BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Did you know? The city of San Francisco was named for Sir Francis Drake. "San" means "Sir" in Spanish, derived from the Japanese, and "Francisco" means "Francis." It was slated to be "San Francisco Drake," but Drake (Aubrey Graham) threatened suit 010
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025another phone side button that takes a photo that gets autodeleted after 30 days 000
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 29/03/2025would you rather experience faster face-first technology in the envy pods or enjoy a 3x faster verification in their new face-first envy pods 010
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025as much as half of the content of any given library is entirely made up 000
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 07/04/2024but if we can't even rein in rampant denial of the science pointing to human-caused earthquakes, I don't like the odds 030
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 07/04/2024if industrialized nations fail to take dramatic climate action, we can expect to see more and more sun-blotting events 140
Reposted by BLAP⏧ @syntacrobat.xyz · 17/02/2024alright here she is: Aurora, a map of every account on BlueSky. aurora.ndimensional.xyz 30440138
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 19/11/2023If silence is violence, then this pristine 4BR/2BA cottage with floor-to-ceiling lakefront views is fuckin O block. Call 020
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 31/07/2023unironically having pleasant thoughts about software engineering rn 040
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 25/07/2023every night is a struggle to choose between boy bedtime story and girl bedtime story 030
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 24/07/2023there should be an indicator they dye the air with so you can see if it has wifi 010
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 02/07/2023does anybody have a detailed diagram of what's granola and what's soy 020
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 02/07/2023driving down rural highways listening to staticky twenty one pilots/train/the fray thinking about how the skater skirt didn't deserve to die 120
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 02/07/2023the medium (radio) is the message (you were the last generation to listen to radio) 120
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 01/07/2023dorling kindersley might've been the best thing to come out of the nineties, and that's a high bar 000
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 08/06/2023everyone clowned on eliezer when he brought up military force. who's laughing now that we have to invade canada? 110
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 28/05/2023the zeitgeist can be subtly intuited through the interplay of air currents 041
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 26/05/2023We need a pause on all AI progress until someone runs their fingers through my hair and tells me I'm the silliest goose 041
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 22/05/2023wait really? like with respect to internal stuff like line height and letter spacing, or placement relative to the other things on the page? 100
BLAP @blap.bsky.social · 20/05/2023genuinely unsure: do the fonts used by Apple, Google, etc look better and more neutral because people are so used to seeing them, or because those companies had the means and incentive to hire really good font designers 130
