Janet McKnight

Social Justice Womble. Unintentional bollard stan. Terminally online. ⾘. Cis, she/they. More active as @jaffa.bsky.social

[Janet McKnight @j4]

@timPizey Come to Bsky instead of Twitter -- it's like Twitter used to be when it was good!

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

You can't advertise porridge, but the Tube will accept ads encouraging suicide.

[Robin Tucker @robintucker1]

Love badgers and have the experience to help as a Trustee? There's an exciting opportunity at the @BadgerTrust for England and Wales, right now! https://t.co/mCE1jnMCFU

[Broken Spoke Bike Co-op @BrokenSpokeCoop]

The Broken Spoke is Crowdfunding!

We are raising £25k to keep our wonderful workshop and key programmes going throughout the winter and beyond.

Any support is hugely welcomed, so please donate, spread the word and help to keep us, and Oxford, pedalling! https://t.co/uow4PxtiiS

[Janet McKnight @j4]

@atilatstokbroka Are you on Bluesky? Had a look but couldn't find you there...

[Janet McKnight @j4]

@OxfordUCU are you on Bluesky yet?

[boob dylan @BYUsupersoaker]

whenever I see a lady mail carrier i’m like ok slay that’s a woman in a mail dominated field

[Sam Sweeney 🎻 @sweeneyfiddle]

BELLOWHEAD LIVE STREAM TONIGHT!

Buy your ticket now and watch it for up to a year ☺️

https://t.co/rBLC3UffFk

[Janet McKnight @j4]

@drmikefraser @billybragg Are you on Bluesky yet? It's nice there

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I definitely retired in good time. 😂

[Janet McKnight @j4]

@ThreatNotation Come to Bluesky! It's like Twitter without all the shit stuff.

[Threatening Music Notation @ThreatNotation]

I will no longer be posting on this account. This is because Elon Musk has made this site unpleasant to use and because I do not want to be associated with his product. Thank you all for years of community, laughs, music, and learning.

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

Somewhere out there is the guy Musk swapped bodies with, a human adult trapped in the body of a 12 year old. We should try to find him.

[Janet McKnight @j4]

@MrEFinch @restisents The other pool is quite nice at the moment. Fewer people are pissing in it & they have clever ways of filtering the water.

[Ed Finch @MrEFinch]

I'm usually the biggest fan of @restisents and often find I'm persuaded by their intelligent and informed takes.
However... just this once I struggled. On the subject of this platform what we are on and the number of people who have decided it's no longer for them and have 1/12

[Janet McKnight @j4]

Anyway the main (somewhat petty) reason I haven't deleted this account is that I don't want someone else to be j4 on here. Still sad that I couldn't get the same username on bsky.

[Janet McKnight @j4]

This has been my experience of Twitter too, EXCEPT that increasingly when I look at the replies to the nice/interesting people (you might reasonably ask: why do I do that??) it's all racists, transphobes, antivaxxers, and other varieties of asshole.

[Iona Italia, PhD 🦘🇦🇺 @IonaItalia]

I don't really understand why people are leaving Twitter. My experience of the site hasn't changed at all. I follow interesting people, interact with nice ones and if they're both nice and local turn them into real-life friends. If they're unpleasant, I block, end of story.

[Janet McKnight @j4]

And yes, I do know how to block, I even theoretically know how to Not Read The Comments, but "I like hanging out here even though all the nice people routinely get harassed here! I know how to look away from the nastiness" is not a position I'm very comfortable with.

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

This, not Skynet, is the kind of thing that makes me think AI will kill us all. Teach a highly verbal, interactive adaptive reinforcement algorithm with no evolutionary guardrails to assuage your fragile psyche, and then subscribe to Siren Jr. for your kids.

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

I would love to be a fly on the wall at every meeting involved in the making, pricing, and aisle placement of the $44.97 WalMart Skibidi Mystery Surprise Toilet