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But by that same token, Alice can also foster a great community by removing/downranking posts featuring lizards (not puppies) or removing comment threads where people are saying hurtful off-topic things. The space is to talk about puppies, and Alice is doing a valuable service to make it enjoyable

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 13h

If Alice makes a community all about puppies and it's the number 1 top community on Bluesky, and she bans Bob because they had a messy breakup, there's no recourse for Bob to have discussions about puppies in the puppy community now, and the ban is permanent

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 13h

That said, I think any moderated community can very easily have the same issues Reddit has with power mods (especially in larger communities), CSAM, and communities that exist to centralize the spreading of mis/disinformation. It would need to be designed to counteract all of those

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 13h

So: 1. Reddit 2. Facebook 3. Private Accounts? I feel like 1 or 2 are fairly interchangable, it's how you skin it. Unless 1 does not have moderators, and 2 does? If that's the case, I _think_ I'd prefer 2? Really I think the biggest issue to solve is discoverability

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 18h

That's the part that bites, and it's load-bearing.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 18h

Sadly too many chuds will see that as a good thing and something to be achieved/encouraged/striven for

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 30/09/2026

Best part is how this is only just the most recent post in a gigantic thread. Although I've been collating this stuff since when I spent most of my time on Reddit

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 29/09/2026

I keep my tiki mugs in a cabinet in my tiki bar, for what it's worth. But I also feel like tiki mugs are the least egregious of those things

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

I would argue that he was always a heel, and never had to do a turn to begin with ;)

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a law Sunday that would have expanded the state’s privacy protections to ban the sales of online users’ sensitive information. ... Newsom [said] a “categorical ban on sharing that information goes a step too far.”

news.bloomberglaw.com

Newsom Vetoes Ban of Sensitive Data Sales, Expands Privacy Laws

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a law Sunday that would have expanded the state’s privacy protections to ban the sales of online users’ sensitive information, breaking with a group of states that ...

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

I could maybe see them paywalling permissioned data for "private accounts". But the people who want private accounts are probably going to be the angriest at having to pay for them. They've talked about a Patreon model in the past, but this doesn't seem like that (plus there's CC issues with NSFW)

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

Very curious what the value add could be. The easiest thing to do would be to inject ads, but then people could easily use Witchsky on Desktop or Heron on mobile. Feed generation/management directly competes with community products. Permissioned data seems too big of a feature to paywall?

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

This is also why Bluesky is missing things like private accounts. If Bluesky controlled who could see your data, then Bluesky could easily say "people who use Witchsky can't see this user" etc. But they purposely made it impossible to do that, which also makes it impossible to do private accounts

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

(...Just checking my timings now... 2 minutes is Squirt... 3 minutes is 1st African elephant... 4 minutes is trapped safari... 5 minutes is dancing natives... 6 minutes is backside of water... 7 minutes is pulling up to the dock and getting stuck behind a slow bote. Turns out I was good at my job!)

youtu.be

Jungle Cruise

YouTube video by Dusty Wings

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

Just dug through the archives to find a YouTube video of one of my old trips for timing reference. At the 1 minute mark I'm passing Ganesha so removing that single corner did indeed cut a full minute!

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/09/2026

Interesting how removing that first curve in the 90s saved an entire minute on the trip! The original curve looks sharp enough that it'd probably have derailment issues. Today's SOP is "full throttle until Indy queue/Cambodian Shrine"; that doesn't track with that sharp curve and a 1 min marker

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff but that's the gist of a lot of the problems. It's certainly doable if you aren't in a big hurry but if you have concerts daily, you'd need to very explicitly plan your tour around it. But also maybe with enough money anything is possible

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

We also have issues like the fact that we don't have many grade-separated crossings like other countries do; we have level crossings. This means that there are a lot more deaths and accidents on the tracks, which require investigation and shutting down the tracks

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

Since your train is so big and so slow and doesn't fit on the passing siding, it can't pull over to let the Amtrak pass. Instead, the Amtrak has to pull over to let the big, slow, long freight train pass. Multiply this by all over the country (due to the freight oligopoly) and you see the problem

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

This is called Precision Scheduled Railroading. You run fewer trains to fewer places and charge people more. This saves money, but now your trains don't fit on passing sidings that were built 50-100 years ago. That's no big deal because you run fewer trains, but it's a problem for passenger trains

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

Why is it so much slower? Well, BY LAW, Amtrak has priority over freight traffic. IN PRACTICE, it does not. Nobody bothers enforcing the law. Additionally, freight railroads are trying to cut down on locomotives and staff to save money. The easiest way to do that is to run fewer, longer trains

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

By law, Amtrak has priority over all freight traffic, and should have no problem getting from place to place. In the 1950s, the California Zephyr went from Chicago to SF in ~930 minutes - one trip took 785 minutes! Surely we're faster now, with better locomotives? No. Today it takes 1,105 minutes.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

The next problem is getting around. There are multiple ways you can do it: 1. Try to convince a freight railroad (BNSF, CSX, Union Pacific, etc.) to carry your car. They don't like this because of liability 2. Try to convince Amtrak to carry your car. Obviously Amtrak is carrying people anyway

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

But basically the first problem is you need to have the Federal Railroad Administration certify your private car, which is apparently a royal PITA. The FRA has rules that are constantly changing on you, but let's assume you bypass all that quickly/easily enough because billionaire

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 27/09/2026

They're pretty nice but there's sadly a lot more rules that go alongside them than what you have with a private jet etc. (Yes of course I would be the person to know this information) I'm of course also ignoring the whole "it's expensive" part for obvious reasons, you gotta rent the track and stuff

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 26/09/2026

Oh, those are the work lights! That's super interesting. I wonder if someone tripped or something and Disney did this to avoid liability

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 26/09/2026

I also distinctly remember taking the Lion King tram to the Timon parking lot (now Cars Land/Avengers Campus) was a thing we would do the time, presumably before the Mickey and Friends tram was ready?

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 26/09/2026

I remember walking down that walkway in the picture to get to the monorail and peeking through that fence to see what was going on. There were fun pictures on the walls talking about the construction. I vaguely remember entering the DL Hotel from the opposite side (now the Simba parking lot)

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 26/09/2026

The good news is that I went to Disneyland all the time during this period (and have strong memories of those walls). The bad news is that I was single-digit years old so I don't remember much, just like fuzzy images

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 25/09/2026

_Really_ curious how "sophisticated design and illustration tools" would lead to a shirt where a mine train has shingles on the roof of the train cars

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 25/09/2026

Sure is! If you need a loan for anything, that loan is gonna be high interest! And if you work somewhere that relies on loans to pay the bills, they're going to have a hard time getting good deals on loans too! So less expansion, less construction, fewer projects, fewer jobs

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 25/09/2026

(this is a quick summary, it is complicated, there are many other factors such as inflation, the dollar's status or lack thereof as a reserve currency, yadda yadda yadda) but the short version of it is that this means things will be expensive and the economy will suck more

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 25/09/2026

The US needs to take out a loan and this is the interest rate that lenders are offering It is spiking because people don't think the US will be able to pay back the loans anymore, so they want higher interest

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 23/09/2026

So far I myself am feeling fine! But we will see. Our poor houseguest got discharged about an hour ago, she's doing a bit better now thankfully

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 23/09/2026

I literally got a flu shot just this last Friday. On my way out I was thinking "Oh! I should've asked for my COVID booster!" but decided to ask next time I was in there to let the flu shot work its way through my system first 🤦‍♂️ Here's hoping last year's will save me 🤞

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 23/09/2026

Their flight back home isn't until Sunday, so they have some time to get better. And thankfully we have a guest room to quarantine them in. BUUUUUT I did just spend the last 2 days with them, sooooooo

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 23/09/2026

Only 5% for remotecontroles AND salt shakkir combined??? That's a steal, you should've gone for more

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 23/09/2026

We have a guest staying with us from out of state for a week and they juuuuuust tested positive for COVID 🙃

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 22/09/2026

Feeds! Feeds! Feeds! If you're having a bad time on Bluesky it's because you don't use feeds of things you like! Here's a mini painting/model building feed I made that's just people doing cool stuff: bsky.app/profile/did:... Use the top-right pin button and it appears next to Following/Discover!

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 22/09/2026

...although maybe my 2007 self would've had an aneurysm a while ago, as ever since I was a kid I dreamed of working at Bungie, yet here I am working at the studio founded by those very same Call of Duty folks after they left COD

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 22/09/2026

Holy shit, from his Wikipedia: > Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need "more training." They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

en.wikipedia.org

Bill Kristol - Wikipedia

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 22/09/2026

How about we have her go build an LLM with a calculator then

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 22/09/2026

That is the end of democracy. You will never get to vote for ANYONE again, except at the barrel of a gun.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21/09/2026

Yeah, it just looks normal to me over here on Bluesky! Try posting an image in the thread and see if it works. If not, might be something bring up with the Northsky folks directly

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