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Joey Schafer
@schafer.bsky.social
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UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 Steward. He/Him
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I realize the real case is far more serious but all I can picture is this scene from the Dreamworks movie Monsters Vs Aliens
A screen grab of the dreamworks movie Monsters vs Aliens, depicting the president standing in front of two giant red buttons. There is overlaid small white text for the (approximate, based off my memory) dialogue in this scene. Offscreen character: that button launches all of our nuclear weapons! President: Then which one gets me a latte? Offscreen: that one, sir
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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In light of the fantastic news that Wallace Shawn is canvassing for Zohran
A picture of Wallace Shawn from the princess bride during the battle of wits scene, with parodied meme text over it saying “Let me put it this way. Ever heard of Cuomo? Sliwa? Adams? Morons.” (In the original movie it’s Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates). In the bottom left corner there is a watermark that says “made with mematic,” which is the free app I used to create this overlay on the image.
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I also made some Halloween-specific “make some noise” style prompts 🎃 🧛 🧙‍♀️
Eight small paper cards containing prompts of the style used for the game show ”Make Some Noise,” reading: - a witch is trying out making potions with an Instant Pot - Freddie Dunning-Kruger - The Grim Weeper - Werewolf during a solar eclipse - Mummy going to CVS to get re-wound - Candy corn discovering that the other Halloween candy gets wrappers - Vampire running a coffee shop - A headless horseman who can’t remember where he set his head down
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Happy Halloween!! 🎃 dressing up this year as @samreich.bsky.social from @dropout.tv
A 25-year old white male in a sport coat, glasses, white dress shirt and pink tie with a rainbow mini podium, as a Halloween costume to look like Game Changer host Sam Reich
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Fun day trip today!!
A selfie of the poster (a mid-20s white male with dark brown hair and glasses) in a black shirt and backpack standing in front of the Philadelphia “LOVE” sign (red block letters saying LOVE with the LO on top and the O at a 45 degree angle up and to the right, sitting on top of an open silver metal frame). A mostly empty plaza, several buildings, and some short bushes and trees are visible in the background.
August 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online?

We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome 2-6 page submissions, due August 8th.

Cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app
Beyond Information A CSCW 2025 Workshop Online on October 3 and/or in Bergen, Norway on October 18 Deadline extended to August 8th Connect with a global community of scholars working on all aspects of information disorder (mis/disinformation, scams, online hate, etc) Website (link included in post body) for more details
August 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Watching Jewell Loyd and Breanna Stewart play basketball where, as a pregame hype song, they played Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us” - almost feels like I’m back in Seattle! 😁
A picture from the upper section of the Barclays Center arena shortly before a WNBA game between the New York Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces
July 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The High Line park in Chelsea/west Manhattan is such a cool concept :)
A selfie of the poster (a white man in his 20s with short dark brown hair wearing a black backpack and medium blue polo shirt) from the High Line, a former elevated rail line converted into a city park in Manhattan, with the intersection of 10th and 23rd in the background.
June 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Graphing it for the entirety of 2025, that is quite a large spike today
A Google Trends dashboard showing the prevalence of search queries for "habeas corpus," since January 1, 2025. The graph shows a significant spike in the past 24-ish hours, with the largest prior spike reaching under 40% of the current estimated height.
May 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Cannot recommend @premeemohamed.com’s sequel “We Speak Through The Mountain” highly enough - felt incredibly relevant to the current moment. #booksky 📚
A picture of the cover of Premee Mohamed’s book “We Speak Through The Mountain.” The cover depicts two white birds flying near each other through falling branches with needles and berries on them.
March 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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This seems like it’d be a fun trend :)
Get to know my music taste For every like, I will post one song I love ❤️
October 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Another question for the Bluesky API, want to make sure I understand this correctly. The applicable rate limit for view-only API queries (e.g. getFollowers, getFollows, getPosts, etc.) is the global rate limit of 3,000 per 5 minutes, right? Screenshot from docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
A screenshot of the Bluesky API Rate Limits page (linked above) showing the following text: Created Actions per DID Bluesky rate limits by the number of created actions per DID. These numbers shouldn’t affect typical Bluesky users, and won’t affect the majority of developers either, but it will affect prolific bots, such as the ones that follow every user or like every post on the network. The limit is 5,000 points per hour and 35,000 points per day, where: Action Type Value CREATE 3 points UPDATE 2 points DELETE 1 point Per this system, an account may create at most 1,666 records per hour and 11,666 records per day. That means an account can like up to 1,666 records in one hour with no problem. We took the most active human users on the network into account when we set this threshold (you surpassed our expectations!). Other Rate Limits Global limit (aggregated across all routes) Rate limited by IP 3000/5 min
September 18, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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By far the earliest I've been to any social media platform 😂 excited to see where this platform/network goes next!
Social card showing my user number (60,039) on Bluesky, as part of the celebration of Bluesky reaching 10 million users
September 17, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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A perfect album that came out when I was 21.

Of all of CHVRCHES’ albums, this one is definitely my favorite (even though the others are great too)
The album cover of CHVRCHES’ (pronounced Churches) 2021 album “Screen Violence: Director’s Cut”. Against a dark blue background, a square television screen depicts a hand in washed-out red lighting reaching up to the middle of window blinds.
September 15, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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Y’all, you NEED to read @older.bsky.social ‘s short story “Tear Tracks” - picked it up this morning after finishing Mimicking of Known Successes (also fantastic, you should read that too), and Tear Tracks was BEAUTIFUL.
A picture of the cover of “Tear Tracks” by Malka Older.
August 25, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Never got why this one didn’t get more traction, it was one of my absolute favorites
A picture of the cover of the book “Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper” by Michael Reisman. The title depicts a blue sky with treetops, with the title in bold letters across the middle. The top of the image depicts a leg in jeans and sneakers flying upward.
August 24, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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The new “Man With No Door” album by Kes is FANTASTIC, highly recommend a listen! m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYz2...
A screenshot of the Apple Music player, showing the song “Tack Back” by Kes featuring Tano, on the album “Man With No Door”
March 31, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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My experience of PA which was quite fun was staying in Pittsburgh this past summer for my first in-person conference :)
A view of Pittsburgh from atop the incline rail system A picture of a beautiful fountain near sunset in Pittsburgh A picture of the Pittsburgh arboretum
November 26, 2023 at 4:54 PM
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Very much west coast for me 😂
A map of the states I’ve visited in the US so far. Almost every west coast state has been visited, while the only east/Midwest states I’ve been to are Minnesota Pennsylvania and Florida
November 26, 2023 at 7:37 AM
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Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have seen more than 10 times
Wallace Shawn as Vizzini in The Princess Bride, during the poisoned cup scene
October 12, 2023 at 2:50 AM
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Post a meme made by you.
A picture of Garfield the cat in front of a “No Garfield” sign, saying “Huh. I wonder who that’s for.” Garfield is labeled “me”, and the sign is labeled “Advice I give others to get enough sleep and not stress/feel guilty”
September 24, 2023 at 8:19 PM
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It might be “Ghost Work” that you’re thinking of? By Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri?
A picture of the cover of “Ghost Work” by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri. The subtitle is “How to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass”. The picture is of a man’s face in black and white, wit his eyes and mouth covered by the words “Ghost Work”
September 19, 2023 at 3:30 PM
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I feel like the juxtaposition of these two posts by @faineg.bsky.social on my timeline is hilarious, and also really effectively illustrates their point
Two consecutive posts by Faine Greenwood, one which was quoted saying "Hell I don't even get to that point of strategy with my posting, I just talk about whatever shit floats to the surface of my mind at any time because I need something to do." The second was a top-level post, saying "all of our house centipedes are named Michelle"
September 6, 2023 at 4:51 PM
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Drop a picture of you that could be an album cover
A partially black and white photo of me standing in the middle of a tree with four trunks, on the Olympic peninsula.
September 2, 2023 at 11:17 PM
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Finished the Seattle Public Library’s Adult Summer Book Bingo! Super fun, and got to read some books far from my normal genres. Definitely going to do this again next year! Highlight books in reply.
A picture of a yellow paper with blue ink, of the Seattle Public Library adult summer reading book bingo board, with all squares filled out.
September 2, 2023 at 8:21 PM