Beca Leckman

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

As a keeper of bees, I fully support the Free Bees initiative! 👍

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

I also rode a hotel elevator in the 80's with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Mexico, and my one takeaway was surprise that he was shorter than 8th grade me.

And my new takeaway from this thread is Arnold must have spent a lot of the 80's in elevators.

...but we actually got to eat ours! And it was good.

The average American has three friends.

Yes, this.

What It Feels Like, Right Now When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …

Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*

from the san francisco chronicle: Prison Overhaul California to spend $239 million turning San Quentin into a Scandinavian-style rehab center with a farmer's market and podcast studio

as a california native I feel qualified to say this may be the most california headline ever

Politics affects everyone.

Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses.

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.

I love this time of year because people will post something super dramatic and vague like “Nooooooo” and I can’t tell if it’s about football or *gestures outside window* all of this.

The woman is all of us.

Amsterdam street filled with cars in gridlock in the ‘70s.

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.

Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

Winning headline:

"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

screencap of a tweet from 2016 that reads "I'm not saying that David Bowie was holding the fabric of the universe together, but *gestures broadly at everything*" from Katie Loewy

9 years later, I'm still thinking about this:

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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Happy Affiliate Marketing Day to All Who Celebrate Black Friday: A good encapsulation of why the internet is the way it is.

"we find that only a small portion of product reviews on the web uses affiliate marketing, but the majority of all search results do"

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SwearSky Bluesky profanity, as it happens

Anyway…

Here’s a visualization of all the curse words being used on Bluesky in real time.

Each word is a cute fluffy little profane cloud.

It’s oddly soothing.

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it absolutely rules to keep seeing the worst people on the internet come on to this site to post “well well well i’m really going to TRIGGER some people here huh,” and them me just hitting one button and never thinking about them again lmao

me *driving past the apocalypse*: Horses

2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?”

2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”

It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “THEY WON’T BE HAPPY UNTIL WE ARE ALL GAY”

It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “AN ALIENATING AND PERVERSE FILM”

It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “A PINK ACID TRIP THAT FEELS LIKE BEING SLAPPED BY LOTS OF CONFUSINGLY ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE”

It is a screenshot of a Threads post from someone named technicallyron and it reads “I took one star reviews of Barbie from furious men on Letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.” And then the image is one of the Barbie posters with Barbie and Ken sitting in her car; she’s smiling at the camera, white sunglasses on her head; Ken is gazing at her vacantly yet lovingly; the word Barbie is splashed across the top in pink and white, and underneath in white all caps letters it says “THE FEMINIST AGENDA WILL KILL US ALL”

Threads is good for something—Barbie memes

i realized one reason bluesky is so cozy, theres no ads at all. really going to suck when this place inevitably starts putting ads everywhere. i wish we could live in an internet where zero ads is possible

Loving? Liking? Adjusting? Tolerating? How are we feeling about this?