Joey Schafer

@schafer.bsky.social

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UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . Former SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 ASE Recording Secretary. He/Him

A screenshot of a YouTube short (linked in the above post) which is a black background with the following text in white: To date, no charges have been filed and no arrests have been made. Prestige owners Erik Burtis and Jamie Hayes deny any wrongdoing. Burtis said he and Hayes fully cooperated with the FBI by providing all financial records requested in a subpoena, though he said they had never been interviewed by agents. "If I was really in trouble, don't you think I'd have been handed an indictment by now?" Burtis said. The FBI declined to comment on the status of the investigation.
A crowd shot of the Mariners game against the Houston Astros same as above, but annotated with a red arrow
The picture of the album cover of Dave Matthews Band’s album “Under the Table and Dreaming.” The album cover shows a carnival spinning swing ride under a sunset/twilight sky, light pink in the bottom left and dark blue in the top right. The name of the band and the album title are in all-caps white lettering in the middle.
A screen grab of the dreamworks movie Monsters vs Aliens, depicting the president standing in front of two giant red buttons. There is overlaid small white text for the (approximate, based off my memory) dialogue in this scene. Offscreen character: that button launches all of our nuclear weapons! President: Then which one gets me a latte? Offscreen: that one, sir
A picture of Wallace Shawn from the princess bride during the battle of wits scene, with parodied meme text over it saying “Let me put it this way. Ever heard of Cuomo? Sliwa? Adams? Morons.” (In the original movie it’s Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates). In the bottom left corner there is a watermark that says “made with mematic,” which is the free app I used to create this overlay on the image.
Eight small paper cards containing prompts of the style used for the game show ”Make Some Noise,” reading: - a witch is trying out making potions with an Instant Pot - Freddie Dunning-Kruger - The Grim Weeper - Werewolf during a solar eclipse - Mummy going to CVS to get re-wound - Candy corn discovering that the other Halloween candy gets wrappers - Vampire running a coffee shop - A headless horseman who can’t remember where he set his head down
A 25-year old white male in a sport coat, glasses, white dress shirt and pink tie with a rainbow mini podium, as a Halloween costume to look like Game Changer host Sam Reich
A selfie of the poster (a mid-20s white male with dark brown hair and glasses) in a black shirt and backpack standing in front of the Philadelphia “LOVE” sign (red block letters saying LOVE with the LO on top and the O at a 45 degree angle up and to the right, sitting on top of an open silver metal frame). A mostly empty plaza, several buildings, and some short bushes and trees are visible in the background.
Beyond Information A CSCW 2025 Workshop Online on October 3 and/or in Bergen, Norway on October 18 Deadline extended to August 8th Connect with a global community of scholars working on all aspects of information disorder (mis/disinformation, scams, online hate, etc) Website (link included in post body) for more details
A picture from the upper section of the Barclays Center arena shortly before a WNBA game between the New York Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces
A selfie of the poster (a white man in his 20s with short dark brown hair wearing a black backpack and medium blue polo shirt) from the High Line, a former elevated rail line converted into a city park in Manhattan, with the intersection of 10th and 23rd in the background.
A Google Trends dashboard showing the prevalence of search queries for "habeas corpus," since January 1, 2025. The graph shows a significant spike in the past 24-ish hours, with the largest prior spike reaching under 40% of the current estimated height.
A picture of the cover of Premee Mohamed’s book “We Speak Through The Mountain.” The cover depicts two white birds flying near each other through falling branches with needles and berries on them.
Get to know my music taste For every like, I will post one song I love ❤️
A screenshot of the Bluesky API Rate Limits page (linked above) showing the following text: Created Actions per DID Bluesky rate limits by the number of created actions per DID. These numbers shouldn’t affect typical Bluesky users, and won’t affect the majority of developers either, but it will affect prolific bots, such as the ones that follow every user or like every post on the network. The limit is 5,000 points per hour and 35,000 points per day, where: Action Type Value CREATE 3 points UPDATE 2 points DELETE 1 point Per this system, an account may create at most 1,666 records per hour and 11,666 records per day. That means an account can like up to 1,666 records in one hour with no problem. We took the most active human users on the network into account when we set this threshold (you surpassed our expectations!). Other Rate Limits Global limit (aggregated across all routes) Rate limited by IP 3000/5 min
Social card showing my user number (60,039) on Bluesky, as part of the celebration of Bluesky reaching 10 million users
The album cover of CHVRCHES’ (pronounced Churches) 2021 album “Screen Violence: Director’s Cut”. Against a dark blue background, a square television screen depicts a hand in washed-out red lighting reaching up to the middle of window blinds.
A picture of the cover of “Tear Tracks” by Malka Older.
A picture of the cover of the book “Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper” by Michael Reisman. The title depicts a blue sky with treetops, with the title in bold letters across the middle. The top of the image depicts a leg in jeans and sneakers flying upward.
A screenshot of the Apple Music player, showing the song “Tack Back” by Kes featuring Tano, on the album “Man With No Door”
A view of Pittsburgh from atop the incline rail system
A map of the states I’ve visited in the US so far. Almost every west coast state has been visited, while the only east/Midwest states I’ve been to are Minnesota Pennsylvania and Florida
Wallace Shawn as Vizzini in The Princess Bride, during the poisoned cup scene
A picture of Garfield the cat in front of a “No Garfield” sign, saying “Huh. I wonder who that’s for.” Garfield is labeled “me”, and the sign is labeled “Advice I give others to get enough sleep and not stress/feel guilty”
A picture of the cover of “Ghost Work” by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri. The subtitle is “How to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass”. The picture is of a man’s face in black and white, wit his eyes and mouth covered by the words “Ghost Work”
Two consecutive posts by Faine Greenwood, one which was quoted saying "Hell I don't even get to that point of strategy with my posting, I just talk about whatever shit floats to the surface of my mind at any time because I need something to do." The second was a top-level post, saying "all of our house centipedes are named Michelle"
A partially black and white photo of me standing in the middle of a tree with four trunks, on the Olympic peninsula.
A picture of a yellow paper with blue ink, of the Seattle Public Library adult summer reading book bingo board, with all squares filled out.
A stack of books