extremely overused words in the sf lexicon right now legible load bearing agency taste permanent underclass generational wealth

In this ETL episode, @triketora.com - CEO of @blockpartyapp.com, acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social, shares how early experiences inspired her to found a mission-driven company & balance mission and profitability. 🎧 Listen where you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube! https://bit.ly/3PaNaBK

if you have founded, led, and/or worked for a mission-driven startup: what did you experience as the pros and cons?

Elon tried to kill Blockparty, and it came back even stronger. Or at least strong in a new way. Also: Hell yes we cited them in that brief!

Tracy Chou@triketora.com · 4mo ago

We were cited in an amicus brief before the Supreme Court, filed by Francis Fukuyama et al, as a leading example of middleware, a model for countering authoritarian capture of social media.

Spent most of the morning on @blockpartyapp.com clearing out previous social media. Plan is to delete everything except for a shell Facebook to use for Marketplace and @bsky.app. I can feel my mental health improving by the hour…

A professional update, as it were! @blockpartyapp.com has been acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social!

went for a run without my fitbit and it’s like it never happened

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

brett, kindly fuck off ty

my impressions of google as a consumer vs as a vendor are diametrically opposed

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

journalism is not dead www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance

The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.

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how bad is the traffic in the bay area going to be tomorrow

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

apparently epstein was on quora so the quora weekly digest emails are in his inbox… if you were a big contributor to quora way back when you might find your name in the files

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

does anyone still use onemedical? is the service completely shit now or am i just unlucky? my pcp never follows up on things she’s supposed to, never responds to messages, i can’t get a response from admin team either, etc. i kinda need healthcare over here and it’s just impossible ☹️

the air quality in sf has been crappy for a week now, finally it’s dropped into the green and i am exuberantly house burping

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

failed ai outbounding 💀

is there a bluesky labeler for misinformation yet? this is one of the canonical examples of where middleware (as enabled by a protocol such as the one bluesky is built on) should be helpful…

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 7mo ago

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Thinking idly about how there was a time in the past where the Grok CSAM scandal would lead to a huge exodus off X to Bluesky and elsewhere but how now everyone who cared about such things has already left

I’m receiving an increasing number of messages from some of you who are concerned about me. Please don’t be. I’m not going to stop speaking out. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/please-dont-worry-about-me

Please don’t worry about me

Friends,

robertreich.substack.com

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

for all the promise of ai it comes with a lot of slop being forced upon people and wasting everyone’s time simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...

How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”

Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …

simonwillison.net

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

at safeway on christmas day and these are the times i am filled with wonder at capitalism and american supermarket abundance

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

A real Good Samaritan

One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

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