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Rebecca Webster
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Just a Brit Canadian making her way in the world today...

📍 London, UK
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curlybecs.bsky.social
Late submission to #caturday
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Webster
thebeaverton.com
Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
OROMOCTO, NB - A local man almost lost his home yesterday after his Amazon Alexa smart home device burst into flames. Lloyd Wentworth, 38, says the fire started as he was preparing dinner in his bunga...
www.thebeaverton.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
As seen in Bushy Park today. The 2nd largest of London's Royal Parks was established by Henry VIII as a hunting ground, and named in 1604 after the hawthorn bushes that were designed to protect the Oak trees planted to provide boat timber. #london
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Webster
carlzoilus.bsky.social
Does anyone know if you have to be American (or a U.S. resident) to join this?
August 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
I am shocked at how many Paris hotels think it's acceptable to say there is coffee in the room and then they provide an instant coffee sachet. I don't ask for much but I will never return...
August 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
I'm beginning to think that maybe *we* are the aliens?
a cartoon of two aliens standing next to each other with the word aliens on the top
ALT: a cartoon of two aliens standing next to each other with the word aliens on the top
media.tenor.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
curlybecs.bsky.social
One of my gen X friends called this article "terrifying yet reassuring that others are going through the same thing" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gen X Career Meltdown (Gift Article)
Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
With world news so bleak, I've turned to watching awards shows a day late. #Oscars here I come! #whateverittakes
March 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
So every time something like the trump Gaza AI video hits, you have to force yourself to look at what is happening that they are trying to cover up. It's the only move they have.
February 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
If you do one thing this week, please watch @janefonda.com's speech at the SAG awards - it's available worldwide on @netflix.com Why bother? Because as she points out - what's going on in the world right now is not a dress rehearsal.
a woman in a white suit says yeah in front of a framed picture
ALT: a woman in a white suit says yeah in front of a framed picture
media.tenor.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Please someone make me a Jane Fonda movies bucket on one of my streaming services.
February 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Been thinking a lot about this @wintersleeptheband.bsky.social Amerika video from 2016. Worth the rewatch today. Eerie tbh. youtu.be/bKJ8lszyj1w?...
Wintersleep - Amerika (Official Video)
YouTube video by Wintersleep
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Weirdest team building experience ever. #severance
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
I'm in week three of an English law and the legal method course and it just seems apt that we are focusing on the constitution and equity at the moment....
February 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
curlybecs.bsky.social
From the Luck reunion newsletter... "January has been a long year."
February 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
curlybecs.bsky.social
I know there's a lot going on in the world but

I took a run today through the local cemetery and it was super windy due to the storm

I noticed a grave I hadn't seen before and it was simply engraved with Big Arthur on it.

I've been thinking about it ever since. ✌🏼
January 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Webster
phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
If I've ever wondered how Canadian am I before, it was proven this morning as I went to buy some eggs and I felt so excited to feel cold frosty air and blue skies. Who knew that my winter training would get triggered in London?!! ☃️
January 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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stuberman.bsky.social
So many friends and friends of friends in LA have had their lives completely upended by these wildfires. Here’s a list of affected musicians/industry workers, along with gofundme links. Sadly, the list keeps growing. Please consider donations if you have the means. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Support The Music Community - Fire Loss
docs.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Daily win today in Richmond Park #london
December 30, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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rhodri.biz
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Reassuring to find #duvetknowitschristmas on bluesky!
rhodri.biz Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · Dec 21
A lovely appreciation of #duvetknowitschristmas (amongst other things) by Kathryn.
December 24, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Webster
kjcharleswriter.com
UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important.

www.gov.uk/government/c...
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2024 at 9:46 AM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Sneaking one in for #Caturday
December 21, 2024 at 11:30 PM
curlybecs.bsky.social
Ooh Luck Reunion sent out a holiday playlist and it's a nice ride 🤠. open.spotify.com/playlist/3XE...
Love Letters: Pretty Paper Holidays
Playlist · luckreunion · 24 items · 11 saves
open.spotify.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:34 PM