Reposted by George PowellRed Sox @redsox.com · 13/09/2026The 8th immaculate inning in Red Sox history! 426625
Reposted by George PowellKy @ky.fyi · 15/07/2026for fellow freaks who want to render sheet music by writing plain text inside of markdown inside of Astro, well, I made something for you! astro-lilypond converts text to SVG and works in markdown or with a <LilyPond> component. zero client-side JS. 🎶 docs and install: lilypond.ky.fyililypond.ky.fyiAstro LilyPondRender LilyPond music notation to images with Astro. 2028257
Reposted by George PowellThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/04/2026People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...newyorker.comOur Longing for InconveniencePeople are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? 526553109
Reposted by George PowellG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own. 19087592664
Reposted by George PowellYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 11/02/2026sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on 523446599
Reposted by George PowellHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down. Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them. 1053489356
George Powell @snail.city · 25/02/2026Making a custom share menu doubled the amount of people who clicked from 17% to 30%... I love that I can channel my care and joy and whimsy and it makes such a concrete difference in how people interact 🥹 #buildinpublic #ux 062
George Powell @snail.city · 05/02/2026@chase.caster.quest lingule is cool! i was thinking of making a -dle where you get 10 seconds of a spoken language and have to guess what language it is. "langdle"? "eavesdropdle"? 220
Reposted by George PowellHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026There needs to be high-quality, attention grabbing content that delivers value and has an allegiance to the truth. We have LOTS of ideas for how to deliver more value and we think this is the best way to enable that work. 37778
George Powell @snail.city · 29/01/2026i've been using claude code v1.0.111 for over a week without realizing (newest version is 2.1.23) oops! 100
George Powell @snail.city · 20/01/2026test post to see if my bibdle bluesky alert val on val.town is working or not 210
Reposted by George PowellJAAAAAHlle 🖤🦇🦇🦇🦇 @gyttjansfolk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026ni spelar väl det dagliga bibelgissar-spelet bibdle? jag tänker inte säga mer än 300 gånger pga vill göra en grej av det bibdle.combibdle.comA daily bible game 141
Reposted by George PowellMolly White @molly.wiki · 07/01/2026“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.citationneeded.newsThe year of technoligarchyIn 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. 6607182
George Powell @snail.city · 07/08/2025Some interesting product-centric "Reflections on the social web" from John O'Nolan, CEO of Ghost: john.onolan.org/reflections-...john.onolan.orgReflections on the social webMy biggest point of uncertainty about Ghost 6.0 was whether people were going to "get" the social web integration. The technology is wonderful, but complex. For many people, terms like ActivityPub, F... 010
Reposted by George PowellMolly White @molly.wiki · 04/08/2025my god, just look at that changelog. looks like it's upgrade day for me! ghost.org/changelog/6/ghost.orgGhost 6.0Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers 823523
George Powell @snail.city · 01/08/2025here is a leopard slug i found today, since people loved my snail post so much 1143
George Powell @snail.city · 30/07/2025@andersnoren.bsky.social Do you have a wordpress host that you use for your website, or do you self-host? What advice or recommendations do you have? 120
Reposted by George PowellMarc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Every time a self-published thing reaches as many people, or more people, than a journal published by a big university or some other fancy institution, an angel gets a new long-reach stapler. 1325
Reposted by George PowellLorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Zines are back. AI can't steal your words if you only write them in a zine. 02310
George Powell @snail.city · 20/06/2025lofi byzantine music radio - chanting to relax/study/pray to 120
George Powell @snail.city · 17/06/2025i created a website for listening to byzantine chanting! orthodox.cafe 000
Reposted by George PowellMolly White @molly.wiki · 16/06/2025“The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity.” 228549
George Powell @snail.city · 09/06/2025@marc-fischer.bsky.social Did you write for Tropic? Dave Barry mentions you in his memoir Class Clown! 200
Reposted by George PowellErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 31/05/2025“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...aworkinglibrary.comToolmenEven the best weapon is an unhappy tool. 23615174
Reposted by George PowellJohn Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 09/11/2024for new #rss people coming in: you can follow any #bluesky profile in your feed reader, just tack on "/rss" to the end of the profile url e.g. bsky.app/profile/john... 2219568
Reposted by George PowellRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081 5865978120439
Reposted by George PowellJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025there is no plan(et) b. 289176642783
Reposted by George PowellHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy. 853037292
George Powell @snail.city · 18/04/2025I mostly hated the movie but Hank is right. The experience of being in that theater was well worth the price of admission for as long as I can remember, except for like Avengers Endgame. (I wasn't alive for the original star wars trilogy.) 000
Reposted by George PowellJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025It struck a chord because it's true. As I write in More Than Words, the chief benefit of LLMs to writing (and teaching writing) is it forces us to examine what we value in writing. We should be building statues of the students who remain proud to be themselves & encourage others to join them. 428252
Reposted by George PowellNew_ Public @newpublic.org · 15/04/2025💪 Training programs for digital community stewards 🏛️ Platform designs that enable collective governance 🫂 Alternative business models prioritizing community 🧑💻 Decentralized technical infrastructure Let’s move from algorithm-driven shouting matches into vibrant civic forums.ssir.orgLocal Digital Spaces Are Essential Civic Infrastructure (SSIR)With traditional community spaces underfunded and neglected, investing in the health of our online gathering places has become essential. 042
Reposted by George Powelldamniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/04/2025in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list 1993184369
George Powell @snail.city · 27/03/2025wish teenage engineering TP-7 and the tangara by cooltech.zone would have a babycooltech.zonecooltech.zonecool tech zone is a tiny electronics collective. we make Tangara, an open hardware+software music player (coming soon)! maybe more later. not yet though. 000
Reposted by George PowellKatie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Pete Hegseth keeps texting me that I have unpaid EZ Pass tolls 903732482
George Powell @snail.city · 20/02/2025why hasnt someone made lofi byzantine chants to relax/study to 000
Reposted by George PowellButtondown @buttondown.com · 04/02/2025Good morning. Consider starting your day by reading about ZINES. buttondown.com/blog/zinesbuttondown.comIn praise of zinesZines (handmade mini magazines) leave behind the best roadmap for an authentic newsletter people will want to read. 16117
Reposted by George PowellBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025 548225987
