Good mini thread about the contrast between what Bluesky users want (and what they assume the point of the platform is) versus the original founding vision for Bluesky, which the current crew is more or less still guided by, with some adjustments, and is inherently at odds with most users' goals

Here's something nobody tells you: When a performer incorporates an extremely personal/painful story from their own past into their work, there's like a 95% chance the story is completely fake, or so exaggerated that it might as well be. It's part of the performance!

The Iran war has knocked 5,000 points off the stock market

Final hours of the big Barnes and Noble sale where you can get 25% off any book preorder (including mine). Just enter PREORDER25 at checkout, if there's a book you know you want, you probably won't find it cheaper between now and release. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/there-are-...

One conspiracy I believe in is that old artists were secretly allowed to depict male nudity only if they kept their dicks small, so women would assume that was normal and that their husbands were thus abnormally huge

Why authors are so annoying about preorders:

All book preorders (including mine) are 25% off at Barnes and Noble's online store March 24-26, you just enter PREORDER25 at checkout. You do have to be a member, but it's free (click the main menu, then 'membership', pick the free option). www.barnesandnoble.com/w/there-are-... Or any book!

Why authors are so annoying about preorders:

hmmmm I think it kind of works

I would pay full movie ticket prices just to read the transcripts of all the studio meetings where they discussed Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet project

All book preorders (including mine) are 25% off at Barnes and Noble's online store March 24-26, you just enter PREORDER25 at checkout. You do have to be a member, but it's free (click the main menu, then 'membership', pick the free option). www.barnesandnoble.com/w/there-are-... Or any book!

idk man if you start a fight with the biggest man alive in front of his kids i guess I think it's fine when you get beat up

I think about 50% of news I see summarized or paraphrased here has some kind of inaccuracy in it and I don't even mean just "misinformation" by disingenuous people, I mean like well meaning people just being sloppy or excited or second or third hand quotes. Check everything even from "good guys"

I aspire to the level of Suburban Brain Excellence required to start a physical fight with Jack Reacher because you perceive him to be in violation of HOA bylaws. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

What's the best program for detecting if an image is AI? Trying to figure out if this is a real photo

Kids, did you know that before the internet, it was highly unusual to see a real person die on video? They used to have urban legends about it, they called them "snuff films." Now we get autoplay videos of exploded soldiers and bloody mass shooting victims beamed right to our pockets.

It's legitimately fascinating that, in modern capitalism, one of the quickest ways to get rich with the least amount of effort is to be really good at calling for the end of capitalism. That system regards it as an essential, highly-valued skill and rewards it as such!

To have the confidence of the people who created and shipped the youtube tool to make a banner background on your channel... I dare anyone to justify this design... anyone...

Listen: If you want a SIGNED hardcover of the next book, those are only available via preorder and only at one online bookstore (they are the same price and they will ship anywhere). It's not out for several months but don't wait or you'll forget: bit.ly/signmycrab

It's always fascinating to watch a book/film seamlessly transition from "All the smart people love this!" to "All the smart people hate this and always have!" See: "Where the Crawdads Sing."

Listen: If you want a SIGNED hardcover of the next book, those are only available via preorder and only at one online bookstore (they are the same price and they will ship anywhere). It's not out for several months but don't wait or you'll forget: bit.ly/signmycrab

The difference between following live sports on twitter and Bluesky is that when you get excited about a home run on Bluesky your comments are filled with replies about how liking baseball is neoliberal overreach and on Twitter the replies are filled with people going @Grok what is baseball

Seriously though if I went to Boston and just walked around the streets, would the dudes there really be talking in that accent? like that's not really a thing is it

IF YOU THINK ALL BOOKS SHOULD ALWAYS BE THREE DOLLARS, HERE YOU GO. For the next two weeks all of the books in my acclaimed John Dies at the End series are $2.99 in any ebook format. Or you can get them for free from the library probably. Just search these titles on your ereader:

"No, it's fine. I just wasn't expecting him to be Swedish, that's all."

One thing the Oscars always make clear is that I actually cannot tell the difference between what is considered a good and bad acting performance and wouldn't be at all surprised to find out the winners are handed out based entirely on vibes

Important biohacking news

If you only know me for my amazing social media presence, the book series that made my career is on sale for $2.99 in ebook form, that's all 4 'John Dies at the End' books, just search your ebook device for that phrase:

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This is for everybody out there who can't complain, not because they have no complaints, but because they're in a situation so specific to them that their complaint would seem like nonsense (or even frivolous) to any outsider. So they just swallow it and keep marching on

Which fictional characters do you think were having the nastiest sex off-screen? With the understanding that it's obviously a contest for second-place after these two freaks from Andor

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I'm not making any specific predictions but for all my life we've had a military built specifically to make war look like a fun little video game with no risk to our side. This is an illusion that, historically, can only be maintained for a short period of time.

ALL OF THE BOOKS IN THE JOHN DIES AT THE END SERIES ARE $2.99 THIS MONTH IN ANY EBOOK FORMAT. Statistically a lot of you have only read the first two, now is your chance to catch up before Book 5 comes out later this year.

seems to be confirmation that we did in fact hit a school

“Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes based at bases around the Middle East and from one or more aircraft carriers, a U.S. official said.”

‘SMILING FRIENDS’ is ending. 2 unreleased episodes will be released in the future and then the series will be over.

What do you call the fallacy that says, "We must have zero tolerance for rule-breaking, otherwise the system will collapse. In order to enforce this, our agents of course must be allowed to break the rules." Because it seems like the whole country runs on this now

So... everybody knows where this story is going, right? That it's going to end with ***SPOILER*** Dunk killing Egg? It hasn't happened in the books yet (the later novels just say that the pair die in a fire a couple decades after they meet and Egg becomes king). But... 1/2

at its peak the show did more in 15 seconds than some do in their entire run

An underrated path to self-improvement is to get with somebody who has an unrealistically high opinion of you and to fight every day to not disappoint them

Literally Zohran and AOC and Bernie all still use “the Nazi site” which makes the tarring of everyone who does as essentially Nazis seem increasingly farcical. It is, unfortunately, still the commons. I’m not happy a Nazi owns the commons either but Bluesky has singularly failed to be an alternative

The fight is lost, man. If you unfollowed everyone on here who’s still active on Twitter you’d have very few people left to follow. And Bluesky has some responsibility for becoming such a hostile and unserious space that working journalists have no particular reason to engage with it.

Looks like the full sequence of events is: 1) FBI comms guy calls reporter a liar for saying Kash went to hang out at the Olympics 2) reporter responds with Kash's video of Kash hanging out at Olympics 3) FBI comms guy posts how great it is that Kash was hanging out at the Olympics (see replies)