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Microblogging like it's 2009

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EDIT: Think I'm good, thanks @nyquildotorg & @jonny for the pointers!

I'd like to find a way to automate it so that people on a social media team can fave tweets and those automatically get compiled into a google sheet. I see github has some Selenium X scrapers that could be useful, but none of them seem to have an option to load someone's faves. I guess I could try to figure them out and retrofit this myself.

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@nyquildotorg Whoa, it does! I was taking for granted anything like that was long gone. (Saw a blog post from Zapier that they were discontinuing X support)

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There should be a word for theoretical double booking, when you’ve pledged your availability at the same times on multiple when2meets and doodles

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A few months ago I saw a link to a web app for making trolley problem memes, where you could drag the components in all kinds of wild configurations - anyone know what that was?

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What happened to this app, it was a really good concept https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40868/daymap

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Some time I should probably do something where I track down all the great apps I noticed over the years that never caught on and deserved better.

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This may be controversial, but I hope the fediverse can catch up to Twitter on features like embedded live video, and Clubhouse style audio chats.

But more importantly, we should be coming up with new stuff on that scale of usefulness. Where can we leapfrog X?

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Some days I'm like, hell yeah we're gonna save the world, and some days everything feels so fuckin insurmountable and entrenched

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So, it's gonna be an anxiety day, I see. Nice, nice

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I wonder how long it would take me to learn programming well enough to be able to make the things I want to work the way I want

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My default assumption is “years and maybe not even then” to get to a point where my average software itch was worth the time investment to scratch

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Getting by without an optimal task management system: mildly stressful all the time
Finding an optimal task management system: intensely stressful until you succeed

This feels like a special case of a general problem https://mastodon.social/@misc/112400509278039901

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Still think we should make a multi-platform microblogging app that scrapes X

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If my theory is true that smoking addiction is a good way to look at people who still use that site - then what we need is a nicotine patch.

And the best one I can think of would be making it so that the best experience for using X, also includes Mastodon and Bluesky.

Given how much the native X experience has degraded, this shouldn’t be hard

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Everyone we’re aiming for with this already has an X account, so you don’t have to do anything but grab the tweet data from a simulated web browser. Seems like this would be hard for Musk to block, and it would be a nice side benefit to make him spend resources to try.

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I feel like every time I see something about "such and such celebrity is a zionist, let's cancel them" it links back to some comment of sympathy and support for Israelis they made on, like, October 10, but elides the timestamp.

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Similarly, I think some immediate statements from SJP and DSA chapters and whatnot, that they're still paying for, were made before the scale of attacks on civilians was apparent.

If we want to condemn, we have more than enough material from recent months, we don't have to go back to the peak of Fog of War.

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I've reached a point where I have a bunch of recurring subscriptions I don't use. It's exciting because when I finally get around to cancelling them, I'm going to be so rich!

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We should make this their most immortal ad since 1984. https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112412171573722298

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I don’t really understand what it means that is somehow now connected to the ? If I have an account there on bluesky, will I now have two accounts in the Fediverse?

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@serenebabe At least for now, it’s opt in. From bluesky, you follow the account “@ap.brid.gy” and then an account is created on the bridgyfed instance that mirrors the posts from that account. For example, my mirrored account from Bluesky is @jbaer.bsky.social

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@serenebabe Essentially, yeah. Though I mostly did that to try the tech. I think it’s more useful for people who only want to post in one place, but want to be able to interact with people in other places.

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I think is spot on. The culture has changed (and Apple doesn’t see it). But also Apple’s place in the culture has changed and it is just another tech giant. I would argue, though, that’s down to Apple itself, and its behaviour. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/dhh-crush

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@jannem @ianbetteridge The weirdest thing for me was the doll with its eyes bulging out. That was straight up horror. There’s a cultural precedent for guitar smashing and paint exploding. That could almost be passed off as some kind of rock-and-roll ethos. But it feels like they went out of their way to be explicitly mean spirited.

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@manualdousuario @ianbetteridge

“Oh My God He Admit It” gif from I Think You Should Leave

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At this point, I think Threads and Bluesky are each preventing the other from engulfing the decentralized social web, and I think it might be the best possible scenario for the growth of a non-corporate segment (here).

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Something I could maybe imagine using an LLM for (running locally), would be for reviewing/summarizing things I've written, for myself.

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So, what's the deal with the word "rad" and bikes?

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