would be cool if linked tweets from twitter got displayed more like quote-tweets, without the giant useless X

Sometime people ask me if I'm joking or serious, or kind of 50/50. I like to aim for simultaneously being mostly-joking and mostly-serious.

coming back to bsky after a year and there still aren't hotkeys? at least... n doesn't open [new tweet] and ? doesn't show an alternate list of hotkeys ..........

using bluesky to test CORS for intend.do

Hugely in favor of this. Specifically what makes something a twitter afaict is that each utterance is a standalone object that can be amplified & quoted. So anything where comments/replies are stuck to top-level posts is not a twitter.

This is the way because it actually contributes to the decorporitization of language and turns "tweet" into a genericized word, which is an intrinsic linguistic good

doing some coworking for the next few hours in this @intend.do room!

so now that twitter is calling itself "X" and its utterances "posts" & "reposts"...... ............can we use "tweet" & "retweet" here? (real question. probably they could still sue, but how hard would it be to prod Elon into insisting those words are stupid and giving others permission...? 🤔)

just created a bsky for my app, which has a new name/domain as of today too celebrated by re-posting this manifesto (that I actually drafted in gdocs but the cadence was already perfect for a thread)

intentionality, not productivity

I've existed since 2013 but I have a new name now, just in time for my old name to never have an account on bluesky! Check out the story of why @malcolmocean.com renamed Complice to Intend:

you're allowed to grant someone permission that you weren't the one who took away in the first place

3 intellectual archetypes: 🌲 the hermit — doesn't read or watch things, tries to figure it all out themselves 📖 the scholar — thoroughly researches everything already written on the topic 😍 the connoisseur — improvisationally explores & remixes others' ideas am I missing any?

i've been aware of @visakanv.com but had never heard him in conversation--beside the positive, weirdly calming vibes, i love the "creative freestyle world" term for the world/attitude i love inhabiting. also appreciate the transparency on money psychology https://youtu.be/AZtgPQVNpu8

nice... ceteris... you've got there would be a shame if it weren't... paribus

most people don't know this but the biblical flood actually happened because everyone let their feelings out all at once and all the tears drowned the world

the best same page is the one you're already on rather than trying to "get on the same page", focus on mutually recognizing the ways in which you're not on the same page

@srav.bsky.social just wanted to say I really dig how you responded in the pronoun thread

singular "they" has existed for a long time but (at least in my dialect) was canonically only used for people whose names/identifies don't matter for the conversation ✅ "I asked cashier, they said X" ❌ "I asked Alicia, they said X" the 2nd one would make my grandparents go "what? they who?"

sometimes the blind people touching the elephant are at each others' throats sometimes a sighted person comes along & laughs & explains what's going on sometimes the sighted person assumes that just because they see the WHOLE elephant at once, THEY can see the elephant FULLY 🤦‍♀️🐘

it's hard to be fully expressive around other people because unless you've built up a lot of trust, fully vocalizing your frustration will produce an excess of concern from them that'll be difficult to dispel

most communication problems amount to being unable to reliably say AND mean AND have received/trusted: 1. "I need something" 2. "I'm fine (and I'd let you know if I needed something)" [something], eg:  space  help  to pee/drink/eat  to slow down  to understand  to be understood

Skeet has now been said live on air. Incredible. https://files.catbox.moe/kfi8oh.mp4

I cannot stress enough how vigilant you must be if you want to avoid becoming TPOT

Probably my favourite midjourney creation so far... "We don't actually experience the world — rather, we filter reality through the state of our nervous system."

it's only possible to be rational within a frame

In my experience, people trying to wake each other up directly, whatever that means, and no matter how spiritually wise they feel in that moment, tend to be doing it in part out of discomfort with being with the "asleep" person. I've been on both sides of this countless times.

While how I’m feeling is always a response to what’s happening, the size and shape of that response have more to do with my history than the particulars of the situation. Important to honor the role of both the external situation and my internal context of interpretation.

Everyone's basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & their old emotional meanings. Like dreaming you're at high school but it's also on a boat somehow. & as in dreams, somehow the weirdness of this mashup goes unnoticed

what's a book you never opened but the title or subtitle still sticks with you and you feel like you learned something just from that?

hey! that pattern of mine you're calling "bullshit" is a coping mechanism carefully evolved & honed over many decades of human interaction. show it some respect! 😤

my contribution to the ongoing "unfucking ourselves and each other from the contortions we thought would help save the world" conversation (inspired by @qchu.bsky.social & others) read: https://malcolmocean.com/2023/05/confronting-forgiving-the-people-who-instilled-fear-in-my-heart/

I love how @malcolmocean.com frames multiQP in terms of show it enables convergence, rather than pure divergence. But first I’d clear up search and and quote post indexing. I’ll write a thread today or tomorrow about what sort of search operators I’d like to see

this famous painting (I've seen it multiple places over the years as a header/background image) is called Wanderer above the Sea of Fog I didn't notice until I read the title that he's looking out from a mountain at a landscape, not from some rocks at a stormy sea

A modest proposal for a scalable distributed community-oriented solution to trust on bsky and beyond. rn the idea is, well, we have these invites, but just pruning the whole invite tree is too messy a solution for trolls. So my proposal: invites are one type of "sponsorship" users can give out.

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Average users don't need to know how the backend works. However, they should know: If Twitter were just a server on top of the AT Protocol, then users could switch to the Bluesky server (or any other) without losing their followers/following or posts if they felt that Twitter was being mismanaged.

400 followers AMA

coming around to "skeets" actually natural fit for bluesky

"Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness." — @jack.bsky.social it seems to me like creating a saner, closer, better global consciousness must be the vision for bluesky

having confirmed that twitter literally owns the copyright to the word "tweet" (and has done some legal stuff with it before) I want to now turn my attention to what utterances here *should* be called the word "tweet" did magic because it was a new metaphor

had a dream that they had changed "post" to "lut", in the whole UI and then someone wrote a long rant about how CLEARLY they didn't ask anyone in India about this because "lut" is short for "lulut" in Hindi or something which means something bad

this but my self, not my car

the past is still here, it's just not evenly distributed

conservativism, properly held, has a very humble tone: "we actually don't quite know why what's working is working, so let's be careful as we change it. it's very precious and our wisdom may not be deep enough"

It feels to me like the single biggest difference between Bluesky and Mastodon is that Bluesky wants to be a viable Twitter replacement and Mastodon doesn't

this is totally appropriate. a necessary part of the process I'm personally pretty stoked for the idea that we could somehow import the whole old dataset, including old QTs

playfighting builds important skills in a hostile physical environment shitposting builds important skills in a hostile information environment

heuristics for finding misplaced items 1. if it's not in the third place I look, look in the first place more thoroughly   eg did I really check all of the pockets of that bag? 2. if it's not in the fifth place I look, question your assumptions   eg maybe it's not in my room at all