Claude has got my tone of voice worked out. Pies, pints and piss...

This time most years from 2012 to about 2017, @todoleo.bsky.social and I used to play "Apple Kremlinology" at Skyscanner, taking a guess at what was coming from events like #WWDC25 .

It's not as interesting these days - but Apple casting doubt on GenAI hype the day before, is no coincidence.

Trump just pardoned more rockets than Musk will ever launch…

Sad day when Elon Musk decides the opposition's line of questioning at PMQs...

The irony of an SNP leader denouncing populists who offer glib solutions to complex problems.

Funny how the gammon brigade moved on very quickly from being farming methane experts to child grooming?

Started writing a book in April; 2 chapters of about 28. About to find out if it’s worth carrying on 😂

One of my favourite things is seeing idiot influencers claiming their product is “breaking the internet”. How the fuck would anyone see their advert?

It’s the one I can happily play on repeat every year.

Can we rename it Bluesnet?

Couple of old ladies asked for a newspaper at my local station this morning - "we've not had papers for 2 years," they replied. The travellers hadn't been on a train in even longer.

ITV?

donald trump has opened a box that can never be resealed

BlueSky hit 18 million last night & will reach 18.5m in a couple of hours

On course for 20m by Monday night.

UK users likely to go through one million by Monday (if 5% of global users) if not there already

UK 100k users at start Nov. UK users prob at least +50k/day (or more) of global +1m/day

If anyone is spending Christmas alone this year, please do reach out & let me know. I need to borrow some chairs

It's probably more likely to happen here, not less, as more people are attracted to the platform's new scale and lower amount of automated meddling. As you say, unless people obsess about reading replies, they won't see much of it happening to others.

An erotic short story in three acts

Can the rest of the world block out Super Bowl chat the same way? (And Swift too for that matter)

Different context clearly, but I could see the day England would vote to be rid of the nationalist noise in Scotland whilst it remains a minority up here.

For some of these, and other reasons, I lasted a day and uninstalled it.

Threads is looking better and better. What I wanted from social media was:

* self-promotion from celebrities and rich people
* no control over my timeline
* strict prohibition of any sexual content
* nothing from europe
* no alt-text
* data harvesting to empower genocides

It's really easy to do, but not totally obvious, that subdomains can effectively be individual handles (like the potus.whitehouse.gov one in your example). The setup instructions look like you can only to root domains so maybe must a wee extra note to cover subdomains too?

so disappointed after seeing this photo & realizing that's a third llama in the back & not the arm of the right llama ringing a little bell