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bryan (they/them)

@chaosgreml.in

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IDs: queer, agender, fat, Black, AuDHD Building systems that make the right thing the easy thing.

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bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · Jun 29

Things you don’t know about me:

1. My BFA is in Musical Theatre
2. I used to perform professionally and was an Equity actor. I stopped because NYC was impossible to be young, poor, 6’5”, and Black in if you were doing theatre.
3. I podcast! Pretty regularly! All the time!

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bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 8m

Nobody cares what either of you think about the civil rights movement

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 8m

Hey other white guy -

You also shut the fuck up

bsky.app/profile/whst...

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14m

Angus, I just want people to know you’re the kind of person who will pretend the phrase “the No Kings protests are bigger than the civil rights movement” is an ambiguous phrase, so you can dunk on me and score coolness points from the community on here. I want people to know that’s who you are

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2h

Actually, the original post said that NK was "like an order of magnitude bigger than the civil rights movement, if you want to place it on a scale of historically notable activism." That's not a reference to crowd size—it's a claim as to historical significance.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 8m

Hey white guy -

Shut the fuck up.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 4h

Seeing people say that "by the numbers" Stancil is right about No Kings being bigger than the civil rights mvt. But no. That's not how any of this works.

It's like saying I'm a bigger organizer than Greta Thunberg because I'm taller. It's not technically true, it's just stupid.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 11m

I unironically like the things I can do with LLMs.

If you think that makes me a clinker or a bad person or whatever, cool cool :)

I will enjoy you blocking me, or me blocking you if you start yelling at me 😘

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 14m

Oh lord I just read on a subreddit that someone thinks gay bars are called that because they were started for gay men

who is teaching these people

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

Absolutely time to design my feed generator that removes people being shitty to others to make themselves feel good from my timeline

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

Agreed!!!!

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

Oh lord

Starter pack renaissance

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

I am of the shocking opinion that spite is a bad reason to do almost anything, unless it’s the only thing protecting you from yourself. But in that case, you need therapy and good meds, stat.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

Just so you know, getting joy out of shitting on stuff is some of the most childish and worthless behavior in the known universe.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

Omg I am uninterested in this type of person being anyone near my feeds

Things that aren’t funny: making fun of minorities, even ironically

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 1h

Called it

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 15h

I really think that my entire philosophy can be boiled down to this:

Make the right thing the easy thing.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 15h

So often we shoot ourselves in the foot in tech by yelling at people, “But this harder way is better! You should do it because it’s better and more ethical!”

Doing good should not be hard. That’s a choice our society has made. Doing good should be effortless and deeply rewarding.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 15h

This is a great concept, *and* it only works at scale if we make the right option also the easiest option.

Most people *do not* have the resources, be it time, energy, or money, to do the hard thing simply because it’s right.

They’re just trying to survive a system that sees them as disposable.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 3d

When the academics start saying the answer is we should never trust preprints but you're an interdisciplinary applied scholar so all your papers get rejected because they're with real world populations or get wildly biased reviews from hostile applied reviewers who don't know methods

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat

Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat. Text reads chuckles, I'm in danger

media.tenor.com

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at://work @atwork.place · 3d

Get started and learn more here: atwork.place/help/endorse...

at://work @atwork.place · 3d

Professional recommendations have a trust problem. Anyone can write a glowing review and claim someone else said it. How do you know it's real? We built endorsements on at://work using ATProtocol's cryptographic infrastructure.

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at://work @atwork.place · 3d

Professional recommendations have a trust problem. Anyone can write a glowing review and claim someone else said it. How do you know it's real? We built endorsements on at://work using ATProtocol's cryptographic infrastructure.

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 3d

Because there are laws that make it illegal to release names of hov’t employees do so if the intent is to “harm, intimidate, or obstruct,” and ICE agents have add’l legal protections against their names being released, strengthened in 2020.

More info here: www.rcfp.org/resources/im...

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 3d

I ain’t never like that white singing lady anyway

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 3d

Please feel free to share these far & wide! I'm going to collect them & then turn them into a report back that I'm personally going to use to try & craft some thoughts around how we make quality interactions with each other easier and&more fulfilling vs shitty & awful interactions.

Thanks so much!

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 3d

I'd *also* love to hear from all of you what you believe makes up *low-grade, terrible, trashy, awful* interaction on platforms like this. Can be anything - you can use examples, you can describe it, etc. If you can do that in response to *this skeet* that would be AMAZING!

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 3d

I'd *love* to hear from all of you what you believe makes up *quality* interaction on platforms like this. Can be anything - you can use examples, you can describe it, etc. If you can do that in response to *this skeet* that would be AMAZING!

bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 3d

COMMUNITY CALL FOR FEEDBACK:

Hello creatures of the ATmosphere! I'm doing a lot of thinking about what healthy prosocial networked interaction incentives look like - how we keep conversations on large social experiences like Bluesky/atproto rooted in an ethic of shared humanity even when tough.