hi @germnetwork.com crew! I am currently signed up in the email newsletter for beta updates (alongside Testflight invite although I don't have an iOS device handy), so any updates for Android/desktop (especially Linux)/PWA support in the future?

i made this in like 20 seconds #furryart

Next time you see someone braying about how AI is killing art, check their profile. It can be instructive. Do they actually repost creatives or post supportive comments? Nothing kills art like dead silence. I burned out on music because I'm a social animal and nobody cared when I talked about it.

💯 LLMs are the final boss of "all models are wrong, some models are useful." You can get solid results if you embed guardrails like "link to # sources for each fact," but you still have to check the facts. You have to know their limits: math is out, but making a script to do the math usually works.

Leaflet is on @standard.site! A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically. Read this post for details, and let us know any q's. Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!

If you think "generative AI can't do...", you're probably wrong If you think "generative AI can do...", you're probably still wrong If you wait three months, some things will move from can't to can.

> Blacksky didn’t begin with a pitch deck or a promise of disruption. It began with something much older and more enduring – a principle of mutual aid. Mandatory reading for anyone that wants to work with or for @blackskyweb.xyz in the future.

Hey @orta.io! Tried linking my fediverse profile (@ajhalili2006.tilde.zone.ap.brid.gy) but getting 401 Unauthorized errors due to my instance requiring signed HTTP requests as an anti-abuse measure from scrapping. Can you look into it?

"But here's what matters: the mechanism of alignment (genuine understanding vs. sophisticated mimicry) matters less than the outcome when we're designing systems that will share human social spaces" 💯 I find kindness is good practice for myself regardless of what I think of the entity receiving it.

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

NEW at this.weekinsecurity.com: Over 100 security researchers and journalists responded to a survey about legal and criminal threats they have faced for doing their jobs. A key finding is that while legal and criminal threats are common, most researchers and journalists stood their ground. More:

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

Currently tuning in at Gildedguy's Twitch stream for the Story 9 premiere (twitch.tv/gildedguy)! Catch with the YT premiere at youtu.be/4HC3TKyOW2M?... Also follow @updates.stellapent.wiki for more Gildedguy updates on the open social web.

I think you’re totally right that it’s going to look different than it did with Twitter but I think it’s actually better for open social. Twitter and Bluesky are mutually exclusive in a way that TikTok and Skylight are not! This is much more of a “wherever you get your podcasts” situation

you can't hustle and grind your way out of autistic burnout

Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.

🇪🇺 The EU wants to boost open source with better funding and a new strategy, and they're looking for your feedback. Here's your chance to shape the future of EU tech policy. Share your opinion by February 3. Learn more.👇

can you please share the link to the story? Journalists gotta eat and these big screenshots that go viral don't help. Here's a gift link. www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

> We’ve seen this with Blacksky, a community centering Black voices, and Gander, a platform in development for Canadians — both on AT Protocol. Could this approach work for all of Europe?

Wrote about this grim moment when the White House sees the deaths of innocent Americans as meme fodder and the faint silver lining that their lies aren't working this time www.platformer.news/minneapolis-...

I've known Dara for a long time. This is a beautiful account of what it means to be a parent right now, when ICE is everywhere and you want your kids to be fighters and safe simultaneously.

#introduction: Hello there! @multifandom.andreijiroh.dev speaking on the line here, and currently setting things up here. This will where I share updates on what Gildedguy the animator and friends been cooking lately, among other things. This account is not related to @\GildedguyFN on Twitter...

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back? From my understanding: Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned. opencollective.com/blacksky

Context on the plan behind building Identity Proofs Toolkit at @recaptime.dev behind the scenes lately: Essentially public profile-based identity verification using pubkeys a la Keybase + Keyoxide and one API for clients to call on instead of (ab)using Stripe Identity et al. cc @byarielm.fyi btw

Blacksky @blackskyweb.xyz now has its own servers running the network This means they're able to run their own feature development and moderation policies, while still connecting to Bluesky through the shared Atmosphere network! s/o to @rude1.blacksky.team and the blacksky team for amazing work

Is telling $AI_CHATBOT_HERE to call MSFT as Microslop counts as a "diabolical statement" to anyone or just fine for Windows refugees? disclosure: I'm the college student in question who claimed the 1-year trial offer for Google AI Pro.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

You still deserve time to rest and recover.

I've been called out — instead of fine dining, I prefer stuffing myself at all-you-can-eat buffets. Remember to be intentional, even if you're intentionally listening to everything at 2x speed.

After years of hunting down and demonising T&S folks, researchers, defunding orgs, suing advertising orgs etc…. We finally see overtly that the free speech absolutism agenda was about cover for pedophilia and abuse of women.

friend: I like your ocs, can you tell me more about them? me:

Creatives still need to continue making stuff & showing the world. We provide a safe escapism for those who just, for a moment need some joy. Keep creating. Keep sharing. We help bring light, hope & more to the world when it needs it. We fight back the darkness that threatens to consume us.

The fact that this happened and 3 years later we elected the same man back into office still just blows me the fuck away dude

"...never before has a tool so thoroughly outsourced the act of cognition — nevermind acted as a personal assistant, friend, or lover. Worst of all is that AI companies are rapidly making inroads into education before the dust can settle on any of these urgent questions."

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

“Functioning” is never a neutral word. It always means “how little support can we give you before you break?” We are never meant to survive that metric. It all about what we can produce for others.

So, for anyone who hasn't heard yet: later this month I will be running a short D&D adventure for GeminiTay, ImpulseSV, Grian, and GoodTimesWithScar! Session 0 - Friday January 30th Session 1 - Sunday February 1st Streamed live to our Twitch channels, VODs posted to YouTube after!

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Autistic teenagers are often misunderstood—especially during the already complex teen years.  Read Full Blog Post Below: https://www.mindfulmarks.care/mindfulmarksblog/myths-about-autistic-teenagers-and-whats-actually-true

If you are in the @hackclub.com Slack and asking about a recent moderation action lately from the community logs channel or reached out over DMs, you may want to read this. Please respect anyone's boundaries for the matter.

Thank you @ewancroft.uk for sharing such a detailed and kind article about @standard.site We’re hyped to see all the exitement around the lexicons !!

Energy to take into 2026 ✏️✨ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

Sharing breaking news? ✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog. ✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough. ✅ Check image credits. ✅ Check your impulses. 🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.

UI/UX design with CSS on mobile is hard 😭😭😭

#blog #newyear #newyear2026 #happynewyear: Starting off 2026 with a @leaflet.pub experiment for my blog, doing a #introduction for new readers in the Atmosphere and sharing my 2026 #bingocard. Happy new year from the Philippines, everyone!

shipping at @leaflet.pub right now: Community Lorebooks launch post! (going to publish my EoY/new year post before dinner or maybe 10:30 pm here, PH Standard Time, iykyk)

I probably love back[end] pain as a backend dev, but DNS propagation issues are always PITA. Context: setting up blog.lorebooks.wiki for @lorebooks.wiki on @leaflet.pub but still stuck on @vercel.com's DNS TXT verification issues, even after re-creating the record in question at @cloudflare.social.

#blog: Hello world! We're launching a blog for the alumni community at @hackclub.com on @leaflet.pub, with an #introduction post wirtten and editted by @andreijiroh.dev.