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Becky D ❄️🌲❄️
@bexrousse.bsky.social
Birds & cats & life in Maine. Public health nerd, they/them. Down by the water.

Banner: Closeup of ruddy red galaxies drifting in a cat's olive green eye w/narrowed pupil. PFP: Blonde me w/undercut, big glasses, floppy bangs & a certain kind of smile.
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🚨I IMPLORE YOU to use alt-text when you post any image, screen cap, or post of a screed/tidbit from this or a different site. Otherwise people using screen readers are seeing a steady flow of
"OMG"
"This seems bad"
"👀"
"Well that's not good"
with no context
& that is INCREDIBLY ANXIETY-INDUCING
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One of the weird things about the lack of an overpowering algorithm is that sometimes I think someone has stopped posting but they literally just started going to bed at a different time than me
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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2006 Me: Holy shit, are you me from the future?
2026 Me: Yep
2006 Me: So, what's it like, do we still run a webserver behind our couch
2026 Me: We're building a printing press in the basement
2006 Me: Why?
2026 Me: Internet's haunted man (cocks gun) Internet's haunted
January 7, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Might just leave it up til the light comes back. 🌲
#Red
January 7, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Gonna start making up fake Midwestern slang to get attention
January 7, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Rep. @rafaelmacias.bsky.social words are a guide:
For all elected officials,then & today,we must remember that we aren't sent here to raise money to fund in a fight for our political careers. We aren't sent here to defend our party leaders and colleague guilty of crimes.
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wgme.com/news/local/t...
'They believed that lie': Maine remembers attack on US Capitol 5 years later
For the first time this year, the state of Maine is commemorating what happened on January 6, 2021.
wgme.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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The perfect two sentence story.
When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.
January 6, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed
January 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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🚨 Breaking News: Wyoming Supreme Court Overturns Country’s First Abortion Pill Ban.

The state supreme upheld access to abortion. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as top court strikes down laws, including pill ban
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down two laws that include the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills
abcnews.go.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt.

This is cruel and unnecessary.

If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The tiniest snow has been falling since just after dark
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Please enjoy the excellent crocheted cat coasters I was gifted last week. 😃🤭
#CatsOfBluesky
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
🪶 A drama told in 3 acts plus a coda, and #AltTextExcellence 🏆!
I watched the Northern Harrier skim low across the line of reeds in front of me. Suddenly it turned and landed, looked into the reeds and around a bit, before leaving. Shortly afterwards, I spotted the Song Sparrow pop out.

🪶
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Oh, I'm gonna circle back on everything tomorrow alright. Changing my auto-reply right now in fact:

Happy 2026 to you! I've had a 10-day taste of freedom so yeah I'm surly & recalcitrant to find your email. We weren't meant to live like this, d'you know that? WE WEREN'T MEANT--

(HR tackles me)
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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(yelling, being dragged across the cheap carpet to whichever of the elevators is working today) THIS IS WHY THEY DONT WANT YOU TO HAVE EXTENDED TIME OFF BECAUSE IT LETS YOU REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE (HR functionary drags me into elevator by my ankles)
January 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Oh, I'm gonna circle back on everything tomorrow alright. Changing my auto-reply right now in fact:

Happy 2026 to you! I've had a 10-day taste of freedom so yeah I'm surly & recalcitrant to find your email. We weren't meant to live like this, d'you know that? WE WEREN'T MEANT--

(HR tackles me)
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption.

Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.

Performative public investigations matter.
Why push for impeachment?

Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.

The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.

Performative public investigations matter
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Everything is terrible but I tried to meditate for a bit today & stumbled into a mindzone where I totally solved what I'm gonna do with the space along the back of the garage the minute it's spring. 🪏🧑🏼‍🌾
January 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Well holy cow, Houston. #Football
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Thread
Typically when the US embarks on an illegal or dubiously legal regime change we use noble words about democracy, rule of law, spreading freedom, etc. to justify our actions. Trump has not done that. He offers few noble words as eulogistic covering. It's a crass power & oil grab, according to Trump.
January 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM