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Becky W

@bwire.bsky.social

370 followers 470 following 690 posts

Mom, autist, fun musical instruments, mother also of 5 inside cats and ?? outside, mother of Jacob and Henry, wife of many decades to Bob.

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Babs @babsklein2.bsky.social · 21h

Recycling this from 2017.
Women still agree.

Young woman flipping a fascist a double-barreled bird.

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Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 4d

"Where there'll be no tribble a t'all."

Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 4d

*Scalzi hunts down a tortilla.

Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 12d

Glad to see he's pro-war crimes./s obviously

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 13d

Maybe we think of our opponents as evil because they don’t want a functioning democracy.

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hiebs.bsky.social @hiebs.bsky.social · 13d

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 14d

We had weather in the low 80s this week, very pleasant. We're in NW Ohio and the trees have barely started turning colors.

Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 14d

@scalzi.com Thought you might enjoy this!
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Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 15d

My husband and I occasionally forget what day it is since we retired. Although I'm capable of worrying too much even without working.

Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 15d

Probably need something nuclear powered to measure the nanoseconds.

Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 18d

@kenwhite.bsky.social Might make hiking more fun although your wife doesn't need it!

From Xkcd: Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

Futuristic waterslides placed for hikers to go wheeee! down the hills.

Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 19d

😂 😂 😂

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drama @withdrama.bsky.social · 21d

massed affluent liberal spending power vs the sundowning head of the most powerful country ever to exist

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Becky W @bwire.bsky.social · 21d

That only happens to menopausal women, I'm afraid.

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Reinventing_again™ @realityred.bsky.social · 22d

Editorial cartoon depicting Trump as a clown addressing the UN General Assembly. This is from his first term in office.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 23d

"
Learned Hand put it more poetically: “liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.”
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