"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

~Kurt Vonnegut

@jessesingal.com: Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem

It was supposed to be a gentler, left-wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn’t the case.
www.thefp.com/p/jesse-sing...

Jesus, Bluesky, all I want is a moderation system that lets me behave exactly as I like, while punitively punishing anyone who disagrees with me. Why is that so hard to understand?

My thoughts on recent events:

Jesse Singal is a litmus test: are moderates welcome, even if they openly and persistently disagree with leftists? Are threats and harassment from left to right okay?Bluesky passed, and I doubt the userbase will ever forgive the site for it.

x.com/tracewoodgra...

It would be great if EVERYONE stopped using the word chemical as “a bad word”

Everything is chemicals.
You are chemicals.

The source of a chemical doesn’t impact it.
Natural chemicals aren’t better.
Synthetic chemicals aren’t either.
They just are - chemicals.

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Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵