The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

Big thanks to @maggiemertens.bsky.social for asking me to contribute to this! I had a lot of fun answering these questions about why I quit Substack and moved to Ghost.

And @leahreich.com is walking the walk: " ... we have to be willing to step back from these big, buzzy spaces, be ok with smaller numbers, and get back to cultivating smaller and more human-scaled spaces. What would it have looked like if I wrote that but didn’t walk the walk?"

I am guilty of still having 2 newsletters on substack but the idea of moving them is overwhelming given the state of *everything* For @talkscratch.bsky.social I reached out to @thefrankiedlc.news @leahreich.com @mindahoney.bsky.social to ask how they made the move www.talkscratch.com/why-cant-wri...

Imagine knowing your neighbor lives alone but you still sometimes hear her yell, in an extremely high-pitched voice, "CHEEEEEEESE! CHEEEEESE! I GOT OUR FAVORITE CHEESE!"

Imagine knowing your neighbor lives alone but you still sometimes hear her yell, in an extremely high-pitched voice, "CHEEEEEEESE! CHEEEEESE! I GOT OUR FAVORITE CHEESE!"

I agree, you should go read my latest newsletter www.leahreich.com/i-dont-think...

I agree, you should go read my latest newsletter www.leahreich.com/i-dont-think...

Go read @leahreich.com's latest newsletter! www.leahreich.com/i-dont-think...

Couldn't help myself and wrote a bit about Our Evil Tech Overlords at the Met Gala this week. And I obviously had to include the fantastic thread from everyone's favorite menswear writer, @dieworkwear.bsky.social www.leahreich.com/i-dont-think...

Couldn't help myself and wrote a bit about Our Evil Tech Overlords at the Met Gala this week. And I obviously had to include the fantastic thread from everyone's favorite menswear writer, @dieworkwear.bsky.social www.leahreich.com/i-dont-think...

I feel very uncool asking this but you know how I started doing TikToks explaining things about tech and social media? (maybe you don't know) I want more people to see them who are not on BlueSky/in tech/reading newsletters so pls share this, it would help me! thank you www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkqPwGhR/

I wrote about The Onion and Infowars

So, let me get this straight - in this week SO FAR, it's "we're gonna keylog every fucking thing you do" and then it's "also we're just gonna fire one in ten" Meta employees - seriously, fucking walk. Now.

Btw I’m making little videos on TikTok if you wanna hang out with me there, maybe YouTube will be next?? eek www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkQx4Dsk/

My newsletter this week: Silicon Valley never cared about what normal people want. It solved problems the industry itself introduced. First it made money by selling products, then by selling our data, then by selling us back to ourselves. Now it's fucked. www.leahreich.com/i-think-i-fi...

perceptive: at one point the goal - whatever the moral valence of that goal is - was "what can we offer people that will make money for us?" and now the goal is something more like "what can we extract from the people already locked into this system?"

I wish I had written this line in my newsletter this week because I LOVE it. Go read my newsletter anyway www.leahreich.com/i-think-i-fi...

this is good [even if i don't entirely agree with its premise, it constructively provokes thought]

My newsletter this week: Silicon Valley never cared about what normal people want. It solved problems the industry itself introduced. First it made money by selling products, then by selling our data, then by selling us back to ourselves. Now it's fucked. www.leahreich.com/i-think-i-fi...

loved this @leahreich.com on THE THING (also the only part of research i ever cared about, sorry to methodology), but also about how we are now coming face to face with how tech *never* actually “solved problems” in the first place

Why does AI suck so much? The Valley has gotten really bad at producing things people need to solve their actual problems. AI's a celebration of getting as far away from satisfying human needs as possible. I think our tech overlords are scared to death of People. Read @leahreich.com for more.

Tonight I found out that someone who worked on all the same stuff as I did at Instagram was eventually promoted to director while I got laid off so I got really mad and made this TikTok video. Please share it so I am encouraged to make more. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkuKNQ4T/

Everyone is up in arms about this but having worked at Instagram I feel like you're all missing the important point which is: There's not a lot of difference between an AI Zuckerberg and Actual Zuckerberg. If anything I bet I'd get along better with the AI one www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

folks they’re calling him the Dim Reaper

There is no way - and I mean NO way - Trump doesn’t publicly turn on Vance soon because of all this I CANNOT WAIT

Is it silly that I almost cried when they regained contact with the astronauts after the blackout period

T-Pain's War Pigs cover may be better than all other covers of War Pigs and every other cover of any other song combined. And yo, his live, non-auto-tuned performance IS ALSO AMAZING

I haven't been on BlueSky much lately so maybe I missed something but: Why is everyone SO EXTREMELY angry and aggressive here, did something new happen

@darthbluesky.bsky.social guess who turned 11 on Sunday, the cheese lover himself

Do you guys remember when I wrote this post, and multiple people responded to it, saying they found it valuable and wanted to use it in their teaching methods? @sethdmichaels.bsky.social I think you were one of them. www.leahreich.com/maybe-stop-b...

What's the world record for the time it takes to go from breaking news to seeing the stupidest take on earth? We have to be nearing the speed of light with that one

Why would you even want to use email from space? I would go to space just to get away from email

This is a perfect summary of what I wrote, no notes. If you want to read the long form version, it's here. www.leahreich.com/we-interrupt... also attn @brianphillips.lol

@girinathan.bsky.social I feel you will appreciate this

hi everyone here's Lumpy

Also while I'm here, I wrote a good newsletter this week about my new social media theory, name is in the title: Amplification, Acceleration, Aggravation www.leahreich.com/amplificatio...

Also while I'm here, I wrote a good newsletter this week about my new social media theory, name is in the title: Amplification, Acceleration, Aggravation www.leahreich.com/amplificatio...

As someone who was laid off from Instagram during Meta's big layoffs, I would like to say that Mark Zuckerberg could have given each one of us $10 million as severance and still spent less than he did on the Metaverse, thank you and good night

How is this both the worst and the best name I've ever heard

How is this both the worst and the best name I've ever heard

Even tho I tend to be a pretty open book & good with vulnerability, I HATE sharing stuff like this, but I'm at my wit's end & refuse to get sucked into a not-helpful FB or Reddit "support" group: If you have chronic illness & esp if you are also single/live alone, how the fuck are you managing?

I haven't read the rest of the piece yet (but here I am irresponsibly sharing) - even so, this one Q&A is incredibly good, and also incredibly devastating

I love living in a world in which the primary way to become obscenely wealthy or even financially secure is to produce advertising under the guise of "content" and/or be a self-promoting, self-centered sociopath. This is great! If anyone needs me I will be ejecting myself into the sun later

It’s so great that so many major sports organizations have gotten in bed with spots betting!!! What could possibly go wrong!!!!! Tennis player receives threat: "Win and you won't have any hands left to play tennis with" www.reddit.com/r/tennis/s/K...

Request for help: I have to write a project proposal and statement of work as a consultant/contractor, and I haven't written either of those things in 15 years. Does anyone have a template or some versions they wouldn't mind sharing that I could copy for structure and language?

You could spend the rest of your life trying but you'd never, ever convince me that the name Markwayne isn't a joke from a lost In Living Color skit

"I truly look forward to her newsletter" is one of the realest compliments of 2026. Just think: I write something that makes someone excited to open her email.

Feeling distracted? It's what they want you to be since they can't help any of your real problems. @leahreich.com reminds us we are often capable of great beauty and kindness...if we can get past the technology and other annoyances blocking the way.