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Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

No reason. youtu.be/UnBlst3T7bY?...

spectacular

If there is anything that I’ve learned from BlueSky is that people here are optimistic about AI and love hearing @kevinroose.com’s takes on it. So what better way to announce my new podcast with @allisonbraley1.bsky.social than share an inaugural episode with Kevin. open.spotify.com/episode/1a5p...

Bluesky was foreshadowed by Strindberg and Helium: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw8c...

When the news gets overwhelming, I look through my dad’s collection of old newspapers. Zoom in and see everything happening on one day in June 1917.

National club volleyball tournaments are when all the dad species can come together. The Dad Bros. The Tattoo Dads. The Sprinter Van Dads. The Vouri Dads. The Oakley Dads. It’s a beautiful thing.

Seriously curious: Who is in the pro-tariff lobby? Could you get 100 people to show up for pro-tariff rally who genuinely cared?

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

“No More Kings”, Pavement (School House Rock cover) open.spotify.com/track/5f6nPM...

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Banning X links is happening in many corners of Reddit, but this is notable because the SF Giants fanbase was a strong early mover onto early days Twitter.

Got an email yesterday congratulating me for being on LinkedIn for 21 years. That was nice, but, even better, the LI algorithm finally gets me now...

This exact temporal sequence of events, as observed in southern California in 2024, is something we use as a prototypical example of practical consequences of wet-to-dry "hydroclimate whiplash" events--which we show are increasing due to #ClimateChange. www.nature.com/artic...

Listening to @brianosh.bsky.social on storytelling and the importance of being actual, real humans in comms was just what I needed this morning. An encyclopedic / self-reflective convo on changes in media and PR with @mackmckelvey.bsky.social and Heidi Keele open.spotify.com/episode/63vV...

I've been using Facebook since 2006 and Instagram since 2010, and this is what Threads thinks I care about.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the wee.... ... it's an amazing Simpsons/Run Lola Run discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzhR...

My version of "ladies and gentleman, the weekend"... Mark E Smith (of The Fall) reads football scores.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUi...

Tom Friedman's Waymo driver gave him a heads up...

Got to get @bizstone.bsky.social to do a Bluesky 'How To' so the simulation will be complete. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGnM...

Dying Relative Sent Quick ‘How You Holding Up?’ Text

It's not tech, it's not politics, and it's not even porn. It's sports that makes a social media app sticky and vibrant. Sports changed Twitter in the early days. They never happened on Threads. They're happening here now.

How to make your Twitter archive public… (should you so desire)…

If you could upload your Twitter archive here, would you?

Bluesky is just around the corner to reaching its peak. www.theguardian.com/media/pda/20...

Just Polly Jean Harvey covering The Fall's best song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwM0...

Whether @bsky.app becomes the new social media home of sports media or not, it's already brought back one vital element: Fun. bit.ly/3Cpih5U

I may have given up 25,000 followers today, but now I feel unencumbered to post the greatest works of art. Like this scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WwZ...

Gosh darn it, if a Russian asset can be the DNI and Matt Gaetz can be AG, I can delete my almost 18-year-old Twitter account.

A bunch of good people who worked at Twitter. Happy to add folks. go.bsky.app/Sy2TpjM

The starter pack idea is brilliant in its simplicity and impact. In the early, pre-algo days of Twitter, we deeply struggled with the empty timeline problem. I had the (pretty dumb) idea of creating little "new account" cards preloaded with accounts that you could give to friends.

Twitter really became the Twitter that I loved when it became THE place for baseball news and convos in circa 2010. Now Bluesky has The Giants' quite excellent beat reporter Andrew Baggarly.

Trump has always been a sixth grade presidency candidate. Pizza every day forever and no more homework. The challenge is, as always, that that’s not how this works.

When Steve Albini was producing some of my favorite music in the early ‘90s, I just assumed that he was some old wizard. I had no idea that he was 28 in 1991.

Excited for the new Mount Kimbie album open.spotify.com/track/0xEHXA...

I decree Bluesky the weird place.