Joé McKen is on 🦋 (@joemcken.net)

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More and more organizations, publishers, and creators are abandoning legacy platforms that throttle their reach. Bluesky gives them a direct line to their audiences, without suppression or gatekeeping x.com/EFF/status/204…

@ControlPanelFT No idea, but if you ever figure out how to remove this *literally useless* button, I will download that plugin for Android Firefox so damn fast

Is there a secret option to remove the new unremovable plus button in Firefox for Android?

@ControlPanelFT Heya, got a feature request: Could you add an option to disable the forced page-reload that Xitter does when a page has been open for a certain number of hours? It causes me to lose my position in my feed when it does that, it’s highly irritating.

Unpopular opinion: people who follow you on social media sites should see all your posts

@HellaversePrime Okay guys, I love y’all, but I gotta ask – why is all the mic audio clipping so hard in every video y’all post lately? It’s incredibly annoying, completely destroys the audio quality.

I NEED Amir saying “Heeeey Bitch” as my voicemail message

More scientists choose Bluesky over Twitter arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

@hoaxeye @Rjwaters2 Yep! Hominid bones and muscles and ligaments and so on aren’t meant to be 100 feet tall. Poor Robert Wadlow was “only” 8’11” and he weighed 438 lb. despite being stick-thin, and died at just 22. The square-cube law. It’ll get ya.

@joemcken @Rjwaters2 Or why ancient human giants couldn’t exist 😂 Very good point 👍🏻

Interesting question by @Rjwaters2: is this a real clip inserted into a thread of AI slop to make AI look more impressive than it is? Short 🧵

@hoaxeye @Rjwaters2 The square cube law is wild stuff. It’s why elephants can’t jump, or why no land animal bigger than a sauropod (or aquatic animal bigger than a modern blue whale) can ever exist on Earth. Anyway, back to lurking.

@hoaxeye @Rjwaters2 Tfw you instantly know that dog isn’t really that size, regardless of AI detection methods, simply because physics says that a dog twice as tall as average would weigh about *8 times more* than a regular dog and physically could not move around as nimbly as a regular dog can.

PSA on links: There's no limit to the number of links you can share on Bluesky, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙

To everyone still posting on here, especially those who *only* post on here: Are you happy? Comfortable? Enjoying the company? Hey, at least this isn’t an “echo chamber”, right? I’m sure some of your followers are even real people and not bots or long-dead accounts.

@BadLegalTakes Is Lillian Marie’s post a true threat? No. Is it defamation? Also no. Is it a stupid fucking thing to post that may well get her a visit from the Secret Service with some stern questions? Oh yeah.

@VeraCrypt_IDRIX @idrassi Good to hear 👍

@joemcken Agree. We will post about this move with link to Sourceforge thread where it was announced. Concerning the signature, for now we still use IDRIX code signing certificate until we "AM Crypto" one is available (it needs time). @idrassi is the only one having access to signing keys

🚨 VeraCrypt 1.26.24 is now available! • 🛡️ New screen protection against screenshots/recording on Windows • 📦 Linux AppImage support added • 🌏 Various fixes/enhancements • 🇯🇵 Development now based in Japan 🔗 Release Notes & Downloads: veracrypt.jp

@ControlPanelFT Bski’s back bby! (For me, anyway. YMMV)

This is a cursed thread, I'm using twitter dot com because this happens if I link it: twitter.com And now I'm using Bl**sky because feeble billionaire ego

Welcome to twitter dot com, the #1 platform for your "is Bluesky down?" questioning needs

@ControlPanelFT If I were a billionaire the only thing I would ever get mad at would be people who don’t properly admire my beautiful yacht (there would absolutely be a yacht, it’s the rules)

@joemcken Imagine having effectively infinite resources and spending one microsecond of your time being mad on social media

@ControlPanelFT That’s why he had to buy a presidency to make up for it

@joemcken Money sure can't buy happiness

@ControlPanelFT Also, lol. This post I replied to is the last one I see in my feed unless I expand the thread, because the subsequent replies include the term “Bluesky”, which this site’s insecure manchild shadowbanned.

@ControlPanelFT Yes 😱 status.bsky.app