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Every word of this by @jamellebouie.net 

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

If you’re invited to a Halloween party and the invite says “Costumes optional” that means you can go nude, right? Need an answer within the next hour.

This Week in Apple: Open and shut reviews (Member) https://sixcolors.com/member/2026/10/this-week-in-apple-open-and-shut-reviews/

Is this on purpose to get you to click on it? What the fuck are we even doing?

I can’t believe we’re still arguing over whether X is for jerks: https://lexontech.org/i-cant-believe-were-still-arguing-over-whether-x-is-for-jerks

Timeline cleanse.

Name 2 Films: one overrated, one underrated. Overrated: The English Patient Underrated: The Core (I wasn’t gonna play this one but these were the first two that popped into my head and I enjoyed the combination.)

Nothing cooler than hearing your back crack while dancing around the kitchen to “No Diggity”.

We got not one but two copies of a super-glossy, bogus “magazine” that was just ad copy for local businesses in the mail, one addressed to “Occupant” and one to “Resident”. My wife and I both concurred that she was “Resident” and I was “Occupant”.

I have heard some defend people going back to X by saying yeah but Zuckerberg is just as bad as Musk so are you going to leave Facebook and Instagram, too?! I actually did years ago but regardless I truly believe that Musk is demonstrably the worst person who is also CEO of a major tech company.

This Week in Apple: The pre-order thrill is gone (Member) https://sixcolors.com/member/2026/10/this-week-in-apple-the-pre-order-thrill-is-gone/

Love how after any power outage a bunch of devices will complain about having been “shut down improperly”. Asshole, you slept through the whole thing! I had to live it!

I can have some cookies because I haven’t had a treat all day other than the secret chocolates I keep in my office but no one knows about those so they don’t count.

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Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

“Then there’s the bigger argument behind John’s question: You can’t avoid every bad billionaire, so why bother avoiding this one? Take that seriously and it’s an argument for never doing anything at all.”

X is bad, though: https://lexontech.org/x-is-bad-though

Today I want to talk about my favorite dummymanders. In a dummymander, the geniuses behind the map have cut margins too close, and create vulnerabilities for themselves. tl;dr: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Here are four states that took it too far - and where you can make a difference.

This Week in Apple: Spooky season is upon us (Member Post)

K’OFFEE PLAH! motherblackbird.com/product/cetace…

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

This Week in Apple: Feeding the rumor monster (Member Post)

Six Colors Podcast: October surprises, silenced AirTags, and new Kindles

Yes and it's when the true customer became the investor.

A reminder that you could be using the office copier to make these amazing zines that help people overcome barriers to voting. They’ll never know. howtovote.tips

Quakin’.

This Week in Apple: Siri-ous money (Member Post)

Looking forward to Spotify removing all TV review podcasts for infringing on the shows they review by talking about them.

This Week in Apple: With beta-ed breath (Member Post)

ed sheeran is lifting the bestiality ban for supporting acts.

Me, aloud: Ha-ha! Yesss! Go, Ms. Rachel! Roast that fucker! Slay, queen! Hahahaha! Me, into a search engine: who is ms rachel

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

This Week in Apple: Trio the screens, Duo the price (Member Post)

Spending this Star Trek Day reminiscing with @tonigo.bsky.social about the time we rolled up to a Star Trek convention in the late ‘80s because we’d heard Shatner was going to speak but noped out when we found out it was going to be all of $20 to get in.

Wearing one of my deep cut Star Trek shirts in honor of Star Trek Day.

This Week in Apple: Counting Apple CEOs

This Week in Apple: I feel you shiver with antici… pation! (Member Post)

Yep.

And I hope I get a pony. Doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen. 9to5mac.com/2026/08/14/tim…

This Week in Apple: Let’s fight (Member Post)

This Week in Apple: Fun AND games? In this economy? (Member Post)

Got *another* email newsletter type thing from a Democratic candidate sent via Substack. I imagine that the candidate didn’t pick the platform, some consultant did that, but when you’re picking consultants that don’t know what the fuck is wrong with using Substack, that’s a problem.

They saw the sign.

This Week in Apple: Perennials (Member Post)

In playing with the iOS 27 beta I found some utility in stuff like asking Siri to find things, like “Where is that gift card my brother sent me?” But I feel that’s more an indictment of Mail search and when I ask myself if it’s worth the price increase on hardware across the board, it’s just not.