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Andrew Styer
@styer.bsky.social
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Welp, this again. Ex-Google product leader in privacy, product strategy, & UX design.

Early Internet human who keeps on internet-ing about burnout, propaganda, politics, and sci-fi jokes.

See also:
Covert stuttering, exertion interfaces, & Land Rovers
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In case anyone was wondering, here’s an example of the breakdown
A map of Montgomery County, PA, colored red and blue to show the election results. The bottom of the county is almost all blue; the top is almost all dark red.
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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If you see this quote with the energy you bring to blue sky
Riker from Star Trek NG looks haggard and there is a pink laser being pointed into his head. These things may or may not be related.
September 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Gonna need to update the logo
Sign for the wide awakes with an open eye and the year 1860
July 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Just gonna add this here in case anyone wants some hard numbers 😂😂😂

TLDR: It’s so much.
Screenshot of image that says: Comparing Drinking Rates: 1830 vs. 2018 As if it really needs saying, 7 gallons of ethanol per year, per capita, is an insane number. Consider this: My significant other and I both drink alcohol. If we were drinking at 1830 levels, we would be plowing through roughly 3.4 standard, 750 ml bottles of Jim Beam White Label Bourbon per week, in a single household. Our livers would be sending us every conceivable manner of distress signal, assuming they didn't immediately shut down.
May 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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It was never about “over-hiring”, it was always about taking the power back

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Corporate America's long-running war for talent sounds more like a war on the talent these days. Not long ago, bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset, so much that some hoarded new hires before having enough for them to do. Today, with a giant question mark hanging over the economy, executives are pulling no punches in saying employees need to work harder, complain less and be glad they still have jobs. "Work-life balance is your problem," Emma Grede, co-founder of the shapewear company Skims and CEO of clothing label Good American, said this month. After recently cutting more than a 1,000 jobs, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said remaining corporate staff needed to step it up and "own whether or not this place grows." JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, in a profanity-laced internal meeting, told employees lamenting a return-to-work mandate that he didn't care. "I've had it with this kind of stuff," he said. "I've been working seven days a week since Covid, and I come in, and - where is everybody else?" The shift in tone marks a shift in power now that companies are shrinking their white-collar staff. With jobs harder to find, many workers are seeing perks disappear and their grievances ignored. The latest episode happened at a contentious all-hands at Uber last month. The company had just changed the requirements to get a monthlong paid sabbatical to eight years of working at the ride-hail giant, from five years. A decision to require people to work at least three instead of two days in the office also drew complaints. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi suggested those unhappy with the changes deal with it. "We recognize some of these changes are going to be unpopular," he said in comments originally reported by CNBC. "This is a risk we decided to take." How much more license do bosses have to talk tough to staff? Take the outrage in 2023 when the head of furniture company MillerKnoll told staffers worried about bonuses to "leave pity city." That comment, made in a vid…
May 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Totally normal things going on, what do you ask?
Screenshot from Reuters: Headline: Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get in touch By Reuters February 6, 2025 11:15 AM EST • Updated 6 hours ago
February 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Mangy bear! Have you ever seen one? They are vaguely terrifying
A mangy bear which looks vaguely like a werewolf or a man in a cloth bear costume with patches of hair on it
February 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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January 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Just the world’s worst loser.
Screenshot of article from the daily beast. The text reads: “This led to an hours-long text exchange that culminated in a bet: Musk bet Harris $1 million for charity against a $1,000 bottle of tequila that the U.S. would not see 35,000 cases of the respiratory disease. When the CDC logged 600,000 cases and 35,000 deaths from COVID-19 a few weeks later, Harris sent Musk another text: "Is (35,000 deaths + 600,000 cases) > 35,000 cases?" "This text appears to have ended our friendship," Harris wrote. "Elon never responded, and it was not long before he began maligning me on Twitter for a variety of imaginary offenses. For my part, I eventually started complaining about the startling erosion of his integrity on my podcast, without providing any detail about what had transpired between us."
January 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Every time. Have an alternate self that trapped in a transporter for 10 years? Gets laid. Plays the trombone badly? Gets laid.
Riker is wearing a robe open to his waist while Counselor Troi and Lt Yar look on in… amusement?
November 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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wait, there’s been a 800-lb emerald worth around $1 BILLION USD stuck in the LA Sheriff’s dept for the last 15 years?!
What looks like an odd shaped rock with tubes of emerald embedded in it, on what looks like a table or in a concrete box — it’s unclear where it is
November 23, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
An incredibly colorful sunset over Joshua Tree National Park
November 20, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Trying to channel this energy today.
Post-sunset glow in sky over mountains with a tree and picnic table barely visible on the foreground
November 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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These areas are where I spent large parts of 2021-2023.
A long empty dirt road stretches off into the distance. A traffic cone is stuck on top of a white pole next to the road, along with a Joshua tree. An empty gravel and dirt road stretches towards the sunset, down a hill and towards several other mountains A Land Rover and camping trailer are parked on a flat stretch of sand/dirt. There are large rocks/boulders on one side, providing a wind block for camping.
November 12, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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I was fully prepared to hate this essay by Ben Rhodes but, for better or worse, I think I agree with most of it.

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Screenshot from article
November 8, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains
Sunset over the Angeles mountains, with orange in top and blue-grey mountains on the foreground
October 30, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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Without downloading a new pic, where are you now mentally?
September 19, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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August 23, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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I’d buy their album
Pictures of young Kamala Harris and young Tim Walz, looking like an album cover
August 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Just doing my work of keeping alive the tension of Enterprise’s decontamination room
Image of the decontamination room in Enterprise, with three fit people in their underwear and blue light and generally very sweaty…
July 21, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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This.
Screenshot from @swiftonsecurity that says: “I'm sorry your personal compunction makes this stark choice difficult for you. That your vote of absolute secrecy is some moral impingement on your soul. As an individual your only power is this. Satisfaction in voting is indulgence, a character weakness. There are only results.”
July 2, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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Damn, Big Food is just over here running a full PR propaganda playbook to support their sugary cereal

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Screenshot of Washington Post article with headline “As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push "anti-diet" advice”
April 3, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Using a restaurant, tell us where you went to college
Picture of the front of a building with a window and a sign that says “the feve”
November 29, 2023 at 1:49 AM
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That guy really watched this movie as a kid and was like “YEAH THATS MY CAR”
Damnation Alley’s monster truck thing is like the Cybertruck’s delinquent father who left for cigarettes and never came back
November 7, 2023 at 7:33 PM