Yes lol it probably is - the staring is a WHOLE thing it's EXTREMELY SERIOUS about it. Which makes the snakes eyeing up the slugs in the study and then going '???? gross I don't want this' even more funny somehow.
Congratulations! Starting stuff like this up is such a huge undertaking and this looks very cool - looking forward to reading through it!
I am delighted to report that a shitpost I wrote a year or so ago in response to the question 'who was the first person to boil an egg?' is now being repeated by AI-penned spam pages
đď¸ The whole history of this is super interesting - the 2016 book 'The Legacy of the Japanese Bluestocking Society (Seitosha)' is a pretty great writeup (one of those books you start reading and just keep going), and I'd also like to share their manifesto that was published in this first issue:
The clock has struck midnight on the Atlantic. The time is upon us. It is #Squidtember@coreydanks.bsky.social created some of the most deranged squid art I have ever seen. I'm obsessed.
Yeah as someone who writes ads for Facebook but doesn't use it - the audience there is pretty reliable, but not growing. Meta is using the divide and conquer strategy with different apps, while X aims to be 'everything'. Threads... won't die, but I don't think it'll be 'good' for a long while.
I'm pretty sure their entire thing was to be the brand friendly, no controversy alternative to Twitter - but they've done this by totally killing manual discovery and making it all algo based, so there's an odd... superficiality? to interactions there. Not sure how to put it besides 'vibe bad'.