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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What’s the German word for finding yourself relate to Morrissey?

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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

The NBA season ended on Sunday and believe it or not, that marks two entire seasons in which I've been running the Shams account. I have put a goofy amount of effort into that account for the sake of trying to make NBA Bluesky a thing - and I take the fact that the NBA now posts on Bluesky as a source of pride because I like to think I played a tiny role in that. I'm saying this because I want you to believe me when I say that I want Bluesky to succeed a lot and only criticize it out of love. I think Twitter is broken and I believe a better community can form here, and you know what, the NBA community here actually IS really good. But here's the thing: Bluesky must must MUST address the scale to which horrible Resistance accounts have been allowed to invade every waking corner of this app, because it's choking the life out of it and will eradicate whatever chance this place has of truly taking off if it's not fixed SOON.

I am very discouraged by how poorly Bluesky has dealt with this situation, because the aforementioned Resistance accounts (I'm using "Resistance" as a catch-all) have been draining the vibes on here for months and little seems to have been done about them. These accounts are rude, they're obnoxious, they're homophobic, they spam people like crazy, they drown the app in slop, and they react confrontationally to everything they see that isn't just about Trump - including sports. It's turned Bluesky into the only app I've ever been on where random users will actually come at you if you post about sports sometimes. It's hard to stress how bad that is for this place's sports prospects. Sports Twitter is never, ever, ever gonna meaningfully migrate over here if this place develops a reputation as Killjoy Land where angry Facebook refugees and scolds will legitimately confront you if you post about sports.

I believe the people running this app have consistently taken the easy way out when it comes to managing its user base - choosing to sit back and do little to nothing time and again as rude users who are poisonous for the community feel empowered to dictate the terms of engagement on it. Add that with the fact that the Discover feed is totally broken (search "Discover feed" on here and you will exclusively see people complaining about it) and is allowing this app's population of insufferable dweebs to find posts about sports/games/music/etc. that they consistently react to with hostility and you have an environment that is not just murky for sports but diametrically opposed to it. This place should be welcoming for sports ppl, but it can't really be that if the devs here never take a meaningful stand against the users who are manipulating the platform in a way that's ruining everyone else's time.

If there's one thing I could say to the people running Bluesky, it would be this: you can either be an app with a fun, chill, healthy environment in which thriving sub communities for things like sports can take hold, or you can be an app that 70-year-old grampas log into to scream at random people in between following grifter accounts that are pretending to be an underground cabal of park rangers, but you can't be both. Taking the path of least resistance will only result in malcontents strengthening their grip on this place. Just because most of the thinkpieces about Bluesky are bullshit doesn't mean the user experience hasn't also plummeted for a lot of people over the last year and will continue to plummet unless you find the initiative to wrestle control of this place away from ppl who are toxic. I still believe the sports community can become huge, but only if this app gives it a chance to be and right now it's unfortunately not.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

spectacular

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If there is anything that I’ve learned from BlueSky is that people here are optimistic about AI and love hearing @kevinroose.com’s takes on it. So what better way to announce my new podcast with @allisonbraley1.bsky.social than share an inaugural episode with Kevin. open.spotify.com/episode/1a5p...

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The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown of AI with Kevin Roose

Attention Shift · Episode

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

When the news gets overwhelming, I look through my dad’s collection of old newspapers. Zoom in and see everything happening on one day in June 1917.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

National club volleyball tournaments are when all the dad species can come together. The Dad Bros. The Tattoo Dads. The Sprinter Van Dads. The Vouri Dads. The Oakley Dads. It’s a beautiful thing.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Seriously curious: Who is in the pro-tariff lobby? Could you get 100 people to show up for pro-tariff rally who genuinely cared?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“No More Kings”, Pavement (School House Rock cover) open.spotify.com/track/5f6nPM...

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No More Kings

Pavement · Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks · Song · 1996

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Banning X links is happening in many corners of Reddit, but this is notable because the SF Giants fanbase was a strong early mover onto early days Twitter.

SF Giants subreddit post about banning X links because Nazi symbolism, hate speech and other issues.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Got an email yesterday congratulating me for being on LinkedIn for 21 years. That was nice, but, even better, the LI algorithm finally gets me now...

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This exact temporal sequence of events, as observed in southern California in 2024, is something we use as a prototypical example of practical consequences of wet-to-dry "hydroclimate whiplash" events--which we show are increasing due to #ClimateChange. www.nature.com/artic...

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Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal...

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Amy Widdowson @amynw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Listening to @brianosh.bsky.social on storytelling and the importance of being actual, real humans in comms was just what I needed this morning. An encyclopedic / self-reflective convo on changes in media and PR with @mackmckelvey.bsky.social and Heidi Keele open.spotify.com/episode/63vV...

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Building Brands From Within: The Power of Authentic Storytelling with Brian O'Shaughnessy

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I've been using Facebook since 2006 and Instagram since 2010, and this is what Threads thinks I care about.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the wee.... ... it's an amazing Simpsons/Run Lola Run discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzhR...

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Run Lola, Run (Lola Rennt) - The Simpsons [HD] [SUBTITLES]

YouTube video by indy1234567891011

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My version of "ladies and gentleman, the weekend"... Mark E Smith (of The Fall) reads football scores.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUi...

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Mark E Smith reads the football results

YouTube video by m0ggieboy

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Tom Friedman's Waymo driver gave him a heads up...

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Got to get @bizstone.bsky.social to do a Bluesky 'How To' so the simulation will be complete. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGnM...

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Twitter 101 or twttr 101

YouTube video by Noah Glass

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/11/2024

Dying Relative Sent Quick ‘How You Holding Up?’ Text

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's not tech, it's not politics, and it's not even porn. It's sports that makes a social media app sticky and vibrant. Sports changed Twitter in the early days. They never happened on Threads. They're happening here now.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How to make your Twitter archive public… (should you so desire)…

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you could upload your Twitter archive here, would you?

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Whether @bsky.app becomes the new social media home of sports media or not, it's already brought back one vital element: Fun. bit.ly/3Cpih5U

Screenshot from article about how sports media members are migrating to Bluesky in larger numbers.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I may have given up 25,000 followers today, but now I feel unencumbered to post the greatest works of art. Like this scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WwZ...

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Waiting For Guffman - My Dinner with Andre action figures

YouTube video by Grigoriy Eidinov

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Gosh darn it, if a Russian asset can be the DNI and Matt Gaetz can be AG, I can delete my almost 18-year-old Twitter account.

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a man in a wig is saying `` and that 's okay '' .

ALT: a man in a wig is saying `` and that 's okay '' .

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A bunch of good people who worked at Twitter. Happy to add folks. go.bsky.app/Sy2TpjM

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The starter pack idea is brilliant in its simplicity and impact. In the early, pre-algo days of Twitter, we deeply struggled with the empty timeline problem. I had the (pretty dumb) idea of creating little "new account" cards preloaded with accounts that you could give to friends.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Twitter really became the Twitter that I loved when it became THE place for baseball news and convos in circa 2010. Now Bluesky has The Giants' quite excellent beat reporter Andrew Baggarly.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Trump has always been a sixth grade presidency candidate. Pizza every day forever and no more homework. The challenge is, as always, that that’s not how this works.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

When Steve Albini was producing some of my favorite music in the early ‘90s, I just assumed that he was some old wizard. I had no idea that he was 28 in 1991.

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Excited for the new Mount Kimbie album open.spotify.com/track/0xEHXA...

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Mount Kimbie · Song · 2024

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Sean Garrett @seangarrett.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I decree Bluesky the weird place.

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