Mark Greene

@remakingmanhood.bsky.social

Author activist on Man Box culture / Co-founder http://WalkingTalkingMen.org / Books, podcasts in linktree below He/Him #masculinity https://linktr.ee/remakingmanhood

Sharing my morning with this tiny person. She was too cold to move! When the wind blows, she shivers 🥹. She was on the porch floor and couldn't fly away. She desperately wiggled her little butt so we'd know she was a person. Got her to safety. Now she's eating frosting 🤣 happy Easter buzzing ones!

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Even if total user count is technically still growing, slowly, about a third of *active* users left over the last 12 months. That's a dying social network, not a growing one. If it doesn't change, bluesky won't survive. I think that would be a bad thing tbh. I mostly like it here.

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

I don't know if it's fixable, especially as I think quite a lot of the people here don't *want* to fix it. But at the rate users are quitting they'll run out of targets soon enough, and the rest of us will lose what is – for a fair few of us I suspect – the last fun/useful social network. Sigh.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

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This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

The gender friendship gap turns out to be driven almost entirely by white men's uniquely low levels of friendship closeness. And among white men, higher socioeconomic class predicted even lower closeness. The most privileged group has the least close friendships. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles

Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

link.springer.com