Becca
@beccabei.bsky.social
I like nature, science, music. Scot in France. Normally I try to take a week off social media per month.
Sad to report I have logged back into social media. I had a peaceful time without it for a couple of months.
October 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Sad to report I have logged back into social media. I had a peaceful time without it for a couple of months.
Currently watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0X4...
AI WEAPONS
YouTube video by We're In Hell
www.youtube.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Currently watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0X4...
Well this is fun so far. www.fathomverse.game
FathomVerse | mobile game
FathomVerse is a mobile game designed to inspire a new wave of ocean explorers and improve AI for ocean life.
www.fathomverse.game
May 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Well this is fun so far. www.fathomverse.game
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Fabulous discussion with Dr. Kate Nave - wide-ranging, nuanced, clear, smart thinking about agency, purpose, life, cybernetics, the FEP, process philosophy and lots more! open.spotify.com/episode/4PKy...
Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals
Many Minds · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fabulous discussion with Dr. Kate Nave - wide-ranging, nuanced, clear, smart thinking about agency, purpose, life, cybernetics, the FEP, process philosophy and lots more! open.spotify.com/episode/4PKy...
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But what about TikTok
The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov
theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...
theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.
theintercept.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
But what about TikTok
Pretty great discussion. Look at all those similarities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5n...
8 Women from 8 Cults Compare Notes
YouTube video by Cults to Consciousness
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Pretty great discussion. Look at all those similarities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5n...
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... “total shutdown” is planned for March 15...
Website for the General Strike:
generalstrikeus.com
OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!
Website for the General Strike:
generalstrikeus.com
OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!
The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
generalstrikeus.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
... “total shutdown” is planned for March 15...
Website for the General Strike:
generalstrikeus.com
OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!
Website for the General Strike:
generalstrikeus.com
OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!
Absolutely loved this book. kathrynmannix.com/books/with-t... I would recommend it to everyone. I'm going to buy extra copies to give away. Don't be put off thinking it will be depressing - there's a lightness of touch that keeps it readable.
With the End in Mind - Kathryn Mannix
It’s a simple truth: We all die It’s a complicated truth: we all fear dying, and we all fear it in different ways, according to […]Read more
kathrynmannix.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Absolutely loved this book. kathrynmannix.com/books/with-t... I would recommend it to everyone. I'm going to buy extra copies to give away. Don't be put off thinking it will be depressing - there's a lightness of touch that keeps it readable.
The Substance didn't gross me out as much as I'd feared. Maybe I'm ready for more Cronenberg (always avoided due to this worry).
January 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Substance didn't gross me out as much as I'd feared. Maybe I'm ready for more Cronenberg (always avoided due to this worry).
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Opportunity to contribute to domestic abuse research
1 month to go for this call for views on the costs of leaving an abusive partner!
Too many people still ask, 'why doesn't she just leave' & finances are a crucial part of that answer. If you have experienced #domesticabuse or support those who have, we need to hear from you.
shorturl.at/UQyEg
Too many people still ask, 'why doesn't she just leave' & finances are a crucial part of that answer. If you have experienced #domesticabuse or support those who have, we need to hear from you.
shorturl.at/UQyEg
Costs of leaving abusive relationships to be explored by MSPs
shorturl.at
January 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Opportunity to contribute to domestic abuse research
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"Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the 'best chili recipe in the world.' Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel?"
Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?
Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...
buff.ly
January 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the 'best chili recipe in the world.' Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel?"
Read this pretty much overnight (finished the next morning) and really enjoyed it.
An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, in...
app.thestorygraph.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Read this pretty much overnight (finished the next morning) and really enjoyed it.
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"Zombie's tattoos were a way for him to tell off the world. But the world didn't get the message ...[and] his perception of himself changed." @socimages.bsky.social's founders @lisawade.bsky.social and Gwen Sharp, 2010, in "Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype." tinyurl.com/SI-SkullFace
January 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Zombie's tattoos were a way for him to tell off the world. But the world didn't get the message ...[and] his perception of himself changed." @socimages.bsky.social's founders @lisawade.bsky.social and Gwen Sharp, 2010, in "Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype." tinyurl.com/SI-SkullFace
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In my latest essay, I explore the 'bag lady' fantasy that haunts the minds of so many women ageing without children, and perhaps even more so those also without partners. And I unpack my own surprising response to meeting my own inner bag lady.
jodyday.substack.com/p/the-3am-ba...
#AWOC
jodyday.substack.com/p/the-3am-ba...
#AWOC
December 7, 2024 at 9:30 AM
In my latest essay, I explore the 'bag lady' fantasy that haunts the minds of so many women ageing without children, and perhaps even more so those also without partners. And I unpack my own surprising response to meeting my own inner bag lady.
jodyday.substack.com/p/the-3am-ba...
#AWOC
jodyday.substack.com/p/the-3am-ba...
#AWOC
Really disappointed that this was voted through as it's deeply flawed. Hope it will be sufficiently amended before becoming law, but I have my doubts.
Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill: What happens next? | Institute for Government
Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed second reading on 29 November by a wider than expected margin, 330–275.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 29, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Really disappointed that this was voted through as it's deeply flawed. Hope it will be sufficiently amended before becoming law, but I have my doubts.
I wish that in documentaries they would have a box come up with the names of the species on-screen the way they do for talking heads. (Like if it's footage of a toad there's a box saying Common toad / Bufo bufo.)
November 24, 2024 at 7:20 PM
I wish that in documentaries they would have a box come up with the names of the species on-screen the way they do for talking heads. (Like if it's footage of a toad there's a box saying Common toad / Bufo bufo.)
Clever!
this is one of my favorite custom feeds, Quiet Posters
it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗
it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗
November 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Clever!
Late to the game, but I am loving Moby Dick. I love how each chapter is a surprise - will it be a detailed explanation of why whales are fish? a story relayed from somewhere else? continuation of the plot?
(Of course there's an In Our Time on Moby Dick. Very helpful to poor atheists like me.)
(Of course there's an In Our Time on Moby Dick. Very helpful to poor atheists like me.)
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Moby Dick
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Late to the game, but I am loving Moby Dick. I love how each chapter is a surprise - will it be a detailed explanation of why whales are fish? a story relayed from somewhere else? continuation of the plot?
(Of course there's an In Our Time on Moby Dick. Very helpful to poor atheists like me.)
(Of course there's an In Our Time on Moby Dick. Very helpful to poor atheists like me.)
Great interview about problems with the assisted dying bill. www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
Alex Ruck Keene KC on assisted dying: 'Parliamentarians are being radically unsupported'
As MPs prepare to vote on assisted dying, Sienna Rodgers talks to barrister Alex Ruck Keene KC who emerged from working on a landmark case with a l...
www.politicshome.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Great interview about problems with the assisted dying bill. www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
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We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
November 23, 2024 at 10:33 AM
We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
I like this feature. Wouldn't have known it was there without this post.
So a good way of making Bluesky more interesting is to explore feeds, subscribe to ones that look interesting, and remember to look at them occasionally - you can go to Settings > Following Feed Preferences and flick 'Show Posts from My Feeds' to Yes. (4/16)
November 17, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I like this feature. Wouldn't have known it was there without this post.
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Over the weekend my follower count ticked past 5,000 - whether you found me on purpose, by accident, or via someone's starter pack, I hope you find my content worth it. By way of thanks here is a thread bringing together stuff that I've found useful during my first 18 months or so on Bluesky. (1/16)
November 11, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Over the weekend my follower count ticked past 5,000 - whether you found me on purpose, by accident, or via someone's starter pack, I hope you find my content worth it. By way of thanks here is a thread bringing together stuff that I've found useful during my first 18 months or so on Bluesky. (1/16)
Can't stop researching assisted suicide & euthanasia given the UK bill. Ended up highlighting a whole lot of this paper on "old age rational suicide" doi.org/10.1111/soc4... then found out there's an end of life studies group at the university of Glasgow gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
Old age rational suicide
In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion...
doi.org
November 17, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Can't stop researching assisted suicide & euthanasia given the UK bill. Ended up highlighting a whole lot of this paper on "old age rational suicide" doi.org/10.1111/soc4... then found out there's an end of life studies group at the university of Glasgow gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
I don't know when it was rolled out (not logged in for ages), but glad to see 2FA here now.
November 9, 2024 at 12:13 PM
I don't know when it was rolled out (not logged in for ages), but glad to see 2FA here now.