Becca
@beccastevens.bsky.social
Front end dev | unapologetic fat lady | ADHD | Flyover Country, USA | TERFs and transphobes not welcome
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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
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Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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I refuse to believe the majority of people think every single wheelchair user is completely immobile. This is able-bodied people bitching because they can see people they think of lesser getting a tiny advantage they don't get, and inventing an ad hoc justification to take it away.
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I refuse to believe the majority of people think every single wheelchair user is completely immobile. This is able-bodied people bitching because they can see people they think of lesser getting a tiny advantage they don't get, and inventing an ad hoc justification to take it away.
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YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
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Let’s help Kivan to have a happy birthday.
It's my birthday on Friday, anything I raise beyond my phone bill ($41.30) will just go to making sure it isn't overwhelmingly depressing (this is the worst time of year in the meat department)
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.
paypal.me/kivabay
cashapp $kivabay
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December 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Let’s help Kivan to have a happy birthday.
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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
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This is efficient. It is trained narrowly and specifically, reducing electrical waste. It does not replace meteorologists because it relies on them to provide data and interpret the results. Not everything with AI in the name is bad and AI is not ChatGPT, that's just Sam Altman's marketing tactic.
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is efficient. It is trained narrowly and specifically, reducing electrical waste. It does not replace meteorologists because it relies on them to provide data and interpret the results. Not everything with AI in the name is bad and AI is not ChatGPT, that's just Sam Altman's marketing tactic.
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Imagine if just once a story like this actually bothered to like, actually understand why some people work to be estranged from abusive families. Instead no, we're just dunking on folks like me.
I'm a domestic abuse survivor and lemme say with my full chest: Fuck reporting like this.
I'm a domestic abuse survivor and lemme say with my full chest: Fuck reporting like this.
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
on.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Imagine if just once a story like this actually bothered to like, actually understand why some people work to be estranged from abusive families. Instead no, we're just dunking on folks like me.
I'm a domestic abuse survivor and lemme say with my full chest: Fuck reporting like this.
I'm a domestic abuse survivor and lemme say with my full chest: Fuck reporting like this.
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Kaiju movie about the vengeful spirit of Tolkien rising from the depths to destroy all tech bros
December 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Kaiju movie about the vengeful spirit of Tolkien rising from the depths to destroy all tech bros
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Tech bro reporters are as bad as tech bros.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Tech bro reporters are as bad as tech bros.
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We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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You should be embarrassed for writing this dreck. It’s not up to you to decide how much antiblackness Cinnabon customers should be forced to endure because you feel sorry for some dumb white broad who couldn’t keep her racist opinions to herself. Shame on you.
Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane.
I wrote about why we should not celebrate someone losing their job, especially in today’s America, even when they’ve done terrible racist things.
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You should be embarrassed for writing this dreck. It’s not up to you to decide how much antiblackness Cinnabon customers should be forced to endure because you feel sorry for some dumb white broad who couldn’t keep her racist opinions to herself. Shame on you.
Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane.
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This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
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Then the other part of this is that you have people like Elon Musk, who also claims to be building an AGI that will be superior to us and understands things we can't and tells us what to do, but every time his AI tells him something he doesn't like, manually hardcodes it to say exactly what he wants
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Then the other part of this is that you have people like Elon Musk, who also claims to be building an AGI that will be superior to us and understands things we can't and tells us what to do, but every time his AI tells him something he doesn't like, manually hardcodes it to say exactly what he wants
The fucking infuriating thing about this is that we have not, in any sense, reach an “age of thinking machines”. Generative AI does not think in any human sense of the word. The idea that it does is purely a marketing ploy.
Close enough
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The fucking infuriating thing about this is that we have not, in any sense, reach an “age of thinking machines”. Generative AI does not think in any human sense of the word. The idea that it does is purely a marketing ploy.
This’ll be interesting and terrible. As discussed by expert many time before, there isn’t actually a way to put meaningful and foolproof guardrails on generative AI. Hope Disney is ready for their characters to be doing some very not-Disney stuff in user created videos…
Disney buying a $1 billion stake in OpenAI, agrees to to bring its characters to Sora and videos made with the short-form video platform will be available to stream on Disney+. thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-dis...
The Walt Disney Company And OpenAI Reach Landmark Agreement To Bring Beloved Characters From Across Disney’s Brands To Sora - The Walt Disney Company
Agreement Marks a Significant Step in Setting Meaningful Standards for Responsible AI in Entertainment News: As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will …Read More
thewaltdisneycompany.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This’ll be interesting and terrible. As discussed by expert many time before, there isn’t actually a way to put meaningful and foolproof guardrails on generative AI. Hope Disney is ready for their characters to be doing some very not-Disney stuff in user created videos…
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This is one of the most annoying claims Altman and friends make because it implies that there's a simple solution to climate change that doesn't involve any tough choices or sacrifices by industry or political leaders or regular people and the only problem is we're not smart enough to think it up
While spinning a BS narrative about how eventually once we've diverted 90% of the world's electricity into data centers, we'll get "AGI" and AGI will give us some magic easy solution to stop climate change.
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is one of the most annoying claims Altman and friends make because it implies that there's a simple solution to climate change that doesn't involve any tough choices or sacrifices by industry or political leaders or regular people and the only problem is we're not smart enough to think it up
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
Love Actually.
Love Actually.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
Slither
Slither
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
Interstellar.
Interstellar.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
Love Actually.
Love Actually.
Post from a different era in your life
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Post from a different era in your life
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At this point I am going to block people who are like "stop talking about thing that is shitty, it's a distraction from the REAL ISSUES"
They're all real issues. The only non-real issue is you trying to dictate what I get to talk about.
They're all real issues. The only non-real issue is you trying to dictate what I get to talk about.
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
At this point I am going to block people who are like "stop talking about thing that is shitty, it's a distraction from the REAL ISSUES"
They're all real issues. The only non-real issue is you trying to dictate what I get to talk about.
They're all real issues. The only non-real issue is you trying to dictate what I get to talk about.
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Trump's DOJ is never going to weigh the merits of a Paramount takeover of Warner Brothers objectively when the Saudis, his son in law, and billionaire donor is involved.
Yet you're going to read endless stories in the months to come that treat the review process as a completely normal one.
Yet you're going to read endless stories in the months to come that treat the review process as a completely normal one.
December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trump's DOJ is never going to weigh the merits of a Paramount takeover of Warner Brothers objectively when the Saudis, his son in law, and billionaire donor is involved.
Yet you're going to read endless stories in the months to come that treat the review process as a completely normal one.
Yet you're going to read endless stories in the months to come that treat the review process as a completely normal one.
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Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking