Posts by bleakfuture@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #AYM5f2xiuGtm5tsCHI by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-03T13:16:12Z
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@realcaseyrollins I don’t know that it’s an addiction so much as it is just a sense of loss for a place I’ve had so much fun and experienced so many big events with a community for 15 years… You can be sad for a loss without it being an addiction.
(DIR) Post #AYSnGBo1E7MBzzPvzk by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-06T18:53:19Z
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@ThisPlaceAgain @juergen_hubert I think in the past I’d become so used to being a digital migrant from 94-08 bouncing from social platform to social platform as they evolved and mutated and died or flourished for awhile until Twitter. Twitter was a much long arc for me. I was there longer than my kids have been alive and one of them is starting high school next year. I think we want our platform to work but it might be another case of having to bounce around again for awhile.
(DIR) Post #AYSnwtiaLsPELxEzA0 by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-06T19:25:45Z
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@tomjennings @ThisPlaceAgain @juergen_hubert I miss quote posts something fierce. And I’ll never say ‘toot’ or ‘skeet’ in a serious manner
(DIR) Post #AYSpcG7e3fyNfKFTsG by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-06T19:44:26Z
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@tomjennings @ThisPlaceAgain @juergen_hubert you’re describing Trillian for Social Media.I would also like this (maybe Tapbots can build this app) but ideally I’d like a bridge connector so I could have a conversation across platforms with people who are on different services. We’re describing the fediverse I think - but there will need to be a bridge built to incorporate ATproto at some point if BlueSky does gain traction
(DIR) Post #AYbd5svjIhPVRU6wy0 by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-09T02:36:14Z
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This man said “keep it clean” The most honest thing a Trump has ever said to MAGA. Nice job fail son. Do an extra rail for me tonight.
(DIR) Post #AYhT0yNTmmy8IRrxsu by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-06T19:47:25Z
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@ThisPlaceAgain @tomjennings @juergen_hubert I just want an app focused on communication not flipping short video after short video and maybe has a good cross section of viewpoints and interests. I don’t care if it’s the dominant app. I’d rather a platform have 800k good contributors to a platform than whatever Twitter and Threads have turned into or are becoming. I can’t follow 800k people anyhow so dominance isn’t important. But dammit I do want quote posts.
(DIR) Post #AYhUEZDcDv0oH8IljE by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-13T21:25:29Z
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@tomjennings @juergen_hubert @ThisPlaceAgain as someone who has had a lot of followers and more commonly had a very modest amount I can generally tell there there’s a sweet spot between 2K and 10k where you have pretty good engagement on most posts that generates fun conversation and overall good banter - If you have fewer than a thousand followers it’s often just void shouting. Sometimes you’ll see traction and conversation but often not much if any. If you have much more than 10k your mentions and notifications become a deluge of nonsense on most platforms. It all depends on your goals. If you’re here to consume then you don’t need followers. If you’re here to contribute to convos you don’t really need followers. But if you’re here to have a voice of some sort it helps if there are folks to listen and amplify it.
(DIR) Post #AZ8MFUzOaLZWDscOMy by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-26T20:33:17Z
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@josemanuel @IAmDannyBoling Yes. It is a good thing. A family shouldn’t need to work multiple jobs to be able to survive. Requiring higher education to have a living wage: a. rules a lot of folks out of the living wage pool - I would say that is bad. b. severely devalues higher education. At the time that the family OP spoke of how do you think the engineer with the degree was living? How about now?See, a robust middle class makes everyone better. Except the really really really rich people who don’t get to hoard the massive piece of wealth that would fund such a thing.
(DIR) Post #AZAGzaTmIKspA6LJEO by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-27T18:43:48Z
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@josemanuel @IAmDannyBoling yeah I can’t follow you on this one. In the examples you stated there seems to be some metamorphosis that occurs upon receipt of a BA that completely transforms one from worthless loser who is a shame to themselves and their children into a shining pillar of modern civility. I want to be respectful about this but it seems like it’s coming from a place of not really experiencing much of the world and life yet. Maybe age, maybe circumstances, maybe I’m just wrong… Let me be clear.You do not need to be smart to graduate college. You do not need to be particularly skilled or even disciplined to graduate college. You are not required to go to college for a wide variety of excellent careers. I guarantee you that I could tell more about a candidate that I hire from the details of their student loans than their transcripts. That’s a much better measure of a persons common sense and decision making. Cool, you have a degree - what did you pay for it?
(DIR) Post #AZBycRhVMEBqPsUz56 by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-08-26T17:26:57Z
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This is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population — have your pets spayed or neutered.
(DIR) Post #AZUbWLOj2jFPmeYE2S by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-09-06T14:07:06Z
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@kaia there's a lot of tritium in the water I would imagine - maybe you could sell it to gun nuts and market it as like Trijicon Tactical Water w/ Tritium for Night Sight.(in the event that you're normal and dont keep up with dumb gun culture - tritium is what they use to make indices on night sights for guns glow in the dark.)
(DIR) Post #AZfaxFXEywxkkHoPaa by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-09-11T21:23:06Z
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I have to rearrange my office to set up a TV and PS5 so I can have even more reason to never see my family. This is also an extremely first world problem but here we are.
(DIR) Post #AZjEKfndybHWYCWZxg by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-09-13T15:28:47Z
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@stux I could watch these and rug cleaning vids all day. Not sure why but it does the dopamine or something for me.
(DIR) Post #Aa2gMKHKwlTTYqILpY by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-09-23T00:41:15Z
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How do I help my wife? She’s a hoarder.
(DIR) Post #Aa2h4kyT3QLz67egPQ by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-09-23T00:50:20Z
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@stux I think I found the culprit.
(DIR) Post #AcKlTZqFSrIRrY1zBg by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2023-11-04T15:19:07Z
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I am able to support Jews and condemn Israel.I am able to wish for a free and self determined Palestine and condemn Hamas.The world is not binary. You can be outraged at dead babies before you see which flag metaphorically drapes their corpse. This is bad for everyone. And pointless.
(DIR) Post #AhduRvKjpH2EN5HAIK by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2024-05-04T14:26:06Z
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Nuts dot com sponsoring @gruber The Talk Show reminds me of an idea for a great ad read. Back in 2007ish CBS canceled the show Jericho after a single season - for reasons that made sense because of the show the fans response was NUTS! (A nod to Gen McAuliffe in WWII) Nuts .com stepped up and helped us fans deliver 40,000lbs of nuts to CBS executives and they brought the show back to finish out the story. Wild times. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=3214156&page=1
(DIR) Post #Ahf2nUaevlosahTits by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2024-05-07T21:56:09Z
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@kaia this is incredible cosplay
(DIR) Post #AiQrkldFLBl2fTGN1s by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2024-05-30T23:39:56Z
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@futurebird they’re doing what Merrick Garland won’t. the courage is incredible.
(DIR) Post #AkYueepwnJ0znKnLFo by bleakfuture@techhub.social
2024-08-02T16:34:16Z
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@futurebird I choose to believe that Robbie eventually chose to marry a nice brown person who loves him very much and maybe his mom learned a lesson. Maybe.