Race is a social reality. Social networks are how we bring our social realities online. Solidarity forever with Rudy, the Blacksky team, and the Blacksky community. They’re doing the work for and with their community. What are you doing for yours?

I think it's time. #soon

Coral bleaching just off the coast of florida Heated Tidal Reef

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

@thisismissem.social been a valued consultant for us at @germnetwork.com, helping us with her deep knowledge of ATProto and OAuth. You can hire her too and you should!

This is *huge* A while back, I was concerned about ATProto platforms using different lexicons diverging and fragmenting the space, but the long-formers (@leaflet.pub @pckt.blog @offprint.app) are setting an incredible example of how to build together 👏🏼 More of this, please!

god i love it here

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

I love it when we all stay up late having fun together in our jammies with our little snacks

The story www.propublica.org/article/vide...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

If you're in the Bay Area, opening arguments for the trial start this Friday. And there is a call to pack the court! Please spread if you can. Friday, January 9, 8:30AM Santa Clara Hall of Justice Department 53 190-200 West Hedding Street San Jose, CA 95110

New year, same Germ. Your friendly secure messenger for the Atmosphere and beyond. 🔑 No phone numbers 🔑 DMs from your ATproto handle 🔑 End-to-end encrypted with Messaging Layer Security

I'm starting a book club and the only book we're going to read is Ace by @chengela.bsky.social. In for 2026: Learning what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex🤝🌻

And Stanford is trying to squeeze $329,000 of restitution out of the students, some of whom are couch surfing and sleeping in cars, to bankroll their ✨building renovation✨ when Stanford’s facilities director has testified that the damage was UNDER $10K. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Mission and miracles. Not wealth and waymos!

This article is EXACTLY what has been on my mind the past few months🫨🫨 the zeitgeist is so powerful

I hope they bring froyo back in 2026

its just message

your case number confirm the Incident code social DNA fingerprint connect with your indelible stain if you have a Known Poster Number (KPN) be sure to include that link up your permanent behavioral record pass

Users need something easy to say. It can be shorthand and it can be vague what they're referring to. (e.g. "my @") Platforms need something that, when written, clearly refers to ATProto and nothing else. I feel like the best way to resolve this is with an acronym that you can easily say out loud...?

iHandle

It's a shame "what's your @" is already reserved

Friends don’t let friends pass up the opportunity for a custom handle 🙂‍↕️🌻

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Germ has received a Cypherpunk Fellowship for our open-source contributions to Messaging Layer Security. Many thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info for the support. Check out our full announcement: www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-cy...

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

This is a longstanding means of murdering indigenous Canadians, where it was given the poetic name ”starlight tours.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...

@dropout.tv your shows already have their subdomains set up which means y'all could have the CUTEST handles im talkin @veryimportantpeople.dropout.tv @umactually.dropout.tv @dimension20.dropout.tv @makesomenoise.dropout.tv etc the opportunities are limitless🤩🙏

just bought a cd player........................physical media is so back in 2026

If you truly wanted to rm-rf we would weigh the pros and cons with you. Uh, we would explain that it would be very destructive, uh… Carol: yes or no? Ultimately… yes. Wouldn’t necessarily feel good about it. But we would move heaven and earth to make you happy, Carol. Would you like to rm -rf?

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Black women told you this in 2018.

Should my winter profile emojis be…. ❄️☃️🌲 …or … 🧣☃️🛷

and they... sweem.... she's in the class e ...tweam 🎶

Just got off the waitlist? Welcome to Germ for atproto! Tag a couple friends you need to DM with and we’ll get them off the list faster. #WaitlistWednesday

gen ai laying claim to the cute sparkle motif is sooooooooooo effed up for the rest of us

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Hell of a way to tee up America’s 250th year.

dora.nyc this is OUTSTANDING. super navigatable directory for food distros, resources. and easy to remember because it’s like the explorer but also— directory of resources & aid

We LOVE Solange 🙂‍↕️🤍 peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/sol... #BlackSky #BlackSkyMusic

Late to the game but COOOL!!! Love the stateless favicon fetching strat. Low barrier to entry for new lexicons to get their logos up there:)

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

“Toronto”