“I want to believe in a force greater than our greed, greater than the hunger that drives men to destroy. I want to believe there is something in the marrow of us, a light still willing to fight its way through the bruised tissue of our failings.”

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“We live in a time of endless exposure. Lives are unraveled online—homes, partners, children held up to the light like rare gems, or perhaps like items for sale. Beauty and intimacy flood us, until we’ve blurred the line between admiring and eroding ourselves.”

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My advice: As you follow new people, curate their feeds into custom lists. Make it easy to find a signal in the noise and shape your Bluesky experience to your liking. There will still be plenty of serendipity, but you'll be free of the algorithmic grip that taints other social nets. It works!