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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.

Overhead photo of the Raw Signal Group HQ sticker bowl, with several of our favourites laid out on a coffee table, including the RACI knuckle tattoos, "Super fucking clear", Really just like this, and Swearing is caring.

Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The nakedness of the "fuck you, you deal with the costs of my laziness" is really getting to fever pitch. I got this email yesterday and somehow the last line makes a shitty thing so much shittier?

Screenshot of a cold-email pitch, clearly slop scraping my LinkedIn that reads:

"Hey Johnathan,

Loved your LinkedIn take about leadership being fundamentally about people—'it's all made of people', right?

I've built a system that helps leadership consultants like you consistently spark high-value conversations using AI, so you spend less time prospecting and more time transforming how people work.

I'm happy to share the automation blueprint we use, if you think it could be beneficial.

Cheers,
David

PS — Love that you have 'strong opinions about coffee infrastructure'. Btw if you don't want me to follow up, just say the word and I'll disappear. No hard feelings.

(yes, this email was written by our system)"

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

In unrelated news skywatch seems to have flagged this post for… some reason?

Screenshot of bluesky UI showing Dave’s original post flagged as “follow farming” by skywatch — his reply to his own post is unflagged

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I feel like it would help people out if more orgs used this post-it note as appropriate.

A moccamaster technivorm coffee maker with a cyan post-it note that reads, “NO. I’M TOXIC. :D”

(It has cleaning solution in it)

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I don’t need to give any attention to Ye and the hateful shit he’s up to. But that store of his selling swastika tshirts is proudly powered by Shopify and if you have people in your life who work at that company, maybe ask them how they feel and what the fuck they’re doing about it.

A screenshot of the source code from yeezy dot com. Only the top ~30 lines are visible but one line is highlighted, showing that the site is served by Shopify’s content distribution network, that is, this site is powered by Shopify.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Step N+1: the person with the keys will tell you that having the option to disable specific integration points is an enterprise-only feature, but that they can add it to your account if you confirm that's what you want. A few minutes later, it's active. Ours now looks like this.

Updated screenshot of google admin panel for "Gemini for Google Workspace" -- the panel now has a panel labelled "Feature Access" with the ability to toggle gemini in Drive and Docs, Gmail, Chat, and Meet. They are all toggled to Off.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The core problem we're trying to solve is this — there are no switches where the disable controls are supposed to be. Same problem @litbowl.bsky.social describes fighting for several hours to solve and we are in their debt.

A screenshot of the google workspace admin console, with the Generative AI -> Gemini for Workspace panel selected in the left sidebar. The main panel shows some preamble text but, where there ought to be a set of toggles to disable Gemini integration in various products, there is instead just a wrench icon and text that reads,

"No more settings to show
There are no other settings in this service."

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Their current version is here. www.shopify.com/legal/aup It’s… shorter! They’ve preserved their figleaf, of course, their lawyers are not stupid. But it’s getting to be a pretty small leaf!

Screenshot of current AUP language that reads:

You can’t breach the social contract of commerce.
There are activities we don’t allow on the platform because they breach the social contract of commerce. This means you can’t call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups. And you can’t sell products that facilitate intentional self-harm.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Back before the US election it still contained language about hateful conduct, exploitation, harassment. Here’s a version from January for instance. web.archive.org/web/20240101...

Screenshot of a way back machine version of the AUP, from Jan 1, 2024. The visible excerpt reads:

The following activities are prohibited:

Child exploitation: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials that exploit or abuse children, including but not limited to images or depictions of child abuse or sexual abuse, or that present children in a sexual manner.

Harassment and threats: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that harass or threaten a specific individual.

Hateful content: You may not use the Services to promote or condone hate or violence against people based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, or veteran status. You may not use the Services to promote or support organizations, platforms or people that: (i) promote or condone such hate; or (ii) threaten or condone violence to further a cause.

Illegal activities: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that contravene or that facilitate or promote activities that contravene, the laws of the jurisdictions in which you operate or do business.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My Costa Rican buddy went to the same modelling school!

Photo of a Gartered Trogon — a Central American bird with iridescent back feathers — turning its head to look at me, with a strong left head-tilt very much like OP’s grackle

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Looks like it's hosted on webflow. I don't know about their enforcement rigour, but their acceptable use policy (webflow.com/legal/aup) is pretty clear, particularly section 5(a).

Partial results from the 'dig' command line tool showing dhswatchlist.com as a CNAME for proxy-ssl.webflow.com -- i.e. that webflow.com is hosting the site

Screenshot of a portion of webflow's AUP that reads:

5. Harmful or Illegal Content
a. Do not use the Service and/or post User Content that harasses, bullies, defames, or threatens a specific individual, or incites others to do so.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

If you see this post a bird. The resplendent quetzal. What happens when the universe lets a three year old design a bird.

Photo of a resplendent quetzal perched on a branch in dappled sunlight. Bright red belly feathers, green neck and back, with two long tail feathers and a ridiculous, “fuzzy” looking head.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Ah, but what cost to have you stop asking?

Screenshot of a notice banner, a constant and recurring notice banner, on a google sheet saying, pleading, begging,

"Try the best of Google AI at work. Save time and boost productivity with an AI assistant built into Gmail, Docs, and more."

with a call-to-action button that reads, "Try at no cost"

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

- Zip code for Bedford, IN - Product code for some black 1/4” tubing on Amazon - Remembers the Alf hog phase

Bluesky 10M celebration certificate showing me as user #47,421, joined back in April of 2023

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Yesss. @shappy.bsky.social and I self-published our first book for similar reasons

A copy of a trade paperback book on a weathered wooden table. The book’s title is, How Fucked Up Is Your Management? An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

It’s a few years old now but we gave it an earnest shot.

Photo of a red softcover book sitting on a picnic table. The title is: How Fucked Up Is Your Management? An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership.

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Don’t make me tap the sticker again.

A round pink sticker from Raw Signal Group that reads, “Asshole is not a protected class”

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

The newsletter that @shappy.bsky.social and I write every other Wednesday just came out, and this one is exploding. If you are a director, or manage directors, or report to a director, well.