ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

Extreme wealth inequality is really bad for society but what on earth is this statement? Are endorsements and sponsorship deals not also income? Not also “earned”? $93M (MJ’s lifetime salary earnings) doesn’t magically become $3.5B bc *gestures vaguely* loop holes / capital gains

lol In all seriousness I would like to hear a sober analysis of why Anthropic is doing this. Did they have alternatives?

I see your tariffs and I raise you tolls

Way better than Newsom on every front

His remarks simply do not reflect the level of dysfunction and turmoil we are in. American democracy is on the brink and he’s talking like it’s politics in the 90s

Obviously. Obama calls the sky blue and thinks a return to decency and standards and morality would in fact be good

But actually though

has someone pulled receipts on this yet 😭

Seeing some people respond to this by saying that James is "the good Murdoch" because in recent years he's suggested Fox News went too far, but... nah. Dude was all in on Rupert's business until just recently and is still on the board of Tesla and is close with Elon.

My fav local NC politics podcast interviewed my fav southern comedian @thetraecrowder.bsky.social who I got see when he was in Raleigh recently So freakin cool

i think we’re going to be completely stuck in these anti-incumbency cycles because our institutions are fundamentally broken and for conservatives that is by design and for democrats, well its just so hard and so much work to do anything outside the margins

Dumbest timeline continues to only get dumber

I think I agree, but I also think that the current state of AI product development is missing a huge amount of default / out of the box guardrails, norms, and standardization The user shouldn’t have to create custom md governance, their own process for creating a design system, their own repo…

three years here today not sure if it seems like a long time or a short time because time no longer has any meaning

This is Bella. She is taking an online biscuit-making class. Her technique is unconventional, but the results are flawless. 14/10 (TT: motherofsausages)

This is still absolutely false, mathematically, but it's also a lie about what he actually said in the hearing (he said $600 and $10, which, again, is also incorrect). Anyway here's my thread about it from yesterday: bsky.app/profile/astr...

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 7% of employees in the form of voluntary retirement if your years at the company added to your age adds up to 70 years. As someone snarked online this is a chance to get out with dignity before AI-driven layoffs come to Microsoft.

Claude gave me $100 in free credits (maybe every account can redeem this?) and I didn’t touch them bc I have no intentions to mess w the API but now I can apply them to Claude Design. I’m really liking it but man this thing burns money. Free allotment from x5 + $100 = ~2 days sporadic use

Truly this is one of the best ways to avoid the vocal crazies on here Anyone who outsources mass blocking to subjective judgements by strangers is already very red flagged

does anyone have opinions about Claude Design yet? UI/UX rapid iterating via agents was extremely lacking before this. Figma Make isn't good. I've only just started using CD and parts are promising. But it's still fully disconnected from the normal AI-powered app development

if i want to xref ppl i follow who are interacting with or authoring posts that have specific AI keywords i'm curious ab (claude, anthropic, codex, cursor, etc) do i have to whip up on my own feed? should feed segmentation be a feature?

Bluesky is looking for a design research contractor big plus if you know Bluesky well who's the best design researcher you know? nominate them (or yourself)

This week on The Hometown Holler we had Congresswoman @ross.house.gov who represents NC district 2, at the studio to chat about Trump, Iran, Epstein and everything in between.

Bro can’t even pull a “please clap”

FYI this is now the avg age of bsky

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watching these guys trying desperately to defend something so utterly inauthentic and blatantly and cynically staged will never get old lol

platforms make choices. this is who benefits.

GTA def needs to embrace this bit

got in the car and apple bottom jeans was playing on the radio. "you're listening to 93.3 FM, millennial retirement home radio"

This chart is stunning.

When cults collide

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

After I posted the USAID deposition videos on PlainSite's YouTube account, within hours, YouTube punished PlainSite by demonetizing the account for posting public records, in violation of their own terms of service. It's the second time in a month that YouTube went out of its way like that.

new communities like... *checks notes* women

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Clowns

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

@alexbenzer.com iOS product feedback: When in thread compose, a fully blank post shouldn’t prevent full post, it should count as a discarded next post P sure this is how old twitter worked And again in compose I think y’all should make the source of post prevent obvious / red

@mikeindustries.com as I’ve spun up some simple side projects using Claude, I’ve found that out of the box it doesn’t create or apply any kind of consistent style guide, rules, tokens, component library, etc Part of harnessing claude to be v productive, at this juncture, i think, is…

@mikeindustries.com as I’ve spun up some simple side projects using Claude, I’ve found that out of the box it doesn’t create or apply any kind of consistent style guide, rules, tokens, component library, etc Part of harnessing claude to be v productive, at this juncture, i think, is…

Three Democratic members of Congress said they were horrified that immigrants were being stuffed into holding cells “like sardines” at a Mesa ICE holding facility they showed up to without warning on Thursday night.

@caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com one small omission on Acme Weather, it costs money!

Should you stay or should you go? I wrote a little post about how the job description for designers is changing and what you can about it. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

Man when you over exhaust watching all the decent shows you know of and have to slum it watching “FBI” you really get a feel for what terrible writing can be

We desperately need more people fighting for stuff like UBI rather than circlejerking with their in-group about how much they hate AI on social media