Nat Welch

Interesting thread:

A graphic which says "Laurel announces $100M Series C" and then has logos of three venture capitalists, and the text $100M is bold.

I started at this company 1,674 days ago. It's been a wild ride, with lots of ups and down, but I am still constantly motivated by our mission to return time. Time is finite. We waste it constantly. Lets help people use it well and then go play.

fortune.com/2025/06/10/e...

laurel.ai/careers

#COYS or as we say in my household, come on chickums!

Something IS happening.

So excited that @craigmod.com is coming to Beacon! I didn't even notice originally but found out at Binnacle today. So excited to meet him, I love his work!

2025 version of the NYC subway map

Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️

Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.

Built a new unified RSS feed of my social stuff. natwelch.com/feed.rss

Still under development, but let me know if your feed reeder likes it.

If you work at the US Digital Service and want to share what's happening internally, you can DM me for my Signal or send me an email at brycecovert@protonmail.com. Happy to start off the record and protect your identity.

What Trump Did on Day 1: Tracking His Biggest Moves President Trump made major policy moves immediately after taking office, withdrawing from major international agreements, promising steep tariffs and pardoning nearly all of the Jan. 6 rioters.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u... ye old it's not the Nazi salute, it's what it's distracting you from

AI customer support is so bad. So many companies are firing their account managers and replacing them with terrible chat bots. I don't mind it for consumer stuff, but for enterprise saas, it's wild to see. I pay you tens of thousands of dollars and I can't talk to a human? Blargh.

Sounds like you've got them well trained, kids would show up at 5a

One day’s notice, no severance—the DNC fights for workers, just not their own.

Full statement below:

Graph of posts per day and likes per day showing both per day unique users performing each action and total actions per day. Graph goes back 14 days and shows growth over the past 8 days from 2.5M posts and 12.5M likes a day to 5.25M posts and 30M likes.

You all like "line go up" posts right?

Well the line is going up!

Stats for the past day:

30M Follows
- 1.83M unique people followed someone
30M Likes
- 1.73M unique people liked someone
5.2M Posts
- 986k unique people posted something

~650k new users in the past 24 hours

Lol you're not wrong. I do love them, but mostly because of the insane social contract and history that exists in timezones. Tzdb is a monument in computer science.

Some numbers from the past 96 hours compared to a 96 hour period a week ago:

13M likes -> 104.6M likes
1.4M follows -> 100.8M follows
1.3M reposts -> 11M reposts
26k new users -> 2.11M new users

This really drives home how insane the increase in activity around here has been

Welcome to Bluesky :)

Hello!