Spooky Luddite

It’s a good day for folk/old time releases from Jake; Xerxes Fussell and Blount, respectively

I like this definition of slop and the focus on asymmetric burden of the recipient

Am I a bad left leaning person if I don’t want to add alt text to an image on my work slack?

I appreciate notifications, generally, but @prettylitter.bsky.social I don’t need both a text and an email at every stage of my litter being shipped

On 70e just before Ohio there is a billboard “Jesus is the answer America” surrounded by three Uranus fudge factory billboards. Seems appropriate for the moment

Pre twitter message boards had some moments for sure… simpler times

Man I hate AI generated concert or festival posters

I will just say, scaling social networks is hard, even with infinite resources. Literally no social media site has ever gotten through the tens-of-millions of users point of scaling without having a period where they struggled with uptime. The more novel the architecture, the harder the challenge.

Vibes to the bsky ops folks, rough day today

It’s Friday have a cat

"ALF HOG OVER NAZI BOG" should be this platform's tagline imo

Straight outta Black Mirror…

Doing a super early stage startup at the same time as The Horrors was not a good idea I am barely hanging on

My favorite internet end of year music thing is the @aquariumdrunkard.com year in review

To recap: •Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually •Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses •The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45% 1/2

The new Nick Shoulders album is giving me joy in all of the despair

My most scandalous tattoo is a turtle that kinda looks like a penis 🤷

October is the best month of the year and the best ppl are born this month. This is science.

Not sure I’ll be here after the change tomorrow but I’ve enjoyed the short ride with some of my old twitter peoples

Anyone get raptured yet?

In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here. That work is the social part of social media.

Instead of saying “lotta irons in the fire” or any other aphorism, let’s start using “lotta ducks on the millpond”

People who reply on a non yes/no question on work chat with a thumbs up reaction choose violence

I’m glad to see some tech folks speaking out against the onslaught of AI into everything

Star Trek TNG

the only good "prompt engineer" is when the train driver shows up early for work

Has anyone thought of savory gummies?

I have started using the (paid) search engine kagi.com to avoid googles continued enshittification

There is a billboard downtown that says ChatGPT plus is free during finals … we are so cooked

This is a pretty depressing side effect, along with everything else

There is a horrible future where all chat communication at work is filtered through an LLM adding a layer of slop on already weird corporate-speak

Me when it’s fine: it’s fine Me when it’s not fine at all and I’m definitely going to go throw up about it: it’s fine

Pete Hegseth is a DUI hire.

This nation’s pets are carrying such a heavy load right now

Yep just trying to mentally prepare for year… I mean week, 3

i would be honored to smoke weed inside of scabby the rat

Back to creating value in the year of our lord 2025

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Hello, world. I need to get my first post outta the way