Rebekah Barker (@norwestorm) profile picture

WBB fan, Storm STH, liberal, verbose, bookworm, gamer, Scorpio, INTP, ADHD, ace, she/her, brabkeb, mosiaho

Seattle, WA
Joined September 2010
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🚨 GOOD NEWS: Bleached corals recovered within seven weeks after touching healthy clones in a Stanford lab study, with researchers saying bleached corals are not a lost cause
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dark at 5pm and no ao3.... these are the perfect conditions for never before seen seasonal depression
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people who don’t immediately click on the author after reading a life changing fic that perfectly understands the characters will never understand the soul-crushing disappointment of finding out that author hasn’t written anything else for that ship
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It’s almost Friday, so there’s really no point in Outlook coming back now. And it’s November, so it’s almost Christmas. No point really coming back until January if you think about it. Let’s circle back then.
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New technologies increase productivity, but you don't get a shorter work day. Lifespans increase, but the retirement age gets pushed back. Under capitalism, every advancement just leads to further exploitation.
"As lifespans increase, people have to prepare, mentally and financially, to work well into their 70s and 80s," per WSJ
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in hindsight, perhaps it was a bad idea to build an entire global economy around whether one man would be faithful to his wife
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I hope they sacrificed outlook to save ao3
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lecturer asked the class "does anyone here read?" and someone replied with "not till the end of the month"...
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This is so funny. Every few years, conservatives get complete control of a city/state and try their policies, only to end in complete and total disaster In Kansas, Republicans launched one of the biggest state tax cuts ever, their signature and only actual policy (besides terrorizing immigrants and restricting women's reproductive rights). As a result, tax revenues dropped by $700 million in the first year, Kansas growth lagged neighbors, and they made such deep cuts to education that even Republicans admitted they severely screwed up and repealed their policies. This should have put supply-side economics in the dustbin of history but Republicans can't read so they fail to learn from history. In Oklahoma, Republicans cut taxes, resulting in a hole so large -- nearly $900 million -- that 20% of school districts had to go to 4-day weeks to save money. Nothing like screwing children so wealthy Republicans get wealthier! Oklahoma ended with about 1,500 fewer teachers and were forced to assign a mileage cap to Highway Patrol because they couldn't afford gas. Great governance, guys. Republicans later admitted their policies were idiotic and repealed many of their policies, raising taxes. Florida's coming disaster will be extremely entertaining to watch. When Republicans actually try to effect policy (rare -- usually they just demonize minorities), it almost always ends in disaster This is why I will never be lectured to by a Republican about their views on taxes
The numbers are truly staggering. Floridians voted to basically defund their local governments.
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marvel gave them a budget of 20 bucks and a piece of string, they spent 90% of it to get patti lupone and managed to outdo most marvel CGI slop with god-like theater esque effects 🙂‍↕️ jac schaeffer you’ll always be famous
I'll always be so amazed by how practical agatha all along was, like what do you mean the curse demon was an actual person in a ton of prosthetics, they flooded a whole room with the actors in action, and built a tower with system to make REAL SWORDS drop on the actors
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A rogue Corgi at the Panthers-Broncos game now has the Week 9 lead for missed tackles
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The incoming amount of companies, law firms, institutions and people who will pretend they never placated to this administration will make your head spin.
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y'all better grow a fucking spine this time
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Medicare for All is what a record-breaking 66% of Americans want, per Kaiser Family Foundation. It would save $1 trillion and 114,000 lives a year, per Yale School of Public Health. No more tinkering around the edges. Let’s get it done.
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There needs to be a COMPLETE reinstatement of every epidemiologist who was fired from the CDC, the reinstatement of the Epidemic Intelligence Service Team, the re-establishment of the U.S.’s relationship with the WHO, and a PUBLIC APOLOGY for pausing all COVID/FLU/RSV test tracking.
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Because after Abrams lost she turned her attention to building the voting infrastructure that would’ve allowed her to win. She set the table for Keisha
So so happy for Keisha, but I hope we unpack why Georgia was able to elect her and not Stacey Abrams.
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Replying to @AzPetrich
BRING BACK THE READY TO LEARN GRANT SO PBS START MAKING NEW PBS KIDS SHOWS ALREADY
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Now give PBS and NPR their damn funding back.
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THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS WOULD LIKE THEIR FUNDING BACK TOO
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And the thing is, canceling student debt does more for the economy than tax breaks for billionaires. It’s a no brainer.
I totally support cancelling student loan debt for 45 million students because they canceled trillions in taxes for billionaires.
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