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Rebecca Ferrenz

@beccamonster.bsky.social

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[She/They] I'm a thirty-something Chicago freelance photog/photojournalist and classical musician with many pop culture opinions. I love film, video games, and TTRPGs with crunchy math. Would love to develop more local connections (and play board games).

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 1d

The bosses had no idea what they were in for when they asked me to decorate for Halloween 🎃

Little ghost bunting draped over a Smithwick's Ale mirror. There's a small plastic bat attached to the mirror, and it's reflecting a smiling red haired femme who's taking the picture

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 2d

How are we expected to present the best versions of ourselves in job interviews/first dates/etc when *gestures to the hellscape*

"Hi, I've always been anxious (it's a disorder) but I promise I'm usually more fun!"

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 3d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings from the war-torn hellhole of Chicago. I sometimes forget how beautiful this city is.

View of the Chicago river from the corner of the Jackson St bridge. Notably, no one is being shot or stabbed in this image

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller has his own definition of the supremacy clause, I'm sure

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

i guess someone told Miller before bed

6h
There is no legal distinction between a state volunteering guardsmen to guard the border and volunteering guardsmen to guard a federal immigration facility.

Either we have a federal government, a supremacy clause, and a nation, or we don’t.

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 5d

Oh cool cool cool cool my insurance randomly stopped wanting to cover my chronic acid reflux meds, that's great for my singing career

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 7d

My spouse and I helped my partner move into significantly more stable housing today, and I'm so proud to be part of a loving and supportive poly community. ❤️

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 7d

Welp, time to get the party started, I guess.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says Trump is set to federalize the state's National Guard

The Illinois governor said there was "no need for military troops on the ground."

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Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 8d

We certainly know who has never read a goddamn comic book

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 8d

It’s giving SDE

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 8d

Jesus. Cover your drinks when this guy is around.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

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Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 10d

Do I really need more dorky people in my life to love and build community with? Absolutely.

Am I being a grownup and reaching out to those dorks to foster these relationships? Noooooope.

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 14d

Hey y'all can we stop breaking up in public? Cause it makes your restaurant server feel really awkward

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 15d

I took half of an edible and suddenly I'm getting emotional bc women are, just, so PRETTY 😭

This seems healthy, definitely

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 15d

Oh no, it me

Erin Jean Warde @erinjeanwarde.bsky.social · 16d

Cymbalta sun, Trazodone moon, Tylenol rising

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 17d

I took a Lyft to work today, and the driver stared at me in the rear view mirror then ostentatiously switched the radio to a Christian music station and turned up the volume. I guess SOMEBODY'S upset they didn't get raptured

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 18d

5 minutes to go, one last pre rapture thirst trap

White femme with short pinkish hair and a pbc masterpiece mystery tattoo

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 18d

Happy Rapture Eve, everybody! I don't know about y'all, but I plan on strapping myself in like b-pax in Twister to keep it from happening

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 18d

congrats on being so well prepared! time to test my theory that septum rings prevent nonconsensual rapturung!

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 19d

Stephen Miller is not a psychopath. That’s not what this is.

Stephen Miller is a regular, homely, not particularly brilliant White guy who has been given unlimited power.

Why are folks always pretending that bullies have some sort of special mental illness when said bullies are just lowdown?

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Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 18d

How rapturous 💕😂

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Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 19d

I've been seeing a rotation of Northwestern residents. It's been great because they're all young, fresh faced, bushy tailed, and still willing to listen and try to figure out problems unlike their more seasoned counterparts.

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 19d

When you look around your local activist group meeting and see that there isn't a single non-white person there, do you ever think that maybe you're on the wrong side?

is what I would have said to the group renting out a meeting hall where I rehearse, but that would require interacting with them

Rebecca Ferrenz @beccamonster.bsky.social · 21d

After approximately two weeks straight of being Tasmanian Devil levels of busy, I actually have a day to stop and rest. Maybe I'll even have time and/or brainspace to talk to other humans! 😱