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John Wolthuis

@thuddwhirr

Climate, housing, abundance, obscure 70’s computing hardware. Co-founder, Twilio. Board, Niskanen Center. Working on my next thing.

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Feh

17.12.2024 01:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The conspiracy we wanted: Scary Apple govt affairs lawyers leaning hard on local politicians to stabilize employee housing costs.

The conspiracy we got: a handful of tech founders made some YIMBY c3 grants

29.11.2024 21:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking about how YIMBY/Abudance is getting smeared as a conspiracy by Big Tech while remembering the last decade of trying to get *anyone* in FAANG leadership to take runaway bay area housing costs seriously.

29.11.2024 21:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-of-green-maga/

Green MAGA and the crank realignment -or- how can we save the world in a low trust society? t.co/eIxqwbY7mC

21.11.2024 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You replied just to ask this?

17.11.2024 04:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Actual lol

17.11.2024 04:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait, are we here again?

17.11.2024 04:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps

WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

01.07.2023 22:10 👍 2646 🔁 566 💬 11 📌 6

I find it funny that I see zero people saying “whelp, back to Facebook”

01.07.2023 21:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pour one out for the Bluesky SREs this holiday weekend.

01.07.2023 20:22 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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😃

21.05.2023 23:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I once stayed in a Stockholm Airbnb with curtains that were basically just gauze. It was June so the sun didn’t so much set as bounce off the horizon. My jet lag persisted.

20.05.2023 17:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

27.04.2023 19:19 👍 4079 🔁 1083 💬 40 📌 46
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Oh no they got us

17.05.2023 16:50 👍 434 🔁 97 💬 22 📌 7

Can we talk about how triggering it is to see “https://staging.bsky.app/“ clearly being used for production? Hits me right in the old pager hip.

17.05.2023 19:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

is this a safe space to ask if everyone’s just pretending to like succession

08.05.2023 18:36 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 10 📌 1

I meant to do a long post about Japanese urbanism and sensible zoning, transit, and housing policy. But really it was all eclipsed by those eggs.

03.05.2023 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I had the best eggs benedict I’ve ever had in Kyoto last week and it haunts me. Egg yokes the color of tobacco.

03.05.2023 02:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2

One reason this place feels different to me is that I slowly unfollowed all the early super-posters on Twitter, treating my feed as more of a professional resource.

But here, all the old super-posters set up shop early and its all cat pictures and shit posting, just like the old days.

02.05.2023 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems pretty chaotic, not necessarily in a bad way

01.05.2023 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Checking to make sure dog photo posts work.

29.04.2023 20:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are there good anchor accounts for climate, energy & yimby here yet?

29.04.2023 20:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What’s everyone’s strategy for rebuilding your social graph here? I’m currently just trawling followed lists of people I recognize from the other place.

29.04.2023 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Koffee Mameya is a great experience if you’re ok waiting in line.

29.04.2023 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello fellow kids

28.04.2023 23:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dearest mutuals,

How are things back home? We hear that the king’s actions grow more vile, and the new aristocracy he has empowered are cruel.

It is a wild but hopeful land here. Many have made the trip over. We still cannot block, which engenders much unpleasantness, but also opportunity.

28.04.2023 20:29 👍 40 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0