A few days ago, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter, added them all to a list, and I now read that list instead. It’s shockingly better. Only their own tweets and retweets, in order. No ads, no “liked by,” no “people you may know,” no engagement hacking crap. It’s glorious.

Even better, when I inevitably end up in the home timeline anyway, it only has my own tweets and ads, nothing interesting. No dopamine outrage bullshit cycle to get caught up in.

Shh, don’t tell, I’m afraid some low level product manager at Twitter will discover this and “fix” lists like they “fixed” the home timeline a while back.

There are a couple drawbacks. I lost a few people I followed whose accounts are protected; I need to find and re-follow them. Also this evidently makes it harder for people to DM me, somehow. Not sure how, I don’t use Twitter DM much.

Still. Glorious.

5 year old: “You can’t just get into a spaceship and blast off to the stars. You have to ask your parents first.”

I’ve discovered one of my superpowers at work: shippable bad ideas.

Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed. Sorry…not sorry?

Mastodon is now on Bridgy! Both backfeed and publish (aka POSSE) are fully supported. Feel free to try them out! And let me know if you hit any bugs, problems, or missing features.

(If you’re already using Bridgy Fed for Mastodon, don’t worry, it’s not going anywhere! I use it myself. Bridgy’s new Mastodon support is a simpler, lightweight alternative for people who’d prefer to treat Mastodon as a silo, using a native account, instead of directly federating their web site itself.)

“Chase the dragon.”

Brad, beautiful day here in Noe, we saved a pint for you, feel free to come grab it anytime. (cc Nick Rebecca)

At Valley Tavern.

Two guys at the coffee shop next to me are talking irrigation engineering. Soil chemistry, water vs oil fluid dynamics, tensile strength, rupture points. Oddly fascinating. I’m getting nothing done and I couldn’t be happier.

My sister forages for mushrooms. Her latest trophy: a 20+ lb edible sparassis aka cauliflower mushroom.