xPhoenix

I’m Maryann Moncello (@xPhoenix) — mom, artist, space nerd, Tesla fan, and creator behind RJM Creative Studio. Whether it’s traditional canvas work, digital dreams, or AI-augmented pieces, my art is where emotion, resilience, and cosmic curiosity collide. From heartfelt personal expressions to vibrant community projects (shoutout to the Mangrove Marketplace Art Club!), I turn life’s chaos into color. Pain tonight = painting tomorrow. Come watch the process unfold. 🎨✨ #xPhoenixArt #MaryannMoncello #RJMCreativeStudio #ArtHeals

I’ll believe it when I see it. If I don’t fit into a particular opportunity, that’s okay - I can pursue other paths or build my own business. I’m not dependent on any single door opening. That said, I want to highlight a real flaw in how companies filter talent. Many HR systems and algorithms automatically reject candidates who lack formal degrees, even when those candidates bring substantial skills and experience. I experienced this dynamic myself. I went to school for nursing but chose not to finish my degree during 2020. I saw widespread ethical issues: textbooks were being rewritten to push specific narratives rather than reflect scientific evidence, and the scientific process itself was being bypassed at scale. This wasn’t isolated to one school or one curriculum - it was happening across the country. When someone who is educated enough to recognize these problems decides, on principle, not to participate, that integrity should be valued - not penalized by rigid credentialing systems. A degree is not the only measure of competence. Plenty of highly skilled people have developed their abilities through hands-on experience, on-the-job training, or apprenticeship-style learning. Japan, for example, has long respected and rewarded this kind of practical mastery. Yet many companies today miss out on this talent because of outdated or overly stringent education requirements - requirements that, in the age of AI, are becoming even less relevant for many roles. I’ve been more active on X the past couple of years largely because of a physical injury that has limited what I can do. But that’s temporary. Before this, I built everything from the ground up through in-person, hard work — and I’m ready to do that again. Pretty soon I’ll be back on my feet and driving. Like Elon in the early days with Netscape, once I get moving I won’t look back. I’ll be just fine with or without SpaceX. Ultimately, HR algorithms and overly rigid filters often do more to manipulate the talent pool than to truly identify the best people. Real capability, integrity, and drive matter far more than checking arbitrary boxes.

@xPhoenix @BoosterTribe @SpaceX If you can prove to them that you have the skills, they will hire you regardless of your schooling

Come work at @SpaceX in Starbase, TX. We have hovercraft…. And the largest, most powerful craft ever to fly. 🚀😎

This is why we can’t have good dental care. This is the only dental insurance company offered by every one my employers - no alternative is available. Dentist hate working with them. Their prices are way too much to a point that they make it so unaffordable that none of the work gets done - the cycle continues because employers keep using them and they continue raking it in and overcharging their patience. Awful “insurance” but what do you expect from a monopolistic endeavor? They can call it nonprofit if they want, but they are not in the business of helping people.

@SusanHess9pm3 @CollinRugg @AIinAmerica Sadly, I would think so. Abusers don’t stop at one.

@xPhoenix @CollinRugg @AIinAmerica I’m wondering if other children in his class were abused.

Kentucky mother hides a camera in her nonverbal autistic son's hair after suspecting he was being abused at elementary school. Tiphanee Lee says she suspected something was off when she received complaints about her son's behavior at school. Lee decided to take matters into her own hands and put a small camera in her son's dreads. When Lee reviewed the footage, she heard noises while her son's head moved around as a staff member accosted him. "While this was happening there was adults in the room who did nothing to stop it. This is unacceptable," Tiphanee said. The incident is reportedly under investigation.

Maybe he just hasn’t found a person he’s willing to do that for. Everyone assumes someone is incapable of switching off, but that’s rarely true. It’s often a choice. It’s his decision to keep his mind occupied there, because nothing else delivers the same hit as finished work. But ultimately, it’s an excuse to avoid feelings and emotions. That leads to stunting over the long run. He’s getting up there in age at 54. The work gets done, but he’ll be left with the quiet cost. Not being able to form deep emotional connections is a real detriment to peace and character. Intimacy requires vulnerability, showing up fully without the mind defaulting to the next breakthrough or failure mode. If work is always louder, it drowns out the quieter signals of connection. Psychology backs this. Workaholism often ties to attachment avoidance, where hyper-focus buffers against the messiness of rejection, feelings, or real presence. Not everyone needs the same ratio of emotional immersion to thrive. For minds wired for grand-scale problems, the right person might never pull them fully offline because the work is the deepest fulfillment. It’s not lesser, just different. But if he finds someone who gets that and earns real trust, it’s not impossible to integrate vulnerability and still solve massive issues. Let’s not romanticize the nonstop mind without acknowledging what it might be protecting against.

Elon Musk was once asked what he thinks about during intimate moments with his girlfriend. He said rocket propulsion. Multiple people close to him have confirmed this. The man's brain does not have an off switch. There is no context, no environment, no situation where his mind fully disconnects from the problems he's solving. Most people have a work mode and a personal mode. A switch. Musk doesn't have the switch. His body is in the present. His mind is in the future. Specifically on whatever problem is closest to a breakthrough or closest to catastrophic failure. Everything else gets whatever processing power is left. Which is often zero. This is the architecture that runs SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, xAI, and Starlink simultaneously. A brain that never stops computing. The same architecture that made SpaceX's mascot a stuffed plush named Asteroid, a zero-gravity indicator on a real mission. Most companies use instruments. Musk used a toy. Because somewhere inside the calculations, a thread still connects to something human. The mind that can't stop thinking about rockets is the same mind that puts a stuffed animal on one. The genius and the humanity run on the same hardware. You can't debug one without breaking the other. The lesson isn't to change your architecture. It's to stop pretending it's something it isn't.

Finish this: ABCDEF_ Hope the song gets stuck in your head 🤣

@Nebjamin73 What’s standing in your way to being a creator. I’m certain you have natural talents.

@xPhoenix To be fair I selected "see answers". Though I suppose I could have selected "curator"

Are you a CREATOR or a CURATOR? If you’re a creator, I want to follow you. We have AI to curate for us faster and with more relevance. Time to pivot curators, don’t sit in self pity…reboot with your passion!

@E40_brown Cool toy, can I get a real life demo?

This million dollars yacht can fly....😍😍😍

She’s talking about creating deep bonds. She just learned this yesterday 🫪 When did you learn it?

@thisgogreen 🚨Beautiful human alert

Helping feed people in need ❤️

@KettlebellDan I wish I had not succumbed to social pressure and done better. How do you treat your bodies in your 20s and 30s will have a major impact when you’re 40… it’s like it comes back compounded and it’s very unsettling. Health is wealth kids and don’t let anyone steal your energy!

I’ve seen a lot of people claim that health maxxing is actually unhealthy But these are the same people that complain their metabolism isn’t what it used to be and after you turn 40 you’re always tired Bad decisions will eventually catch up to you Best be health stacking

@FoxNews Pretty sure the Pizza Hut in Cocoa Beach is still original 🤣

Pizza Hut franchises across the country are rolling out "Pizza Hut Classic" remodels to bring back the iconic '80s and '90s dining experience. Franchisees are reviving beloved staples like the red cups, checkered tablecloths, salad bars, and classic Tiffany-style lamps to draw families back into dining rooms. After years of sleek modern redesigns, the old-school dine-in feel is suddenly making a comeback.

@KettlebellDan 💯

I’m pretty sure that if you have a problem with other people not drinking, then you have a problem with drinking

Stop punishing multi-dimensional creators. Adopt The Phoenix Effect for natural talent flow on X.

Until they FIX the root problem, it will remain an argument. No one should be copying videos and posting them and expecting to get revenue share - that is not your content. It is stealing, and no one should be rewarded for it. That should be a foundational principle within the construct. What they can do is allow us as creators to cross post like they do with YouTube videos and give us a portion of the revenue share because we are bringing valid information from other platforms and that can be monetized so I don’t understand why they are not thinking critically here. Everything that a creator within the creator revenue section posts should have a value associated with it, and it should be sent out to the signals that it is trying to reach for that value to be assigned - no expiration date - like getting royalties on music. This would help in mitigating the gaming of the system. Review the solution below and let me know your thoughts.

Is Nikita out of his mind? Massimo has been uploading content for 11 years and his account has 4.3 million followers. He is a curator. Even Elon Musk praises Massimo’s account. Elon Musk has also subscribed to @Rainmaker1973 And almost all video content creators take videos from other platforms and upload them on X. This has been happening from the beginning. Is @ViralRushX an original content creator? He also takes videos from YouTube and uploads them. So why is Massimo being treated differently? Nikita Bier publicly saying “Today is your last day in the Creator Program” to one of X’s biggest curator accounts is a terrible look for the platform. For years X rewarded reposts, curation, and engagement driven content. Now suddenly the same accounts that helped fuel the platform’s growth are being treated like criminals? Massimo built one of the biggest science and discovery communities on X. Millions of people discovered fascinating content, rare moments, space, tech, and science every single day because of that account. You can debate attribution policies. That's completely fair. But publicly shaming creators who clearly added massive value to the platform is not how you build a healthy creator ecosystem. Curation is also a skill. If X wants to change the rules then create clear and transparent systems for credit, licensing, and revenue sharing. Not selective punishment after an account becomes huge. Because if “curating viral content” suddenly becomes a crime, half of X disappears tomorrow. Publicly telling such a huge creator “we are removing you from creator revenue” is not fair from the Head of Product at X.

@CYBRBEATZ Drop that beat!

Dropping @CYBRBEATZ album soon. ⚡️

@Nebjamin73 No one wants to answer 🤷‍♀️

@xPhoenix this is a great post!

I have an idea for @MuskFoundation but they do not allow individuals to submit for funding. We need more goodness in this world @elonmusk Pioneer Pathways — Musk Foundation idea: A middle school program for at-risk youth that combines: • Rigorous STEM + first-principles thinking • Hands-on community service & planetary restoration • Field trips showing legacy energy problems → Tesla/SpaceX clean solutions Mix in grandchildren/great grandchildren of space/technology pioneers to break socioeconomic barriers and spark inspiration. Teaches companies as real philanthropy while building "goodness of heart" early. Full pitch ready to email. Here’s an infographic. Worth exploring? 🚀🌍

I do use ai as a discussion tool - strengthen ideas or concepts, I also ask about examples of what trending and I love enhancing my own art with ai. Sometimes I write poetry, but I use AI to streamline it or make it more cohesive so most often I say that it is a work of collaboration.

@xPhoenix I am an original content creator with the help of Ai my poetry is my own