the word: www.readeyeblack.com/p/mlb-rawlin... *not rlly lolreadeyeblack.comHelp me keep your eye on the ballsIf you have or can snag a 2026 MLB baseball you should send it to [eyeblack] now! 111658
Reposted by BeckyElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem. 362114082241
Reposted by BeckyNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026..that is not their real fear. Their fear is that the left will go on to win the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome. 151288239
Reposted by Beckysoleil ho @soleilho.com · 06/08/2026we're at 65 new subscribers now!! if we make it to 75 by the end of the day I will randomly pick one of the 10 people who subscribe and take you to my favorite Chinese BBQ spot in the East Bay (if you're not in the Bay Area, I'll send you an eating itinerary for your next trip out here!) 03023
Reposted by BeckyAdrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"trans ally" Ken Jennings is blocking every trans woman who points out that he's driving harassment to trans women. 622649
Reposted by BeckyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking. 161870290
Reposted by BeckyMatthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Probably the most difficult thing YIMBYs face -- really, anyone who lives in a city -- is that government-subsidized street parking is one of the single largest barriers to affordability, safe streets, and climate action. That's because drivers view it as an entitlement, like social security. 🧵 6405105
Reposted by BeckyErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17/07/2026We need 2-3 more writers with a science-y backgrounds to help us turn news chaos into orderly information on @unbreaking.org's infectious disease control, food safety, and medical research funding pages. The commitment is a few hours every couple of weeks. Is this you? 🌱 unbreaking.org/how-to-help/unbreaking.orgHow to help — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone. 5140135
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I am so glad that at some point between recording Life’s Rich Pageant in 1986, and performing “Cuyahoga” in the Cuyahoga Valley itself in 1999, R.E.M. learned the correct pronunciation of “Cuyahoga”. 130
Reposted by BeckyThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188834440
Reposted by Becky🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026My parents are about to throw away an Apple II Plus in the DFW area that was working when last booted in the early 90s. Anyone into retro computers have an idea of how I would match it with an interested hobbyist? 41263101
Reposted by BeckyPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I’m especially interested in students who are choosing to write their own papers and artists who are supporting one another and organizing against AI-generated art. 719037
Reposted by Beckyyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/06/2026the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based 4042451539
Reposted by BeckyPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Typology of Watering Cans gordonrobichaux.com/artists/mile... 524643
Reposted by BeckyHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I just got a message from her asking if I’d heard of shelter raids — she couldn’t sleep last night. 250 years of some version of this— for indigenous, Black, Muslim people,for immigrants. To be patriotic is to fight for the version of this country those who sought refuge here prayed for. 212238
Reposted by BeckyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will. 6731286
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I had to hide under a blanket during a TV ad featuring dental procedures, as I yelled, "I will never use your product!" at the TV. It turned out it was an ad for Kalshi, which a) I was already never going to use and b) who knew they could be even more evil? 020
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I have spent the last minute saying “surely they’ll blow the whistle now”, but nope, and holy fucking shit Croatia scored at 102nd minute?!?!?! 100
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026"No person is illegal" is 100% in line with the Nicene Creed. (Also, I'm fascinated that he picked, of all things, the Nicene Creed to bring up here. Do trad-Caths feel strongly about the Nicene Creed?) 100
Reposted by BeckyShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The Supreme Court has ruled that the US can indeed continue to field a functional world cup team 214412
Reposted by BeckyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/06/2026reflecting pool girl summer [trying to change myself and making it worse] 353196614
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I just received a coffee order that was the wrong order — what they shipped to me was from an order one digit away from mine. So did they swap the two? Or was there an off-by-one error in the packing of orders? 😬 000
Reposted by BeckyWendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This article explains the new Postal Service rule put in by the orange dickhead to screw with vote by mail. www.votebeat.org/2026/01/07/u...votebeat.orgThis new postal rule could make it more complicated to vote by mailIf you mail your ballot on Election Day, it may not get postmarked that day — and in the 18 jurisdictions that allow ballots to arrive late, that means your ballot might not count. 146
Becky @rstanek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026No, YOU only learned that you were re-districted into a new Congressional district when you started going through your sample ballot. (I'm mostly sad that I won't get to vote for Aisha Wahab.) 010
Reposted by BeckyQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them” 714232640
Reposted by BeckyMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Instead of wearing pink on Mother’s Day I think male athletes should just respect women year-round. It’s not that hard! 859660
