this is a great and important effort! even with PLC moving out of Bluesky PBC it is important to have more replicas, especially with regional diversity and the ability to "step in" and accept ops if needed. strong endorse work in this direction.

some of you still don't get it

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

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a fun side-project would be building social cataloging features on top of archive.org items. tagging, reviews, annotations, curation, lists, Q&A. there is a TON of cool stuff in there to explore. staff do baseline organization, but could decentralize+coordinate the digging and organizing more

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

I owned "tangled.org" since 1998, and had been looking for the right thing to do with it ever since. Glad to have found it a good home!

This is some real-life bonkers movie style car chase stuff. Video in the article as a car jumps the opening University Bridge in Seattle to evade SPD www.kiro7.com/news/local/c...

Salem Towne, a pilot from Poulsbo in Washington State, finally released photos he took of the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980. He heard of the explosion while flying in Olympia, and went to check it out. He flew his Cessna 150 into an opening between volcanic ash bands to snap the photos.

USGS has issued a statement noting that Mount St. Helens has strong easterly–southeasterly winds in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens, which have picked up loose volcanic ash deposited during the 1980 eruptions. You can view the live web cam here: www.usgs.gov/media/webcam...

very cool to see AP devs hacking with AT-style OAuth! I'd really love to see convergence in the modern ecosystem around this shape of distributed OAuth

Hello everyone! Announcing Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025. Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programe exploring the European open social web. If you're building on ATProto and interested in showcasing, please reach out! To register: luma.com/knk1342n

cat /dev/firehose | rg keyword | jq .value.text

just reminded of this, so great

it's so over (dril posts on threads now)

smashing the like button in order to get to the nutritious goo inside

Interested in doing graduate research with me and the rest of @communitydata.science? My research group (now with faculty at six campuses!) is organizing a PhD and MS recruiting event and Q&A. Join us! Details and a registration link is here: blog.communitydata.science/prospective-...

iSchools are a great start! We've been training hybrid scholars of this kind for more than two decades. Every university should have one; more than 130 universities do already. As a computer scientist who stumbled into one, it's been transformative for me.

blacksky.app → pds atproto.africa → relay blacksky.community → app @blackskyweb.xyz → moderation @tektite.cc → migration assembly.blacksky.community → governance blackskyweb.xyz → marketing website rsky.satnav.dev → exported data explorer

I don't think there is any corruption or even poor decision making on the part of Signal here, but it is a bummer how much ecosystem funding over the years has gone to (presumably) Twillio

finally fixed an annoying issue on ozone and just in time for the next release! this upcoming version will have a bunch of new things but im particularly excited about labeler grouping, mod tool metadata and workspace batch info features. lots to play with for 3p labelers there!

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

authntic

ok i pulled the whole plc.directory and am making it available faster plc.t3.storage.dev ^ s3-compatible public object store with weekly batches of the entire plc, up to ~1 week ago files are named like `plc.directory/{week-truncated-timestamp}.jsonl.jz`, eg: plc.t3.storage.dev/plc.director...

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Boeing CH-47 Chinook transporting a tree.

to clarify if there is any confusion, Bluesky Social PBC does not currently own or control 'bluesky.app' (the domain with full "blue" in it)

re-hinge things

multipart rar is annoying to encounter but it's also how you know you're getting the good stuff

Shortform Sexpots and Longform Lotharios have never before successfully cohabitated…til now! When "lust for less" meets "mania for more"… When Prolix Prosemaxxers and Orgasmic Oulipians share semantic space… …what sensual schema sparks will fly? Find out on the new season of Lexicon Loveshack!

@tangled.sh search interface if you need it. tangled-search.bigmoves.deno.net. Example of what you can build with Slices (an appview builder) and the power of the #atprotocol. Still working through all the details but waitlist and beta for Slices are coming soon!

oh wow I had not flagged the custom wastehq.social band domain in the handle

It took forever but I finally got a photo of the pink dandelion which I started from seed in bloom!

there's a bar near me (Old Gilbert Road) that has a cheap burger specifically inspired by Dick's. It's not the same but it definitely does the trick when I need one (this is their old menu, I am delightfully completely unable to find a picture of the new one)

slowest Dick's line of my life last night. but of course, worth it in the end

went to go see him

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.

tank!

anybody building on the indigo OAuth client package yet? wondering if this would already break folks or if I can sneak it in cc: @iame.li

yo this guy is cooking

This is slightly tangential but I went to a store today and a woman who I consider to be Bluesky age squatted down to get something from the very bottom of a display and she went “ahh….owwww” and I didn’t even ask what was wrong because I knew. The CEO of Bluesky has four years before that’ll happen

wtf

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

very cool and collaborative line of thinking around appview architecture

left: fresh-faced @matthieu.bsky.team setting out on the atproto OAuth adventure right: @matthieu.bsky.team wrapping up permission-sets implementation

looking at bsky operational problems with most feeds, and images

two great tastes that taste great together!

bsky mushroom PDS instances in us-west region are seeing flapping network issues, due to upstream provider issues