In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here.

That work is the social part of social media.

“Is it possible to focus on more than one thing at a time?” My son asks, innocently, with no idea of the lecture I am inevitably about to give.

I don’t want a side hustle, I don’t want to monetize my free time, I don’t want to found a tech start up that becomes a disruptor on an innovative tech platform, I want to fall asleep eating strawberries under a tree

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

Trans women have an unfair advantage at being in museums now I guess

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction.

Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.

yes everything is terrifying but also eat a shared meal with your friends and talk for three hours and end the night with donuts

*Grumpily makes a healthy breakfast*

*Grumpily does a lil bit of low-impact yoga*

*Grumpily goes outside for a tiny bit of sunshine*

*Grumpily gets a decaf coffee while out, as a little treat*

Begrudgingly acknowledges that these things do, in fact, make me feel a bit better.
#chronicillness

Me: Hi, may I please see the wine list?

Waiter: Ma'am, it's 8 AM.

Me: Oh, sorry.
Good morning, may I please see the wine list?

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

Finally, some good news. /s

abcnews.go.com/US/small-cha...

Same exact thing.

When the 4 Non Blondes said “And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high
and I scream from the top of my lungs WHAT’S GOIN ON?!”

I really felt that.

Evergreen:

You gotta make art that sucks in order to make art that fucks