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Not directly. The underlying protocols are incompatible. You have to follow a bridging service which then causes your posts to be reposted on the other side by a bot pretending to be you.

Sounds a bit convoluted, if somewhat sinister - pretending to be you?? - but that's basically how it works. And it won't pretend to be anyone who doesn't sign up, and will stop as soon as you unfollow, so the sinisterness, if any, is minimised.

Depending on where they are, a washing machine in the kitchen might be a thing. It's very common in the UK, for example.

Dorsey left Bluesky precisely because the other people there felt they had to implement the old-Twitter-like checks and balances that caused him to leave Twitter in the first place. As such, it's completely out of his influence.

Yes, it's still one monolith waiting to be gobbled up by someone with a lot of cash, or to spiral down into what would seem to be almost inevitable enshittification, but it hasn't done either of those yet, and both the good and bad there mean it's the closest there is to old Twitter at the moment.

Please note that I'm not saying that everyone should go jump on there and use it, or even that we have to like it. Just pointing out that Dorsey has nothing to do with it any more.

Speaking of Dorsey, he went back to endorsing Twitter for a while, but now he's started yet another platform called Nostr. Probably the better candidate for being avoided right now.

I have no such "but actually" about Threads. Definitely worth avoiding, even if it is supposed to be able to Federate.

I can see this being stirred up by Russian influence. And even if it isn't, it's a dangerous time for this to happen. Georgia could well be on Putin's to-do list whether he succeeds in Ukraine or not.

Except we're the things living, with required rent, inside skulls.

I hear that watching the evolution from eohippus to horse needs a lot of batteries.

ohyou dot jaypeg

"Now watch what happens when I slap it."

Interface designers make mistakes, but I don't think they'd make the mistake of allowing a negative sign anywhere on it. You could try for integer overflow, but that's gonna be really bad if you guess wrong.

Officially unknown, yeah, but the main suspect denies it's him. What's interesting is that the way he denied it ("We are all Banksy") could mean everyone or just him and his closest associates in a collective, giving any one of them, including him, the ability to deny it.

Someone smarter than me once pointed out that there could be a universe where magic is real only because there's a group of people who have never had a magical incantation or action fail, purely by chance.

I liked the idea of that to the point that I went on to imagine that there'd be universes where that magic just suddenly stopped working one day because of well overdue regression to the mean and no-one there would have any idea why.

And then you could take that to the extreme: That one universe where the day they finally work out that magic had been random, incredible happenstance the whole time, only for it all to start happening again, just to mess with them.

"I don't know"

"why"

"because it is not possible to know everything"

"why"

(infinite loop until toddler needs nap.)