The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

6. to point number 3, as I write this thread, four of my old pals from that community have already connected back. so glad I found you all back when I had my orange monitor 286 computer on columbus ave. fin/

5. I'm also a musician. But i have not been able to see music discourse happen on any online community outside of instagram / facebook. Really I have most of my music discourse in text messages with the jazzers I jam with. so that's not even part of my profile here. 5/

4. to the degree that Bluesky can get something of a tech community going, I appreciate the python folks who follow me and that I follow. However I do most tech discussion on mastodon. it would be nice if more of it was here but bluesky does not seem to have that vibe as of yet. 4/

3. to keep connected to my very old online pals. We all came from something very special, you know who you are, and I treasure our connections. 3/

2. to repost good posts in this discourse. If I'm following you, it usually means I like or am interested in what you're saying. if I'm reposting you, it's so I can do my part to spread what you're saying to others. My political content should be all reposts without comment. 2/