I think most Americans I know don’t watch Sewing Bee or Throw Down but I know you guys are watching Bake Off so this is my chance to implore you to read Ariadne’s recaps

Maybe I wasn't clear enough: This week's newsletter isn't just about tech and software, it's about rebuilding social infrastructure, online services, our digital communities. It's about us, and about the future of our society.

Today's issues of @leahreich.com's newsletter reminded me, in a good way, of @debcha.bsky.social's 2015 essay "Why I Am Not A Maker" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I've been thinking about the ways we can help people take small actions to create big change, especially with respect to tech and all the platforms we use. I started playing with the idea of using Open Source principles, but also with this thought www.leahreich.com/open-source-...

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I've been thinking about the ways we can help people take small actions to create big change, especially with respect to tech and all the platforms we use. I started playing with the idea of using Open Source principles, but also with this thought www.leahreich.com/open-source-...

i've been saying for years now that learning to code is simply learning the way a computer speaks - you're becoming multilingual as an engineer! excellent read on why open source principles would be beneficial for all product development 👏🏻 (i may be a bit biased about those, though 😆)

This week I wrote about Open Source, and how we could use those principles to power more than software or commercial products: We could use it to power our own revolution. www.leahreich.com/open-source-...

Someone complained earlier today about the Dem party not being open to letting ideas bubble up into policy from the grass roots. @leahreich.com comes to a similar idea in how we can build a revolution on the principles of Open Source.

anything is sports

I did too but then I spent way too much time procrastinating and they are 100% real dudes. Their names are Carlos "The Texas Squeegee" Olazaba and David Karle. The Texas Squeegee is also the director of Tinter Battles, where this window tinting competition took place

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

I need Mark Zuckerberg to realise that Mark Zuckerberg wearing smart glasses is one of the biggest factors in nobody wanting to wear smart glasses.

Ok I’m going to turn off replies to this for a bit because I’ve already gotten so much amazing help (the power of a @darthbluesky.bsky.social reshare ❤️) - thank you all so much. If there’s anything you don’t see in the replies that could be helpful, please do let me know

Hey everyone, serious request for help from someone familiar with immigration law and proceedings, particularly in NYC: A very dear friend of mine who has been waiting in immigration limbo for years received an I-797C (notice of action) to go to USCIS for an interview, along with her family. (cont)

AND HE'S A RACIST see also: Little Rock school integration photo 1957

I don't know shit about football and frankly hate it as a sport, but I was born in Philadelphia and I just tonight learned about ranches in Texas that do a thing called canned hunting, so I feel confident saying fuck the Cowboys and GO BIRDS

Great news everyone, I am a sports photographer now

Great news everyone, I am a sports photographer now

I remain convinced that the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is the single best thing on any/all social media platform(s). The photos and videos are incredible, but it's the captions – especially the longer ones on Instagram – that are absolutely magical 🐘

"It turns out that Copilot AI and I have two things in common! Neither of us provide much value when shoved into a spreadsheet, and both of us are unreliable when it comes to basic arithmetic." I am amused.

This week's newsletter is sort of about Microsoft Copilot, and I'm not going to give you any screenshots because I don't want to ruin any of the exceptional jokes ahead of time. So you should read it! www.leahreich.com/surely-you-c...

This week's newsletter is sort of about Microsoft Copilot, and I'm not going to give you any screenshots because I don't want to ruin any of the exceptional jokes ahead of time. So you should read it! www.leahreich.com/surely-you-c...

Sorry I Was Late, I Was Rapturously Explaining Trollope to the Lovely Barista at My Local Cafe A true story by Leah Reich

BEHOLD MY POWERS I will make Trollope fans of you all!!

Thanks to @leahreich.com @documentalope.bsky.social and @levistahl.bsky.social, as well as my love for (some of) Angela Thirkell, I am embarking on Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire.

@timmarchman.bsky.social Are you available to gossip about someone in Barchester? I'm ahead of Brian in this series and don't want to spoil anything

It’s funny there are so many movies about heroes trying to save the earth from asteroids or whatever because I spend a lot of time lately wishing an asteroid would hurry up and put us out of our misery

Yesterday was an international holiday & I forgot to mention it here: Lumpy's 10th adoptaversary! I've been lucky enough to share this perfect creature with you for a decade ❤️ In reverse order I present Lumpy in NYC, Stockholm, Berkeley, & his foster home (that last photo is from Craigslist!)

I had to turn off replies to this because it seems to have broken containment and people are getting ~unruly~ in my mentions about things like... minidiscs?? But good to know this is such a hot topic, guess I know what to write about in next week's newsletter

I will never forgive Apple for getting rid of their headphone jack and giving the wired headphones a lightning cable end. More than ever people seem to use their phones without headphones to watch videos on the subway and you cannot convince me that change isn’t partly responsible.

In my newsletter this week I tried to write about tech since that's supposedly what my newsletter is about, but really I just wanted to write about Trollope www.leahreich.com/a-matter-of-... cc: my Trollope pals @timmarchman.bsky.social @brianphillips.bsky.social

Doylestown is very cute and charming! You can get a great hoagie and then go see vampire stuff! A perfect weekend!

Hello, I know we're all busy with important things but perhaps you will enjoy knowing that my niece and I went to a vampire museum (in Pennsylvania of all places!!!) It was really great? Like full of antique vampire killing implements from the 1800s, among other things

It took me* nearly five years to convince Brian to watch the best show on television. He finally did!!! ONE OF US NOW * ok fine, some other friends as well, but mostly me

I wrote about The Gilded Age!!!!!! Many exclamation marks because that is how The Gilded Age is conducting itself these days!!!!!!!!!

I wrote about this two months ago www.leahreich.com/everyone-is-...

Tech is as much of a jungle as any corporation, it just tends to have too much money followed by too little, and the same Mindless Jerks as you'll find anywhere who--as Leah says--should not be trusted, ever. Especially if you're crossing an Abyss. @leahreich.com www.leahreich.com/trust-no-one/

"How many people who work in tech and make the products you use are tasked with representing your interests?" is such a brutal, telling question

This post is for Gilded Age watchers/discussers ONLY since the rest of you have not yet learned to have fun. I saw this comment on Vulture earlier and have not stopped laughing about it since.

This post is for Gilded Age watchers/discussers ONLY since the rest of you have not yet learned to have fun. I saw this comment on Vulture earlier and have not stopped laughing about it since.

@johnmarc.bsky.social ok here is a separate thread with just us chickens: TRAIN DADDY! I can't tell if JF will use this to allow Heathcliff Moneybags and Hurricane Bertha to reconcile, or if he'll follow thru on the whole "Bertha allows divorced women into society" plot and have her get divorced too

WHY AREN'T ALL OF YOU TALKING ABOUT THE GILDED AGE @marisakabas.bsky.social please save this website

Well, the truth is that it constantly, religiously disappoints in the stupidest and best possible ways, which is why it never disappoints. I hope it goes on for 100 seasons!!!

Good morning, I am back on my bullshit: Calling out the tech industry for all the ways it does not care about humans, whether end users or employees. Read here: www.leahreich.com/thats-what-t...

Good morning, I am back on my bullshit: Calling out the tech industry for all the ways it does not care about humans, whether end users or employees. Read here: www.leahreich.com/thats-what-t...

@thebestgay91.bsky.social Thank you for jumping in, it was supportive of you and I appreciate it!

This week's newsletter seems to be resonating, which makes me so glad. I hope you'll read it and subscribe if you don't already. This is the work of my life and I think is the most important thing I can do moving forward. www.leahreich.com/suffer-throu...

This is an incredible piece. I agree with it thoroughly. We are losing a lot of extremely necessary socioemotional skills by trading convenience for community. Nobody wants to be uncomfortable anymore, ever. Nobody wants to be inconvenienced. I dream of being a luddite, but wrong career/social life

Watch this balding unc fuck up some dudes on his lunchbreak, forearm shiver to make space and hit one foot Kobe fallaways while wearing a tucked in polo