bluesky is the methadone for twitter detox

ok my kids each ranked their top 10 episodes of Twilight Zone season 1, and I've tallied the results, for @monodevice.bsky.social's son's first Zone-a-thon

weird I can tell when my nervous system is re-regulated when I start whistling

urbit does have a twitter clone but I don't know anyone over there 🥲

irl planting vegetables making me want to play stardew valley

weird when ppl say "oh yeah I messed up... and *I own that*" like what does "I own that" even mean ppl just be saying unfalsifiable things and disarming other ppl

u ever just "watch" a tv show with someone else by defocusing your eyes in the direction of the tv

deepfates and his mentions

ugh feeling "misunderstood" is my least favorite feeling 😭😤

guy wants autistic gf for "shared interests", imagines: "we'd share the interesting parts of our days and discuss, then watch a movie..." and not: she talks about the same topic for 15 mos straight relates every convo back to her topic her interest in video games extends only to farming rpgs

I want to work with internet friends

I want to take a week off work to just do little projects that are basically the same as work but aren't

first poll I've seen on bsky! gonna copy: @poll.blue what's my vibe-gender? A- autistic female B- not autistic female C- autistic male D- not autistic male

the concept of "unmasking" is kinda fascinating to me rn like I am now really aware of all the things I do that are effortful/exhausting and feel explicitly controlled but can't get rid of the idea that I have some kind of moral obligation to do them anyway

AI engineer, align thyself!

wow, kids' extracurriculars sure do cut into your love is blind time 🙄

very odd when totally milquetoast people refer to themselves 'an acquired taste'

"she keeps me on my toes" has got to be the biggest cope of all times

there aren't really solid norms online for a lot of things like I will often notice e.g. from post tone if someone is depressed, or having a hard time, or if a couple is thinking about getting engaged, etc irl there are like norms for the kinds of things you can bring up with people but idk here

god I should have been watching so much more reality tv

huh had thought Love is Blind was like Love on the Spectrum but w/ blind ppl

do u guys know about your enneagram relationship pairings these have been cringely accurate for me 😅

when there's a positivity bias, it benefits people to say positive things even if it's bad for the person hearing them e.g. false encouragement, setting up unrealistic expectations, no "real talk" etc consider a 'mean girl' saying "no that dress isn't too slutty, you'll look so cute!!"

pls bluesky devs if you do make polls, allow 5 options (and/or 4 plus a default "show results")

cant wait to get invites so I can go back to twitter posting like "who need they bluessky invate"

kind of a bummer about urbit

seems like there's a distinction when a social graph is small or interlinked enough that it feels like ppl are all co-present on "the same timeline"

I wonder when in internet history has a whole community transferred across platforms

me: ugh society is like, so atomized these days 🙄 also me: has never yet attempted to set my younger brother up with anyone in my social network

wait a minute gonna try... #topic oh ok nvm

kinda want to switch to a domain name account where I host a personal site, maybe my obsidian notes would be kinda cool to have social/bluesky/twitter more integrated into like longer form notes or writing that's more structured and less fleeting

update: the hypothesis has been spoken

how my son texts me lol

ooh I hadn't seen it yet but you can indeed QT into replies through top right icon on the post -> share -> copy link, then when you reply paste the link and there's a little UI for "add card" or smth

to add to this, what’s the process like? are you actually setting up your own server or is it just the name of your account?

what's the benefit of the domain name handle? idgi yet

ok yea I do want this: app that sends DMs on a fixed schedule. like a train leaving the station and you have to put packages on it that way I could communicate regularly with people, and send stuff as I think of them, but without worrying about getting into real-time conversations necessarily lol

I feel like doing smth different here than on twitter but idk what yet still on the fence with talking about things I'm interested in or working on vs having horrible opsec

one of the things I always wondered about tpot portability is how much the whole thing depends on still being embedded in the bigger active non-tpot network-- tech twitter and culture wars and all like by giving us easy material to bring in and comment on etc

I wonder if group chats accelerated the decline of the timeline by providing like a feedback loop mechanism bad TL --> more time spent in gcs --> less tweeting --> worse TL

welcome to tpobs

9yo was just telling me about something she learned about "that was like, a really long time ago. like the 19-somethings"

oh yay hi everyone!!