Mark Rankin

@sugarbuzz.bsky.social

Small town Southern Minnesotan probably bemoaning the state of politics and the state of Minnesotan sports teams

The Verge has 4.3M followers on Twitter and this article has been up for 8 hours and got almost no interaction at all. The Verge on Bluesky has 360K followers and thousands of interactions. @toni.bsky.team I think things are doing just fine here and I bet The Verge would agree

Toni Schneider on protocols community and control
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky'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."

anders folk is using footage from lake & bloomington raid in his ads featuring people who actually showed up to the scene to defend their neighbors who do NOT support his campaign folk obvs has no footage of himself there and his campaign shouldn’t be bolstered by these brave minneapolis residents

Kai Shelley@transthem.bsky.social · 2d ago

My photo is being used in a campaign ad for Anders Folk. It will come as a surprise to literally no one who has ever met me - I am not supporting his bid Hennepin County Attorney. I've asked that my photo be removed from all materials, & reported the ad. If you see the video, please report it, thx!

not to be all @dennycarter.bsky.social about it but the fact that people still perceive this as a politics only place is so wild to me because as a very casual sports fan I at least once a week think “Jesus Christ is there any sporting event these people won’t watch.” it’s all about who you follow!

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

I should be clear that the architecture of Bluesky makes it the social media place I most like to be. I'm not on social media to be an influencer or instigator; I want to hang out with folks and have an enjoyable time. This place delivers on that. I hope it continues to do so for a long time.

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better