Becky🪼

@killerweasel.bsky.social

She/her Our Flag Means Death, Pacific Rim, etc

Happy riverboat brawl day to all who celebrate! Today is the 3rd anniversary of the Montgomery Alabama river boat brawl! Also, Nathaniel Alexander, a Black man, patented the folding chair we use today in 1911

an artist rendition of the Montgomery Alabama River boat brawl including a painting of the men and women fighting on the dock the man swing and the young gentleman swimming to the fight

35 colors and 2 months later I give you my newest piece East of Eden 🤍 Aziraphale covering Crowley with his wing had me screaming back in 2019 and it's still one of my favorite moments of the entirety of Good Omens. 🐍🪽💛 Ps. It started to rain when I took photos. How ineffable is that? 🥹

An embroidery hoop featuring Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens on the wall of Eden waiting for the rain.

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

*phone rings* Me: Library, how can I help you? Man: FORESTRY! Me: O_o Forestry? Man: *louder* FORESTRY!! Me: Yeah, I need to transfer you to the librarian. It turns out he wanted to buy a rain barrel, which he previously got it from the forestry section of the city, & needed the phone number.

El-Sayed on Islamophobia: "That's the only play they got. They're gonna point at me, they're gonna point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different.' That's the best you got? You can't actually talk about what you want to do? My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is now taking us to war."

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

Pre-Covid, I always thought the 1918 flu memories were just overshadowed by WWI. But now, it’s clearly something about pandemics that just do things to collective memory. I don’t know whether this is unique to modernity but it‘s clear that humans react differently to this type of trauma.

This is Fran. She decided to make you a bowl of her famous bean soup. The secret ingredient is toe beans. 13/10 (TT: franfrannoodles)

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

I usually take a couple of days off around the anniversary of my dad's death because I am filled with sad & don't want to be at work. As I've had to use a bunch of vacation days when I'm going to be late to keep from being suspended, I only have 6 days left until January.