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Aaron Dodd

@aarondodd.com
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IT professional, sometimes writer, mixed-media art hobbyist. www.linkedin.com/in/aarondodd

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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 23/01/2025
This warmed my heart. Good to see we don't support the administration and it's racist policies in Honolulu. Corner of Thomas Square Park in Kaka'ako
Anti-fascism protestors holding signs decrying the current US administration and it's deportation drive.Anti-fascism protestors holding signs decrying the current US administration and it's deportation drive.Anti-fascism protestors holding signs decrying the current US administration and it's deportation drive.Anti-fascism protestors holding signs decrying the current US administration and it's deportation drive.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 21/01/2025
The nature of geo-based catching by design would show where you're accessing the information. You either vpn and get anonymous but slower content loading, or directly surf and be somewhat identifiable but have fast content loading. Would love to hear how you can have both ...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 01/01/2025
My partner of nearly 8 years passed away in early 2020. To this day, my phone occasionally alerts me about a missed voicemail. It's a trivial message, daily minutia, but I treasure it to hear his voice again every time it pops up...
Screenshot of phone alerts showing a missed call from deceased partner
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 31/12/2024
No, labels that are not applied by the official Bluesky moderation system are not actually part of your post, but of the labelers, and the only way they appear is if the person reading your post is also subscribed to the labelers in question (figured this out setting up my own labeler...)
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 31/12/2024
I'll wait until AI glasses can recognize a face, do a social media search to remind me of the person's name any smalltalk topics I should avoid 🤪
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 30/12/2024
Once informed of a person's pronoun preference, it is not okay to continue using the other pronouns. That's a conscious choice to disregard. It sounds like the person did "deal with it" by reporting you for labeling.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 30/12/2024
As someone in IT, this doesn't surprise me, but I would expect a critical service to be phased out, not ripped out. There should have been a period of parallel run until everyone was familiar with the new tool. Basic project change management...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 30/12/2024
While you may be gramatically correct for literature, when conversing with someone you should use the pronoun that person requests. If you are told the preference but ignore it, that is where the transphobic comes into play. An insistence on ignoring the preference is the issue.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 28/12/2024
No sympathy here ... It's too late for buyer's remorse. We tried to warn them. Twice. 🍿
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 28/12/2024
Money always wins. If Musk can't be lauded he'll likely just withdraw from public engagement and buy more politicians and strawmen to keep his agenda going. MAGA would claim victory and not understand why they get sidelined. Similar happened with the "tea party" movement that became maga...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 27/12/2024
I'd also recommend labelers like bsky.app/profile/prof... and auto-hide trolls and such. This one actually tracks new accounts, reply-only accounts, and bot-like behavior
bsky.app
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 27/12/2024
At first, I was like wow, I actually agree with Preston, until he used "autistic" as a slur...there's plenty of things to criticize Musk on without demeaning the autistic community too, sheez
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 27/12/2024
This is why I love the BlueSky community labelers, so I can just hide such nonsense by default :) (unhid this one bc I was curious who was gettin' a paddlin')
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 26/12/2024
I've been looking for something like this! Hide (or badge) accounts that only reply (likely trolls) or post/reply too fast for a human to do (likely trolls/bots), or with new handles (<30 days) @profile-labels.bossett.social Its so nice to have community moderation on a social network!
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 26/12/2024
I never ever thought I'd say this, but...I agree with Loomer...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 26/12/2024
Drove cross country twice, NY to LA, and this isn't far from the truth...
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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada) #resource #help #suicideprevention
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 20/12/2024
I think it's more the labeling requirements between the US and UK rather than a recipe difference.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 20/12/2024
Um, you should have used a period after "my posts" and started a new sentence 😂 (jk!)
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 18/12/2024
"I keep getting DMs"...same nonsense as "my readers tell me" to try and sound like you're an authority on something without any evidence to back it up...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 18/12/2024
To discuss in a non-toxic environment. Why post news articles when you can just get an account on that website to comment... That said, I subscribed to a bluesky labeler to auto-hide Twitter screenshot, and I only unhide if there's commentary posted as well. www.bluesky-labelers.io
bluesky-labelers.io
Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 18/12/2024
I know, right? The closest thing to a "monoculture" here seems to be a collective will to be decent to each other...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 17/12/2024
Ah, this is a great explanation thread, thank you. It also seems like something Bluesky should address. It should be trivial to detect.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 17/12/2024
You're spot on. His complaint is he didn't have anyone to "pushback" on him...lol. I ain't here to "debate" human dignity. Trolls get blocked and the feed stays pleasant :)
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 17/12/2024
(I mean "your" towards the Twitter post author, who's name doesnt deserved to be said, not you :) )
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 17/12/2024
"There's absolutely no pushback" lol No one wants to "pushback" your nonsense. There's no "debate" around basic human rights and dignity. Blocking is how we exercise our "freedom of association," which is also part of your cherished First Amendment shrieking.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 17/12/2024
I support a ban on all guns, unless you're licensed and they're stored at a firing range and not at home, and definitely no concealed or open carry. Yes, I know it'll never happen. ArglebargleSECONDAMMENDMENTblahblah
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 17/12/2024
God, how I hated that arrangement, but not as much as NJ Transit's placing two rows facing each other with only a single-row's space for everyone's legs....
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 16/12/2024
Do you know if there's a way to query the api for account stats? I'd love to do something like label and hide accounts open for less than N days, accounts that post or reply so fast you know it's a bot, or accounts with 0 posts but thousands of replies, etc.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 16/12/2024
Peeling tiger print on the courtyard wall behind the restaurants Giovedi and Fête in Chinatown, Honolulu.
Papered tiger print glued on brick wall and peeling
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 15/12/2024
The typo is all I focused on!
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
Watching some of the abusive targetted behavior, it looks like some accounts open and immediately send floods of replies or @ posts. It also looks like a common pattern is generic name with random numbers as the handle.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
For anyone interested in Bluesky moderation, they recently open-source their moderation engine, Ozone: github.com/bluesky-soci... anyone can host their own moderation service with custom filters. This'll be an interesting project to try. I'd love to filter out burner accounts and reply-only ones.
github.com
GitHub - bluesky-social/ozone: web interface for labeling content in atproto / Bluesky
web interface for labeling content in atproto / Bluesky - bluesky-social/ozone
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
For those interested in community moderation, Bluesky has a good writeup at docs.bsky.app/blog/bluesky.... I keen to try hosting one as an interesting project to tackle...
docs.bsky.app
Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky
Moderation is a crucial aspect of any social network. However, traditional moderation systems often lack transparency and user control, leaving communities vulnerable to sudden policy changes and pote...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
If only our votes worked this way. Instead, that empty land gets more of a voice than most individuals.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
BSky supports creating custom labels to filter content/accounts, i.e. www.bluesky-labelers.io. While I've found it nice to filter extremism and politics, it'd be awesome if BSky built in the ability for users to create their own moderation service without needing to code one...
bluesky-labelers.io
Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
I find it hard to believe these guys could do that...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 14/12/2024
We have the power to fully block others here, and there's tools like this that let you block him and all those that follow him too: bsky.app/profile/numb.... Not disagreeing about banning, just that we still have options (unlike on mastodon, threads, or the bad place).
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 13/12/2024
I've done this to block him and his followers: bsky.app/profile/numb...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 13/12/2024
I've no issue with AI assisting the grammar or tightening up lines. It's wholesale generation of blocks of text that someone barely tweaks and passes off as their own that bugs me. The Kindle store is flooded with self published AI-generated "books" now...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 13/12/2024
Same, but other people's (including family) birthdays...I'd be on the couch for that for sure...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 13/12/2024
Lemme guess, you're commenting this from your couch?
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 12/12/2024
That's part of why I never got as into Mastodon as Bluesky, tho i did try. While it was certainly better than the bad place, there wasn't enough controls for who I can choose to interact with.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 12/12/2024
Shhh, let them drink it. Its a problem that'll solve itself.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 11/12/2024
Sure, I subscribe to ones from bsky.app/profile/skyw... and there's some more on boringstorybook.com/bluesky-mute...
bsky.app
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 11/12/2024
No. Differing views and actual dialogue are nice. Regurgitating verifiably false information and monetizing hate speech is not.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 11/12/2024
I'm just happy there's a platform with an effective block feature and community curated blocklists so we can filter the bots and magatrolls instead of being inundated with them due to a billionaire's algorithm tweaking...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 10/12/2024
Now I want to go to Don Quixote. No reason...
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 10/12/2024
He was returned because Musk didn't want to buy the whole set.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.com · 10/12/2024
You can verify by domain: bsky.social/about/blog/4..., but it won't stop such attempts to fool people, we just have to be vigilant and report. Unlike that other platform, here they get suspended pretty fast.
bsky.social
How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
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