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Take my tea the colour of He-Man. Mom/mum. Searching for the perfect binge-watch. Leeds 🇬🇧 via Chicago 🇺🇸. Northwestern Wildcat.
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Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

Top Thanksgiving tip for my fellow expats in the UK. Save your Nando's rewards, get to that sweet Red level and trade it in on Thanksgiving day for a whole bird. You'll thank me next year!

There’s an awesome feature on @moderation.bsky.app specifically for combatting against this farming behavior, now! (h/t @thatcoreyhall.com)

Is he 100% sure he wanted to buy a shoot which just happened to help him avoid inheritance tax, or did he possibly want to avoid inheritance tax which just happened to come with a shoot? 🤔

Musk’s own AI identifies him as a major dissemination of misinformation online

Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

These people are so close

The Onion has purchased InfoWars. theonion.com/heres-why-i-...

Academic friends - we're looking to recruit a couple of temporary research posts working at Doncaster Royal Infirmary for a project to evaluate the impact of dedicated Alcohol Care Teams in hospitals Would suit a PhD student looking for clinical research experience jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Okay, one more random tip for newbies: if someone quote-skeets (yes, they're called skeets, shut up) you in a way to dunk on your or annoy you, you can "detach" your skeet from the quote, so that it no longer shows. This is also useful in ending brigading attacks.

Chicago Blue Sky! If you make it to my shows this Fri/Sat at the Comedy Plex in Oak Park because of this app, let me know! Tickets here: lauriekilmartin.com/tour-dates

Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️ The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion. When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!

Turns out, it wasn’t Twitter/X we loved, it was each other. I can’t wait to see that platform collapse.

this will save lives

Sally Webster speaks for a nation (if you don't know this legend but she looks a bit familiar, her real-life daughter was Daphne from s1 of Bridgerton)

Improve your weekend. Block some Nazis.

The slow trickle of MAGA folks over here underscores how much their experience of online is entirely dependent on people getting mad at them. It also underscores how even they, given the option, would rather not hang out with themselves either.