okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back! hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network! docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

Truly a government with zero good ideas.

annoying reminder: if you use pdsls daily and you have money you can throw a bit at me to help me afford groceries and energy bills to keep my room warm during winter :)

Now the entire hoob-tunnel is clogged with gramelions. Unacceptable.

Just managed to unblock a sink that's been plaguing my household since we moved in through my elite drain snake skills 💪🏼

In the minds of cis editors: Trans people are too biased to write about ourselves. But some dude who's spent his career obsessively spreading misinformation about us and constantly gets called out for it? Is unbiased.

This is why all good software has a built-in hamburger menu

Software engineers constantly posting "Let's Go To Mcdonald's" on GitHub

My partner is watching Dexter and it's my second watchthrough because an ex watched it while coding over a decade ago and I hated it so I'm really trying to give it a fair shake but honestly it's a terrible TV show and I can't hide my derision any longer, I've bit my tongue for five seasons now

Deleting those last two because I don't think my bitterness can be adequately conveyed via text

Slices is a new tool for builders. It lets you build, define, and combine data types from across the ATProto network and does the hard work of aggregating data across the entire network. Built by @chadtmiller.com, who also makes the photo sharing app @grain.social Wait list now!

What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity

This is really the crux of it. Bluesky isn't censorship resistant when there's a single point of failure concentrated in the United States. We need Eurosky like yesterday.

"Can I drop by at 8 pm on a Sunday with less than 24 hours notice to do the semesterly flat inspection?" Can you maybe fuck off and let us live in your decrepit overpriced shithole in peace?

God I hate renting.

This is very well-put.

The added clarity around journalism, education, advocacy, and mental health content as protected expression is very welcome

I mean you should watch today's episode not only because of how fantastic @lucca.northsky.team is and our interview but also because I said we need to make ATProto the velociraptors from Jurassic Park and that ATProto will find a way* * as a step to fully automated luxury gay space communism

Just wanna turn my brain off for two days

Workshopping a joke that as an immigrant trans woman working in the British media, my kinks are "humiliation" and "bureaucracy".

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

tangled.sh is now tangled.org!

I think centrists having a smug little gloat about whatever is going on with "Your Party" when most of us on the left have found a lot of hope in the Greens is a bit weird when Labour is tanking so very biblically. We get it, guys, it's football to you.

I know some people will be pissed but the fact this change is actually happening and was addressed in public is a big fucking deal (esp compared to other applications + protocols), even if we might have wished it happened significantly earlier. Also a big differentiator from AP/Mastodon imho

Because I've seen some prominent cis allies saying that they hope Streeting's most recent words are a good sign: this is the entire point - he's always got some reasonable sounding words to placate cis people as he continues to meet with transphobic bigots and enact brutally transphobic policies.

Oh cool it's gotten bleaker

Gosh what a bleak start to the day

community care means that you all need to stop spreading panic

omg we’re on the official git-scm.com landing page 🥹

Just finished my seventh meeting (out of a total of eight) today 💀

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it only tuesday 🫩

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

More of this energy please.

Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy

as many of us have tried to say, in many ways, the anti-trans bias of a publication like the NYT isn't just a problem for trans people ... it's a problem for *journalism* ... for the public, who deserve reliable, quality information ... especially during scary times, with fast-breaking stories ...

God I look a million years old on this meeting call I hate webcams

Question for anyone familiar with @ghost.org's Fediverse implementation, how do you engage with it? Searching through Ghost's menu I can find a single boolean toggle for adding support but not any way of e.g. following users (which I'd want to do to enable @ap.brid.gy support) or replying to posts.

The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.

Project idea — "Dorksky": an appview for all of us news and politics sickos

Oh god; turn my phone off for three hours only to return to the dreaded "30+" 😮‍💨

Fuck it I'm going dancing

God what a depressing weekend

In general: To better understand what it's like to be a trans man, either offline or on, I do suggest reading our books! Subscribing to our channels. Listen to our music. Watch our films. Read our newsletters. We make so much ... It's *YOUR CALL*, cis folks, whether you decide to engage with us.

Great news! @graze.social was hard at work today, and we've shipped our new core engine (OS release soon) - many many things to come soon, but as of *now*, posts are already traveling from jetstream to feeds *60%* faster! Stay tuned for some new features we'll be following up with!

Having a "what are we even doing here" kind of moment

I hadn't realized that Blacksky is running an entire separate stack federated with bluesky, that's huge

This is spot-on. 💯

You should say what the alternatives are so people understand what you mean by this. Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social