Malcolm Ocean

would be cool if linked tweets from twitter got displayed more like quote-tweets, without the giant useless X

Sometime people ask me if I'm joking or serious, or kind of 50/50. I like to aim for simultaneously being mostly-joking and mostly-serious.

coming back to bsky after a year and there still aren't hotkeys? at least... n doesn't open [new tweet] and ? doesn't show an alternate list of hotkeys ..........

This is the way because it actually contributes to the decorporitization of language and turns "tweet" into a genericized word, which is an intrinsic linguistic good

doing some coworking for the next few hours in this @intend.do room!

so now that twitter is calling itself "X" and its utterances "posts" & "reposts"...... ............can we use "tweet" & "retweet" here? (real question. probably they could still sue, but how hard would it be to prod Elon into insisting those words are stupid and giving others permission...? 🤔)

just created a bsky for my app, which has a new name/domain as of today too celebrated by re-posting this manifesto (that I actually drafted in gdocs but the cadence was already perfect for a thread)

intentionality, not productivity

I've existed since 2013 but I have a new name now, just in time for my old name to never have an account on bluesky! Check out the story of why @malcolmocean.com renamed Complice to Intend:

you're allowed to grant someone permission that you weren't the one who took away in the first place

3 intellectual archetypes: 🌲 the hermit — doesn't read or watch things, tries to figure it all out themselves 📖 the scholar — thoroughly researches everything already written on the topic 😍 the connoisseur — improvisationally explores & remixes others' ideas am I missing any?

i've been aware of @visakanv.com but had never heard him in conversation--beside the positive, weirdly calming vibes, i love the "creative freestyle world" term for the world/attitude i love inhabiting. also appreciate the transparency on money psychology https://youtu.be/AZtgPQVNpu8

nice... ceteris... you've got there would be a shame if it weren't... paribus

most people don't know this but the biblical flood actually happened because everyone let their feelings out all at once and all the tears drowned the world

the best same page is the one you're already on rather than trying to "get on the same page", focus on mutually recognizing the ways in which you're not on the same page

@srav.bsky.social just wanted to say I really dig how you responded in the pronoun thread

singular "they" has existed for a long time but (at least in my dialect) was canonically only used for people whose names/identifies don't matter for the conversation ✅ "I asked cashier, they said X" ❌ "I asked Alicia, they said X" the 2nd one would make my grandparents go "what? they who?"

sometimes the blind people touching the elephant are at each others' throats sometimes a sighted person comes along & laughs & explains what's going on sometimes the sighted person assumes that just because they see the WHOLE elephant at once, THEY can see the elephant FULLY 🤦‍♀️🐘

it's hard to be fully expressive around other people because unless you've built up a lot of trust, fully vocalizing your frustration will produce an excess of concern from them that'll be difficult to dispel

most communication problems amount to being unable to reliably say AND mean AND have received/trusted: 1. "I need something" 2. "I'm fine (and I'd let you know if I needed something)" [something], eg:  space  help  to pee/drink/eat  to slow down  to understand  to be understood

Skeet has now been said live on air. Incredible. https://files.catbox.moe/kfi8oh.mp4

I cannot stress enough how vigilant you must be if you want to avoid becoming TPOT

Probably my favourite midjourney creation so far... "We don't actually experience the world — rather, we filter reality through the state of our nervous system."

In my experience, people trying to wake each other up directly, whatever that means, and no matter how spiritually wise they feel in that moment, tend to be doing it in part out of discomfort with being with the "asleep" person. I've been on both sides of this countless times.