Becca

Discourse analysis (framing/positioning), brand strategy, content creation. @WesterosCraft social media. Feminist. Atheist American Jew. Always a nerd. She/her.

[Becca @alpacaficus]

@ceanndach @timjacobwise Marching with the Confederate flag is the opposite of patriotic

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@AmberGlennDaily The real yuri on ice

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@merry_shai There's an ice cream pop-up in DC that's only open 9am-1pm. Am I going to get breakfast ice cream there this weekend? Yes.

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@RandalfTheGreat This was basically my first ever video game. I had no idea what was happening but I didn't care because it was so cool

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

I would much rather live in a society where everyone has healthcare, housing, and food than a society where one trillionaire now owns more wealth than half the country.

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@KomaCampbellVA @waltermasterson I am very much so a progressive who would absolutely be voting for a Democrat in LA elections if I still lived there...You are the person who misunderstood a joke making fun of conservatives who can't vote for LA mayor because they don't actually live in the city of LA.

[Becca @alpacaficus]

@KomaCampbellVA @waltermasterson (The post is a joke. All of the places mentioned are not within the City of Los Angeles, and residents can't vote for LA Mayor.)

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@johnniac_3 @wrongstoryshort @ThatchEffendi It follows the books extremely closely wtf are you talking about?

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@johnniac_3 @ThatchEffendi The polycule is canon in the books lol

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@HimejoshiLover She looks like a painting, and I mean that as the highest level of praise

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@realZacZook @EricLevitz @grok Considering the Department of Education is rushing to rehire people after the cuts decimated the department's ability to manage things like student loans, I think those "bureaucratic Karens" were actually pretty important https://t.co/Pg2zFNDQ5b

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@EricLevitz @realZacZook @grok I can't imagine the federal government laying off 300,000 people helped, either

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@Pacifist_Elk @TheJakeChristie A Hasidic Jew learning that Reform Jews exist doesn't mean that the Hasidic Jew would give up his practices/beliefs

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@mmann0695 @RealTamie https://t.co/CjVeOuxFOU

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@JoshRaby That's one thing that Disney has surprisingly gotten right. They often include making-of featurettes on their platform

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@JimDMiller @tdietterich @arxiv You shouldn't cite a text you can't understand...

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@jrkazoo @PpollingNumbers The current person in charge is actively punishing Democrat-led states by withholding emergency funds. He's literally withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid money from California because he doesn't like the governor...How is this not already 1 party rule? https://t.co/aonHCHQU5o

[Hutch @hutchinson]

This is probably a “top 5 most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done” moment right here.

It’s stunning. Sue the government that you’re in charge of, order them to settle, then plunder ~$2B worth of taxpayer money to pay himself and his corrupt idiot friends.

[Becca @alpacaficus]

@PillBog @facetedcarapace I said that I was a WesterosCraft mod (and did digital strategy/comms) on the resume that got me my current digital media/marketing job 5 years ago

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Interesting to me that the Met Gala gets compared to the Hunger Games more than the Oscars red carpet or the Super Bowl halftime show. All of these involve spectacle, celebrities, and extreme displays of wealth. Notably, only one of them is a charity for a public institution (the Met Gala, which is a fundraiser for The Met Museum).

The difference, I think, is that the Met Gala leans more into unusual outfits. That's natural, given that it's a fundraiser for a costume institute. But to me, the perpetual criticism — which comes up year after year — speaks to how people see fashion as frivolous and not as "serious" as other corners of culture, such as sports or movies. The more extreme the outfit, the more offends the public, even if such work is an expression of artisanship and craft, no different from an artist creating a painting.

I've said it before, but Western culture has a long history of seeing clothes as frivolous, even if everyone engages in self-fashioning. And it's notable that "serious" areas of culture are often masculine-coded (e.g., architecture), while feminine-coded interests, such as fashion, are considered frivolous.

One can reasonably question whether the Bezos are trying to whitewash their reputation through the fashion industry (although I would note that we are all participating on Elon Musk's platform, so I see some hypocrisy among some who criticize the Met Gala but won't deactivate their accounts). But I also think we can tax the rich and encourage them to donate to public causes, including institutions like the Met. Given my interests, I also think we should take fashion and clothing more seriously. Thankfully, some real researchers and academics are making headway in that regard.