Alice Shattuck

Generation Y conservatarian pro-life feminist mother. ☦ Radicalized by the Kavanaugh hearings. Sometimes on @burnbarrelpod with @tomshattuck. Also @1570project

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C. S. Lewis

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

@CraigGillespi16 @tomshattuck I don't even really care about the overcharge. But I happened to notice it and asked for one drink to come off since we didn't get 3, we only got 2. It was the reaction that was crazy and made it a big deal for nothing.

[The All You Can Eat Podcast @allucaneatpod]

What would you do? @AliceShattuck pointed out to the server that @tomshattuck only had 2 bloodies and we were charged for 3. Server then publicly accused her of lying and loudly announced he’d had 3 and we were trying to get away without paying for 1.

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

Way more than half, IMHO.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?” https://t.co/RQuLje9AIN

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!

WHAT?!!!

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

@DavidSacks Your chart is a few months out of date.

The current data (through May 15) shows that software job postings are at a three-year high.

The demand for coders is growing by the week.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

@BenBryant2017 @RAVerBruggen Their heads even explode if you tell them to buy a 12-pack at Walmart and bring one to work each day instead of ordering one at a time at a premium from a restaurant. Literally refuse ANY lifestyle adjustment whatsoever.

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

Big financial problem : I don't have the time or capacity to make a quesadilla after staring at my phone for 16 hours which is why I must have a quesadilla delivered for $40. There is no solution to this that involves me changing my behavior.

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

Saw this in a local group and it really makes sense that some zoomers think it's impossible to make a sandwich for lunch if this is how they're living day-to-day.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It seemed cheaper and more secure than putting the fence around my dirt lot where Karen Bass let my house burn down 🤷‍♂️

[Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 @TheMuppetPastor]

Here a story about how X isn’t real life.

Last weekend I was at a child’s birthday party and I bumped into a girl I knew in college. We had been friends and in a few clubs together.

She had a reputation as the “college ho ”. She didn’t hide this much. She had attended parties in her birthday suit and the photos were sent via hundreds of email accounts all across campus. Everyone knew, even if they didn’t want to.

Obviously I didn’t approve of her behavior, but I was always friendly and kind when we met. We never dated so it was platonic. I had sort of gotten the impression that she may have had a difficult upbringing. I know now for sure that she had been abused as a child, because she had all the signs professionals are trained to notice.

Her sexuality was her way of acting out against whatever trauma she had suffered.

Well, I hadn’t seen her in decades and she showed up with a husband and two beautiful tween girls. We chatted for a while and I got the impression that she had started making a lot of positive changes in her life. I gave her a hug, told her I was proud of her, and said it looked like she was raising her girls well.

I didn’t ask about her “body count” or say she was “damaged goods”. I talked with her husband about being a girl dad and we hit it off.

We went our separate ways after that, but I was happy to have seen her and proud that she finally had gotten life figured out.

You see, that’s a normal human reaction. We certainly don’t need to approve of bad behavior, but we needn’t give up on someone in their 20s, either. Not all of us mature on the same schedule, and what matters is how we finish, not how we start.

There’s hope, even for “304s”, because human beings always have a chance to turn it around. As Christians, we can fill someone with shame, or we can teach them that there is always a way out.

I would never want anyone to follow this woman’s path, for it is filled with pain and heartache. But I did want to share that you have the agency to be happy again.

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

Massachusetts talks a lot of talk about their great schools but in my experience it's largely bs. A few towns with smart, rich, competitive parents who essentially treat exorbitant property taxes as de facto private school tuition. And then everyone else.

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

It's insane to say this when Springfield spends 50% MORE per pupil than Longmeadow does. Of course the Globe doesn't challenge this absurd premise at all. https://t.co/aHA1gNox13

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

States like Mississippi serve diverse students better by leaving ideology at the door and teaching fundamentals like reading and phonics with proven methods. And the results show it.

[Tom Shattuck @tomshattuck]

A pitbull comes charging for this dude’s children and he shoots the monster dead and now he’s getting death threats. Are you f*cking kidding me!? https://t.co/kB6pG1H2jY

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[The Maine Wire @TheMaineWire]

Maine U.S. Senate candidate Nathaniel Fields joins us on MWTV today at 4:00 PM!

[Alice Shattuck @AliceShattuck]

This type of "bystander effect" would stop if it were an unusual thing to see people lying on the ground inside MBTA stations. Unfortunately it's not, and in most cases such people do not in fact want your help, and you should not approach them to find out.

[Ryan Kath @RyanNBCBoston]

"A single person stepping up would've made the difference."
We spoke with a psychologist about "bystander effect" and why so passengers at an MBTA station did not help a man who was caught in an escalator and later died
https://t.co/KCE9poelkI