Pete

@philpetree
61 Followers
57 Following
932 Posts
Veteran. Volunteer. Dad to an AMAZING daughter. Tech CEO. Author. Sometimes funny. Most always snarky.
homepagehttps://philpetree.com
About Mehttps://about.me/phil.petree
BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/philpetree.bsky.social
Threadshttps://www.threads.net/@philpetree
@cemedia In a time long ago, in that country, during a soccer match, a small bomb went off across the stadium from where I sat.
A father and son sat in front of me. When the bomb exploded, the son jumped up to run, and the father pulled him back down into his seat and said, "Watch. This is how they treat us... how they kill us."
That father was teaching the next generation to be wary and to hate.
That same conversation is happening now.
After nearly 4 years of volunteering at the front desk of the Knoxville Museum of Art, I have decided "It's time that I moved on..."
So, what am I doing with my first free Friday in ages? Why baking *cough* Hippie brownies, of course!
#timeoff #volunteer #brownies
@Us_Today And another "wrongful termination" lawsuit will be filed, the employees will win and the taxpayers will foot the bill for another multi-million dollar court loss.
Last night I minimized all windows, closed the lid, had dinner, and went to bed.
This morning, I opened the lid, and 1 hour and 18 minutes later, I was still looking at this screen. Finally, I did a hard reboot. Updates are paused until March 11th.
Every single Windows developer and their entire Product Management staff should be FIRED and never allowed to work in software development again!
#microsoft #windows
@sophiekaz Here I only have 61 followers and 5 of those are scammers. LOL
I post just as much here as I do elsewhere, I engage more here than elsewhere... so IDK what the difference is.
@anexiledscot An echo chamber does that... it feeds you biases until your views shift, and then it reinforces those biases until your views become very black and white.
@sophiekaz @asmartbear
I don't have a good answer. I have a friend who's a publicist for famous authors, and she advised me to get back on social media and build a following, so a few years ago, I got back on, but I find it all so tedious. LOL Most places I have 500ish followers, and it doesn't change much.
@sophiekaz I think content type matters too. Family/feelings stuff doesn't seem to play here or on Bluesky, but plays well on threads. Techie stuff doesn't play on threads, but seems to be okay here. @asmartbear and I had that convo, his business posts get more engagement on Bluesky than on threads.
@sophiekaz It's interesting... most of my posts on here is like screaming into the void but I do keep posting.
@Savvyhomestead Once again, it wasn't an LGBTQ+ person; it was a conservative politician.