Ugh, someone hit my car over the holidays causing over $1700 in damage and is now trying to lowball/ghost me and stick me with the bill. How should I handle this? Wrong answers only plz 😂

And then other companies sell us “solutions” like time tracking apps and ways to block them to reinforce that it’s our problem that we just need a little help to solve

Unpopular opinion: you don't need more willpower. You need better designed apps. frequency.leaflet.pub/3mbezkaxwhk27

Well that’s disconcerting 😂

PSA for the unfamiliar.

Happy New Year! Wishing everyone an excellent 2026 🎊

About time! This is equivalent to labeling cigarette packs with a harm warning.

I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @propublica.org. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring

Oh no! I wasn’t paying close enough attention to the system update dialog before I clicked ‘Install later’ and I woke up to liquid glass on my phone 😣 was hoping to avoid this for a little while longer

That canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about 😢

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Stevie Wonder Paul McCartney The Flaming Lips Outkast Radiohead

New study - and the first field experiment of its kind we're aware of - demonstrates that how much platforms up- or down-rank "antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity" in their feeds can have an impact on toxic division. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨

Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 53 starts NOW! Special Guest: @jesseplusplus.bsky.social #frequency #loops #socialMedia #photo #socialNetwork #sharing #Owncast #Livestream - stream.firesidefedi.live #Peertube #VOD - video.firesidefedi.live #Castopod #Fedicast - audio.firesidefedi.live

Trying out leaflets 👀 jesseplusplus.leaflet.pub/3m3vvwbxpks2...

Social media does not have to be on a public town square, or manipulate you. Here's @jesseplusplus.bsky.social's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.

@juliakamin.bsky.social super great to meet you and discuss what kind of research can help build healthier social experiences at #FediForum yesterday!

We often say “only punch up, never down,” but I’d like to say “Don’t punch up. Reach up and rip out the foundations of the power structures oppressing everyone. Then grab a hand and pull the folks who fell down out of the rubble. They’re gonna need help.”

A Monday morning reminder to support @blackskyweb.xyz, @transrights.northsky.social, @slices.network, and anyone else building AppViews/AppView infra. We need redundant spaces yesterday, and these folks are doing the legwork to make it happen.

It’s a long article, but I really think every person on the internet should read this: https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

It was great meeting @jesseplusplus.bsky.social at #FediCon She’s the developer of Frequency frequency.app which is a private only photo sharing app that runs on a forked Mastodon back end called Decodon github.com/jesseplusplu...

Shout-out to @jesseplusplus.bsky.social for repping @anew.social's People, Not Platforms merch at #Fedicon!

I’m so bad at keeping up with podcasts, I literally *just* finally listened to a podcast that has been in my queue since 2019 😂 Loved hearing @lisaphillips.bsky.social and the others discuss the early social media days at livejournal, opendiary, etc. I’m so inspired! castro.fm/episode/vWkPjG

Early reviews include: • “why would you do this” • “This is horrendous. You are evil incarnate.” • “This is awful. Incredibly impressive but awful.” • “It gives me a physical full body cringe” • “congratulations on your torment nexus” www.jamesrball.com/p/i-built-th...

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

+200 points if you go see the bonus panel: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sigh

Trump on his faith advisers: "They work right out of the White House. That's never been done before. No other president allowed that. They say 'separation between church and state.' I said, alright, let's forget about that for one time."

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump exceeded his authority in his Alien Enemies Act proclamation addressing alleged members of Tren de Aragua, issuing a permanent injunction barring AEA proclamation-based removals from the Southern District of Texas.

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Fuck yeah, it’s about damn time 💪🏻

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Free your mind and your ass will follow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrgV...

why bluesky "feeds" don't work, a thread

Enjoy some Friday giggles, y’all 😂 velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Hey designers - are you using AI design tools in your daily workflow? If so, how? Is it similar to AI coding assistants where you really need to have pretty decent expertise in the subject to be able to direct and correct it?

Applications for the 2025 cohort of the U.S. Digital Corps are opening this Tuesday (Jan 7)! I strongly encourage interested candidates to apply on Tuesday as there will be a 400 applicant cap per track. More info and RSVP for an upcoming info session: digitalcorps.gsa.gov/apply/

excited for the free apple tv+ this weekend 🤓 time to catch up on the 2nd seasons of silo and shrinking

👀 👀 nice seeing the wave of new x-iters over here

🗣️ Butterflies in the skyyyyyy

Anyone know why git rerere is not enabled by default? I just learned about it recently, and it could have saved me so much time merging new releases into a long-running fork

If you're looking for a way to cross-post on all of the new social networks popping up these days, check out https://fedica.com/

guy gets on a zoom with his cfo and several other coworkers he knows, gets told to transfer $200m hkd, does it, and then finds out everyone who he spoke to was a deepfake www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/a...

2023 in review:

Hello Bluesky! I'm conducting some user research interviews for the federated photo-sharing app I'm building. It will be focused on privacy, intentional sharing, and giving people more control. If you're interested in giving feedback on prototypes, sign up at: oncehub.com/social

Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code. We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!

It’s Latina Equal Pay day, Latinas are paid 52¢ for every $1 white men make. Our deference, submission, and service is often the price asked and socially required for our leadership. May we stop being defanged as a condition of our existence. And may we get paid our worth.