Michael Paul 🐓
@michael.is-post.ing
30 or 40 years old in colorado. computer science phd, retired because my body broke, now full time poster.
Marsh wren is a tiny, active AGILE songbird 12 cm lives in freshwater and saltwater wetlands across North America, eating mostly insects and spiders. Found during the summer breeding season across much of southern Canada and the US migrate south to winter along coastal regions of southern US.
head n shoulders in the display window is on brand
Brendan C. Byrne@brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 3h agoah finally a useful Blue Sky
kind of comforting that it is trivially easy to bait literally any political faction into internecine public beef with a single burrito taxi post
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
we all got that one homie who was scanned by hideo kojima
I accidentally stepped on my cat’s tail it did not go well for either of us
picked up this collection of the rest of this director’s movies he’s like iran’s david lynch and my understanding is all his movies feature confusing time loops
Michael Paul 🐓@michael.is-post.ing · 2mo agothis iranian/tajiki surrealist movie sounded up my alley
I accidentally stepped on my cat’s tail it did not go well for either of us
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
finally something for me and the 99 friends that I have
Bluesky@bsky.app · yesterdayUpdate: group chats can now host up to 100 members.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Took a drive and saw where wildfires had torched the trees earlier this summer. I was comforted by the resilience of wild flowers.
sometimes I remember that the economy is going to crash in a couple weeks unless someone stops the 50% tariffs on canada from happening
the main times I ever see bluesky mentioned in the wild are when people ask how to share links to their stuff without getting penalized
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d agothis is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The interview is actually quite interesting and not at all like this. Feels like ragebait.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
This is what I mean when quote post stuff w/ “belief: still today’s issue.” The vast majority of true things you are going to know about reality you are going to know by believing the testimony of someone else. Consequently, “critical thinking” almost always means “evaluating credibility.”
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2d agoMillions of people have an absolutely insane concept of “critical thinking” that means “making a fully independent judgment on complex questions you are, if you’re at all honest with yourself, comically incompetent to evaluate & demand years of specialized training.”
if you fall asleep in your dreams, that’s the most restful sleep of all
oh you misunderstood me... I said “aught-ism”, as in, things people used to say in the 2000s
