Are people building out loud around here? Any solopreneurs worth a follow? Especially interested in sales platform builders and women working on new, ambitious projects.

Is there a crypto explicitly for people who hate authoritarians and fascists and racists and bigots and incels? I wanna invest in that one. Start our own alternative economy or something.

Absolutely this. The entire program is both incredibly short-sighted and wildly racist, and the enforcement is so shady!

Last week I was lamenting not having invested heavily in NVIDIA. Today I remembered that the stock market is a gambling platform and nothing in tech is ever certain.

Anyone have a game plan for navigating this? Maybe I just mattress it and stick with bonds and the old HYSA.

ICE was all over my town yesterday. I’m terrified for all my friends who look a certain way, regardless of “legal status”. Utterly horrific times.

My kid just requested we buy graduation announcements fore the sole purpose of sending them to celebrities.

William McKinley never even visited Alaska. It’s #Denali and always will be.

Wow, that’s almost dead even!!

*starts researching jobs at Adobe*

It’s the same at my company. They’re all nice even if all of them try to talk over me to say the exact thing I’m saying (every single day, sigh). Fortunately, I’m a bigger personality than most of them so I do ok; I’ve learned to just keep talking.

Wow, you increased the number of women by 50%. Solid work!

I still haven’t figured out what the hell #MasculineEnergy is supposed to be. If it’s getting things done, then every meeting I’m leading is overflowing with that. If it’s bitching about women and immigrants on social media using their phone while sitting on the toilet, then not a bit.

Today’s work calls:

🧔🧔🧔🧔👩
🧔🧔🧔🧔👩
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Per the norm. Amiright #WomenOfTechSky ?

Corpse Flower livestream: A plant to die for YouTube video by Botanic Gardens of Sydney

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time.

WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

Those are so cute! I never think of cacti as coming from seeds, just propagation for some weird reason. How funny!

I had myself convinced I couldn’t grow anything from seed in the ground, but then they popped on up!

Had to switch my main feed to a #gardening feed today in order to survive. Here’s my small contribution: peas sprouting in the ground this morning in my first ever winter garden (San Diego, zone 10b).

I’m very excited about these little babies.

I want the last 10 years back. And a complete redo on social networks all around.

Barf

So TikTok is “saved,” Meta pressed the red button and launched their new Edits app, and the world is still burning around us, only now with more fake? real? video evidence.

I mean, it sucks no matter what in one way or another, but yes! New chapters!!!

I need to find a few custom feeds I think. Maybe some mindless cat content and certified shitposters. Good call out.

It sounds like a reasonable cost and timeline and that makes me so happy for you!

Mine was over 3 years and enough money to buy a house in many places because my ex was highly combative. Worth every penny to get out, though, and life is amazing now.

Can someone tell me how to get more enjoyment from bsky? I get on here and am immediately hit with a depressing wall of sadness and wallowing in the current state of affairs.

I open the socials to escape but that doesn’t seem to be possible anymore.

Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is law. What happens next is unclear To come into effect, the constitutional amendment would need to be formally published or certified by the national archivist, who has declined to do so in the past. What happens now is unclear.

OMG this is a wild twist. www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

Thanks so much for your interest! FYI the app is NOT available yet. I hope to start an open Testflight beta next week and will post the invite here.

My boss thanked someone for coming off of mute to laugh at his joke on the first call of the day and I’m becoming concerned that this will be where my Thursday excitement peaks

Honestly, TikTok x LinkedIn sounds like my personal version of burning in Hell for eternity, but I’m not here to yuck anyone else’s yum.

That’s perfect but OMG ARE YOU OK

I actually don’t think the fees have changed a whole lot (I wanna say $50 per app, about what I paid a million years ago), so more like 1/2 a tank of gas now since I’m in SoCal and gas is $$$$. It’s just sooooo many apps that it adds up.