Bec
@becadroit.bsky.social
Probably not a cat. Part poet, storyteller, & artist crammed into an old trenchcoat. Introvert insomniac. ND. MA. Naarm, Australia with words that have gone places.
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Boiling AUSTRALIA
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Boiling AUSTRALIA
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
The age of the Poet is here. Forget the techbros, or the hacker black hats or white hats, the Poets are a hooded cloak away from deploying their poetic licences to put the assonance into AI, using their allusions & juxtapositions to halt the pernicious creeping unrealities of large language models
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The age of the Poet is here. Forget the techbros, or the hacker black hats or white hats, the Poets are a hooded cloak away from deploying their poetic licences to put the assonance into AI, using their allusions & juxtapositions to halt the pernicious creeping unrealities of large language models
When they use all the water &/or get their electricity cut off?
6 or seven A.I. companies are keeping the stock market up(and the job market going down).Any bets on when that bubble will burst?
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
When they use all the water &/or get their electricity cut off?
Living wages, a welfare safety net, & universal healthcare is cheaper, safer, and healthier for everyone than industrial imprisonment, but the US does what the US does...
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Living wages, a welfare safety net, & universal healthcare is cheaper, safer, and healthier for everyone than industrial imprisonment, but the US does what the US does...
some better news:
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria share.google/HxSU9UMQpljw...
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria share.google/HxSU9UMQpljw...
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives
share.google
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
some better news:
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria share.google/HxSU9UMQpljw...
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria share.google/HxSU9UMQpljw...
It's wealth isn't it? It makes everything shinier.
With wealth™️* safe secure ghousing and leisure activities to create social connectedness are no problem so you can chill & be happy.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It's wealth isn't it? It makes everything shinier.
With wealth™️* safe secure ghousing and leisure activities to create social connectedness are no problem so you can chill & be happy.
*Wealth™️ subject to availability, check eligibility criteria before enquiring.
With wealth™️* safe secure ghousing and leisure activities to create social connectedness are no problem so you can chill & be happy.
*Wealth™️ subject to availability, check eligibility criteria before enquiring.
A quick, birdlike clothesmaker
All right I’ll bite who is Taylor Swift
October 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A quick, birdlike clothesmaker
Do we agree this paracetamol/autism BS is a Project 2025 ploy to further disenfranchise US women, blame them for a condition beyond their control, & actually endanger them if they don't take the safest medication available to treat fever while pregnant? But don't believe me, seek medical advice.
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Do we agree this paracetamol/autism BS is a Project 2025 ploy to further disenfranchise US women, blame them for a condition beyond their control, & actually endanger them if they don't take the safest medication available to treat fever while pregnant? But don't believe me, seek medical advice.
I walked a letter to the correct mail box across the street. My neighbour got a package, & left it at my gate just after I received a pic of it outside their door. Tight deadlines, poor map skills, or illiteracy bringing a street together via mutual mail exchange frustration. When do we get a cut?
August 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I walked a letter to the correct mail box across the street. My neighbour got a package, & left it at my gate just after I received a pic of it outside their door. Tight deadlines, poor map skills, or illiteracy bringing a street together via mutual mail exchange frustration. When do we get a cut?
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"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
- Omar El Akkad, Oct 25, 2023
This! So many still won't speak up and out about the truth. Never. Again.
- Omar El Akkad, Oct 25, 2023
This! So many still won't speak up and out about the truth. Never. Again.
July 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
- Omar El Akkad, Oct 25, 2023
This! So many still won't speak up and out about the truth. Never. Again.
- Omar El Akkad, Oct 25, 2023
This! So many still won't speak up and out about the truth. Never. Again.
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Take him to prison, officer.
July 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Take him to prison, officer.
Can we not leave it at elves? Yes yes accuracy in research & yadah yadah knowledge is power but we're in the age of "vaccines cause bubonic plague in orcas so they attack submarines" era so, please, elves?
July 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Can we not leave it at elves? Yes yes accuracy in research & yadah yadah knowledge is power but we're in the age of "vaccines cause bubonic plague in orcas so they attack submarines" era so, please, elves?
Shaking my head in Australian. Is this a well regulated militia or an example of an army deployed by internal tyranny that a well regulated militia is meant to combat?
July 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Shaking my head in Australian. Is this a well regulated militia or an example of an army deployed by internal tyranny that a well regulated militia is meant to combat?
But I won't
I can tell you news—news, you rascals!
July 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
But I won't
Looking forward to 2 Salty 2 Real, The True Salt Path exploring whether editors fail at due diligence to create opps to publish sequels to possibly falsified memoirs, which will then be infinitely easier to promote? It's a flawed business model, but it seems that's the theme of the entire industry.
July 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Looking forward to 2 Salty 2 Real, The True Salt Path exploring whether editors fail at due diligence to create opps to publish sequels to possibly falsified memoirs, which will then be infinitely easier to promote? It's a flawed business model, but it seems that's the theme of the entire industry.
Cat pee on the stairs sounds like a spy code phrase but it's just this evening's main event at my place.
Just keeping it real here.
Just keeping it real here.
July 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cat pee on the stairs sounds like a spy code phrase but it's just this evening's main event at my place.
Just keeping it real here.
Just keeping it real here.
You know the drill #melbourne there's been rain so watch out for flash floods in usual places (like the corner of the good kebab shop), expect public transport delays, drive to conditions (the weather not yours - check yourself for your condition) & mind the Montague St bridge.
July 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
You know the drill #melbourne there's been rain so watch out for flash floods in usual places (like the corner of the good kebab shop), expect public transport delays, drive to conditions (the weather not yours - check yourself for your condition) & mind the Montague St bridge.
Apologies if it seems like I'm only here to complain but, I'm in pain, it physically hurts me to go shopping, and when I have to go I thus attempt to ensure ahead of time the place has what is required. So yeah, I'm annoyed when said place does not in fact have the thing.
June 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Apologies if it seems like I'm only here to complain but, I'm in pain, it physically hurts me to go shopping, and when I have to go I thus attempt to ensure ahead of time the place has what is required. So yeah, I'm annoyed when said place does not in fact have the thing.
Australian retail websites: why they remain utter shiite, a thesis, maybe one day, if I can be bothered, which I can't, which is much like the websites themselves, they should be useful but can't be bothered.
June 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Australian retail websites: why they remain utter shiite, a thesis, maybe one day, if I can be bothered, which I can't, which is much like the websites themselves, they should be useful but can't be bothered.
The emotional toll of always searching for the tiny slippery google mini remote is ruining me. Or would be if nothing else had happened over the last few years, and continues, streamed to the world
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The emotional toll of always searching for the tiny slippery google mini remote is ruining me. Or would be if nothing else had happened over the last few years, and continues, streamed to the world
Winter solstice weekend: car aircon is on after I went to the supermarket as it felt too hot and I have to wear a mask.
The sun is shining and every freaking vehicle has their too bright led lights on casting shadows everywhere.
Meanwhile, far away, bombs fall & starving people are executed.
The sun is shining and every freaking vehicle has their too bright led lights on casting shadows everywhere.
Meanwhile, far away, bombs fall & starving people are executed.
June 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Winter solstice weekend: car aircon is on after I went to the supermarket as it felt too hot and I have to wear a mask.
The sun is shining and every freaking vehicle has their too bright led lights on casting shadows everywhere.
Meanwhile, far away, bombs fall & starving people are executed.
The sun is shining and every freaking vehicle has their too bright led lights on casting shadows everywhere.
Meanwhile, far away, bombs fall & starving people are executed.
Ah. The approximately monthly complaint call to Australia Post.
The call taker was kind, and frustrated on my behalf. We'll see what happens next.
The call taker was kind, and frustrated on my behalf. We'll see what happens next.
June 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Ah. The approximately monthly complaint call to Australia Post.
The call taker was kind, and frustrated on my behalf. We'll see what happens next.
The call taker was kind, and frustrated on my behalf. We'll see what happens next.
Yep do this. And never, ever decide you can clean the gutters by standing on a ladder, unless you really want serious head, back, shoulder and hip injuries.
When I turned 40 I made a specific effort to always reach out for the rail on the stairs. Here at 56 it's now entirely automatic, and has absolutely and literally saved my ass several times.
My “you’re over 30” advice is hold onto the bannister. Stairs will kill you and not even look back
June 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Yep do this. And never, ever decide you can clean the gutters by standing on a ladder, unless you really want serious head, back, shoulder and hip injuries.
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WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II
May 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II
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