Aaron Parecki

I can’t wait till elon musk offers to buy twitter and delete it and everyone who calls it a “hellsite” has to pick sides for real

simply unforgivable that elon is forcing me to either get hot (instagram), get annoying (substack), learn what a server is (mastodon), or become an actual psychopath (linkedin)

You know that story about the bar owner who throws out the nice Nazi because otherwise the bar becomes a Nazi bar? This place is now self evidently owned by the far right and the doors are open for all of them. It’s no better than Parler or Truth Social now.

For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there in 2009. I went looking for this to recall the name of the Everyone timeline. I have a whole folder of these from an audit I did that week.

Mastodon has been getting quite a bit of buzz lately (an overnight success that took six years!) — and if you're curious about the early origin of its underlying protocol (ActivityPub), check out my interview on @Podnews with @samsethi:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5C3N82NIqWa6wJXBhJJDVo?si=VV65aSTDTu2R7Ql6RW__Ng

posted at 1:28am 🙃

Just want to point out that Satya Nadella changed the culture, focus, and coolness of Microsoft without losing tons of customers or having customers worry incessantly about whether it would survive.

Leadership skills are a real thing that aren’t just bloviating around.

[INT. STARBUCKS - DAY]

Me: Theres a large rat in the bathroom
Barista: ?
Me: A large rat
Barista: ?
Me: THERES A VENTI RAT IN THE BATHROOM

If you're gonna get on Mastodon, I would like to apologise in advance for being the guy responsible for posts being called "Toots". I thought it was funny. And it is, and it's even funnier that some people hate it. I take it back, I'm not sorry. Ha ha. Toots.