Becca
@beccastevens.bsky.social
Front end dev | unapologetic fat lady | ADHD | Flyover Country, USA | TERFs and transphobes not welcome
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And the worst part is, most times what society understands as "physical perfection" is far away from being healthy and nurturing your body properly, even if those are arguments used to body shame people into unhealthy, gimmicky and overall fucked up diets.
*diet culture doesn’t just mean “being on a diet” for whatever personal reason. please don’t misread this anyone. diet culture is the societal idea that everyone should be striving for “physical perfection” at all times. it’s that thing where nearly *everyone* is on a diet or told they should be.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
And the worst part is, most times what society understands as "physical perfection" is far away from being healthy and nurturing your body properly, even if those are arguments used to body shame people into unhealthy, gimmicky and overall fucked up diets.
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Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Me after every social interaction
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Somethign as expensive as an IPhone should be classified as a "durable good," like a dishwasher or a stove, and not be expected to be replaced ever couple of years. Also, Apple should understand, really understand, that very few people want native AI on their phones, and will stop buying them.
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Somethign as expensive as an IPhone should be classified as a "durable good," like a dishwasher or a stove, and not be expected to be replaced ever couple of years. Also, Apple should understand, really understand, that very few people want native AI on their phones, and will stop buying them.
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Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms.
You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms.
You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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By methods, I mean, "doing tech-centric things without oversight or pushback".
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
By methods, I mean, "doing tech-centric things without oversight or pushback".
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We sit On the In-Universe Dates of DS9's "Past Tense" and one year out from the 30th anniversary of DS9's "Past Tense" (oof), and this would've been a great year to get @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social Avery Brooks, Siddig el Faddil, & Terry Farrell on a Dragon Con stage to reflect on these episodes.
So. Who's got the pictures of all the people in DS9 era starfleet uniforms in San Francisco, today?
Also: Two Days Remain.
writergeekrhw.tumblr.com/post/7602613...
Also: Two Days Remain.
writergeekrhw.tumblr.com/post/7602613...
August 31, 2024 at 3:39 AM
We sit On the In-Universe Dates of DS9's "Past Tense" and one year out from the 30th anniversary of DS9's "Past Tense" (oof), and this would've been a great year to get @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social Avery Brooks, Siddig el Faddil, & Terry Farrell on a Dragon Con stage to reflect on these episodes.
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…which he used to try to separate himself from others.
It's a hard lesson for him, but it's the one that puts the button on the eps: When the boots come down, we're all in it together if we're going to survive, & the only way power acknowledges your dignity is if you refuse to let them look away.
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It's a hard lesson for him, but it's the one that puts the button on the eps: When the boots come down, we're all in it together if we're going to survive, & the only way power acknowledges your dignity is if you refuse to let them look away.
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August 31, 2024 at 4:12 AM
…which he used to try to separate himself from others.
It's a hard lesson for him, but it's the one that puts the button on the eps: When the boots come down, we're all in it together if we're going to survive, & the only way power acknowledges your dignity is if you refuse to let them look away.
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It's a hard lesson for him, but it's the one that puts the button on the eps: When the boots come down, we're all in it together if we're going to survive, & the only way power acknowledges your dignity is if you refuse to let them look away.
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I would not mind if Meta gets completely shut down.
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I would not mind if Meta gets completely shut down.
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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news at 11: sometimes you increase someone's interest in doing a social movement thing that involves personal carry by personalizing it. Artistic care is part of resistance to fascism. Efficiency for efficiency s own sake isn't a virtue.
How on earth can you claim to be a product designer and outright dismiss what people like as a consideration?
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
news at 11: sometimes you increase someone's interest in doing a social movement thing that involves personal carry by personalizing it. Artistic care is part of resistance to fascism. Efficiency for efficiency s own sake isn't a virtue.
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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The conditions for which they’re refusing vaccines look mild to them because they’ve never seen how bad they can be, which is only possible if most of the population does its job. Vaccination isn’t just a personal choice, it’s about fulfilling our obligation to our community to keep everyone safe.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The conditions for which they’re refusing vaccines look mild to them because they’ve never seen how bad they can be, which is only possible if most of the population does its job. Vaccination isn’t just a personal choice, it’s about fulfilling our obligation to our community to keep everyone safe.
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
I was even aware that this happens to people and didn’t realize it was happening to me until the last year or so. I still don’t have an exact diagnosis but I can’t walk or stand longer than 10-15 minutes without debilitating hip and knee pain.
this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
It also fucking sucks that so many people on the Left(s) refuse to understand anti-fatness as a system of oppression, and fat liberation as a legitimate anti-oppression movement.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I was even aware that this happens to people and didn’t realize it was happening to me until the last year or so. I still don’t have an exact diagnosis but I can’t walk or stand longer than 10-15 minutes without debilitating hip and knee pain.
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and to be clear: pretty doesn’t really matter and it’s all fucking subjective anyways and you deserve love and care and your fucking needs met in any body and anyone who tells you otherwise is either trying to sell you something or some kind of f*scist or frankly both
September 29, 2023 at 4:32 PM
and to be clear: pretty doesn’t really matter and it’s all fucking subjective anyways and you deserve love and care and your fucking needs met in any body and anyone who tells you otherwise is either trying to sell you something or some kind of f*scist or frankly both
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Straight men are the unsung proponents of disordered eating RIGHT BEHIND white women.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
Jeff Goldblum starting the same disordered eating shit pushed by the director for Wicked, so it's DEFINITELY reaching straight men too 😬
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Straight men are the unsung proponents of disordered eating RIGHT BEHIND white women.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
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Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
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Good Lord, not this "trend" again...like seriously. I know we're running back the worst of the worst due to outside shit, but leave heroin chic in the fucking dust. I beg.
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Good Lord, not this "trend" again...like seriously. I know we're running back the worst of the worst due to outside shit, but leave heroin chic in the fucking dust. I beg.
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Why Graham Platner is a working-class impersonator.
And why the online left can’t see it.
A THREAD.
And why the online left can’t see it.
A THREAD.
1. When it comes to Graham Platner, I don’t have skin in the game. I live in CT, not ME. The good people of that state will figure out for themselves whether he has the right stuff to be their next senator. Indeed, there’s a lot to sort through, including the story of his Nazi tattoo.
A Nazi tattoo can’t keep a good (white) man down
In asking for trust, Graham Platner isn’t invoking the solidarity of class.
www.editorialboard.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why Graham Platner is a working-class impersonator.
And why the online left can’t see it.
A THREAD.
And why the online left can’t see it.
A THREAD.
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Hello friends, still working on getting paid for my hours lost to injury
Hi, I have spent literally the very last of my money on rent. If you can help me survive to the end of the month with a share or donation, I would be very grateful. Thank you so much.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hello friends, still working on getting paid for my hours lost to injury
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
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November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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and everyone wants to forget that it was liberals (specifically jenny mccarthy and oprah) who resurrected the debunked work of a man whose license was revoked because of it
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
and everyone wants to forget that it was liberals (specifically jenny mccarthy and oprah) who resurrected the debunked work of a man whose license was revoked because of it
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And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
FYI, vaccines do not cause autism.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad