Anne

They literally ruin everything they touch

We already have two dislike buttons.
Block and Mute.

"By prioritizing replies from people closer to your neighborhood..." I don't want Bluesky to be the judge of that. Keep "chronological order" an option, preferably the default.

And speaking of defaults, why isn't "require alt text before posting" on by default?

Reposting with alt text

is it me or is rolling out whole new ways to hide/order/shadowban things on your personal feed just after a fairly well publicized all-site spat between high muckety mucks and users kind of telling lol

UX person here: in a social platform, not a critique based one, the introduction of negative yardsticks beyond what we already express in text and through blocks, would likely start generating chilling effects or inhibiting use. Nobody wants the experience of waking up to 20, 200, 2000 dislikes.

They fuck you up, your King of Kings.
They may not mean to but they do.
They leave you trunkless legs of stone,
And add some visage, just for you.

Fish vendor at Haymarket is a shark for Halloween. 🦈
@universalhub.com

Graham Platner’s campaign thought they could silence me by offering me money and calling me a liar in the press.

I was going to let it go.

It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.

I saw your legs out in the waste
Your wrinkled sneer of cold distaste
The hand that made em seemed to understand, yas
Your trunk was gone, your arms, your breast,
Your kingdoms scattered with the rest
But everybody's heard of Ozymandias.

Ozymandias,
Ozymandias,
Ozymandias,
Ozymaaaaaaaandias!

Always with the “overspending” and never with the “underpaying”

“Kids grow out of ADHD” was from the days when adults regularly smoked.

No one ever “grew out of” it. They just picked up a recreational drug habit that happens to be extremely therapeutic for ADHD specifically.

Who the fuck is this guy that so many corners of the centrist ruling class are carrying water for him? Who's backing/bankrolling him? With this kind of PR, he cannot be Just A Guy.

Wu: #Boston and the Boston Foundation starting a fund to help 140,000 Bostonians who get SNAP benefits to afford food. Starting with $1 million in seed funding. BPS, BHA will be alerting people how to get aid, 311 operators trained on resources.

boston.gov/snap

As SNAP and WIC are about to be snatched away from millions, I’m going to do a modest donation matching today, up to $1,000.

Show me a screenshot of your donation to your local food bank and I will match the amount in a gift to my local organization.

LFG people

I wonder if our system would be any better if we forced elected representatives to live full-time in their home districts and conduct most government business virtually. Have their kids attend local schools, make them work out of local offices, etc. It should be easier for me to yell at my rep

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

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I am the ancient model of the Great King Ozymandias.
My sneer it is colossal and my legs still stand tho time has passed.
Although an archaeologist
might find my works do show I'm great,
the traveler in the desert
can see nothing much to celebrate.

Congratulations on being the two millionth post I'd have reposted if there'd been alt-text.

Three millionth post expected by next week.

Can't improve on perfection

It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.

Something for the left to understand as SNAP benefits end: evangelical churches are the most robust hubs for mutual aid in the south. They will feed people, and they will use this opportunity to recruit people into the Christofascist movement.

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

WOW

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.4 billion loss in third quarter The Reality Labs business, focused on virtual and augmented reality, lost $4.4 billion loss in third quarter while recording $470 million in sales.

this unremarkable knob routinely sets unholy gobs of money on fire to pretend his boomer sneaker ad company is innovative and interesting, and the press just endlessly normalizes it

CEOs: Oops we got 👀 tricked into laying off half our workforce 👀 accidentally creating an industry-wide employment crisis 👀 for tech that does not and cannot even work right 👀 so we have no choice 👀 but to rehire human workers 👀 at much less pay 👀 this was unintended 👀 as we said 👀 we were tricked

Making a Napster but it's for sharing academic articles and books.

I think we’re underestimating the possibility the ballroom never gets built and there’s just a big pile of rubble for four years.

my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair