Brandon Bowman

@AndrewHart I imagine this will not be possible ever again. I can imagine a scenario where Apple implements a legal way to prevent this

it’s crazy what happened with this ex-Apple employee in less than 6 months > September 2025: Apple asks designer Abidur Chowdhury to introduce iPhone Air. Notable for his very soft, kinda whimsical british accent. Jony Ive v2. > November 2025: Abidur leaves apple to join “a stealth startup”. Unprecedented for this to happen. Apple choose very carefully who to feature in keynotes, especially for such prominent announcements like a new iPhone design! They usually pick people who they expect to stay for decades, it’s a ladder into Apple leadership. > March 2026: Brett Adcock, founder of Figure robotics, announces his new startup, Hark, with a launch video featuring the soft british tones of… you guessed it! Only 6 months after introducing iPhone Air for Apple!

@sentry Oh interesting! My take is that it’s not close enough to the bottom of the phone. Needs to be moved.

Actually surprised at just how bad the camera control button is, never tried it before. Especially since it's almost entirely a software/design issue to fix. They should've just made it a smooth zoom slider like oldschool cameras had (W - T knob)

@sentry Agreed! I miss the lightweight iPhones. The iPhone 5 at 112 grams. Yesss. The minis were 133 & 141, not bad! I’d love for iPhones to get back to 120g or less one day.

Actually was this and saving my pinky

I got the iPhone Air because the battery is gonna be so bad it’ll reduce my screen time

I went to the lake for the holiday weekend, and I skied for the first time. I also surfed for the first time. 😄 I did get the hang of both, so now can’t wait to do it again.

Don’t meddle too much with someone’s art. :( “I’d love to ask Pete and the other Disney executives whether or not they thought the rewrite was worth it,” says the artist. “Would they have lost this much money if they simply let Adrian tell his story?” hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

@phagotcyte You deserve it!

I have decided I’m waiting on a man who’s going to treat me right and be cute while doing it

HBO Streaming has been having an identity crisis for a long time. Years!! Five name changes so far? Jeez.

@Brentonimo Certain branches of several religions (inc Jehovah’s Witness) say blood transfusions are evil. But it’s normal medical tech that saves lives round the world. Personally, I’d say medical neglect is worse. Vilifying human intervention as against God’s plan has always puzzled me.

@Brentonimo Or, alternatively, God has gifted us the genius and opportunity to reduce disability and human suffering. It doesn’t mean those who are blind are less than. It just means society (in a fallen world) is probably improved when we reduce disease, mortality, and suffering.

Like I’m quite sure that superfans speculate (and probably to great detail) the outcome of the series… so it’d be interesting to see if collectively we could deliver where Jo could not.

I’m not sure if there’s a digital platform where a group of passionate writers could collaboratively world build, post background research and ideas, strategize the major arcs and minor plot points, etc, and then write the books together. I think it’d be really cool tho.

Fantastic Beasts is still a huge opportunity, right? Like if Jo wrote the books—or licensed another author to write them—I do think people would buy them. Could the Potter community collaboratively write them on some platform? Could AI write them for us?

@eeyanmiller Oh gosh that app sounds rough. I’m sorry.

Finally cancelled Raya after a year of using the service and nothing materializing. It’s great in theory but it has only served to make me somehow feel worse about myself and introduce me to some really terrible people. 🫠

@notquitezennor I wonder if 2 will make you realize how good 1 is…?

#NowWatching Inside Out 2

Fridges with bottom drawer freezers are the worst. I don’t know if I can trust the people who prefer them. Someone explain it to me.

@SkylineReport @quinneverett This is confusing to me because we have the biggest, most well equipped navy in the world by far. It’s common knowledge.

Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, just announced in Brussels at a press conference that the U.S. isn't prepared to face Russia, particularly at sea. He claims it would take over seven years to build the necessary ships. What the actual fuck is he doing, broadcasting our vulnerabilities to the entire world? These incompetent idiots clearly have no fucking clue what they're doing.

@clockstiqqun I really hope this isn’t true or if it is true that it somehow miraculously doesn’t turn into a big problem.

oh boy they've discovered human-to-human bird flu transmission and are trying to avert a panic to the detriment of the public aren't they

@mattxiv It’s definitely nefarious. That white space is unsettling.

what is happening in the space over here

I just had a flashback to dominos cinna stix and their briefly available dots (balls of dough rolled in butter and cinnamon sugar). Omg those 2 were the absolute best desserts. I would pay good money for a GF version of those.

@bendtheIight My hunch was that it’s elevation worship but idk I want to say that guy’s voice is too distinct.