Ansom Bost
@ansombost.bsky.social
OK. Let’s leave it at that. :)
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
OK. Let’s leave it at that. :)
Courtesy of my inner ad guard, which I always keep on. :)
a man riding a bull on a rodeo arena
ALT: a man riding a bull on a rodeo arena
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Courtesy of my inner ad guard, which I always keep on. :)
> “I know which song I listen to most this year…”
What is it?
What is it?
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
> “I know which song I listen to most this year…”
What is it?
What is it?
That depends on your definition of what ads are. :)
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
That depends on your definition of what ads are. :)
Designed in California?
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Designed in California?
You have to love the enthusiasm on that particular worker’s face. :)
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
You have to love the enthusiasm on that particular worker’s face. :)
Good use of words.
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good use of words.
I’m on a space rock.
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’m on a space rock.
Are you on a spaceship?
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Are you on a spaceship?
> “If you feel that this is unfairly critical of social media…”
No - you have every right (and basis!) to be so. :)
No - you have every right (and basis!) to be so. :)
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
> “If you feel that this is unfairly critical of social media…”
No - you have every right (and basis!) to be so. :)
No - you have every right (and basis!) to be so. :)
Said process, however, isn’t necessarily predicated upon one person having a direct contact with a large number of other people, but, rather, it can sufficiently work via chain reaction.
Ideas can and do spread like wildfire - and all the tech helps accelerate it.
Ideas can and do spread like wildfire - and all the tech helps accelerate it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Said process, however, isn’t necessarily predicated upon one person having a direct contact with a large number of other people, but, rather, it can sufficiently work via chain reaction.
Ideas can and do spread like wildfire - and all the tech helps accelerate it.
Ideas can and do spread like wildfire - and all the tech helps accelerate it.
I agree about the scale. Nowadays, there’s significantly more means available to coordinate this “meta-organism" and set it into a particular direction. (The two-letter craze of the last couple of years is a good example.)
More to come…
More to come…
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I agree about the scale. Nowadays, there’s significantly more means available to coordinate this “meta-organism" and set it into a particular direction. (The two-letter craze of the last couple of years is a good example.)
More to come…
More to come…
Something to do with entropy.
It’s a lovely word, but I wouldn’t want to do a TED talk on it. :)
It’s a lovely word, but I wouldn’t want to do a TED talk on it. :)
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Something to do with entropy.
It’s a lovely word, but I wouldn’t want to do a TED talk on it. :)
It’s a lovely word, but I wouldn’t want to do a TED talk on it. :)
But for crimes against my intellect, I would prefer a long one!
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
But for crimes against my intellect, I would prefer a long one!
I absolutely love your short, out-of-context sentences. They’re the best.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I absolutely love your short, out-of-context sentences. They’re the best.
Possibly so. We’ll see. :)
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Possibly so. We’ll see. :)
I’m with you. I’m not a fan of what the expression exemplifies, nor the whole mess around it. Not a fan at all.
Speaking of expressions, I think “Gaslight” should‘ve been the word of the year each year so far since 2022…
Speaking of expressions, I think “Gaslight” should‘ve been the word of the year each year so far since 2022…
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m with you. I’m not a fan of what the expression exemplifies, nor the whole mess around it. Not a fan at all.
Speaking of expressions, I think “Gaslight” should‘ve been the word of the year each year so far since 2022…
Speaking of expressions, I think “Gaslight” should‘ve been the word of the year each year so far since 2022…
I think capitalism itself is one giant bubble - which contains smaller bubbles inside of it, and there are even smaller bubbles inside of those smaller bubbles, and then more and more… :)
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think capitalism itself is one giant bubble - which contains smaller bubbles inside of it, and there are even smaller bubbles inside of those smaller bubbles, and then more and more… :)
To me, this can be tracked all the way back to the dawn of the human civilization. The simplest illustration is organized religions or political paradigms.
Modern technology is only a useful tool to amplify what’s been there all along - programmed by nature itself and exploited by people in power.
Modern technology is only a useful tool to amplify what’s been there all along - programmed by nature itself and exploited by people in power.
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
To me, this can be tracked all the way back to the dawn of the human civilization. The simplest illustration is organized religions or political paradigms.
Modern technology is only a useful tool to amplify what’s been there all along - programmed by nature itself and exploited by people in power.
Modern technology is only a useful tool to amplify what’s been there all along - programmed by nature itself and exploited by people in power.
If you understand something, I want to understand it too.
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If you understand something, I want to understand it too.
I’m very convinced that Murphy’s Law attracts way more people than Jude Law does.
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’m very convinced that Murphy’s Law attracts way more people than Jude Law does.
Missed this one earlier…
It hits too close to home - you know, the landscapes. Because, frankly, literacy has never been my strong suit… or, is it “suite”? Damn it! :)
It hits too close to home - you know, the landscapes. Because, frankly, literacy has never been my strong suit… or, is it “suite”? Damn it! :)
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Missed this one earlier…
It hits too close to home - you know, the landscapes. Because, frankly, literacy has never been my strong suit… or, is it “suite”? Damn it! :)
It hits too close to home - you know, the landscapes. Because, frankly, literacy has never been my strong suit… or, is it “suite”? Damn it! :)