These are the same NIMBY's that wanted to shut down free lunch on campus b/c it hurt local Mountain View businesses, and yet complained constantly about the traffic caused by Googlers commuting to campus. Now imagine those same Googlers all going out for lunch at once..

Rather than buying Honda Civics for everybody, I think a better use of $4.5B would be to build high density employee housing on campus. That would improve traffic & reduce competition for scarce housing. They tried to do this in ~2015 when I worked there, but Mountain View NIMBYism shut it down.

Yes. Same here. My “work” account has always suffered from this. My personal account is now starting to look like this now that I spend more time on Bluesky. I think the algorithm just starts to generate notifications from wider sources when there is nothing more organic

I get that feeling that this happens when you and the accounts you follow stop engaging with twitter. You have few organic notifications, so then they fill your notifications with spam like this

VanValkenburg is awesome. He's a genuine person who didn't want to get into politics a few years ago, but was afraid what would happen if a MAGA repub. got the seat.

The VA senate seat he's running for is crucial to preserving reproductive freedom in VA. I've donated, and hope others will too

The funny thing is that I love your work, but I never even knew you were on twitter. I serendipitously found you here first. Probably bc it’s a smaller community.

What I'd like to see in all medical offices (car dealer service dept waiting rooms, etc) is the elimination of loud, obnoxious TV. Those are way more annoying than people using phones..

I've long been tempted to get one of those IR blasters that sends the "off" code for every TV ever made..

If you’re on android, try side loading newpipe. It’s one of the things I miss most since I switched to iPhone a few years ago

Could he try any harder to drive people off the platform?

Its like he has a loaded gun, pointed at his feet, and is utterly unable to stop pulling the trigger over and over and over again.

It’s gone into converting the obscure term we are actually searching for to the popular term it thinks we are searching for.

I wonder if this is recent.. The last time I was in a Best Buy was about a year ago, and it was still a good experience.

I was never a huge fan of Best Buy, but there are basically no electronics retailers left anymore, so I'll be sad if they disappear..