Thomas P
Music, education, bicycles, live band karaoke, existential dread. thomaspshea on Discord in case bsky becomes untenable and you want to stay in touch
- Is Mariah OK? That was such an oddly still performance. Almost felt...animatronic?
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- Also true of music, except in rare cases of illness or disability. Almost nobody cannot learn to sing on pitch. Almost nobody cannot learn rhythmic competence. When you say you can't, you almost always mean you gave up trying too soon.
- This is the drum I bang at school every staff meeting. Hoping I'm leading a whole g-d marching band one day soon.
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- Reposted by Thomas PBillie Eilish’s Grammy Award speech, where she said no one is illegal on stolen land, has sparked varying reactions, including from Tongva Tribe, whose land her property sits on. Niigaan Sinclair shares his take on this week’s Truth & Politics panel.
- <glares at Doug "huge fan of Trump" Ford>
- All cops are rascals
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- Any stretch of urban road anywhere that remains unplowed after the big snow 2 weeks ago should be converted immediately to a parkette.
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- Get wrecked buddy.
- Without context,you might think I own a creature that subsists on a diet of liquefied cats.
- Reposted by Thomas PABOLISH LEGAL GENDER ENTIRELY We can still have social gender but legal gender only serves to enable discrimination and should be done away with like we did away with legal race for the same reason.
- "whether you want it or not" is such a toxic phrase. Can't wait until we all realize that people caring for people is better than text extruders regurgitating the internet at sick people and then we agree to burn this whole anti-human enterprise to the ground.
- Tonic. youtu.be/LLMKAxFtjB8?...
- I had multiple friends who married their high school teachers within months of graduating. More precisely: I had multiple high school teachers who were grooming their students. Everybody knew it was happening but nobody stopped them.
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- Bringing this energy to my Sunday.
- Be weird. Love your weirdness. Make stuff. That's it. That's the whole secret.
- Rewatching this for no particular reason. What an incredible family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwId...
- Reposted by Thomas PWe can use this as an opportunity to assuage ourselves about how we're the Good Guys who would never, or we can ask some hard questions about what actually makes humans go against the collective good and do harm, and what we can do to fix the rot within our social systems.
- Reposted by Thomas PUnion workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
- Reposted by Thomas PWake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
- Reposted by Thomas PEveryone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.
- Dear teacher friends: Paul Calandra is watching you, and is coming for you if you don't toe the party line. Shit's about to get even more fashy in Ontario real soon.
- Me: AI is built on IP theft, centers Whiteness, destroys the environment and shared notions of reality, deskills learners and teachers alike, and leaks sensitive private data like a sieve. My admin team: of course you are right, Tom. Here's a cool way you can use it to generate lesson plans! 🙃
- Reposted by Thomas PI wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
- Reposting for all my friends in public education.
- Reposted by Thomas Pjust so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
- "The Kill Line metaphor suggests something else: a society optimized for efficiency and growth, but stripped of redundancy, forgiveness, and slack. In engineering terms, it is a system without safety factors." jscaff.medium.com/the-kill-lin...
- Reposted by Thomas PI hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills. And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
- Reposted by Thomas Ptime to re-up this again i guess
- Fianllt started reading Paul Lynch's "Prophet Song" this morning and i dunno man they told me it was fiction but it feels realler than real right now. Gut-wrenching. epicbooks.ca/item/wLu_br6...
- Is it UBI? IS IT UBI?! It isn't UBI...
- Lol Nobody's persecuting Potter; kids are just consigning the series to the dustbin of history like every other young generation has done with every other aged thing. The do think Rowling is transphobic trash tho.
- In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
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- I've already watched the first 2 of the #LoTR movies today. It's 9 pm and tomorrow's a snow day. Do I start the 3rd one now or save it for tomorrow?
- This guy thinks Canada bears no responsibility for selling arms to ICE because they just would have bought domestic weapons of war if we hadn't made them cheaper and better. gtfo, all arms manufacturers are equally to blame, I'm just calling my people out.
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- Oh look, Canadian military hardware being used by ICE. Lots of blood on Canadian hands, around the world and right next door.
- Reposted by Thomas Phobbits are some country ass mutherfuckers man. getting all hopped up on reefer setting off fireworks and shit. the central theory of this story is that the greatest and cruelest army in all history can be defeated by a passel of pothead hillbillies
- Reposted by Thomas Psnow day today yall know what that means (watching all three lord of the rings extended edition movies in a row)
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- Just the right read for a January snowstorm with <gestures at the world> all the goings on that are currently going on.
- @lalehkhalili.bsky.social speaks to the moment. The essay "Breaking Bread Together" in the anthology The City of Our Dreaming, is so lucid, so moving, so compassionate.
- @lalehkhalili.bsky.social speaks to the moment. The essay "Breaking Bread Together" in the anthology The City of Our Dreaming, is so lucid, so moving, so compassionate.
- Reposted by Thomas PSnow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians. Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
- Reposted by Thomas PThis random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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- Much like tokenistic land acknowledgements, the rhetoric of 'critical washing' acknowledges harm only to sooth the consciences of people who by and large have no intention of doing anything to prevent present or future harms or reparate historical ones.
- Never fails to amaze me how my human brain can get emotionally invested in watching a green marble roll faster or slower than a red marble.
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