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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m looking for the opposite of that: actual curiosity, spontaneous conversation, disagreement without performance, and people being themselves without constantly optimizing for an audience.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I miss that kind of interaction. Twitter and LinkedIn increasingly feel like places where everyone is trying to be heard and almost nobody is listening. Engagement becomes transactional: I support you so you’ll support me; I respond so I’ll be seen responding.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I want to connect with people who use this platform organically: people who share things because they genuinely want to, respond because something actually interested them, and are curious about what other people have to say. Basically, who still know how to talk to other people on the internet.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

All communities on X are full of this crap where the mods keeps abusing their power and pinning their own crappy content to the top. I was hoping things would be slightly better on Bsky but then I realised a lot of the same people are doing the same shit here.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If there were more than 24 hours in a day, I would: - study quantum computing. - make Neapolitan pizza. - train martial arts. - produce music. - write more.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sadly they all think that hating BlueSky makes them cool.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Even if you’re not typing every line, training the models, or inventing all the wheels, you’re still shaping systems, combining concepts, setting constraints, and ensuring outcomes. AI is the camera. You’re the photographer. You're still an artist. You're just not painting anymore.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Photographers are considered artists even though they don’t paint the picture, don’t create the subject, and didn’t invent the camera. They’re valued for framing, lighting, timing, and taste. If they know what they want, they can make the camera capture it. Programming is the same.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Curiouser and curiouser! How do you incorporate Figma and Webflow into this?

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Could be marketed as a modern, minimalistic window manager for builders. Does it currently support Linux at all?

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

So it's like a tabbed tiling compositor with it's own native browser, terminal and editor?

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I've been writing something related to social media, and the more I work on it, the more I'm convinced that BlueSky is currently the best platform and it's not even close. Twitter/X will probably shadownban me for praising BlueSky in a tweet 😆

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Looks interesting. And so does Co(Lab)! I wish the website had screenshots though. I'm curious to see what the UI looks like but I'm too sleepy to set it up.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

At this point, I think I need a now page on my website just so I myself can keep track of all the things I'm supposed to be doing.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I signed up and took a look. I think the "new idea" form is a little overwhelming and intimidating. Maybe you can start with a freeform input where the user can concisely describe their idea. Then you can intelligently prefill this form and the user can then just make changes?

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I also remember noticing that the theme actually used to add certain functionality and was more than just a reskin. However, I can't quite remember what said features were.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I also remember that the theme used to change the experience so drastically that some effects were permanent and nothing but a reinstall could fix it.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

When I was young, I actually used to install an IE8 theme on what was either Firefox or Opera or both.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Why choose Mastodon over BlueSky? We could use an account like yours to make this place better.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I think Android needs a quick settings toggle for the proximity sensor.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Seems to be a lazy day for my whole city. I woke up after 10 when I usually am already eating breakfast by 7-9. Reached the gym around 1230 as opposed to the usual 8-10 and turns out that my friends who arrive around 12 are yet to reach. Also, the gym is so empty today there's like 4 people.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

No, It was much simpler. A kind of acceptance. I still have regrets, but for a moment there, I felt better. Maybe I have healed by a tiny, insignificant amount. Yes, I ended up skipping leg-day once again but this time I had a good reason. Perhaps, the only correct reason.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

myself than I'd walked in with. Talking to him about my past hadn't just been insightful for him but it was also a reminder that maybe I’ve done more right than I give myself credit for. I didn't feel overly energised or motivated. I didn't feel a wave of self-love or invincibility. [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I could see he was someone with great potential trying to make each day count, learning as much as he could from everyone he could look up to. I'm flattered to even be one of them. We both left the gym really impressed with one another. But more importantly, I left the gym with more respect for [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

when you're living in Pakistan. He said he'd been working on his AI based startup for generating ads. Well, that's the only correct answer to "Why did you take a gap year?", I thought. Over the next 30 minutes, we talked a lot about both of our life choices. He asked some great questions. [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Today was leg day. But after 3 sets of squats, the teenager sharing the squat rack with me asked me for advice. He told me he's an A-Level student, inclined towards a business degree, at my alma mater, and that he took a gap year for exposure. That's what college is about, I said, especially [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Interesting. So does it scrape engagement from the provided posts or does it find similar posts.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thanks. I think I'll be watching ReBoot soon.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

So we're feeding in ICP data and then in turn it's scraping LinkedIn?

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

That's interesting. Have you documented the process yet? I'm curious about the lead generation part of it.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today, I can finally afford to buy actual figures and I own a couple of knockoff Optimus Primals (Original form and Transmetal 2), one Yolopark Primal from the recent movie and a handful of McDonald's transformers x Toy story figures. Apologies for bombarding your post I just got excited hehe.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The whole world of transformers lore and franchises that I had previously had zero exposure to. I used to make my own action figures using matchboxes, empty bottles, toothpaste caps, straws and paper even. [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

And turns out, that both shows were made by the same company: Mainframe Entertainment. I'm one of the lucky few people who grew up watching Beast Wars despite living in Pakistan. I was obsessed. Years later when the Transformers movie came out, I recognized the autobot insignia and discovered [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

TIL about ReBoot for the first time. I googled it, saw the animation and thought "hmm this looks like Beast Wars is it from the same era?" Turns out, it was. So I thought, hmm but wasn't Beast Wars considered like one of the pioneers of fully 3D shows. So I googled "Reboot Beast Wars" to see... [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Pakistani driver logic - Drive dangerously fast in residential areas, car parks and anyplace walkable - Drive slower than walking on roads. Bonus points for braking to a halt in the fast lane. If we switched overnight to left-hand drive, no one will notice and everyone would be more correct.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Gym closed until Tuesday and I've no idea how to spend my mornings until then.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

... taking the trusty old banana milkshake and yesterday it occurred to me that I could just blend that homemade peanut butter in my shake. Love it.

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Wife randomly made some peanut butter for me a long time back and has since been randomly trying to force me to eat it because she thinks if I don't eat it, it's probably not good. A few days ago, I ordered Whey Isolate but it never arrived and until it does, I've no choice but to continue... [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Wtf. I meant to say self-explanatory 😂

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Indeed. I think "generative prompt transformer" is actually a very apt, verbose and swordfish name. But I'm curious as to how you'd define "understanding".

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Yesterday, that also changed. I was energetic, disciplined and excited to better myself. I hope tomorrow is no different!

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I wish I could sleep and wake up even earlier but I am yet to achieve that. Despite the obviously better schedule, diet and performance, I'd also continued to feel feverish, tired and weak upon entering the gym every morning and continued to struggle to push myself as well as I used to. [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

After 6 months, I'm finally getting there. The past few weeks, I have been able to lift heavy again. My wife ordered me some creatine against my will but her timing couldn't have been better. I've also started eating better and am finally sleeping nights again and waking up before noon. [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

After a year, my subscription expired and I decided to go for a gym that was right across the street and also much better. This marked the end of my swimming career but also left me with one less excuse to make and therefore a promise of greater consistency. [↓]

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Anas Ismail Khan @anasismailkhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Was finally starting to see consistency again. Was managing 3 days a week at average. If only I could lift heavy again. I was yet to regain my old strength. I considered getting some supplements but I just couldn't justify the purchase because I felt ashamed of my own indiscipline. [↓]

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