Neil S

bc the sky is falling. HI BOTH!

Decent espresso setup

welcome to all new bluesky users. please keep in mind that it is still in beta. there are many features still missing, so please be patient. for example, you may notice that this app loads posts and then shows them to you, instead of not doing that for some reason.

Idk maybe neutral is best

On a product principle level, we decided content should be public and accessible (these were Dorsey days)

It's something we tried years ago, login wall for all twitter content, the experiment showed users just bounce (low conversion rate). https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/

Welcome 👋🏽

Ug same

Ok, very late here, but loving Instacart.

Q- why isnt there an easy option to switch to another provider if they don't have something on my grocery list.

Me: but why?
Staff: oh just appreciating all the hard work you do
Me: (still very suspicious of a popup popcorn booth in our micro kitchen)
Colleague: must be some extra quarter end budget
Me: aaahhhh (!)

Welcome!!! 🤗

Let's go go go go

NEW: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, leading to a high-stakes conflict between the companies that could result in Twitter’s trust and safety teams being crippled: https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google

You are the bluesky, everything else is just the weather

Apple fanboys in 2035: if I had invested $3.5k instead of buying that damn headset..

Puzzled

Whoops, this is a garbage

Reactivated my personal Netflix account from 2001

🙏🙏🙏

i’ve been sad for twitter many times over by now. all the hard work that an amazing team put in to build a real-time global communications platform that was an unprecedented cultural force, esp the trust & safety folks who were leading an industry, thrown away; my own communities have scattered

Haha like literal wtf.

That's too bad, hard decisions over there.

Lyft Pink vision 🪓🪓🪓

Welcome sir

Had a dream, well nightmare, that I quit my job and went to work for elon. My old password still worked, wtf

Fresh 🥐🥐🥐

Twitter Accuses Microsoft of Improperly Using Its Data In a letter to Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.

no paywall for my special sky friends

LLM

Uber for teens: the company lifts age restrictions to allow unaccompanied minors for the first time Parents can track their teen’s ride in real time.

Dreamt about launching something like back in my Lyft days, we only got as far as family accounts then. https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23726772/uber-teens-riderhail-account-age-restrictions-go-get

By child 3, I have successfully trained this one to throw own diaper out + send himself to time out.