Greg Teather

defending this stuff, pandering to it…it destroys the soul

Normalize being a try hard 🫵

Former farm kid and current ag scientist here. This checks out. No notes.

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

unleashing social media on the world at large was like inflicting smallpox on immunologically naive peoples. Only psyches scarred over by endless stupid flamewars on usenet or IRC were truly ready for it

Stop what you're doing and read this long thread. It's not just that most people are decent, it's that they're better than that, given the chance. Thank you so much @jenwang.com

I think it’s easier for many American tech workers to claim that H-1B workers are cheaper to hire (they’re not, they cost more due to having to pay for their immigration process and match prevailing wages) than to admit foreign workers are highly qualified to do their jobs. It’s motivated reasoning

Hello Bluesky! I've been on Threads and Mastodon since the great 🐦 upheaval, but I heard that Bluesky had Brazillians of new users, so I wanted to check it out.