also me @ing the hmj community is me speaking for myself, not strictly as a mod. I know the lines are blurry bc I manage the list, but to be clear I'm not speaking for joe, just appealing to being sure that the way we're chatting is normal & comfortable for everyone as part of it all myself too!

hello hmj people it is so fabulous we have such a lively community but please remember that fundamentally this is a parasocial environment centered around a streamer & intimate things like medical advice and psychiatry need to have more strongly considered boundaries even if that isn't always clear

do you remember where you were when you first heard the beat drop in torn by cobrah

the perfume shelf got a new addition

cooking up a redesign of my color analysis reports that is slaying so hard there might not be any slay left for the rest of you :\ (if you're currently waiting on your results from me, good news! your report will be in the new format) (if you're interested in a color analysis, reply or DM!)

these two people who I hold vastly different references for in my mind are the same age and it's kinda fucking with me rn

I really think more countries should copy china and just not tell people what their pre tax pay is.

@stephenjacobsmith.com a crisis has been unfolding in Catalonia over regional RENFE train safety after a derailment that led to a death earlier this week. The government suspended all Rodalies service today and tomorrow, making a total of 4 days this week with no service: beteve.cat/mobilitat/di...

do not (re)post a video of someone being murdered onto the HMJ feed that could potentially escape all of bluesky's controls to prevent people from seeing it without their choosing. it should go without saying, but just in case as a reminder before you might click (re)post on the one going around.

begging bluesky to implement drafts atp

Common Brazilian design W

definitely prefer my nonsense pop culture petty drama to be gay flavored over British billionaire family flavored

this should be balances softness with depth* and warmth* but I rewrote this to be autumn instead of summer and it slipped past me in the edit 🙃

Soft autumn, soft summer: everyone who’s gotten into color analysis has thought they were one of these palettes at some point. Then you get a color analysis & are shocked to receive a result with more saturated colors or a palette with colors that seem “soft” but the result isn't. Let’s look at why.

the month of january is really trying me

this should be balances softness with depth* and warmth* but I rewrote this to be autumn instead of summer and it slipped past me in the edit 🙃

testing the boundaries of how much people are willing to read on social media on main

Soft autumn, soft summer: everyone who’s gotten into color analysis has thought they were one of these palettes at some point. Then you get a color analysis & are shocked to receive a result with more saturated colors or a palette with colors that seem “soft” but the result isn't. Let’s look at why.

thinking ab doing some posts with infographics to explain some color analysis concepts. would you guys be interested in that

a historically high volume of rain and low amount of sunlight hours paired with it being the short day season is really making any rain at all test me gimme some daylighttttt

worth noting about alt text! others have told me that they have to set it separately between browser and app!

Out of respect to the person who just deleted their account over me reminding them about alt text, I won't post the screenshot of the notification that shows what was said. To the HMJ chat: if I reply to your post reminding you about alt text, please understand it's not personal or with malice.

Not 2016, but one time several years ago I was stopped on the street on the way to the gym by people doing what turned out to be a lil segment on a Spanish show asking people if they knew what certain words meant. I featured for a few secs & friends saw me on the TV a few weeks later

@ hmj community streamers new and old, I say this with so much love, but if you have a dozen people in chat and three dozen followers why is the chat in followers-only mode? let's assess risk honestly and acknowledge that streaming is a public activity. a thread:

like don't try to tell me that this isn't ugly bc that would be wrong by any standard

Trying adamantly to break lifelong habits of never getting around to doing OS updates and eventually ending up 4 OSes behind but liquid glass as a design concept is making it very difficult to enjoy the process

Refraining with every fiber of my being from laughing along with the conversation I'm eavesdropping on of two very chipper British women at the cafe next to me who are none the wiser that I understand them

The slow creep of the days getting longer really has an outsize impact on my entire will to live as the sun stays out past 5 PM

Now that the whole freak twitch suspension in the last hours of 2025 thing is over, I can say that never has the separation between the state of the world and my personal life been greater. It was a really good year for me profesionally, socially, creatively, and more! I would like to continue that!

there were like half a dozen people who actually bought me coffee on my page in chat today which I saw an hour or so after the fact so thank you to those of you who will see this on here!

h8 when sinister government agencies are named with common-word acronyms so that muting discourse around them is impossible

I feel like such a crotchety old man every time I'm out and about and see groups of young teens with no shortage of kids sucking on a vape like their lungs depended on it.

little did he realize that this very comment would, in fact, put his account at risk less than two days later (it's amazing what a lack of context and a no-faith content moderation system will do) (I will continue to reclaim the word fag as much as I please, just NOT on twitch)

Me wracking my brain for specific very minor details of things that happened 12 years ago: oh no, is my memory failing me

@whitney-blair.bsky.social I was, indeed, silenced (literally nobody knows what the trigger was bc they don't show you) (it was probably me literally just talking about reclaiming the f slur)

also @ hmj people: my pronouns are he/him for those who were unsure lol

I heard there was a stream today but I'm still not quite sure what that is or means so I remain unconvinced that the entire concept is real (I'll be back next Thursday)

Oh he said pleaseeeeeee

happy new year or whateva

🫳 2025 🗑️

This isn't my first time experiencing arbitrary moderation on a platform, however. One of the reasons I chilled on TikTok was that I couldn't have a normal conversation with one of my friends in DMs to talk about TikToks we'd send each other without its automated system flagging truly random things

Baby's first ban on a major platform after doing literally nothing 😍 happening at a time when I wasn't even on twitch 😍 with no reference to what specifically was reported so that a proper appeal is impossible and they can just say you did anything 😍

make sure you reply or DM me in order to be added to the waitlist! if you're interested and you've only liked the post I can't be sure. let's do some color analysis! also, POC have special priority as before!

sincerely, what is the point of officialized link embeds in video descriptions if every link is just going to take you to a holding page like this with no discernment for what the link is the "we're too big to care about making our product actually good"-ification of the internet sucks, actually!

tapping the sign

you ever read something so dumb you strongly consider replying but realize it would accomplish nothing if you did

Portuguese put the words it inherited from Latin through a lot of fascinating sound changes. This becomes extra clear when you compare them to later borrowings of the same Latin word: ‘chão’ and ‘plano’ both come from Latin ‘plānum’! Here’s episode 5 of my 10-part series. Tomorrow: Romanian.

Some people vocally oppose using ‘data’ and ‘panini’ as singular nouns, saying they come from plural nouns. That’s true, but that also goes for ‘marvel’ and ‘joy’: they used to be plural too. And ‘cherries’ and ‘peas’ used to be singular. Zoom in to learn all about this phenomenon: reanalysis.

make sure you reply or DM me in order to be added to the waitlist! if you're interested and you've only liked the post I can't be sure. let's do some color analysis! also, POC have special priority as before!

also, if you're interested in a color analysis and would like to be put on my list for available spots, please let me know either in a reply or a DM! I will be reaching out to people who have already expressed interest!