I am one of 28 former NASA Astronauts who signed this letter supporting Jared Isaacman for the position of NASA Administrator. In the words of the letter, "Jared has a genuine passion for space exploration and will bring a renewed energy and sense of purpose to NASA."
Very excited to announce our seed round and our first paid service - easy to setup custom domains - in partnership w Namecheap. Since our data is public, we won’t be selling data for ads. It’s time for new ways of operating in social!
Bluesky is a public benefit corp with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” The PBC status allows us to pursue our mission above profit, but we still need to make this open ecosystem sustainable.
sundays are for wondering “what’s that friend been up to?”, checking their tweets/posts/likes, hitting them up, scheduling a hang
Now that we've crossed 100k users, we prefer new methods of feedback — tagging the team does not scale. Please use: • In-app reporting feature. Our mods review every report we receive. • In-app feedback form • Developers can file an issue on GitHub • Email support@bsky.app for support requests
We just published an update on our private beta and our roadmap — read here: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update
god, sometimes I love the way we took this internet and flooded it with our lives tennis tutorials, memes, tech roasts, essays, skits, people squealing in delight upon seeing their sister surprising them on their birthday… more! ever more!
love how the subway turnstiles massage my quads I hit right on my way in and left on my way out
“If you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu” 😆 Just heard that one for the first time today from an academic talking about their department’s politics
the only good thing that can come of UK’s coronation discourse is their criticisms of republicans reminding American Republicans, who tend to be the side that flirt with fantasies of monarchy these days, of the origins of their party’s name
do any of y’all notice the density of colors around you? just walked into a subway station for the 7 in NYC, which has a purple logo and all of a sudden there are purple backpacks, do-rags, ads, turnstiles, sweatshirts all around me everything just got so purple
when I was 23-24 people said they thought I was 28-29 now that I’m 28-29 people say they think I’m 23-24 wat mean
as a founder I often feel like my primary job is being the stress-eater — my job is to just eat the stress, to metabolize it all, to not reflect, deflect, or pass it on used to be skeptical of such takes because they sound humble-braggy… trust me, I’m not bragging here — feeling shitty today
starship is about to launch and the spring weather has been wonderful, and my friends are winning and my heart is mending, and excuse me, I’m supposed to think about taxes?
"We all must choose between what is correct and what is awesome"
the only edit I’d have to make to these old tweets, which are now coming true with Blue Sky, is calling it “Jay’s social” instead :) (cc @jay.bsky.team)
👀 so in a strange case of nominative determinism, my mom actually named me 蓝天
bluesky would be a beautiful name for a girl
What made so many people move over from Twitter to Bluesky this past weekend? I’ve been blissfully out of the loop.
I want to be known online for my offline shenanigans, not offline for my online shenanigans
deactivated my Twitter for the first time ever and it feels like a new way of being