I don't want someone else to tell me a story about you. I don't want an algorithm shaping my perspective of my fellow humans. I don't want some gatekeepers to season my ears with a pre-determined narrative about the others in the world.
My overriding experience is that people, when face to face and doing life together, are far better human beings than we've been led to believe.
Much of our division simply comes from the fact that we don't talk to one another.
So my driving passion, in different spaces, is to pursue and cultivate those kind of communities. Partly it involves getting out from behind our screens and getting in real life physical spaces together—or at least in realtime. It involves inviting people to reclaim the voice that's been stolen from them, or that they've surrendered. It requires a difficult and willful setting aside of what I think I know about you and what you think you know about me.
Jan 21, 2025
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there's a deep sincerity that comes with talking to someone new to a scene or meeting new people in a hobby or space you enjoy that i feel is lost in the cynicism and inherent negativity of most social media platforms (present company excluded) and i think getting outside and meeting new people in your community is a really beautiful thing that more people should do
2d ago
in response to the AMC selfie post, i felt compelled to share my latest, taken at “A Complete Unknown”.
i think what makes the internet a nice and interesting space is that we can respond to each other in real time. we can say, “hey, what you did or said resonated with me, inspired me, made me feel something.” and we can respond back, because we are human.
let’s keep seeing each other, being vulnerable, building relationships, building community.
Jan 19, 2025
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I genuinely hope everything I post finds itself before the people that will enjoy it most, building connections and a community centered on shared ideas, experiences, and mutual enjoyment instead of influence.
Mar 4, 2025
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this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video —autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
Mar 11, 2025