Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

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It’s a little annoying that every website I open makes me click through between 1 and 4 popups about privacy settings, browser notifications, creating or signing into an account, and using a code for a 10% discount, but I know that’s just how they show me they care.

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We took our good girl Petunia to the vet for a checkup today. She's about 7 weeks shy of her Gotcha Day, so she's 19 years old now.

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Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

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If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

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