is this thing on?

hexagon = bestagon

so exciting!! listen if you want c:

we're posting animal hybrids on the skyline giraffe x elephant

living in dense community has not solved all my problems... if anything, I have more problems than ever. I feel my college-self [curious, ambitious, uncertain] coming out again for the first time since I left home. I am once again happily lost in a society that is too complex for me to understand.

i can't tell if i want to be posting on bluesky or on twitter, so forgive my while i cross-post a bit.I'm trying to directly compare what it feels like to post the same sort of thing in both places

main thing we can do rn to make things more welcoming here is writing posts that are easy to engage with - asking questions that have easy answers, participation memes like "post a picture of [whatever]". take the perspective of someone who just got here and ask what would get them to reply

our optimism and hope for a better future can devolve so quickly when we fight with strangers for (social) territory. it's never too late to refocus on what you love and share that with those around you. It's never too late.

this is what respected elders and a public commons are normally for. that there are entire cultures where from the "elders" all the way down to the common people it's considered morally acceptable to bully others is... something.

engaging with bad vibes makes them bigger amd puts them on my timeline. i will be unfollowing people who engage with shitty people rather than muting like a responsible node in the global brain

btw my timeline for building a custom Bluesky algo have actually increased substantially. I expect to do it in the next quarter or so. If you have suggestions or want to help, lmk.

please civilly present an actually interesting idea that i would disagree with, which would substantially improve my life.

let's design an ideal bluesky algorithm together below, here are my thoughts: - it's just the people I personally like - if i really like you, then it's all the people you invited who you follow - if i really really like you, then it's all the people they invited who they follow - etc.

is it at all possible to create a bluesky culture around reading and commentary on famous talks or papers in computing? I'd love other nerds to discuss the STEPs work with, or my favorite Bret Victor talks... but it just feels like the wrong medium, unfortunately. How could a client change that?

care works. optimism works. strategy works. collaboration works. creativity works. if you want to change the world, these psychic tools allow you to do so. You can change hearts and minds through care, optimism, strategy, creativity, and collaboration. It has worked time and time again.

I am (again and forever) calling for you to post pictures of the things you VALUE, rather than posting advertisements of the things you HATE. Hate ads do not work, they've never worked. You're staring into the void and tearing your own world apart. Snap the fuck out of it!

bluesky is not a cohost or Twitter 2. it is an application running on top of an open, decentralized, authenticated protocol that anyone can extend, use, or interoperate on. it would be a massive failure for this to become cohost or twitter 2.

calling somebody else naive and gullible doesn’t make you wise, or savvy. it doesn’t even mean you have a better answer, it just means you’re spending your thoughts being critical of others. that’s cheap u think it’s so bad, why aren’t u actively trying to break it? talk is cheap

gm gn (i woke up to pee and am now going back to sleep)

maybe TMI, but it's crazy how many dreams in a row I had about peeing and drinking water (including one where I peed my pants!) before I woke up and realized I had to pee.

When you allow your own heart to fill with love, it inevitably spills over to those around you.

The wild god stands in your kitchen. Ivy is taking over your sideboard; Mistletoe has moved into the lampshades And wrens have begun to sing An old song in the mouth of your kettle.

step 1: i treat you as a human being, worthy of love and respect and a place in my home step 2: we debate theories on everything else and push each other's boundaries as we grow apart and back together. we assert our boundaries, and deal w/ violations. but step 2 follows step 1 or it breaks

what's something you could create (if unblocked) that is worth $100MM+ of NEW wealth (purely positive sum / regenerative / whatever term you like to use for goodness) don't be afraid of money, instead work to reclaim one of the most powerful tools (currency) for good -- for universal flourishing!

Hello! 👋 I’m Ryan, an animator/visual artist who mostly focuses on nostalgic themes and concepts like love, loss, time and recollection. These are some stills from my work

it's really fucking cool. no need to pretend that Elon is a monolith. He's a narcissist chauvinist, yes. Horrible political archetype. He is also capable of creating institutions that can innovate on getting HUMANS into SPACE and then LAND ROCKETS. Great project-manager archetype. Wow.

we did it!

til about a color palette known as "nursery pastel", here are some midjourney impressions of nursery pastel

GOOD BOY

celestialpunk space girls

til about "honeycore" and "aesthetics wiki"

gm

When the wild god arrives at the door, You will probably fear him. He reminds you of something dark That you might have dreamt, Or the secret you do not wish to be shared. ...

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver. His voice makes vinegar from wine. ...

lol like half of the people on the app are flagged for spam now?

spring

We have a good opportunity to coordinate around shunning and shaming any future “…posting their Ls” accounts that might appear. They should to be bullied away. I will not share a social space with those bottom-dwellers.

people are seriously bad at doing the math here lets say you can create the circumstances for one (1) person to spend their life helping people per year by spending their time helping people, they do the same. Now you have logistic (viral) growth. 27 years for an 8 billion person golden age.

what will I do with my one wild and precious life?

LIFE PRO TIP: turns out that systematically changing the social equilibrium so everyone spends their time helping people instead of hurting people is literally ALL you need to start a golden age. have fun out there!

take on an apprentice you cowards

countersignaling when you're already in a great social group is counter productive

this is where i post from

step 1: i treat you as a human being, worthy of love and respect and a place in my home step 2: we debate theories on everything else and push each other's boundaries as we grow apart and back together. we assert our boundaries, and deal w/ violations. but step 2 follows step 1 or it breaks

"but Andrew, internet culture is supposed to make me feel bad constantly, and I'm supposed to be on extreme alert as to whether someone is intentionally misinterpreting me in order to psychologically damage me." it's going to be okay. we don't need to do that to each other anymore.

i'm shocked by the vague Stockholm syndrome-esque gestures that "something is off about the positivity on bluesky" where I come from, this is just typical hospitality. here, come have some cornbread and chili. No no, sit down sit down, I'll make it up for you. Just relax, we can debate over tea.