Happy thanksgiving, my fellow Americans. I’m grateful for freedom and life today. What are you grateful for? If you’re not American you can give thanks too but up to you.

Neither raising taxes nor lowering marginal tax rates significantly changes the actual amount of money collected by the federal government and everyone on both sides claiming the problem is the tax rate is crazy.

A decentralized network provides different affordances from a centralized one. Trying to build a decentralized copy of a feed-based service always winds up the same: a hidden centralized layer coordinating the outcome.

If you spend your days trying to fight those in power, you’ll have some real internal conflict when you start winning.

Who here is on the side of the harmonizers in the coming allbeing war?

Activate the TPOT contingency. Sleepers awaken.

People always ask OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE but never OH GOD HOW ARE YOU DOING

“I knew it was a bad idea and doomed all along” is just such an ugly, blinkered, self-congratulatory thing to say. It is always obvious a failure was doomed in retrospect. Yet when you attempt to call out future failures with such confidence…you leave receipts of the many times you’re wrong.

This is core to my view of the world

By the time you’re asking “what is this TPOT thing ppl are talking about” it’s too late. The call is coming from inside the house. You are a TPOT node.

Hello Bluesky! The Internet Archive is a non-profit library with a mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Explore our collection at archive.org.

you're in a park, having a picnic a tourist approaches, asks "where am I?" you respond "the park" the tourist asks "what's the park's ideology?" you respond "it doesn't have one" they point at a group and say "bad people are here" you respond "and? it's a public park, we're having a picnic"

martial arts guy and horse girl seem like they’d probably be really happy together

First they came for the billionaires. But I was not a billionaire, and so I said nothing.

Have you tried solving the problem by building something to at least partially solve the problem?

On one hand, I’m starting to feel guilty. On the other, how can I say no to going further??? How do you proceed?

Nothing more beautiful than our creations taking on their own life

Tweets. We should just call them Tweets. Gimme a QT and a like on this Tweet to help destroy the Tweet trademark and claim it for our people.

Old elevators are beautiful send tweet

💯 Even better if we do it consistently we will genercide the Twitter trademark and all Tweets will just be Tweets forever, like Xerox or Kleenex.

Ive been experimenting with doing this better. Surprisingly tricky. Any tips, for someone looking to subclass QuotableQuipper in bsky_rpg?

Hey @pfrazee.com — idea for a bsky feature I always wanted on Twitter. In-line “search for a post to quote-post” when editing a new post, sort of like “search for an animated gif” or “add a photo attachment”.

From a recent AI event

Flow

gn ~~~~ Arcimbaldo, “Spring”

My son is just so god damn cute.

I missed the trend where we posted ourselves as villains. But this is definitely me as a villain, with one of my best friends from highschool who is clearly the hero.

gn ~~~~ MC Escher, “Relativity”

Babe new kind of spring cleaning just dropped. I reorganized all my app icons on my phone after letting them build up into pages of chaos and the mental relief is strong. Spring clean your phone!

gn ~~~~ Tomoyuki Kobe, “Appreciation Party”

Yay 100 followers on Bluesky! They feel real, Twitter was too leveraged on my IRL identity and felt like cheating. Maybe I should have invested in an alt.

one like = one oz shot of black coffee. I’ve never managed to overconsume caffeine, ever. lfg.

Any service can be your database if you want it to be

one like = one lesson learned about leadership

gn ~~~~ Janna Watson, “Chills Up The Spine”

I get to see this little guy all the time right now. I can already tell I’m gonna miss him in a few months.

Everyone should internalize this approach. Hey @pfrazee.com can you make this part of onboarding

Posting tweets about reading a lot as a child being core to your personality is probably the #1 predictor of whether I’ll get along very well with someone

bluesky feels a lot like early twitter…everyone has small followings, the app is simpler and kinda jank, and the service goes down all the time. nostalgia.

Anyone want some advice? Hot, fresh opinions on what you should do. Get yer piping hot takes on your life problems here. Startup advice, dating advice, emotional advice, creative advice, step right up.

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And the really amazing ones. Actually this seems like a solution to the spam/verification issue… @princevogelfrei.bsky.social would be pleased w the new hierarchical lines of loyalty and responsibility.

there should be a name for the impulse to subsidize demand instead of increase supply…since bsky doesn’t have polls like one of my replies to vote for your favorite option:

Does anyone know what the bsky API situation is like? Can we do bots?

Have you ever thought about how, to a horse, the world is basically Candyland? Like they're wandering down a trail and boom, there's just some thistles. And then to the left, a delicious tree. There's just food all over the ground everywhere. Horses seem pretty excited about it.

I used to struggle w needing to be “creative” or “original” in my work. At some point I had a breakthrough that really helped me: I cannot repeat an idea, no matter how basic or common, without imparting some of my worldview into it.

Type 1 fun: fun while you’re having it (eg. video games) Type 2 fun: painful in the moment, fun in retrospect (eg. backpacking) Type 3 fun: painful in the moment, painful in retrospect, fun to tell the story about (eg. when I almost died of appendicitis in college)

Words don’t have exact definitions. They are gestures, pointing at nebulous regions of concept-space. The fact that someone cannot precisely define a term they are using is not an criticsism, because no term can ever be precisely defined.

The word “deserve” and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Engagement bait is ruining bsky already. People are posting crap that they know will juice their position in the algorithm. Here’re the 7 terrible tricks they’ve been using 🧵👇