happy 2nd anniversary to the most important piece of bluesky lore

pls

I'm sure everyone will be very normal about this

More data showing that 85%+ of accounts just read/lurk. This is important because it means that very active fake accounts (often hundreds of accounts controlled by one person or organization) can easily dominate conversations, creating the illusion of consensus or popularity. 1/2

Good job, Millennials...you've still got it!

>$500 ticket >$19.99 payments I’m sorry the phrase “two year Coachella loan” might actually kill me.

it is if it's hooked up to factorio

YES MAMA TOP THAT SKELETON

walking into home depot and all the price tags are replaced by [MKT PRICE] like an asshole restaurant

restaurant profit margins are thin enough, but any restaurants that heavily feature coconut milk, fish sauce, gochujang, teff, berebere, cumin, sichuan pepper, avocado, black vinegar, chili crisp oil, cardamom, tamarind, or soy sauce are in for a world of pain

As of right now some but not all of these accounts are currently on my moderation list, due to safeguards that are in place to prevent a single network from overloading the setup I use to maintain the list. They will eventually all be added.

Earlier today, someone created a massive network of empty Bluesky accounts with repetitive biographies such as "Ireland based, interested in travel", "Netherlands based, interested in fashion", "Turkey based, interested in technology", and so on. Thus far, the purpose of these accounts is unclear.

i need people to understand that asian grocery stores aren’t just a lifeline to asian americans: they’re also a source of fresh and affordable produce to low income non-asians who live in HCOL areas

It's Window Safety Week

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There's a small but growing number of people online who constantly do the "Place, Japan" meme but for China, and while it's nowhere near as much of a problem as Sinophobia, it's still obnoxious whenever it comes up, and is oftentimes more than a little Orientalist

PSA: Revoke any app passwords you have on your account that you aren't using. It's always a good idea to do so immediately once you're done with the service that used the app password.

Via No Context Brits

I'm going end-user mode. never reading a single piece of UI text. only clicking the buttons that light up. immediately dismissing the modal dialogs that get in the way. living in the moment.

okay this may be the one that finally breaks me. The Signal thing, okay, one time fuckup. GMAIL?

We're listening to your feedback and updating the character count for posts on Bluesky. Posts can now be 299 characters long!

lol, youtube added a clickthrough warning modal to save people from getting rickrolled. afaict it's the only video that has it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

The internet is a contested space. 🌍🧑‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

Ok folks let me grind some spices and get back to you on this

i want one of those japanese mini-trucks

From personal experience, very common story in Chinese diaspora families is losing contact with the family on the mainland in the 50s, reconnecting with them some time in the 80s or 90s, and finding out a lot of them died as a direct result of the Cultural Revolution

Snuggle time #caturday

the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

1/6 We're seeing an uptick in scams pretending to be Bluesky or @aaron.bsky.team. These scammers are targeting artists via DMs, trying to take you off-app. Our moderation team is reviewing reports of these scammers and will take down their accounts. Here are some important reminders:

Imagine going back in time and showing this to a random Maoist cadre during the Cultural Revolution

in conclusion, apply some seriously creative and advanced prompting techniques to Deez Nuts

ghibli is one of the easier drawing styles to learn and you guys are so lazy lol. You don't even try to draw.

Just thinking of the time someone straight up posted a photo of Howl's Moving Castle and asked for someone to build it. If you're going to devote all that time/energy /resources on a creation, the least you could do is come up with something that doesn't just copy someone else's work verbatim.

To the people using AI to produce Studio Ghibli-style "art" images, and also those using Grok or whatever to tell them who their writing style/posts resemble: Really, please don't.

who among us doesn't enjoy the sensation of being seasick every time someone rocks the boat

This qtrs reading list for me... @sharonyamsy.bsky.social's doing queering reproduction, gender kin & care justice. @letahongfincher.bsky.social's betraying big brother. @emilyzfeng.bsky.social's let only red flowers bloom.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: the trillion dollar company behind Facebook and Instagram is effectively outsourcing the labor of combatting platform abuse to overworked and under-resourced school employees.

Bluesky's jetstream (live API feed of all posts) is currently offline, so BlueNotify notifications will be delayed until it comes back. Interestingly there was a HUGE spike in posts right before it happened. I'm curious if there was some attack on bluesky's infrastructure that did it.

Behold, my soon-to-be full bluesky index