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I just think this ad is neat. The bird's eye shot is sick.

Also I aspire to be the cool mustache guy

This is all I want from FF

A crocheted octopus amigurumi with curly tentacles sitting on a black keyboard. It’s done in multicoloured aqua, white and grey wool, with plain black wool for eyes. The head is about five inches long, and the extended tentacles about six inches long

Attempt number three at creature production, but I think I’m getting the hang of it! Goofed on the stitches a bit, but learning curve and all that.

Well *someone* on the dev team played Shadow the Hedgehog

every day one of the 4 websites that exists sneaks in some annoying bullshit into your settings that you have to turn off if you don't want everything to suddenly become a little bit worse

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Oh wow, so good old notepad.exe is still in C:\Windows where it's always been, but it cannot be used as it just opens the Copilot "Notepad" app.

But... You if you uninstall "Notepad" from applications, you will get the real notepad.exe back and working.

I don't know what to think of this.

Twitter was bad for a long time but at this point it’s a virtual monster gobbling up “content” to feed AI. Stop using it, lock or delete your account, and delete the app from your phone.

This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator"

You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor...

You are not a faceless "content" machine.

Kojima can make good stuff with his full chest and characters named Otaku Convention and Die Hardman, you can do it too

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.

It's not just Patreon and it's not just Apple

DON'T SUBSCRIBE IN APPS

lifehacker.com/dont-sign-up...

But hello bsky! I’m Cart, I live on tumblr with the same @ and enjoy a whole mess of stuff including: talking about yet somehow not writing, vidya games, ridiculous puns and dad jokes, plants, and being an absolute disaster in my thirties

ngl I’m probably going to be using this account about the exact same as my old twitter one, which is to say, very little, but I still wanna grab my name before it gets taken. Which… I highly doubt but, who knows these days eh?

Now that this app is becoming more popular, there has unfortunately been an influx of right wing accounts

I highly recommend subscribing to this blocklist if you want to avoid this type of content

bsky.app/profile/did:...

PSA for ENG-speaking folks looking to discover JP/KR/CN accounts and having difficulty—🦋discovery settings have a sandboxing feature that defaults to languages enabled on your phone. change that by going to Settings > Basics > Languages > Content Languages and select the ones your want (or none/all)

Chip is legitimately one of my favourite LPers hands down. His playthroughs are always thorough, insightful as hell, funny as anything. He often takes Grant on such incredible journies with him, and they're always a delight to watch. Absolutely recc their Wonderful 101 LP and Metal Gear Rising too!

Tips for moving from Xitter to Bluesky Before you start following people, fill out your profile! Bio, PFP, banner, and post at least 5 to 10 things. Just reuse your top 10 banger tweets—recycling is encouraged! This way, when people see you followed them and they check your profile, they’ll know what you are about and might follow back. Turn off NSFW filters in Moderation > Content Filtering Find your friends using a tool like skeet.labnotes.org or Sky Follower Bridge. Not perfect, but they’ll find the majority of the people you were following. Turn on “show posts from my feeds” in Settings > Home Feed Preferences. This will add random posts from them to your main feed, but tweaked to your liking, no ads and BS. I recommend the Catch Up feed (kinda like a “best of”). Tweak Reply Filters to something that works for you, also at Settings > Home Feed Preferences. This shows replies from people you follow to anyone else on your main feed... (ALT text too long, continues in comments)

Lots of people joining Bluesky again! Welcome! Whether you just joined, or you created an account decades ago and are gonna start posting now, here are some tips to enhance the experience. Share widely for all newcomers 🦋