I just learned the French word for gender is "genre". Makes so much more sense. Correctly implies an infinite spectrum. What's your gender? Science fiction.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is a Christmas movie.

DJs put at least some kind of bio on your Resident Advisor page challenge [impossible]

Just an incredible, damning headline.

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte is the poster's Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I can't explain.

when you create a new account on telegram and deny access to your contacts, the app still notifies every single user that has your phone number. this is one of many reasons telegram is known as best in class on privacy.

That is not what the article says. It says the EFJ itself will stop posting, not that all of its members will. If anyone cares.

Wait… skeet means ”sky tweet”? I feel both stupid and smart for thinking it had to do with skeet shooting. You know, where you launch little things into the blue sky. Also known as clay pigeons, because it’s originally about simulating killing birds… bird site…

If you follow 20,000+ people, I will not follow you back, because you obviously can’t engage.

FINAL FANTASY VI (1994)

ngl stands for not gonna lightmode

People are going to remember the "social media wars", but do they remember The Succession Wars?

also, here’s my reverse thread of blue skies.

a ceiling i saw tonight. i just think it’s neat.

the general solution to verification has the shape of a tree.

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

The teacher is finally here.

actually, i updated this service with how to get "traditionally" verified on bluesky if you already have a verified e.g. instagram account. msg me your bluesky profile from your instagram, and the other way around, and you will get a verifysocial.org page that attests that cross-verification.

Here’s an example: bsky.app/profile/jeri...

Belgium: ”of course we’re trying to deal with our colonialist past” Belgium trying to deal with its colonialist past:

verification on here in the sense that people think of it on platforms such as instagram could be as simple as piggybacking on those platforms just via cross-verification. i created something like that with mastodon in mind a while ago, would work here too: verifysocial.org

Calm sea in Blankenberge.

Spooky sea in Blankenberge.

looks like my 2024 will outdo my record-setting 2023 in number of raves attended

Absolutely INCREDIBLE demonstration of what this platform can do: subscribe to this labeler and see which fancy private school different UK public figures on here went to, and how much those schools cost. bsky.app/profile/dadd...

*A baker gatecrashes the Mathematics Symposium* [triumphant]"I have discovered a new kind of dozen."

I learned just the other day that Audrey Hepburn was born around the corner from where I live.

Just autumn doing autumn stuff in Brussels.

I wasted all my good skeets in 2023. Now, a mere shadow of my former account. Spent, exhausted, no… emaciated. Looking at the feast that is new Bluesky like Andersen’s little match girl peered into the tender flames.

Y'all @rudyfraser.com maintains #Blacksky mostly by himself. It costs $3000 per month, and he's adding more servers to accommodate 🐦 folk so costs are rising. Let's support him! Click the link and scroll down to make a one time donation or a recurring $7 donation. Show ♥️ to the architect!

wow the feeds i made still work

well well well, what’s happening here? hey @jcsalterego.bsky.social can you summarise the last five months of bluesky in one sentence?

I just ordered pasta to go at a night-open hole in the wall, then waited outside on the curb, checking my phone. When the guy came out with my bag, a picture of pasta was coincidentally on my feed. I think he saw it and thought I had just spent the entire 10 minutes scrolling pasta, sooo eager.

Umm… Vince Gilligan is currently making a new sci-fi show starring Rhea Seehorn…!?

Welcome to the Slow Internet portal: slowinternet.info

I’d like everyone to DM me the most outrageous things they can think of. That’s what it’s for. I will remain unfazed. There is no amount of outrage that will cause me rage. DMs are now battlefields.

Did ”the archipelago is so beautiful… oh, mosquitoes” for the first time in years.

What’s good in the Bay Area second half of June?

Just remembered that Steve Albini recorded this. Out of this world.

you can't get more right than this RIP 👑

What the fuck is going on?

"Of course I like to relax on a Thursday night" [Puts on Parfait's 2021 Boiler Room set projected on the living room wall with speakers on max, sips tea]

Important update: I just talked to someone that actually went to this thing: "DON'T! Worst night out in ages. Dj just played 30 second fragmentS of top 40 stuff, constantly interrupted by the mc shouting at the crowd to drink more swamp juice (ONLY 9 EUROS AT THE BAR IN THE BACK!!!!!!!!!)"

Sublime vibe in Brussels today.

To copyright their look, clowns can submit their likeness to the Clowns International Group where their look will be painted onto an egg. This is then kept in the Clown Egg Register in the Dalston church where Grimaldi the Clown was buried in 1837. I did not make this up.

They put too much red in the tulips here.

@jcsalterego.bsky.social Thanks for reposting, let me know if you think of anyone in particular – or, of course, if you're interested yourself :)