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Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads “RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain”

Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads “Robert F Kennedy Jr Confirmed as Trump’s Health Secretary”

How it started / how it’s going

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My unpopular opinion is that Biden could and should be using his presidential powers to their fullest extent over the next 49 days, in an effort to preserve our democracy as well as his family. To hell with norms.

Screenshot of the Vitals section of Apple Health showing the month of November, with the only “Outlier” appearing on Election Day, November 5

Yep that checks out

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Excellent thread, I hope to see this trend continue in other online products and spaces as well

1/ I’ve become an unofficial evangelist for Bluesky. (I don’t work here.)

As a former dir of product mgmt @Twitter, I’m impressed w/ the innovative and courageous choices Bluesky has made.

They’ve come up with a better way to do social media.

Some have asked me how I explain this outcome.

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If the people that say this stuff don’t have a history of criticizing Truth Social for the same reason, their opinion doesn’t matter to me.

Yay for Novavax! However you may want to consider changing to a new mask, that one doesn’t look like it’s sealed to your nose at all

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Black Twitter helped define the internet — so where will the exodus from X lead? Some X users say they’re hoping to create a new “Black Twitter” on other social media platforms.

“Black users on Bluesky are already working to build a community on the site. One user, Rudy Fraser, launched Blacksky, a collection of curated, Black-centered feeds that filter out racism and misogyny to provide a safe, inclusive experience for users.”

This one: bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you’re subscribed to the “Nazis” blocklist they’re already in there (just discovered myself)

Screenshot of the “Swifties for Trump” profile showing they were in the “Nazis” block list

Nvm they were already in a block list I’m subscribed to lol

Screenshot of search for “swiftiesfortrump” with no results

Already gone?

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The thing about the chronological timeline is that if you have something you want to share, you have to share it a lot. And if you see something you think others should see, you have to hit repost (likes are not public).

Delete your tweets so they can’t be mined for data (or any other purpose), keep the handle so you can’t be impersonated

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I think it’s a UI issue - hard to verify at-a-glance and can be easy to make a mistake if the domain is off by one letter. Alternatively if one isn’t familiar with official domains it could be an issue as well.

Also, domains get concatenated on-feed and can be difficult to verify without clicking.

Every person who makes the best cookie you’ve ever eaten

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Important that it’s just “many of us”. The second the whole app becomes paywalled is the second free-to-use-but-billionaire-funded-and-controlled options become more powerful, as we’ve seen happen with news sites. Perhaps a model like Wikipedia would work.

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Please stay!! You are the vibe

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You know it doesn't necessarily have to "get worse before it gets better." That's just some shit people told you often enough and long enought that you uncritically took it for true.

We could just work to be better.