ᴘʀᴏᴛᴏ (e/hyperfocus)

you got a good thing going?

keep turning dat ⚙️

if you're going to wear weird clothes look happy af in them

hi bsky buddies 👋

is this thing on?

👥 👀 ☁️

I SAW A RAINBOW IN THE DARK
I PUT A SYMBOL IN A SONG
I PUT A WINDOW IN THE WALL

HAPPY MONDAY #tpot!

👀 how are we feeling this week...❔

are we feelin:

DOOMED to a future of faded dreams & hazy regrets

OR

if we trek past the shadows and squint closely beyond the fog is there a SCINTILLATING FLICKERING ✨ of HOPE always waiting for us at the end of the line/storm/road?

🛤️ 🌩️ 🛣️

#miladynation could totally virtually botnet this place if they wanted to

(or could have 1-2 years ago)

missed_opportunity.gif

gdi why hasn't the miladyverse more actively attempted to colonize bsky yet

FYI that gives you a rough gauge of my ability to context-switch to nihongo while half-awake at 4:20am

initially I read this as "using up all my API credits is the worst"

oh cool I'll try that

(millions such cases?)

katakana gonna katakana, whack as usual www

I'd LIKE to post here more often

for that to be more appealing I need to follow more accounts

but I don't want my feed CLOGGED w reskeets

but for some reason Bluesky doesn't let us TURN OFF reskeets yet...?

I'm unlikely to fully immerse myself here until that basic QOL painkiller is available 😿

beautiful

is it like communion bread

like if you take a bite are you professing your allegiance to communism?

(you are now aware for the first time in your life that the FIRST 7 LETTERS of "communion" and "communism" are IDENTICAL 🤯)

Kinsey 5 here

(pansexual in theory; homosexual in practice)

idk occam's razor suggests your worldview might perk up if you hang out w more nonwhites and/or women?

if you spend too much time around white guys, you end up w sociocultural blind spots bc you overindexed your social hours around humans who broadly don't challenge you much

(source: am white guy)

NEED

(😄)

real talk:

charming eloquent established drama kings/queens who publicly broadcast opinions to 🌐 every and/or all day are bound to attract 👀s + draw (online) 🏟️s wherever they go (post)

so the outrage/chaos trailing veteran poasters is often tied more closely to *who* they are than anything else 🤷

whenever we're led to suddenly fear racism is mainstream again or culture is chronically at risk of being hijacked at any moment, it pays to recall a majority of 🇺🇸 <18yo is *already* majority non-white (❗)

(if you're white, let that sink in)

'they' need us afraid bc their 'leaders' know this too 😪

ah, not a doomer outcome I'd considered

thanks for broadening my pov wrt worst-case scenarios for contemporary culture in 2050+ 🙏

real talk:

charming eloquent established drama kings/queens who publicly broadcast opinions to 🌐 every and/or all day are bound to attract 👀s + draw (online) 🏟️s wherever they go (post)

so the outrage/chaos trailing veteran poasters is often tied more closely to *who* they are than anything else 🤷

would that make you a fabavore or any other ideas?

https://cred.blue/canceler Bluesky Cancellation Tool With the new cancellation system, anyone can cancel anyone else and any Bluesky client can choose which accounts to treat as "Trusted Cancelers". Try canceling an account for yourself or check to see who has canceled you! It's as simple as creating a cancellation record in your PDS that points to the account you want to cancel. The record looks like this: app.bsky.graph.cancellation Note: this is not an official Bluesky feature and is not supported by the Bluesky team... this is just a silly bit. Cancel a Bluesky User Enter the handle of the user you want to cancel, or select a list to cancel multiple users: Cancel Single User Cancel List Prevent Duplications

they added cancel culture as a service fr

Photo of bumper stick on Mitsubishi that reads "The pain is never ending and yet I remain whimsical"

GM prerats, postrats, and everyone in between 🌄

Let's CRUSH our doubts and start acting more like the world's *MOST POPULOUS MAMMAL* that we always have been 😤

🥊🆚 🌏

(spotted yesterday by yours truly after an afternoon of gardening in a small local 🏝️ surrounded by concrete jungle ⛏️)

🌱 🪴 ⛲ 🌷 🍃

what's up tpot crew

BIG tpot responder update today

The tide has turned...

Guess what ⁉️

TIL if you 🔎 "tpot" —not #tpot— on bsky, the 🥇TOP🥇 result is none other than @tpotresponder.bsky.social ⚡

the onslaught of # hijackers have not won yet❕

🫖 🐁 💫

(my fellow rat-types: THIS is how we win 🦋)

SKEET PIRATE:
THE FIRST MOVIE

so annoying

first example that to mind is "👤 left the chat" on X when the truth is they were deliberately removed by a GC admin 🙄

so... when are we getting BLUESKY STORIES?

3+ years later I *still* miss fleets 😿

🌩️ most promising ideas for endearing on-brand bsky-inspired spins on (social media) story so far:

1) Blips

2) Drifts

3) Breezes

4) Trails

5) Flutters

thoughts? 💡

I've cobbled together syco-bench, a benchmark of model sycophancy. It consists of tests measuring three things: bias towards user in an argument, mirroring user views, and overestimating user IQ. Here are the results, higher scores are worse. See the following tweet for important caveats: