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Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

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Noted census-designated-place crank. (she/her)

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Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

I appreciate East Bay Regional Park District’s commitment to outreach, but they may have hit saturation.

A stack of three Activity Guides for November-December 2025 from the East Bay Regional Park District, all delivered to my house in the last four days.

October 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

The comic strip Dumpling only showed up recently in the SF Chron, and I haven’t been super into it but these panels were the best Mother’s Day joke in the comics today:

First panel: character says, “MY MOM DOES ALL THIS WORK RAISING ME….”
And in the second panel, the character says, “AND PEOPLE KEEP ASKING
ME IF I'M RAISED BY WOLVES!”

May 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

Catholic universities need to lock in and be ready to drop the splash pages when one of their alumni becomes Pope, like UC/Stanford/Harvard when the Nobel Prizes are announced:

Screenshot of a google search result for Villanova University, which features "Notable alumni" such as John L. Hennessy, Howie Long, Paul Arizin, Tim Donaghy, but, notably, not the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, a 1977 graduate of Villanova.

May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

Btw, highly recommend calling while drinking beer out of a DEI pint glass

Pint glass saying “Great Women of Science”, and a drawing of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose understanding of Cepheid variable stars is critical to measuring astronomical distances.

February 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

Bluesky users waking up their wives to show them important posts:

Frog trying to convince Toad to get out of bed

December 16, 2024 at 4:43 AM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

Started reading Four Lost Cities, by @annaleen.bsky.social , and got all the way to page three before OOF:

“If you substitute the word politics for "astrology," Evans' observation could have been made about the design of any number of cities over the past 1,000 years. City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban life. As a result, cities may look awe-inspiring but aren't particularly resilient against disasters like storm floods and drought.
And the more a city suffers from the onslaughts of nature, the more contentious its political situation becomes. Then it's even harder to repair shattered dams and homes. This vicious cycle has haunted cities for as long as they've existed. Sometimes the cycle ends with urban revitalization, but often it ends in death.”

November 9, 2024 at 10:14 PM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

I haven’t been knitting a ton lately, but socks are my favorite, and I always have a pair going! #ShowMeYourKnits #Socks #socktober

October 5, 2024 at 8:03 PM

Becky

@rstanek.bsky.social

Hello Bay Area! We might get an atmospheric river next week. Are your drains ready? (Cleaning this drain took me all of two minutes.) (to be fair, pulling weeds in the gutter took another eighteen)