aaron gable

Always was a fan of God punishing people in the desert for worshipping false idols

Hey its my birfday 🎂

Here's some art for your eyes

would you say that your day has been literally enshittified

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If you get the chance to visit in winter when it's overrun by elephant seals, I highly recommend!

I think my fundamental beef with crypto-maximalists is that their guiding principle is, in practice, "look how many new things we can add Money to", whereas my personal mission is to expand the set of things that can be done without involving money at all

Because deep down they know that an ebike is only truly usable in cities/neighborhoods that have invested in bike infrastructure, and that means Coastal Elites 🙃

Yeah I'm religious I believe in the holy trinity

nostr? no sir

An unbelievably adorable tiny tortoiseshell kitten sits on a notebook with a number two pencil for scale. The pencil is longer than the kitten.

This is our newest foster kitten, Bones (named after Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan). Please understand that my feed is about to become nothing except how adorable this kitten is.

This is Grogu's Dagobah era

DAWWWWGGGGG

ceiling, roof, sky

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

Post this at anyone who says words can't be violence:
"... an announcement of the final stages of our decades-long passage into the Information Age, a paradigm shift that the classic liberal firewall between word and deed (itself a product of the ... Enlightenment) is not likely to survive intact."

https://bsky.app/profile/aarongable.com/post/3k2igwp3htf2r

because nobody seems to know how to message things for normal people, let me take a stab:

when apple buys ads on twitter, they are funding actual nazis.

It's the pinnacle of libertarian "you are what you own" shitheelism that the devs, high on their "usernames are domain names" supply, thought it was more important to block names that look like phishing than names that contain actual abuse

back at it again!

holy shit

It's very very good, and then "Siren Queen" blows it out of the water -- same vibes, but no longer constrained by the plot beats of Gatsby, Nghi Vo really gets to shine

*painting a giant target on my back* wait what about jpeg-xl

major 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS vibes

show us your hat era 🎩

Your pardner, a veteran train robber: no no, you're supposed to say *this is a* hold up. okay now go again

Ah yeah. The bsky devs do have the ability to trace invite trees, and have mentioned vague plans to use invite trees to inform trust scores, but I'm not aware of any instance in which they've been used for a moderation decision so far.

1. Yes
2. Who knows? Social dynamics are wild and hard to predict. But it's certainly not going to *encourage* any but the most obstinate trolls, imo

It's saying that it mutes them, but doesn't *block* them (it's using the words "account" and "user" interchangeably, the key difference between the two clauses is "mute" vs "block").

the real question here is "how strong is the vibration motor"