Justin Gray 🐖🥓

6th generation farmer (1846) combatting the epidemic of loneliness by incentivizing togetherness & community. Social is better in person.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[Justin Gray 🐖🥓 @Justingray]

@JakeFleshner loneliness cure

[Justin Gray 🐖🥓 @Justingray]

@16vchq Loneliness

[Justin Gray 🐖🥓 @Justingray]

@brettcalhounn Digital infrastructure for managing your busy real-world social calendar and staying connected with those that truly matter IRL.

[Justin Gray 🐖🥓 @Justingray]

@brettcalhounn Welp there ya’ go. First time, non-technical solo founder in consumer social without an advertising model 💪

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

When I say the country is institutionally rigged for Republicans I’m talking about how Virginia gets their maps struck down after a two year process involving multiple legislative sessions and a statewide referendum but Tennessee can just decide not to enfranchise Memphis anymore

[Tony Roundtree @Tonywithyy]

The year is 2046. College football has a 64 team playoff. Notre Dame gets an automatic bid if they win 1 regular season game. Every game is played in Atlanta or Dallas. National championship game is the first week of March. Transfer portal is open weekly. Presented by Fan Duel

[Lolita Taub @lolitataub]

💰Founders: The McKinney Innovation Fund has funding for you. Learn more below.
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[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

Meta just threatened to shut down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in an entire US state..

New Mexico sued them for child safety failures.. a jury found them liable.. fined them $375 million.. and now the state wants actual reforms.. age verification, separate teen accounts, real protections..

Meta's response.. "those changes are too hard.. we'd rather leave"

a $1.5 trillion company is telling 2 million people it would rather cut them off than make its platform safe for children..

the state attorney general called it a PR stunt.. said Meta rewrites its own rules constantly, redesigns products on demand, and has bent to the demands of dictators to keep market access..

but protecting kids in New Mexico.. that's where they draw the line

[Justin Gray 🐖🥓 @Justingray]

@hthieblot Operating system to manage your offline, real-world social life.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

You became a founder.

You quit the 9-to-5. You raised a little money. Everyone called you "brave" over drinks. You spent your nights building and your days pitching "the future," convinced that the next launch would change your life forever.

Then a year passes.

Flatline traction. $0 salary. Your co-founder quit via Slack. Your girlfriend left for someone with a 401k and a "stable" future. Your friends are posting house keys while you’re staring at a bowl of ramen, rehearsing the same tired lies to your parents about why the "big break" is just around the corner.

Is this the end? You start wondering if you made a mistake.

No. You keep telling yourself every founders went through this at some points. But you don’t stop.

Logic says quit. Your ego says run. But there’s a sickness in you that won't let go. You’d rather fail at this than succeed at anything else. You tell yourself it’s just one more launch, one more pivot, one more "yes."

You’re not delusional; you’re committed.

You’ll miss this.

Not the stress, but the electricity. The raw doubt that forced you to grow. The quiet fire of building while the world slept. The pure, unrefined dopamine of that very first user.

These aren't just "hard years", they are the years that forge you. One day, when the bank account is full but the mystery is gone, you’ll find yourself wishing you could feel this hungry again.

They all do.

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

All right @BenSasse, let's make a bet.

Let's divide the US in half. I'll let you pick which half.

In your half, you ban Candy Crush. In my half we institute 16 weeks of paid parental leave, universal childcare, & a restored child tax credit.

Let's see which has more babies.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

I decide to get a TV. I pay in cash instead of financing. I am outraged that I still must pay sales tax. I take it home and find I must pay the power company for electricity to operate the TV despite paying for it in cash. I cry about this on the Internet to reveal my stupidity.

[a newsman @a_newsman]

The republican pitch to voters in an election year dominated by the crushing costs of living in this country should be the urgent need for a new marble and gold ballroom for members of the American ruling class to have safer banquets

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Never quit as a founder. I’m begging you.

It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care. Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope.

Then it snaps to 100. You finally find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum keeps building even when you’re not pushing. Something changed.

You didn’t get lucky, you just didn’t leave.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory explains why forgiving someone who has not paid a cost for betraying you is a vicious mistake dressed up as a virtue. Forgiveness without consequence never 'resets' the relationship. It updates the other person's model of your response function.
You now taught them that betrayal costs nothing. So, the next defection is cheaper than the first one. You have effectively lowered the price of breaking your trust.
Genuine repair requires that the cost of defection be visible and proportional before the relationship resumes. Everything else is an invitation to defection.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”

[New York Post @nypost]

Gen Z and parents favor old-school tech like iPods and digital cameras for a simpler, less plugged-in life: 'People are just sick of it' https://t.co/cQ1tafabG2

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

The Montreal Expos are exiting the baseball space. During Q2 and Q3 2026, we will transition to acquiring high-performance GPU assets. This is all part of our long-term vision to become a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-native cloud solutions provider.