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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2d

My bets are still on BlueSky and/or ATProto. But this is me hedging my bets.

Discord—Mastodon—Signal—Text.

QR code to create a Signal chat with me.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1m

No worries 🙂

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 20m

I could. And I should. But I’m almost pathologically lazy, plus there’s gonna be a time when I actually do need to use the word. 🤣

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 26m

It’s a pretty new service. I just need to make sure that I archive what I’ve written somewhere.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 27m

For now I’ll chalk it up to intermittent service problems.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 55m

Things sorted themselves out, thankfully.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1h

Seems to be better for the moment. “Post not found” was a lie.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1h

Yep. And now everything has decided to show up. Thought I’d finally caught a suspension (although chats were working).

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1h

Test (BlueSky seems to be eating my replies).

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1h

Yes. I moved everything to leaflet.pub recently, and I pulled the Wordpress site down entirely last night. 😬

Here’s the new link home for that piece.

hi, bluesky. can we talk about the alt text bot? - there’s no way out of here

01 September 2025

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1h

With respect: LEAF

A leaf from a cannabis plant growing in the wild is brightly lit by the sun.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2h

REALLY.

Gonna have to try that, because the truth is that I almost never mean “duck.”

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2h

You’d think a phone could learn the word fuck.

It never fucking does.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 15h

bsky.app/profile/alth...

bsky.app

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

everything looked the same. But every single song, when played? “I gotta pocket, gotta pocketful of sunshine.”

Best parenting moment of our lives

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

One lovely April Fool’s Day, my wife and I took all his music and replaced it with copies of the song Pocketful of Sunshine. The thing we really gritted our teeth about was replacing all the ID data including the album covers with the original song data. To a casual glance,

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

So I have a story about this movie (more specifically about the song in this gif). Back when my son was in high school he had a Zune music player that he was allowed to use for music when he was in class. He had several hundred songs on the thing so he’d never run out of music.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

It never was, afaik. Alt text and screen readers have been around for way longer than LLMs have. Whatever tech may or may not be scraping images and descriptions isn’t something that’s been put in place deliberately by BSky. That said, their accessibility implementation may be on the clumsy side.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

No worries 👍🏾

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Settings > Accessibility > Require alt text before posting. That’s the toggle that you may be looking for.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Exactly. One of the most important things to know about being a good communicator is knowing when to shut the fuck up.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Aaron with his supposed trust and safety background should know better. I don’t listen to what devs have to say about moderation. Moderation is simply not their job and they should really just keep their thoughts about the subject to themselves.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Isn’t that more of a twerk than a thrust? 🤣

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Which part is when we’re doing the pelvic thrust?

Or wait. Maybe it’s that someone else is doing the pelvic thrust in a really aggressive and unpleasant way. Do not want.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Y’all should read every single word in this thread. It is absolute fire from beginning to end.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Aaron and I are moots so hopefully he'll hear me out on this.

If "every decision must be explainable, repeatable, and based on evidence [your] tools can reliably evaluate," then you need to reevaluate your TOS because you're running into the same issue that I pointed out to @pfrazee.com re: porn.

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 2d

This approach keeps our system scalable and fair as we grow. Every decision must be explainable, repeatable, and based on evidence our tools can reliably evaluate. We’re also working to make our decisions clearer and more transparent. 8/9

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 1d

Bang fuckin’ on.