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normal non-spooky toast @toasty.cx · 10h

Clearsky is a severe cognitihazard and the fact that bluesky is structured in such a way that this kind of info is just out there for anyone who wants to build a webgui around it is an actual literal capital P Problem, but the team is so fucking incompetent and up their ass that they'll never fix it

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 3h

It's one reason why I don't think I'm ultimately long for this platform. While I find some joy from it, I've also felt this acutely in ways that has undermined much of the joy I have gotten from Bluesky

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

I do think that the extremely public nature of literally everything on bluesky is actually quite bad from the perspective of reducing conflict

clearsky is bad for your brain and people should not be able to trivially look up who is blocking them and what shitty lists people have put them on!

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @asterionhex.monster · 11h

this is so funny too because twitter also had blocklists but they weren't public. I had WAY more people blocked on twitter than I do here without even using lists because of the algorithm pushing whoever into my feed, but nobody's aware of who blocks them on there

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 6h

Congrats JRam on your 3rd place finish [laudatory]

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 9h

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 7h

the STFU sportsball people of bluesky take an L

*an L is short for loss, as in one of the many outcomes of a sporting event

Jim Calabro @calabro.io · 13h

This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾

A chart of the main bsky backend load balancer request throughput compared to 7 days earlier (the previous Saturday). There's a massive spike during the world series game.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 6h

Ugh why is this so true

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 8h

bluesky in november is like if all of a website had seasonal affective disorder

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 8h

I'm so over these people going to bat for the owners!!! The salary cap only helps the owners!!!

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 10h

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 10h

This is an incredible passage. Thanks for sharing David!

David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 10h

As I wrote in my book and have said repeatedly, universalism is and always will be the ultimate heresy, since it strikes at the heart of the ecclesial power structure that makes the label of heresy—and also integralist imperialism—possible in the first place.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 11h

It's immensely funny how so many Trads are actually just Protestants who don't want to admit it.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 10h

Not particularly what I want to see before getting on a plan in two days.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13h

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."

Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down." As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staf...

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 11h

My opinion on Spanberger's comments on Mamdani is I don't care what a candidate running for governor of Virginia thinks of a candidate running for Mayor of NYC and neither should the media. The fact we have to know everyone's opinion about every race is bad for coalition building.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 10h

Maybe if we use this as part of ChatGPT's training materials, it will finally provide a "I don't know" answer instead of hallucinating 😂

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

We've got you 👍

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 1d

“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 14h

Fernando Valenzuela just had a bad second half of his career, never fully living up to the potential of Fernandomania. He was still a freaking great pitcher though.

Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 14h

Don Mattingly was just the best player on the worst stretch of Yankees teams in franchise history.

Dale Murphy may not have had the most graceful beginning and end of his career, but at his peak, there was no one better.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 14h

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were HoF talent without the steroids.

Carlos Delgado and Gary Sheffield had suspicions of steroids. They are the two I'd probably be least upset about if they didn't get in.

Jeff Kent was just a dick. But he was a very good ballplayer.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 14h

Hot take, everyone on this list should probably be in the HoF.

They're all not in for...reasons...but I think there are more reasons they should be in than not.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 15h

The Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot features eight candidates for consideration in the Hall of Fame Class of 2026.

Results will be announced at 7:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 7: ow.ly/Agwx50XlQRH

The Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela. (Kent photo: Martha Jane Stanton, Valenzuela photo: MLB Photos, all others National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 14h

Oh man, this is great.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 14h

SIGN ME UP FOR THIS - I WANT IN!

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 17h

I really don’t think this is that difficult

Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 15h

I don't need America to be exceptional, but I do want a world where multiracial democracies can function and thrive so we lift everyone else up at the same time. And it feels like Western countries are largely more committed to this vision of the world.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 15h

I also realize the irony in writing this response to a Canadian 😅 but my ideal is a shared Western vision of the world that I think is much more closely tied to what existed years ago, but is very much threatened by Trump's current actions.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 15h

The most important thing being that it would mean giving up the idea of American exceptionalism entirely, and it's especially the isolationists who do not understand that America's dominance on the global stage is what allows for American exceptionalism to exist.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 15h

I can sympathize with people who think America should be less active on the world stage.

But I think most people who say that want it to be far deeper than I'm willing to go myself, because I also think that most people haven't thought about how this will materially affect their lives.

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