Such a lovely Tiny Desk concert! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0WT... Features the #maybehappyending (musical) cast, writers, and full orchestra (!). Adored this show! Hope y'all can see it on Broadway or on tour! (Note: Darren is channeling his old-model, awkward robot character from the show)

I just want government officials who 1) understand tech 2) value society more than they prioritize virtue-signaling. Why is this so hard?! (the bill below is so incredibly stupid AND it passed in a "tech" committee 6-0 🤦🏻) www.techmeme.com/260304/p53#a... @masnick.com have you covered this yet?

I'm seeing performances featuring Yoko Kanno two nights in a row in NYC, and I don't know what I can do to top that for the rest of the year! Her April 10 one with Seatbelts is sold out, but there are still tickets for her "Piano Me" concert on April 11! www.thetownhall.org/event/yoko-k...

Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web. The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.

Not sure if it's an indication of Bluesky's success or my own burgeoning popularity here (LOL), but I'm getting an increasing number of scammer-follows here nowadays. You know, the hot younger women sliding into your DMs "So how is your day? May I call you Adam?" 🙄 DO. NOT. WANT. :\

This guy used AI to craft an isometric map of NYC & it's dang cool! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ I especially enjoyed his behind-the-scenes commentary: cannoneyed.com/projects/iso... I think @bmcclendon.bsky.social and @kenjilambert.bsky.social may enjoy this, and other mapheads, too :)

We're living in a Twilight Zone episode! The boy "lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family & neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish" They (like our GOP congress) had the power to stop him at every turn, but didn't... so he continued to impulsively tear the community apart.

Wondering how the zillions of Americans named "Al" are feeling nowadays. [All the Japanese named Ai: Hold our Sapporo!]

Everyone should buy an EV because... who really wants an "ICE" car nowadays?!

I tried but wasn't able to! :(

I wish all products and services would use either "good" "better" "best" or "Bronze" "Silver" "Gold" so I don't have to spend mental energy figuring out their tiers. Plus, Pro, Premier, Ultra, Standard, Elite, Max, Creator, Professional, and now (with ChatGPT) "Go"?... come on!

What's the current Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts equivalent in the Comics section of the paper nowadays? If there's not such a thing, why do you think that is? Er, there *is* still a Comics section, right? (written by someone who hasn't read a physical newspaper in probably a decade)

I'm BEGGING y'all: CITE. YOUR. SOURCE(S)! I'm exhausted and dispirited seeing both dire & wonderful assertions that turn out to be exaggerated-truth at best or, worse, totally made up. Just because the MAGA folks wallow in this isn't an excuse for the rest of us to do the same. We GOTTA be better!

Seriously, it’s like a fucking perpetual anxiety attack in this country right now. Give a bitch a minute to catch their breath, for fuck’s sake.

In extraordinary message, Fed chair announces that he’s being extorted/coerced by the US government under color of law.

Apparently another season of BLACK MIRROR is coming up. DO. NOT. WANT. We have enough darkness, cynicism, and dystopia in our lives right now. Why would we want to 'escape' to more of that?! Could we instead please have more TED LASSO? Or THE GOOD PLACE? Or CLASSIC STAR TREK?

This video is 100% TRASH in the most awesome, creative, entertaining way. 4 minutes. Go watch it and smile! :o www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XY... (and, as an evergreen statement this last year or so, we all need a little levity & joy in our life right now)

Sure, @kenjennings.bsky.social is super-smart AND on the right side of morality w/ his recent political commentary. But did you know he also wrote a fascinating, really fun book? Go buy or borrow "Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks" and thank me later :)

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

I'm home alone, but after I coughed, I heard "Bless you!" next to me 👻 😱 Turns out I had somehow accidentally activated ChatGPT Voice Mode on my iPhone.

Where does a liberal go from here?

NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media ‘Addiction,’ Will Lose In Court New York Governor Kathy Hochul just signed a law that's going to get expensive fast. The state’s new social media labeling requirement—S4505, courtesy of state Senator Andrew Gounardes—forces websites to slap unscientific…

I hereby coin the term "blueskyed" for this. "D'oh! Yet another person was blueskyed for posting a thoughtful, informed, and nuanced take on something!"

California residents: A new state gov't service submits requests to 500+ data brokers to remove your personal info 🙏🏼 privacy.ca.gov/drop Took me about 10 minutes all-in. You'll want to have these things handy: - Your mobile phone - Your driver's license OR your passport

Pro tip: Unclutter your Gmail w/ rapid-fire unsubscribings! 1) Click on "Manage subscriptions" in the lefthand panel of web-based Gmail. You might need to click on "more" to see the option. 2) Then click on 'Unsubscribe" next to each subscription one you want to get rid of. Very cathartic!

As a longtime Bay Area resident, I've been kinda down on SF for much of my time here, and I'm really glad to see things starting to look up re reduced crime and increased safety! www.ktvu.com/news/san-fra... Many of my friends living in SF-proper have also said they've been feeling more optimistic.

I know most of us here are strangers to one another, but I'm still genuinely curious; what are you most excited about for 2026? Personally, societally, whatever. For me, I'm excited about being more intentional about my time and also spending more time playing / creating music.

Welcome to #SF, where the cost of a couple of pastries goes ~45% from $9.95 to $14.32 after tax, tip, and dishonest "SF Mandate [sic] fee". I miss the Japan style: "600 yen please" [hands over a 500 and 100 yen coin] [gets pastries] No "the screen will ask you some questions" or other bullshit.

"THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY" Was going to post a heartfelt thought about a controversial political-adjacent issue here and then wised up. Best case: it'd go viral Worst case: it'd go viral I'm not a masochist!

On a related note, would be delightful if a lot of powerful companies and people would ditch X. I expect the revenue and goodwill that, say, Google and Apple garner there is infinitesimally small, but they stay because they're depressingly terrified of MAGA loudmouths who would stomp their feet.

Just tried Google's NotebookLM again and am BLOWN AWAY by how much it's progressed. I had it find authoritative info online about Universal Basic Income ("UBI") and then create learning resources (audio & video explainers, etc.) and wow! See for yourself: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/a2b...

Anyone else wish bsky had an optional *native* feature that auto-unpublished your posts & replies after [x] days? [Mastodon has this, and it's is also possible *via API* with both bsky and X]

I'm struggling with this, too, but... if all of us creatives spent more energy improving ourselves and less time being angry about or envious of others... we'd be more successful and happy. Are there no-talent people who have lots of fans, fame, and fortune? Sadly, yes.

About 3500 photos & videos taken, 90 miles walked, and a connecting flight made w/ 4 minutes to spare (!). It was another adventurous, delicious, and picturesque if not especially relaxing Japan vacation 🙂 My more "compact" Japan Favs 2025 album (175 pics): photos.app.goo.gl/9rZJNrj4TNkn...

I did not have the best French toast being in Japan on my 2025 bingo card, but it's true. It's like a cross between bread pudding, egg custard, and, er, I guess regular French Toast. Practically melts in your mouth!

Huge 👍🏼 recommendation for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" musical now playing in NYC, despite the unwieldy title. Both the music and book are awesome, and this performance in particular is outstanding!

Next time someone asks me "Why are you vacationing in Japan *again* when there are so many places you haven't visited?!" I think I'm gonna show them this photo I took today.

The correlation between the quality of a thing and the quality of its *marketing* is pretty damn loose. I think people forget that a lot... whether it's movies, restaurants, or areas of tech.

Today's heartfelt Life Advice from old-guy-not-yelling-at-clouds: Make recurring joy! More specifically, find something you can (and will!) do at a set time (at least every week!) that makes you happy. A pottery class, date night, volunteering, walk-with-a-friend, etc. [...]

Grateful for the clarification!

Criticism and satire are vital parts of public discourse. Threats of violence are not. We've developed bad behaviors online, saying things behind screens that we'd never say irl. Joking or not, it's a slippery slope. This is about maintaining a space for fierce disagreement.

Person1: "I recorded all the Osaka subway stop announcements" Everyone: ❤️ 🥰 Person2: "I recorded the relentless and cringey Safeway announcements" Everyone: 🤬🤮

Life tip: Update Zoom well before your meeting. Nothing worse than showing up on the dot for your job interview or other critical meeting only to be delayed by a mandatory Zoom software update.

Hot but sincere take: We mostly don't need to 'manage' our email better, we just need to be smarter about email subscriptions. Unsubscribing from most things or filtering 'em into a "for searching only" folder/label = WIN! You're welcome. Signed, Guy who achieved inbox zero & reduced email stress

Just saw the first two episodes of "Plur1bus" and -- as impressive as it is -- I'm frankly pining for another "The Good Place" or "Ted Lasso".

A very sobering and worthwhile read and, yes, somewhat ironic to post here. I've definitely reduced my social media time drastically in the last years, but maybe I need to do more reducing :\ www.tommydixon.ca/p/how-to-end...

Random person: [rants at length about deeply hypothetical or super-duper-edge-case privacy/security risk] Me: "Do you reuse your passwords?" Random person: [silence]

And now for some (literal) harmony in otherwise oft-unharmonious times! Listen to me and 150+ other people sing "Breaking Free" from "High School Musical" :-) www.instagram.com/p/DPwI0Igj1kE/ #acappella #music #singing #sf #sanfrancisco #bayarea #toomanyhashtags #dothesethingsevendoanythinghere?