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I did not see out a pretty big X demographic in your post.

OMG he’s our spirit animal

X is from Mars, Bluesky from Venus X is the feeling you get when nobody laughs at your joke Bluesky is the feeling you get when everyone yells at your joke X is a broken penis Bluesky is a raging uterus

My people

One PhD, one MA, and full time job! Can I stay?

Got a BA, worked at some startups, no car, no awards, 77 y/o and retired, ride a Vespa. Choose to use Bluesky.

ON THE MONEY

imagine being able to afford a bicycle

Shhh! Don't tell everyone! it's nice here with the thinking folk.

I miss my bicycle.

You think exclusively in primary colors

And dry clothes on clothes lines, plant gardens and recycle.

Some of us are old and sick and tired of the lying, fascist, racist orange pig.

What’s ”x”? 🤷🏻

And also, I never finished the PhD program thank you! 😂

That only describes like 5% of X. The other 95% are people who barely graduated high school but think the guy with two Cybertruck must be right because he has more money than the person with two phds. I mean, he's even got enough money to buy two Cybertrucks! (to be fair, one is in the shop again)

The first you’d never invite into your home. The second will tell you why you overpaid for your home.

Time for me to get to work on that second phd

And threads is the love child of X and Reddit

well i ride a bike.

Also Bluesky has lots of retired PhDs

Hey there. I only have **one** PhD.

clocked

It does feel a lot more literate over here.

I resemble these remarks (ESPECIALLY the job bit, despite the degrees!!)

I only have 2 MAs and half an EdD, but I have a low-level office job which means I can afford to drive a base model 2017 Kia Forte hatchback with a working CD player

It's like you know me.

I'm a white guy contractor with no degree at all, I drive 2 pickup trucks, I'm a progressive and a liberal and I haven't won anything prestigious except my wife 😁

PhD, MA, MA, MDiv and a 14 year military career, no prestigious awards, two cute dogs, bicycle.

Don't forget we'll all be foot soldiers in the Butlerian Jihad if we let AI get that far. 😊

I'm on both. True, I have to curate my X community. Why is it that I still have better conversations on topics of substance on X?

No, that’s why x users bike. We do it because we’re insufferable/broke.

But you seem to be a condescending jerk.

I was on X until recently because the news cycle in South Africa is a bit slower. Had to delete it recently, the bots drown out any meaningful coverage and every second post is AI generated. It's the definition of a hellscape.

kkk merica

Look at mister fancy bus over here

BMW: bike metro walk works in DC, SF, Atlanta, Paris, and probably other cities, go wild

And somehow we need to build community with them.

And I’m still happy I gave X’s online Nazi bar the boot and hang out here on BlueSky.

I don’t know about the other stuff but I do ride a bicycle.

I ride *multiple* bikes

Bluesky needs goblin mode. Too many moral grumps... We need some proper cryptozoologists, conspiracy theorists, new religion prophets and post-political alignment crackpots to make things FUN here. (And if you're any of those, give me a follow damnit)

Help, help, I'm being deacribed

Thanks.

I feel so seen 🤣😂🤣

We are all 41 going on 12

I never completed the second PhD, pff. I did start a second PhD though, so pretty close.

🙋🏻‍♀️

I FEEL SEEN!

THANK YOU

I feel seen.

Oof that one’s me. Too adhd to PhD.

One PhD and a full time job. What am I even doing here?

Shitting on Twitter while working for Bezos. 👨‍🍳💋

And those on both?

And, old M-Fers like me.

Sounds about right: Tesla has sold something like 60,000 Cybertrucks in total, so there's around 30,000 actual humans who each own two of them on x, and the rest is bots

threads - people who don't realize they are the joke

We would have also accepted: “Jokes? tRUmp is destroying this country and you’re making jokes?”

As a true bsky master you know in advance how long your sophisticated rant will be, before starting to type it out. Truly a wonder to witness.

Right. What's your point?

I am often trying to consolidate my hold on full-time work

Sorry, but I drive a 2000 crown vic and haven't touched a bicycle since I was 12.

Sounds about right.

I'm feeling really special since I don't fit in any of those categories. I have noticed a number of pet obsessed packs here.

It used to be so cool too. You could harass D level celebs pretty successfully, you could get news faster than ANYWHERE, and it was kinda just fun. Gone and dead though.

Ouch! I guess we're in good company, though.

And rabbis.

yeah, fair, there's definitely a healthy diversity of postgraduate degrees represented on here!

No PhDs here but I do ride a bicycle!

I have no degrees and am a two tonne 4x4. 😎

I wish Las Vegas was more bike friendly

Jokes on you, I only have an MA and ride a bicycle. I am definitively not a cliché 😎

Yes that's why I'm here and not there, they kicked me out for only owning the one cybertruck

I have written SEVERAL, lol

yes, I (like to think I) have two phds

Plus the bots who love them

Some of us are artists with bespeckled academic histories.

Fair. Spend enough time in the suburbs and you’ll see that there’s working class and there’s *working class *

And, of course, Mastodon is full of folks that are still hoping to save up to finish their master, but not before saving up for their self-hosted server, and don't really need transportation because they work from home

Absolutely correct

How dare you!! That bike stays in the back of the garage with flat tires and extension cords draped over it as god intended.

Excuse me. Some of us have BAs and careers in public service that leave our mothers wondering will we be able to feed their grandchildren once they’re gone.

And cats. You forgot to mention the cats.

They accused us of "trying to be different"when the opposite was true.

I can't even recall them being proud of that

Ouch

💘

None of us will ever live up to our potential lol

It me!

Bingo

Counterpoint: you can talk about The Greatest Television Show Ever Made on this site, and the creator of that show will chime in. It has the juice. bsky.app/profile/auda...

I wish I had a good bike.

I feel seen

i am so close narrator: he rides a bike

Here’s to cyclists the world over!

And neither demographic is great at parties.

Don’t forget over staying a student visa after dropping out

And it's all the better for it.

Or walk.

Not true. They failed 9th grade English