The Peanut Butter Post

Okay so while I was walking across my apartment courtyard to go to the gym, I was thinking about the food I just had. My meds have an appetite-suppressing behavior so I eat weird foods at weird times, so I got home from work and needed a snack before going to the gym. I chose my personal favorite, my safe food: peanut butter and jelly on rice cakes.

On a whim I posted on Bluesky without really thinking about it:

What came next was totally unexpected. I pretty much accept that nobody will ever see or care about anything I post, I don't really do it for attention, I just do it for me and maybe, just maybe, on the off chance that someone seeing my posts or my projects or my blogs will get a little bit of value out of it.

So anyway, I started warming up for my workout without really thinking about it and, by the time I had finished my warmup, the post had already started to gain traction. Over the next 6 hours, the post would continue to get tons of engagement, with over 1,700 likes and almost 150 replies of other people sharing their objectively correct (obviously) opinions about how to make a proper peanut butter and jelly sandwich...or peanut butter/mayo/pickle sandwich (I see you, and I'm disgusted, but you do you).

This offhanded post managed to strike the right chord with a lot of other people and it ended up in this super wholesome moment of autistic solidarity and it's kinda neat. Even now, as I type this, the post continues to gain traction from the opposite end of the world.

This place has the juice.