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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder

@rebelmusicteach.bsky.social

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Elementary music teacher, Ph.D. candidate at CMER at University of South Florida. Public schools (& teachers’ unions) forever & ever. Raising & teaching Gen Alpha.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · Aug 1

Last year, I wrote a book about teaching musical concepts through popular music in the K–20 classrooms. If that is your kind of thing, you can purchase it as a downloadable here through the fabulous publisher F-Flat Books.

fflat-books.com/product/guid...

Guide to Teachable Features in Popular Music | F-flat Books

Guide to Teachable Features in Popular Music is a resource that includes decade’s worth of compiled songs with teachable features.

fflat-books.com

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3h

I felt the same when I rewatched Bill & Ted for the first time in decades. Could not take my eyes off of Keanu.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3h

My brother watched Speed (when he was 6 or 7) on VHS daily. I had this film memorized at some point.

Tompoleon @tompoleon.bsky.social · 6h

Speed 🥵

a man is standing on a bus holding onto a railing .

ALT: a man is standing on a bus holding onto a railing .

media.tenor.com

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3h

She is a goddamned magnet. I’ve noticed watching 80s & 90s movies when you see an actor as their younger selves that you start to think “oh yeah, that’s how they got so famous.”

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3h

I refuse to believe that none of those women in the bloodline are queer.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3h

Very pro-cop movie, too?? Like he comes from Arizona without a friggen warrant?? No way, dude.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3h

This morning we watched Practical Magic, for the first time. The story was bonkers, way more than I expected, the tone was wildly uneven, but the vibes were immaculate.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 3h

long island duck, long island, new york, [between 1972 and 2008]

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 7h

Not that she was a lyricist? But it has me shook.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 7h

Y’all are freaking me out the day after Diane Keaton’s death.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

My mother, who got the same haircut as Keaton in the 70s, is not doing well with this news.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll get rid of the continued associations with abusers, though. We have to learn something as our elders pass.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

No one aged more gracefully than Diane Keaton. She was the blueprint. May we all be so lucky to be as badass, well into our 70s.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

Getting a table to eat at was frighteningly similar to finding a parking spot at UCF circa 2006.

A gigantic & completely packed food court inside the new H-Mart in Orlando. There are people milling about & standing everywhere, no tables readily available.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 1d

OF ALL THE PEOPLE TO FUCKING TAKE

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it’s in the works.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

It VERY MUCH has that feel.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Orlando, where we now have the largest H-Mart, complete with car dealership American flag bunting on the front.

Storefront of H Mart, with red white & blue flag bunting on the front. There is a red sign that says “GRAND OPENING SEP. 25th 2025” at 10:00am”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

They’re actively working to resegregate housing, and our “allies” refuse to name racism while they’re doing so...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important post.

It’s a well-worn tread, but learning accommodations benefit *everyone*

Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · 1d

So what exactly are autistic needs?

This is probably the most confusing aspect of autism.

I think the reason this confuses so many people (even autistic people) is that autistic needs are literally just human needs.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

That original Mozart effect article was total crap, too!!

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dankcello-ween @danielketter.com · 1d

I still suspect the people doing machine learning with classical music don’t understand it well enough to train the machines, it doesn’t work like text, has a different topology, even within individual styles of music but especially across. Nothing against them, people generally don’t understand it

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding the wave or will the wave destroy us?

www.theguardian.com

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 1d

I was absolutely thinking of her. 💖

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

When she passed someone had written that she was the best songwriter in a band with Stevie Nicks and the best musician in a band with Lindsey Buckingham.

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