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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 2d

what the fuck. that’s so dumb

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 2d

wait did link get banned??

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

that’s not an echo that’s your screams interfering with the gazing-back mechanism. we had to have the mechanic come out six times last week

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

every engineer I know who got access to an LLM instantly made it write or fix tests. that probably means something

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 7d

your honor, I believe it was Hoobastank who first said, “I’m not a perfect person”

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

hate it when that happens, time to pour ANOTHER salt circle 🙄 god it’s like all I do anymore is babysit these helpless demons

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

idk man, db cooper always returns my texts. he told me all about what happened on the plane. might be a skill issue

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · Feb 17

"Can't beat the view!” I think as I'm blown out the airlock.

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 19d

quick PSA for everyone: you *gaze* into the abyss, and you *scream* into the void. too many people screaming into the abyss and gazing into the void and we are not licensed for that. it’s a liability issue, people

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

so a siren will sit on a rock trying to lure sailors to their watery doom but won’t text me back when I SAID I was sorry

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

they should have leg day spots at the grocery store parking lot

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

I’ve actually set up a labeler in ozone and while I agree that it had UX issues, I think a lot of the effort was actually in the hosting and server maintenance, along with the integration/setup of a service account for the labeler. Is that something you’ve talked about internally?

🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

invite only time was a golden age, I miss those days

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

well yeah, for sure. I’m mostly just wondering if the “manage your own moderation” thing will ever actually be attainable for nontechnical people (or technical people who don’t want to be technical about their social media accounts)

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

I’m curious if selling managed federated instances is on the roadmap. it seems like that would bridge the two philosophies that “users should be able to form their own communities” and “users shouldn’t need sysadmin skills to form a community”

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 4d

has bluesky considered that a path to monetization could be hosted but separate atproto infrastructure? so for instance if you’re willing to pay you can get a separate pds and maybe appview with the same moderation tooling used by the core team available to you but managed by your team?

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

imagine intentionally reminding people of one of the most embarrassing and clearcut moderation failures of the platform??

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

it’s the same as it ever was, we’re beefing with the mods and threatening to quit (but we won’t)

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

the one universal constant of every user on this site is our love for typewriter cards

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

did he buy these at a gas station off the interstate in middle of nowhere wyoming?

🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

all gords are beautiful too 🫶

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

got me asking “is it CAKE?” if you know what I mean

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

services like gourd hub set up unrealistic gourd appearance standards that are unhealthy for the average gourd that you find on the ground outside. all gourds are beautiful in their own way

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

I spent way too long making this Gourdhub home page:

Gourdhub home page with sexy pumpkin videos

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

I know we already have “lie of omission” but I’d like to submit the companion term, “lie of idiocy”, for when people repeat obvious lies that they could easily know are false but they genuinely believe

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🍂 fall bryan 🍂 @bryan.town · 5d

tired: ready for the day
wired: dressed & stressed

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