Leslie Becker
@leslieregina.bsky.social
Ready for a new experience that’s hopefully more loving and kind than the other places have become.
For Pride month I am posting photos and videos of the Queer Big Apple Corps band. At a time when our protections are being threatened, we must be out loud and proud. Here we are being just that in Queens on Sunday. youtu.be/OF7bmVlDRkY?...
The Queer Big Apple Corps performing Houdini at Queens Pride 2025!
YouTube video by Queer Big Apple Corps Band
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June 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
For Pride month I am posting photos and videos of the Queer Big Apple Corps band. At a time when our protections are being threatened, we must be out loud and proud. Here we are being just that in Queens on Sunday. youtu.be/OF7bmVlDRkY?...
Drumline at Metuchen Pride!
May 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Drumline at Metuchen Pride!
Today is our wedding anniversary. I felt the need to share. ❤️
May 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today is our wedding anniversary. I felt the need to share. ❤️
So, let me get this straight: Marjorie Taylor Greene can heckle the president of the United States during the State of the Union address, but if someone heckles her at some stupid Town Hall with 150 people in attendance, they are tased (yes, tased) and arrested? Who the fuck are we?
April 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So, let me get this straight: Marjorie Taylor Greene can heckle the president of the United States during the State of the Union address, but if someone heckles her at some stupid Town Hall with 150 people in attendance, they are tased (yes, tased) and arrested? Who the fuck are we?
Yankees win! One down, 161 to go!
March 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Yankees win! One down, 161 to go!
Baseball! Let’s go Yankees! (Clap clap clapclapclap!)
March 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Baseball! Let’s go Yankees! (Clap clap clapclapclap!)
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Meanwhile, in the clergy group chat:
March 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Meanwhile, in the clergy group chat:
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
This is our vacuum cleaner, or as Chester calls it “The Enemy.” He has bitten through the hose, and the many reapplications of tape that Lindsay has used in a futile attempt to save the suction. He bravely fights the enemy. But if I sneeze too loudly he runs and hides. That’s Chester!
March 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is our vacuum cleaner, or as Chester calls it “The Enemy.” He has bitten through the hose, and the many reapplications of tape that Lindsay has used in a futile attempt to save the suction. He bravely fights the enemy. But if I sneeze too loudly he runs and hides. That’s Chester!
In spite of congestion pricing, I do still need to drive in once or twice a week, and the lady in the map app always tells me that “traffic is heavier than usual on your route…” and since it’s always heavier, I want to know what “usual” is.
March 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In spite of congestion pricing, I do still need to drive in once or twice a week, and the lady in the map app always tells me that “traffic is heavier than usual on your route…” and since it’s always heavier, I want to know what “usual” is.
While we have been trying to avoid the companies of the billionaires, we do have a number of Alexa devices. And just now now one of them showed me a sausage expert judging sausage. And now I, too, want to be a sausage expert.
March 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
While we have been trying to avoid the companies of the billionaires, we do have a number of Alexa devices. And just now now one of them showed me a sausage expert judging sausage. And now I, too, want to be a sausage expert.
I guess the conductor was tired of how loud the quiet car usually is…
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I guess the conductor was tired of how loud the quiet car usually is…
St. Pat’s in America. The day before and the day after!
March 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
St. Pat’s in America. The day before and the day after!
This is very true.
March 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is very true.
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Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
March 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
The Trump Gang just had the USDA cancel $1.1B in local food purchases for schools and food banks. Farmers lose $, and food insecure children lose meals. Tell me, please, how this makes us great. It doesn’t. It makes us horrible and heartless.
March 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Trump Gang just had the USDA cancel $1.1B in local food purchases for schools and food banks. Farmers lose $, and food insecure children lose meals. Tell me, please, how this makes us great. It doesn’t. It makes us horrible and heartless.
When Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware was misgendered during a hearing, she shot back by calling him “Madam Chair.” And while I appreciate Rep. Keating’s interruption demanding that Rep. Self correct it, I would have liked to see the reaction to the “Madam Chair” comment. Bc fuck that guy.
March 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
When Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware was misgendered during a hearing, she shot back by calling him “Madam Chair.” And while I appreciate Rep. Keating’s interruption demanding that Rep. Self correct it, I would have liked to see the reaction to the “Madam Chair” comment. Bc fuck that guy.
The latest in the mandate that federal workers must return to the office: many of the office leases have not been renewed by order of the department of government not exactly efficient. What a shit show we have become as a nation.
March 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The latest in the mandate that federal workers must return to the office: many of the office leases have not been renewed by order of the department of government not exactly efficient. What a shit show we have become as a nation.
Drumline at today’s St. Pat’s for All parade in Sunnyside, Queens, New York. Where diversity, equality and inclusion are good things.
March 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Drumline at today’s St. Pat’s for All parade in Sunnyside, Queens, New York. Where diversity, equality and inclusion are good things.
I’m not buying anything but I don’t know if it will actually make a difference at all. But I’ll do it!
February 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’m not buying anything but I don’t know if it will actually make a difference at all. But I’ll do it!
Heartbreaking. And scary. Fuck these people.
Breaking News: Iowa lawmakers passed a bill that would eliminate state civil rights protections for transgender people.
Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
If signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Republican-backed measure would eliminate state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Heartbreaking. And scary. Fuck these people.
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The FDA cancelled an upcoming meeting of experts scheduled to discuss next year’s flu shots, stoking fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The FDA cancelled an upcoming meeting of experts scheduled to discuss next year’s flu shots, stoking fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
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Breaking News: Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winner who gave nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” died at 95. nyti.ms/4h8iyJa
February 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Breaking News: Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winner who gave nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” died at 95. nyti.ms/4h8iyJa
Time to cancel your Washington Post subscription if you haven’t already. I did last month. Now I need to break loose from Amazon, a far harder endeavor.
“Jeff Bezos, the owner of the The Washington Post, announced a major shift to the newspaper’s opinion section on Wednesday, saying that it would now advocate for “personal liberties and free markets” and not publish opposing viewpoints on those topics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit
David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Time to cancel your Washington Post subscription if you haven’t already. I did last month. Now I need to break loose from Amazon, a far harder endeavor.
