Jesse Baer 🔥

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2024-08-18 00:35:27

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@npub1qe3…y8hj 🫂

2024-08-17 20:39:02

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spat it out and gargled mouthwash but uh... reset the 4 day "probably out of the woods" countdown I guess

2024-08-17 20:37:59

So, a thing I just did was take a big ole bite of leftover vegetable in my soup bowl before realizing it was actually my Covid-stricken wife's soup bowl

2024-08-09 22:13:49

caitlin where is gavin holding you
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2024-07-23 02:15:56

Have to say, I am extremely tired of motherfuckers stomping all over people I love.
When do they start losing? When do they pay?

2024-07-21 22:38:57

We are faced with an unprecedented opportunity to put Donald Trump in jail, leave the GOP in ruins, make Elon and his tech oligarch buddies cry, and force the NYT editorial board to seethe in its irrelevance.

2024-07-21 18:42:34

The speed at which I reversed my car when I saw these ladies modding their yard sign
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2024-07-14 03:48:58

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I love the opposite-of-natural lighting in these 90s shows. X Files is another great example. These scenes look like they had one extremely bright light and maybe another one for a splash of color.

2024-07-14 03:36:13

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90s Columbo implies the existence of 1940s Columbo, 2020s Columbo, etc

2024-07-14 03:33:32

90s Columbo is so funny. Like they're not good but I love how it feels like Columbo isn't just barging in on the killers' lives, but the decade itself.

2024-07-13 17:49:32

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@npub1ykg…g4jv So exciting! Welcome back in advance!

2024-07-05 13:48:22

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@npub18wj…lvmv Thinking of evangelicals in 2016 who were all like "god sent us this imperfect vessel and by god we will ride him for all he's worth"

2024-07-05 13:46:12

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@npub18wj…lvmv I mean, I can't remember the last time all the online discussion was all "oh god how are we gonna beat this guy"? Feels a bit like this might shock people into "popular front" mode.

2024-07-05 13:43:34

Percolating on a slightly contrarian take that this whole post debate freakout, combined with SCOTUS, may have consolidated the core Dem base like nothing else.

2024-07-04 17:06:52

We should bring back the Old York Times

2024-06-19 15:47:25

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@npub17lj…kekj lol he said what?

2024-05-28 02:48:44

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I didn't know this show existed until 5 minutes ago
still not sure

2024-05-28 02:48:03

Fuck it, we're watching Sex Box

2024-05-10 13:19:19

We should make this their most immortal ad since 1984. https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112412171573722298

2024-04-21 16:49:37

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@npub1yuu…6e96
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/310/234/194/772/077/original/58a6c4bc539f3f8d.mp4

2024-02-28 16:56:21

Ok, I took a ride on a Bluebike e-bike and I'm a convert. Can anyone recommend a good guide to choosing an e-bike?

2024-02-24 16:02:18

It's wild how The Leftovers S1 and Mr Robot S2 are both about the 2020s despite being written by people who had never heard of Covid.

2024-02-05 16:30:40

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@npub1hcc…4xws Very true. Another thing I was ranting about last night, it’s kind of subtler, but the way that interests and practices that should be neutral get kind of tainted. Like, I feel like there’s this whole culture and community of tools and practices for autodidacts and “sensemakers”, and it kinda tilts into this “coy right" cluster with Joe Rogan and rationalist Substackers.

2024-02-05 16:08:31

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@npub1hcc…4xws I wish we learned from them as much as they learned from us.

2023-12-20 00:57:35

Need a pithier way to refer to the politics of Atlantic readers than that.

2023-12-19 22:24:49

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How did I get back to 500 again that quick??! The system is broken.

2023-12-19 20:46:38

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@npub1huj…j0y9 Six months ago was the best time to set up a list of standards, expectations, and red lines between Meta and the fedi representatives they're talking to. But better now than never. They're trying to win a PR campaign. Leverage that.

2023-12-19 17:38:42

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Getting conflicting answers on this, seems like an extremely important question! Suffice to say, if a queer or otherwise marginalized person on a Threads-blocking instance can easily be boosted into the awareness of Libs of Tik Tok, then defederating Threads is insufficient to protect users, and we may see a full schism.

2023-12-19 17:26:21

I'm so excited - it's actually coming https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/ #Riven

2023-12-19 16:51:06

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If Joe on a Threads-federated instance follows Sue on a Threads-blocking instance, and boosts a post by Sue, Joe's followers on Threads then see Sue's post, right? It would be cool if there was a way to prevent that, while still allowing Joe to follow Sue.

2023-12-19 16:41:21

What’s important here is we’re going to end up with significant chunks of the fedi in both camps, and we should plan accordingly. https://social.tchncs.de/@mialikescoffee/111606781070232406

2023-12-19 00:48:31

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@npub13wq…35s0 fedi letterboxd lfg

2023-12-18 22:00:41

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@npub1gp7…727z I remember this is how I felt about Trump when he first started running, and I guess I've just come to terms with having these horrible intrusive figures in my head.

2023-12-17 23:50:06

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@npub1pcu…axps Sorry, not my best articulated toot, but basically the EEE scenario outlined here: https://mas.to/@andthisismrspeacock/111588768178247161

2023-12-17 22:11:51

The main thing the fediverse needs is more energy and coordination for our own innovation. With that, we can beat Meta. Without it, we're choosing between stagnation and absorption.

2023-12-16 22:24:41

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@npub1yec…svmh https://mastodon.social/@misc/111544917756298205

2023-12-16 22:23:42

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@npub1yec…svmh yeah I honestly want to take away people's excuses for using Twitter more than anything. I don't feel a need to use it but other people do. If they can follow what they think they need, in an app that's optimized for the fedi, I'm fine treating that as a nicotine patch. Also I love that Musk would hate it.

2023-12-16 20:41:29

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It seems to me that the advantage of ActivityPub is more at the level of helping social networks overcome a cold start problem. Right now, anyone who wants to start a new social network can connect with the Fediverse. That’s pretty cool! But federation is usually pitched mainly for its benefits to users, and I think there are other ways to achieve many of those benefits.

2023-12-16 20:24:38

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I also think post portability would be wonderful, but post *memorialization* is a much lighter lift that we could make work really well much more quickly, and it might be sufficient for most people, and even preferable in some ways.

2023-12-16 20:18:23

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I’m less interested in merging my social graphs than in the UX problem of making it manageable to juggle membership in multiple similar but distinct online communities at the same time.

2023-12-16 20:17:03

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I want to follow accounts on Threads and X and BlueSky in the same client I use to post on Mastodon. But I don’t mind needing to have accounts with those services in order to interact with posts from them.

2023-12-16 19:50:03

I keep saying we should be making clients that scrape posts from X. Same for Threads frankly. We should get comfortable with unauthorized interoperability. Interop on our terms.

2023-12-16 19:00:53

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@npub1ytq…9rrp I think one problem is that with the specific threat model of accounts like Libs of Tik Tok, blocking the instigating account does little or nothing. It's the followers of those accounts, which could be distributed across instances, that need to be blocked.

2023-12-16 18:55:29

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I feel like the dominant sides in this #threads debate are either more content than I am with the status quo, or more sanguine than I am about the threat posed by Meta.

2023-12-16 18:40:33

My dream is a world of bottom-up social networks, governed and shaped by the people who use them. The fediverse now isn't that, but it hints at the possibility. I think we should defend what we have, but I'll be disappointed if we never grow beyond it.

2023-11-10 13:09:08

What happens if you develop covid right after getting a vaccine shot? Like, you think it's the side effects but it's actually covid? I don't believe this is happening but I'm curious. Does the vax still offer any protection after you recover?

2023-10-17 13:02:48

lol after months or more of groaning under the strain of ~500 tabs I guess my phone was just like "fuck this, fuck you, I'm done"
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2023-10-08 14:06:59

What are your best Mastodon sources for following the news from Gaza and Israel?

2023-10-06 14:33:48

Tis the season for tithing to Ticketmaster
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2023-10-04 19:47:39

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Oh well… had to restore my Mac from a backup, and it won’t let me re-log in. 🪦

2023-10-03 15:38:46

Damn, Sleater-Kinney playing at a smallish club is a tempting proposition but they really lost me after Janet left. I want to believe.

2023-10-02 14:03:44

Just the most pitiful response from the "nice liberals" at CCC, to two of its endorsees being exposed as MAGA bigots online. "They were hacked!" "Cancel culture!" "This is a distraction!" Have some self respect, people. Un-endorse them, or own what you're endorsing. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/2/cambridge-citizens-coalition-protest/ #CambridgeMA #CambMA

2023-09-25 13:05:47

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@npub1pcu…axps omg I missed this story... you gotta tell me, it will put my impatience for wedding photos in perspective.

2023-09-24 17:07:48

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@npub1hw3…apg6 Sometimes I have those temptations but I'm always afraid of bedbugs or w/e

2023-09-24 15:09:35

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@npub1p2q…7pyn @npub1rkt…sqek I don't know why it hit this way this morning, but rather than de-anthropomorphizing the chatbot, it had me imagining the hellish mental prison of being an obligate bullshitter who literally can't say "I don't know." Of course, it was also funny and illuminating, as ever. But I found myself strangely pitying the chatbots, despite knowing better. I guess I was thinking back to this thread too https://universeodon.com/@siderea/109883198218504351

2023-09-13 17:02:28

I know upgrading from my 12 Mini to one of the new iPhones will help a lot with the battery life - is overheating also a Mini thing, or is that equally an issue with the big ones?

2023-09-10 20:04:38

Still haven't opted in to full text search. I'm not sure I can think of a good reason not to, but let me know if there is one I might not have thought of?

2023-08-16 22:09:05

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@npub1hcc…4xws @npub15xl…dj0q I say this being kinda in the middle 🤷🏻‍♂️

2023-08-16 22:05:24

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@npub1hcc…4xws @npub15xl…dj0q But also that the libs here are *really* lib and the lefties are *really* leftie

2023-08-16 21:54:15

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@npub15xl…dj0q @npub1hcc…4xws It's interesting seeing through a mastodon lens. Have you noticed that everyone here, at least in the USpol context, is like either a radical or a super enthusiastic Democrat? And yet, somehow this is not a major axis of conflict. And I wonder if some of the radicalism might not rub off on the normies. Maybe wishful, but I wonder…

2023-08-08 02:30:26

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@npub1qmc…v6gx @npub1aa9…t3jt I thought BlueSky hid them by default. At any rate, I had to flip the switch at one point to see all those replies and it was a revelation. Really felt like no convo was happening there before that, like everyone was just performing open mic to a crowd.

2023-08-04 16:02:23

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@npub19kr…8m4r Right, it has to be an extremely skewed sample.

2023-08-04 15:25:12

Something I don't understand - if you have wastewater monitoring in your area, why would you care about any other indicator? Hospitalizations makes sense if there's a new dominant variant and you're trying to assess its virulence, but otherwise?

2023-07-27 21:35:44

One thing I do appreciate about Elon Musk and his cronies is that they seem to have completely forgotten the existence of the Twitter Mac app. (I hardly ever visit, but on the rare occasions when I do…)

2023-07-16 21:15:05

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Or just more broadly, making it a value to assess features and design by. Does this obscure the variation between people's experiences here? Or does it help people empathize with each other's subjectivity?

2023-07-16 21:13:05

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One of my favorite features of Old Old Twitter was the with_friends feed. From someone's profile you could literally jump into a view presenting the timeline as they experienced it. There are probably a million problems with this, in terms of computational/bandwidth burden on instances, or safety of users. But even if not that in particular, I think it's worth considering things in that vein.

2023-07-16 21:07:58

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When you follow someone here you don't necessarily get any sense of their friends. Their replies to people you don't follow are actively hidden. But those relationships are one of the most valuable things for someone here trying to find new people.

2023-07-16 21:06:11

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Sometimes I'm like, I have relationships with people here. I talk with them, I know them, I trust them and can vouch for them. And I would like to pass that on to new users. Here's a starter pack of cool people. You know? And then, I tell myself, I guess that's what boosts are for. But here's the thing - it's not. I boost things from people I don't follow all the time! That's not vouching for a person, that's just sharing something cool.

2023-07-16 21:02:11

S'more thoughts on what Mastodon obscures and reveals, and what that contributes to our problems.