here’s the video clip from @sxsw.com in which @mmasnick.bsky.social tells @jay.bsky.team about the silly app i made over the weekend called @flushing.im i am both *thrilled* by the acknowledgement & a little embarassed that it’s for something i made as part of an elaborate bit 💀 - ThreadSky

dame.is • 8 days ago

here’s the video clip from @sxsw.com in which @mmasnick.bsky.social tells @jay.bsky.team about the silly app i made over the weekend called @flushing.im

i am both *thrilled* by the acknowledgement & a little embarassed that it’s for something i made as part of an elaborate bit 💀

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aaronw.dev•8 days ago

Hah, this reminds me of something Howard Lindzon (@howardlindzon) shared in "The Shorty Awards: Why Nerds Hate Twitter" (https://www.wired.com/2009/02/shorty-award-wi/ ), back in 2009, that somehow inspired me not to take Twitter *too* seriously, which worked out well over a long time horizon 🧵

aaronw.dev•8 days ago

"I passed on a small investment opportunity, because I thought Twitter was dumb. I just didn’t think it was important what people were doing. As part of my protest, I started only tweeting from the bathroom — I was saying, ‘I’m peeing here, I’m peeing in this location, ..." 1/

aaronw.dev•8 days ago

"I’m peeing in that location.’ People were loving it. I already had followers from my blog, so people encouraged me to keep doing it. Then I dropped my Blackberry one time while tweeting in the bathroom, and it wasn’t so funny anymore. It cost me $300. ..." 2/

aaronw.dev•8 days ago

"Once you drop a Blackberry in a urinal, it’s gone. You can’t touch it again." -Howard Lindzon 3/3

dame.is•8 days ago

💀