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Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social |
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Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, union strong and proud. She/her. Exuberant, always. rvalentine@ign.com, Signal: duckvalentine.25
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Rebekah Valentine
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I'm extremely online and I only learned about it two weeks ago and still am foggy on the details beyond "Very Bad". I'm working on doing my part but I think we may need to slam on an information accelerator here, collectively
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Rebekah Valentine
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My dad's in the hospital and I'm more exhausted than I've been in my life so if you're going to reply to argue with me at this time, please don't.
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Rebekah Valentine
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I frankly loathe all these people but only one of these two parties will hold a free and fair election again in four years so we can try and repair a fraction of the damage these old assholes keep doing, and I need that party to figure its shit out yesterday or we're extra boned here.
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Rebekah Valentine
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I think it's fine to admit we really don't know what the fuck is going to happen in November or whether or not it's Biden or Harris who could best get the job done at this stage, but I'm gonna need the Dems to stop dicking around and be serious-minded about the plan either way
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Rebekah Valentine
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im still so happy with my little electric kettle I bought six or so years ago on their rec! every recommendation i've seen in recent years has been overpriced and irrelevant :(
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Rebekah Valentine
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Get a will, get an advanced directive, and talk to your families (seriously!!! don't blow it off with jokes!) about what you want. sent from the hospital amid a lot of exhaustion, as the kid of an adult who treated this all like a joke for way too long.
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Rebekah Valentine
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I don't care if you're in your 20s or 30s and the picture of health. Do not leave undue burdens to your children or friends or strangers - get your shit in order now. You can always make changes later if you change your mind about your wishes or have different life circumstances.
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Rebekah Valentine
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To all my friends: please, please start taking steps now to make sure you have a plan in place for what happens if you are hospitalized, deeply ill, unable to make decisions for yourself, or God forbid, die or are in danger of it.
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Rebekah Valentine
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<3
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Rebekah Valentine
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A fun game I've been playing all week is "what time do I need to show up at the hospital each day to be able to speak to someone who has any information for me at all"
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Carolyn Petit
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lol i literally just applauded in my apartment as a dog hit a home run in a baseball video game
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Costa Samaras
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As someone who is terminally online it brings me no joy to report the truth that showing up to a public meeting, calling an elected representative, writing a public comment for a regulation, and voting has more positive impact than 92,000 posts.
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Jon Bois
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hey we’re out of ketchup. can someone who’s on the way over here pick up some ketchup
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Amelia Emberwing
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I sat down with Antony Starr to chat about Homelander, the coup, and his strangest scene yet on #TheBoys
www.ign.com/articles/the...
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Rebekah Valentine
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I love praising those goobers for good behavior. It makes them so happy to be praised and making an animal happy makes me happy. I can't wait to get a dog again.
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cait
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Rebekah Valentine
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nobody asked but the other two are Dev Patel and Florence Pugh, I just think they're both so pleasant to look at, that's all!!
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Pretty Good Mike
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alone in my apartment all day, every couple of hours i’ll say some shit out loud like “that’s not what that means” and then won’t say anything else for another couple of hours
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*walks up to my cat* Are you mad at me??
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Imran Khan
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Hrm
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Luke Plunkett
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ive been consulting with indies for nearly 12 months now and in that time ive found one constant: nobody knows how to present or market their own game, and by the time they try to get help, it's usually already way too late
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Rebekah Valentine
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I'm demi sexual and Manny Jacinto is being added to the list of now-three celebrities I look at and go "ohhhhh beautiful"
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Paris Marx
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who knew all it would take was a hot sith to make me interested in star wars again
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☀️ Starshine
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they have these gatherings of annoying people called city council meetings and if you bring a couple other annoying people regularly you can actually accomplish a lot
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Rebekah Valentine
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They did it!
www.ign.com/articles/nin...
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Rebekah Valentine
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i am in hell
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Imran Khan
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She’s posing for the flag of Luccastania. No one is allowed to live there except Lucca.
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Rebekah Valentine
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Me, daily: huh, I wonder why Imran left this canned air in the kitchen. Better put it back.
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Rebekah Valentine
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the library RULES
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Rebekah Valentine
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really comin down out there
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Rebekah Valentine
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i want to go home :(
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Rebekah Valentine
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can you imagine having at least one candidate on the ballot that you, for the most part, liked just fine? like one whose platform was mostly pretty good and who had personality and wasn't about to fall over dead and had a shot at winning? i try to imagine it sometimes! what a fantasy!!!!!!!!
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Rebekah Valentine
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literally all i'm saying is that this is important and those who are able to do this should.
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Rebekah Valentine
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right, I don't think we should do THAT, but this was originally about calling reps/writing emails/showing up however we can to tell them we care about policies we care about. the target thing was just my friend pointing out an example of this being effective in (unfortunately) the wrong direction
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Rebekah Valentine
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thank you so much for explaining, I agree! I do think it's important to remind people TO do this though (hence why I posted) because I think a lot of folks like me (FT working adult, very online) get caught up complaining online about stuff all day when we could direct that energy to calling reps
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Rebekah Valentine
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awesome thank you and appreciate the clarification!!
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Rebekah Valentine
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hey I say this fully respectfully, I don't know you really and with the current vibe cannot tell if you're being sarcastic or sincere or snarky or what - like I cannot read the tone of this conversation and it's got me a little bit on my back foot here.
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Rebekah Valentine
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we're having a conversation about encouraging people to call up their representatives, write them, fax them, do actual dedicated outreach. is your suggestion that we not do this?
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Matt Caulder
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Literally all of the "Target removes their Pride collection" type things are because old people with no much time on their hands emailed and yelled and called literally everyone they knew about it
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Rebekah Valentine
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if you feel bad about this, think: this second, hundreds of people who are retired or rich or both and have TONS of time on their hands are being REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING in an effort to push policies that deprive the rest of us of our rights. we MUST out-annoying them, by any means!
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it's gita time
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If they don’t meet your ask you have to make them fucking hate you, that’s how democracy works
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it's gita time
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Ppl are retweeting this and I just want to add that faxing is THE most annoying thing to do to your representatives. There are websites where you can fax for a small fee and those machines are LOUD and then at the very least they have to deal with all the print outs.
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it's gita time
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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.
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Rebekah Valentine
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Oh my god, SOMEONE RESCUE THIS POOR MAN FROM THIS CONVERSATION
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.
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Rebekah Valentine
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My feelings about the current state of things is simultaneously that far too many people are unprepared for how bad things will be in our lifetimes, yet *also* far too many people have given up hope in what is and will remain a fight we can win.
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Frances Meh
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look on the bright side in 600 years this will make a shakespearean level play
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loup garoux omegaverse
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I stg at least once per month on Reddit someone has a massive meltdown at me that ends in them deleting their account, and I literally don't do anything on there, I am just vibing saying shit like "my favorite soup is chicken tortilla"
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Rebekah Valentine
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I suppose I should add: it looks like he will be some flavor of okay, for now. Beyond that is up to him.
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