Becca Knox
@seattlebecca.bsky.social
Parent to young adults, greyhound companion, transit nerd, YIMBY
Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.
Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
The Verge@theverge.com · last mo.As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
This is an edit made by a #wnba fan (@loslynx on the clock app). I’m sharing this because the league could have done this but they chose to lean into antagonism as a motif when the camaraderie and sisterhood is what makes the W so unique.
When this nation’s first president chopped down one cherry tree, he was honest and contrite. When the current president chopped down a slew of cherry trees, he did so in violation of a court order—and didn’t give a shit.
the guys throwing dildos at wnba games are doing sexual assualt. that's sexual assault. they should be sentenced to a life of getting dildos thrown at their faces whenever they leave the house.
You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport? Naturally talented athletes. And people with high hemoglobin. And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches. Why should they be allowed to compete? “Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit.
One-bowl chocolate cookies with roasted hazelnuts pleased my guests immensely tonight. Just one left!
People like Natalie Harp are why the second Trump term has been a total and complete disaster. He's a senile midwit who has surrounded himself with lickspittle extremists because no one else can stand working for him. Talking about Natalie Harp gets that message started to the normies.
We should pledge to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the USA when we have a patriotic President in the White House--not a vile, traitor who attempted a coup and incited the Jan 6 attack on our own Capitol.
Republicans stand for nothing and believe in nothing, it's just a big club for rapists and sadists to help get each other off, legally and sexually
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4mo agoTrump now says it’s just “common sense” for Iran to have a nuclear program. trib.al/sN0q5XU
The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.
KUOW Public Radio@kuow.org · 5mo agoThe Seattle Police Department is looking for a suspect in the murder of a University of Washington student Sunday night. This is a developing story and will be updated as we have more information.
Delightful gathering of the Transit Tribe in PDX today to handoff the last of the retiring Type 1 light rail cars after 40 years of service!
Rubber Duckie, you're the one. You make bathtime lots of fun. Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you.
Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
a single vote in the court against birthright citizenship should prove to every liberal court reporter or follower that it is an illegitimate institution that should never be taken seriously and needs to be diminished or fully abolished rather than reformed it won't be of course but it should be
GENO!!!!!!! GEEEEENNNNNOOOOO!!!!! SEATTLE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status... all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile)@thrasherxy.bsky.social · 7mo ago“We are taking back your papers, you have no papers now” is even more chilling than “show us your papers”
