I think Bluesky has been clear from the beginning about what they were building and why. A whole lot of people didn’t take them seriously, or maybe thought they could be hollered into changing course, but I don’t think they have.

“But why can’t I pay per article??” Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them. [rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...](https://rreisman.medium.com/the-case-against-micropayments-from-fear-and-surprise-to-the-comfy-chair-e00bb81a696c ) [“The Case Against Micropayment...](https://rreisman.medium.com/the-case-against-micropayments-from-fear-and-surprise-to-the-comfy-chair-e00bb81a696c )

Sure, it’s all online and brainrot and complicated but on the other hand they’re just warboys, all of them. What a mess.

We coulda respectability politics-ed ourselves outta this one if it weren’t for those meddling kids

Oregon’s governor *could* have acted on this months ago with majority public support but is still “weighing options” so it’s back-to-school and no one can get shots—but she popped up to veto a desperately needed rural COW PREGNANCY TEST waiver with bipartisan support. The lack of seriousness. RE:

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OPB (@opb.org)

CVS has walked back its offering of the COVID-19 vaccine to Oregonians without a prescription as pharmacies and the state government await clarity ...

the level of official trolling here… https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreih7vcin65sg7zvvmwujjq3z5hnydbe35i4j6czkwrijoswisvvywi

~ broke my website ~ again ~ cha cha cha ~

Unbreaking is taking a week of downtime and I am taking it as a week of not looking at screens unless they are at least six feet away and have rad videogames on them✌️

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daniel 🫠 (@dholms.at)

wow keik.org is like if you were forcefed 250 ug of acid & tossed head first into the gutters of the digital panopticon dystopia but it's also one...

Feels like—maybe not a turning point so much as a waymarker in the widening gyre. We’ll miss a lot of the internet we had, when it’s gone. RE:

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Bluesky (@bsky.app)

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intend...

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