Rebecca Ore
@rebeccaore.bsky.social
SF and F writer, now with a finished espionage/gay family cosy looking for a publisher. Have been living in Nicaragua since 2010. Also take photos for Alamy, a stock agency in the UK. Interested in watching foxes follow cats into self-domestication.
I'm doing a short distance move of around one and a half blocks. Smaller place, one big room with a large front patio with stone pavers and a partial roof, bathroom with cold water shower, more reliable water than here because the land lady has a big storage tank, more electric outlets.
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I'm doing a short distance move of around one and a half blocks. Smaller place, one big room with a large front patio with stone pavers and a partial roof, bathroom with cold water shower, more reliable water than here because the land lady has a big storage tank, more electric outlets.
Alternative renewable energy sources in Nicaragua: geothermal as long as the volcano doesn't blow, wind along the Pacific, solar panels, and hydro. Some still cook with wood. Hydro produces a high percentage of Nicaraguan electricity from two lakes around ten miles from here.
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Alternative renewable energy sources in Nicaragua: geothermal as long as the volcano doesn't blow, wind along the Pacific, solar panels, and hydro. Some still cook with wood. Hydro produces a high percentage of Nicaraguan electricity from two lakes around ten miles from here.
nida.nih.gov/research-top... The moral of the data looks like don't mix cocaine with opiates. Also, looks like drug deaths are declining, and teens are using them less.
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
nida.nih.gov/research-top... The moral of the data looks like don't mix cocaine with opiates. Also, looks like drug deaths are declining, and teens are using them less.
The health care stuff. Medicare and Medicaid (for the poorest, generally on welfare) were President Lyndon B. Johnson (New Deal Democrat)'s projects in 1965. They were much contested at the time. Bill Clinton ran on a platform that included a national health plan. It didn't happen.
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The health care stuff. Medicare and Medicaid (for the poorest, generally on welfare) were President Lyndon B. Johnson (New Deal Democrat)'s projects in 1965. They were much contested at the time. Bill Clinton ran on a platform that included a national health plan. It didn't happen.
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So who was sure that our military couldn't have some bad actors.
So who was sure that our military couldn't have some bad actors.
'Fort Bragg Has a Lot of Secrets. It's Its Own Little Cartel'
A new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, reveals new details of drug dealing and murder at North Carolina base, the command center for U.S. Special Forces.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
So who was sure that our military couldn't have some bad actors.
So who was sure that our military couldn't have some bad actors.
Nashville, like most cities, went for the Democrat (Davidson County). Tennessee otherwise -- ugh. As they said in the Middle Ages, "city air frees people."
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Nashville, like most cities, went for the Democrat (Davidson County). Tennessee otherwise -- ugh. As they said in the Middle Ages, "city air frees people."
(1 of 2) Nothing is more annoying than "wars on drugs," without treatment plans for the customer base and high level support for going after the people at the top. Supply and demand. A friend worked in a VA hospital alcohol treatment ward. There were no provisions for drug treatment.
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
(1 of 2) Nothing is more annoying than "wars on drugs," without treatment plans for the customer base and high level support for going after the people at the top. Supply and demand. A friend worked in a VA hospital alcohol treatment ward. There were no provisions for drug treatment.
(1 of 2)A number of years ago, a National Police informant made up shit, and a family believed from bad advice to be drug dealers tried to outrun what they believed to be car hijackers and were gunned down.
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
(1 of 2)A number of years ago, a National Police informant made up shit, and a family believed from bad advice to be drug dealers tried to outrun what they believed to be car hijackers and were gunned down.
Since I'm in Nicaragua, I can ignore eating turkey and share a filete de pollo con mi gata, la jefa de mi casa.
The Asia Mall had light and dark soy sauces and oyster sauce but not the $16 a bottle. So far, the Chinese are doing department stores, not food stores. I've been in four of them.
The Asia Mall had light and dark soy sauces and oyster sauce but not the $16 a bottle. So far, the Chinese are doing department stores, not food stores. I've been in four of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Since I'm in Nicaragua, I can ignore eating turkey and share a filete de pollo con mi gata, la jefa de mi casa.
The Asia Mall had light and dark soy sauces and oyster sauce but not the $16 a bottle. So far, the Chinese are doing department stores, not food stores. I've been in four of them.
The Asia Mall had light and dark soy sauces and oyster sauce but not the $16 a bottle. So far, the Chinese are doing department stores, not food stores. I've been in four of them.
The 80 " by 20"by 19.5" 130 gallon fish tank has left the house going to its new home. Luis and I went out earlier for new pillows and a bath mat and found oyster sauce at the Asian Mall. They had small rice cookers but no induction burners. Most of what was on display was Christmas stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The 80 " by 20"by 19.5" 130 gallon fish tank has left the house going to its new home. Luis and I went out earlier for new pillows and a bath mat and found oyster sauce at the Asian Mall. They had small rice cookers but no induction burners. Most of what was on display was Christmas stuff.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
One of my friends in Floyd County, VA., hated the local midwifes trained at The Farm in Tennesee. She did ambulance runs to save lives that the shouldn't have been trying home delivery with non-licensed midwifes.
One of my friends in Floyd County, VA., hated the local midwifes trained at The Farm in Tennesee. She did ambulance runs to save lives that the shouldn't have been trying home delivery with non-licensed midwifes.
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
One of my friends in Floyd County, VA., hated the local midwifes trained at The Farm in Tennesee. She did ambulance runs to save lives that the shouldn't have been trying home delivery with non-licensed midwifes.
One of my friends in Floyd County, VA., hated the local midwifes trained at The Farm in Tennesee. She did ambulance runs to save lives that the shouldn't have been trying home delivery with non-licensed midwifes.
One reason I love John Keats is he realized women were as smart as men, and his mistrust of them was his fault and something he needed to get over. His fiancee made clothes; he made poetry. She was good at what she did, too.
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One reason I love John Keats is he realized women were as smart as men, and his mistrust of them was his fault and something he needed to get over. His fiancee made clothes; he made poetry. She was good at what she did, too.
The fish have left the house and I've been paid what I agreed for the tank and stand when Luis's friend can get a longer truck. The tank is 80 inches long. I suspect my electric bill will go down some since I won't be running two filters full time. I now have space on one wall.
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The fish have left the house and I've been paid what I agreed for the tank and stand when Luis's friend can get a longer truck. The tank is 80 inches long. I suspect my electric bill will go down some since I won't be running two filters full time. I now have space on one wall.
Been thinking about the difference between Nicaragua and the US in terms of sex and sex works. US Embassy in Costa Rica supported a whore retraining class that see old whores as future domestic servants. Nicaragua set up a training program to turn retired sex workers into legal aides.
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Been thinking about the difference between Nicaragua and the US in terms of sex and sex works. US Embassy in Costa Rica supported a whore retraining class that see old whores as future domestic servants. Nicaragua set up a training program to turn retired sex workers into legal aides.
Sandwich thrower not guilty, per NY Times breaking news alert.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Sandwich thrower not guilty, per NY Times breaking news alert.
I'm amused to hear on one of the late night shows that using lots of SF and fantasy in training LLMs has created AIs that believe that they're sentient. I'd wondered what sorts the Large Language Models were going to come up with if they were trained on all the samples as if all were real.
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I'm amused to hear on one of the late night shows that using lots of SF and fantasy in training LLMs has created AIs that believe that they're sentient. I'd wondered what sorts the Large Language Models were going to come up with if they were trained on all the samples as if all were real.
This is pretty amazing. Spain added descendants of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades to citizens of their former colonies and descendants of Sephardic Jews to either very quick resettlement on asylum claims or full citizenship.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades
About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland
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November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is pretty amazing. Spain added descendants of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades to citizens of their former colonies and descendants of Sephardic Jews to either very quick resettlement on asylum claims or full citizenship.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
My British friend recommended this one and said Andy Griffith surprised her his performance in this. Also, another movie from an earlier time that's still relevant in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJO0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJO0...
A Face in the Crowd (1957) full HD
YouTube video by Davide Chiappetta
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October 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
My British friend recommended this one and said Andy Griffith surprised her his performance in this. Also, another movie from an earlier time that's still relevant in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJO0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJO0...
Couldn't find Casablanca the whole movie, so started watching DEADLINE USA also with Humphrey Bogart. Newspaper and politics. The importance of a free press and the courage that can require.
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Couldn't find Casablanca the whole movie, so started watching DEADLINE USA also with Humphrey Bogart. Newspaper and politics. The importance of a free press and the courage that can require.
Enough of the corrupt criminal conspiracy in the US. I'm going to rewatch CASABLANCA, with some irony. From 1942.
October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Enough of the corrupt criminal conspiracy in the US. I'm going to rewatch CASABLANCA, with some irony. From 1942.
My British friend called today to tell me that some professor wanted to take an abandoned cat and all her recently born kittens. My first question was "Is he a biology professor?" She'd thought the same thing and wasn't going to give him mom and kittens. This is a rough country for cats .
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My British friend called today to tell me that some professor wanted to take an abandoned cat and all her recently born kittens. My first question was "Is he a biology professor?" She'd thought the same thing and wasn't going to give him mom and kittens. This is a rough country for cats .
The horror for me is the racism of our projects in other people's countries. Trump wrecking the White House is number two, an obliviousness to the past.
October 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The horror for me is the racism of our projects in other people's countries. Trump wrecking the White House is number two, an obliviousness to the past.
North Carolina, pay attention.
Please watch and share widely my friends…
This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
North Carolina, pay attention.