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Becs Cheong

@becscheong

; or, Rebecca. Writer and artist. When not reading or writing, can be found painting, crossing the Rubicon, or thinking about Herman Melville. ☠ #mainstream

 PA / New York / Singapore
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Joined April 2009
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“We’re still trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in that whale anatomy.” @JustusBerman, on whether we’re still talking about Melville.
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here are some AI pictures of "sinners in the hands of an angry god"
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Nastia Volynova and I are moderating a discussion of @AstridaNeimanis’s essay “Water and Knowledge” for the upcoming @TBA21Academy #OceanArchive rockpool. Happening on @hereHQ. Join us! Jun 6, 4pm CET (10am ET). RSVP & .pdf here: community.ocean-archive.org/….
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The Price of Admission - worth reading just to see how evil universities can get newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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Replying to @_waterman @kaohu11 @helleringer143
@kaohu11 @helleringer143
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That’s a good pull quote.
Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations (@five_books) profile pictureFive Books - Expert Book Recommendations
@five_books8 Oct 2021
NEW: "The humming restlessness of his writing speaks to me" @HesterBlum of @penn_state recommends the best Herman Melville books and explains why Moby-Dick is always worth rereading: fivebooks.com/best-books/her…
Five Books: The Best Herman Melville Books, recommended by Hester Blum

Five Books: The Best Herman Melville Books, recommended by Hester Blum

The best Herman Melville books, recommended by Melville expert Hester Blum, professor of English at Penn State

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Waiting for half the world to wake up in the morning their time and realize they missed the outage and have no idea what you people are talking about
Omg hell yes
Craig Santos Perez (@craigsperez) profile pictureCraig Santos Perez@craigsperez26 Sep 2021
tomorrow! let's talk about spam with The Atlantic! You can register to watch for free here: theatlantic.com/live/atlanti… #TAF21
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Serious question.
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The Cultural History of the Sea has arrived! Such a pleasure to see these six volumes in the salty flesh/pages!
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“Sometimes I wake up feeling like a grinder profile on a Monday morning. A useless torso.” @becscheong
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Holy what
Joe English (@JoeEEnglish) profile pictureJoe English@JoeEEnglish2 Sep 2021
Replying to @JoeEEnglish
Hero bus driver managed to get us safely through the 3-4 feet of rain coursing down the boulevard, but only seemed to be getting worse. Finally made it through to higher ground and a fellow passenger exclaims ‘oh no I missed my stop..’
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So... today I discovered that Asian riot grrrl is my favorite genre of music nitter.gq/BeckTheGirl/status/139…
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hot off the press: “Penn State and the War Machine,” a zine about DOD-funded research at Penn State from 1945 to the present. co-authored with @jxschneider and illustrated by @dillonrockrohr free in State College, $2 anywhere else. DM me for a copy
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She really thinks "just for supporting their president" is value-neutral, like what flavor of ice cream you prefer, and has nothing to do with the horrific things he's instigated, endorsed, and still dreams of perpetuating.
Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) profile pictureMegyn Kelly
@megynkelly8 Nov 2020
Replying to @jonfavs
You have zero understanding of the mood of 70 million Americans who have been unfairly attacked relentlessly for the past four years as awful ppl just for supporting their president.
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Rob_Nguyen@Rob_Nguyen7 Nov 2020
The news coverage looks roughly like the end of Return of the Jedi Special Edition.
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Congrats to our new Colonizer-in-Chief Joe Biden!
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Omg @CNN “this was the avengers vs thanos”
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