ryan
@youfoundryan.bsky.social
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former software engineer at twitter before the apartheid kid took over. denver. mostly post about my native landscape project and ska
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hi latest xitter exodus. welcome!

you can expect posts about native gardening, denver and my dog santiago
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i add fish sauce to marinara
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denver occasionally culls canada geese and sends them to a meat processor. all ends up at the food bank.
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I think software people strongly dislike the messiness of the real world and users remind them that their product does not exist in a vacuum.

It’s why I think so many were drawn to crypto: it’s the “imagine a spherical cow” of software where you can pretend the real world does not exist.
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my grandfather was a chemical mortarman who ran around germany firing white phosphorus rounds at german tanks and destroyed a great many :)
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Back when I was at Twitter, one of our comms people for the developer API went off the rails arguing on hacker news and then suddenly went silent. I imagined someone racing through the building to snatch away his keyboard.
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the most likely outcome is a lot more humvees used as outhouses
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also the far right is gonna whine about that even if you kowtow to them
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my dude, i worked at twitter. i saw this shit from the inside.

there is no world in which accommodating assholes creates a stronger platform. i know i know, nobody wants to be in the position of making those decisions. but you are, that's reality.

the platform will die if posters aren't safe
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i have bad news about who runs tidal

(jack dorsey)
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stg that sounds like a veep bit
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my grandfather was an LA city planner in the 50s and 60s. he said they once took a field trip to houston (where there's no zoning) and realized that despite all their process, all their rules, they'd wound up with the exact same thing

(he also told them rancho palos verdes would slide into the sea)
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the thing about setting stories like stranger things in the 80s is not just the nostalgia but avoiding the plot hole of "why don't the characters have cell phones" for something set present-day
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the way twitter tracks traffic, hits via nitter dont count. no impressions are logged that way.

source: worked on that stuff at twitter
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seems to me a great time for complete tear-down rebuilds of troop carriers around the country
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I expected them to be rounding up autistic people by now
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I want to put a gambel oak in my backyard so bad to try to attract colorado hairstreaks
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my dog could do better than this
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there's a 10% chance halligan accidentally dockets, like, photos from her last colonoscopy before the end of this
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i will be honest: i did not know that
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one of them is gonna shoot their own dick off and blame antifa