Becca Phillips
@beccaphillips.bsky.social
Former high school math teacher —> now a proud supporter of public schools.
Hoping to be chaotic good.
Mostly I lurk, but I like to think of it as being a good listener.
Hoping to be chaotic good.
Mostly I lurk, but I like to think of it as being a good listener.
Cannot, will not, support this artist since she said she homeschools her kids because “f*ck teachers.”
Meghan Trainor will release her seventh studio album, "Toy with Me," in April. The lead single is a jovial, ‘80s-pop, self-empowerment song, “Still Don't Care."
Meghan Trainor says she 'Still Don't Care' — because her new album and tour are about growth
Meghan Trainor will release her seventh studio album in April. It's called “Toy with Me.” The lead single is a jovial, ‘80s-pop, self-empowerment song, “Still Don't Care,” that features Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying as well as Trainor’s mom, brother and sister-in-law.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Cannot, will not, support this artist since she said she homeschools her kids because “f*ck teachers.”
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again I ask, what is the upside of this technology
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
again I ask, what is the upside of this technology
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Selten hab ich eine so intelligente Lösung gesehen, wie man den Eigentümer eines Geldbeutels kontaktieren kann.
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Selten hab ich eine so intelligente Lösung gesehen, wie man den Eigentümer eines Geldbeutels kontaktieren kann.
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
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Put your fucking shopping cart away and push in your chair
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Put your fucking shopping cart away and push in your chair
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Using ChatGPT
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‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN
As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.
More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...
As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.
More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...
October 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN
As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.
More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...
As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.
More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...
August 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
wapo.st
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com.
Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :)
#mathsky #crochet 🧶
Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :)
#mathsky #crochet 🧶
Granny Life Community Build Project
Granny Life
www.grannylifecrochet.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com.
Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :)
#mathsky #crochet 🧶
Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :)
#mathsky #crochet 🧶
When anyone says they’re going to Paris, I always suggest the Sewer Museum. Two people have taken me up on it, and they were not sorry.
musee-egouts.paris.fr/en/
musee-egouts.paris.fr/en/
August 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
When anyone says they’re going to Paris, I always suggest the Sewer Museum. Two people have taken me up on it, and they were not sorry.
musee-egouts.paris.fr/en/
musee-egouts.paris.fr/en/
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Regular reminder not to tell people something is easy. If the implication you want them to take from saying it’s easy is that they can do it, I suggest you say, “I think you can do it”.
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Regular reminder not to tell people something is easy. If the implication you want them to take from saying it’s easy is that they can do it, I suggest you say, “I think you can do it”.
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What I hope comes out of this national reckoning is a confrontation with the culturally-informed sense of entitlement men feel to sex with teenage girls. It is more pervasive than I think most understand. I had my eyes opened in the 00's working for the biggest dating website you've never heard of.
July 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What I hope comes out of this national reckoning is a confrontation with the culturally-informed sense of entitlement men feel to sex with teenage girls. It is more pervasive than I think most understand. I had my eyes opened in the 00's working for the biggest dating website you've never heard of.
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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.
tomlehrersongs.com
tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.
tomlehrersongs.com
tomlehrersongs.com
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I hadn’t seen this 2019 video of @stephencolbert.bsky.social singing with Oscar the Grouch until today, and man oh man, was it just the hopeful reminder I needed. 💞
July 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I hadn’t seen this 2019 video of @stephencolbert.bsky.social singing with Oscar the Grouch until today, and man oh man, was it just the hopeful reminder I needed. 💞
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my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.
Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.
July 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
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Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK
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July 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK
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But you can’t buy one with SNAP, sadly.
the grocery store rotisserie chicken is one of the great modern conveniences
July 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
But you can’t buy one with SNAP, sadly.
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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths
June 22, 2024 at 4:32 PM
a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths
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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
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Today is the last day of my first (and I keep hoping only) fundraising campaign and as of today, I'm just about 4/5ths of the way there. I am enterally grateful to everyone who donated, signal boosted, or reached out with encouragement.
I've written many drafts of this post with the goal of being as cool as @katmabu.bsky.social in her campaign ads but alas!
The dilly: Today is 50 days from my 50th birthday. My goal is to raise $5K for my campaign for town board.
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Steve! is here to help.
The dilly: Today is 50 days from my 50th birthday. My goal is to raise $5K for my campaign for town board.
secure.actblue.com/donate/jennb...
Steve! is here to help.
June 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today is the last day of my first (and I keep hoping only) fundraising campaign and as of today, I'm just about 4/5ths of the way there. I am enterally grateful to everyone who donated, signal boosted, or reached out with encouragement.
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This is the pattern. States introduce broad voucher programs, families with kids already in private schools take advantage of them, and those schools raised tuition.
It was never ever ever ever about rescuing poor kids from bad schools.
It was never ever ever ever about rescuing poor kids from bad schools.
NC made vouchers open to any family, then many private schools raised tuition
Research by Public Schools First NC found many private schools receiving Opportunity Scholarships raised tuition by 15% or more after the state increased voucher funding.
www.wunc.org
June 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is the pattern. States introduce broad voucher programs, families with kids already in private schools take advantage of them, and those schools raised tuition.
It was never ever ever ever about rescuing poor kids from bad schools.
It was never ever ever ever about rescuing poor kids from bad schools.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
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