We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join

I fully endorse this. (What my friend Will wrote, not necessarily what was in the thread bare and sketchy DNC "audit"... "The path forward is not complicated, but it is hard. Democrats need permanent local media infrastructure. They need always-on organizing. They need persuasive content… 🧵 1/5

Hello Tanglers! Here is my full proposal to make Tangled truly decentralized. It covers our current technical difficulties and how I'd like to solve those. Please share your thoughts about this. As user, would it be ok? Or if you have better ideas, plz share.

This is my huge update, ok I'm tired, I'll post more tomorrow xoxo

Do you have an AT Protocol app? Consider moving your domains over to Marque, where we publish basic domain info and DNS into your PDS And you can even edit your DNS directly! Check it out: marque.at

Congrats to @wordpress.org & @pfefferle.org for shipping the first 1.0.0 version of an Atmosphere plugin for WordPress. WordPress posts are published as microblog posts as well as @standard.site long form posts. Read all the other features in the blog post

What if we thought about digital spaces like an ecologist? We’d consider the incredible communities that come together over the interwebs – yes, even through social media – in a totally different way. substack.com/home/post/p-...

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

I just bought captiancalliope.at on @marque.at and changed my Atmosphere handle to it from! DNS records on my atproto pds? Yes please and thank you! :D But what should I use captaincalliope.blue for now?

@marque.at Do you treat the pds records as canonical dns records? Like, if I modify them directly or via another client, will the changes sync and propagate?

@iame.li 🎶 gotta catch them aaaaaallll 🎶

Context of said manifesto. Note who’s on here, what investments they have in this stuff and finally who does it serve (not the South, not working people, but just folks with tech tenure)

I think there might be a need for a javascript library that implements the atproto repo minus the DID authentication and minus the PDS. Use case: being able to start a local-first app offline and cold without login and start creating records, then saturate with identity to sign+sync when online.

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We need more intersectional approaches to the study of the far right. And with that, I mean not just for the far right itself but also the actors supporting, bolstering, normalising, mainstreaming it.

💥 Our paper is now out in Political Behavior - I'm very happy about it! We show how confrontational protest affects different dimensions of public opinion compared to demonstrative protest 👇 I also talked to ZEIT Online about our pre-print & the context a while ago: www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

I defended my dissertation last week! 🎉🎉🎉 I examine how mainstream parties & media respond to far-right challengers. Thanks so much to everyone who supported me along the way. I’m happy to carry on at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & continue ongoing work on reactionary politics & democratic defence.

Political speculation + hypothetical. If the left decided to play for all the cards to rival the right, we would be shooting for a constitutional congress. If the United States' growing pro-democracy coalition created the opportunity to revise the constitution, what would we do with it?

The future of AI is social. It's here, on infrastructure like the protocol enabling this and many other apps and experiences. With tools that enable safer communities and computing also enabling safer agentic ai use. With more ethically trained LLMs emerging through values driven collective action.

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AI: "Who's a good boy? Who's the goodest, goodest boy?" Powerful and wealthy CEO: "Me? Am I the goodest boy?"

lotta ppl sayin wild things rn

super old guy on the plane turned out to be old, blind, gay, barely mobile, Dutch... *and* an open source absolutist. spent an hour talking taking notes on his browser, Linux, maps a11y traumas, then got him from plane->train->tram. one-handed bluetooth keyboard he made to type braille to phone:

AI is forcing people to articulate their policies, goals, and standards in a way they always should have been in order to get better results from their LLMs. That’s a nice side effect, but it’s weird that people did it so rarely for humans.

Aturi is evolving! We’re now a browser extension for Fast Traveling around the Atmosphere: • Auto-redirect to favorite clients • Quickly switch apps • Copy universal links Automatically open @bsky.app links in clients like @anisota.net, @blackskyweb.xyz, @reddwarf.app, & more! Download: aturi.to

I don't often share my fandom side on here, but I just figured out the perfect context to justify a crossover between Metroid and Castlevania characters: a time between the fall of the Moon Kingdom circa 1000 ad and today. That's right, Samus and Alucard can be brought together by Sailor Moon lore!

Come on people, atproto powered Blender asset registry. Let’s start the countdown.

If your opinion is that Bluesky has been a net-negative on US politics (lol) and you run a Substack (LOL), then you are not a serious person and should not be taken seriously

TOMORROW: Wednesday, May 13th @fightforthefuture.org @massequality.bsky.social @progressivemass.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social and more will host a PRESS CONFERENCE outside the MA State House opposing dangerous "age verification" laws in the state. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

Writing about writing!

So @patak.cat is absolutely doing the work. He is sharing a lot of important, thoughtful, pieces about how people, mostly builders, are feeling right now, the stresses and strains of the current era. I suggest you might appreciate following him.

What are the implications of looking at atproto through the lens of the OSI model?

It is good to finally see many genuine and nuanced pieces about coding with AI. Wherever you fall in the spectrum, I suggest you take the time to read Annie's thoughts. If we want change, we need first to accept the complexities and contradictions of the society we live in. And it won't get easier.

Is it an unspoken thing that some of us work on/adjacent to new and evolving internet protocols as a proxy to being in a trans+nonbinary support group? If so, can it be spoken? I'd really like for this to be spoken if this is what we're doing.

"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/

Got excited about @alice.mosphere.at's Phanpy for Atmosphere fork so I queued up a bunch of PRs over the weekend, and now I'm co-maintaining 😅️ Mostly focused on bugs/UX glitches I'm catching while using it, but there's a lot we can do to make this more Atmosphere-centric.

bluepy (bluepy.mosphere.at), your favorite mastodon client's atproto port is now officially co-maintained by @quillmatiq.com

“AI” as it currently stands isn’t a new paradigm or era. It’s the very end of the platform era. Not quite the dying gasp, but certainly its last possible area of capture. The next era starts with other trends, and whatever this AI thing should have been from the beginning may finally be possible.

anyone know anyone who runs a FB group or has in the past? Some people want to get off there but are on for historical reasons, i think. Anyone who has run one would be a great source of product research!

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I'm hearing people talk about local-first technology as part of "edge computing". That's some serious economic capture framing. It's my computer. YOU'RE the edge. I'm the center. This is the return to personal computing. You don't own it and I'm not at your edge. </mini-rant>

hi! i'm looking for projects in the ATmosphere whose users are people in *organizations*. if that sounds like you or something you know about please reach out!

Disperse is now a Firefox Add-on! Starting today, you can Disperse links across the Atmosphere from a click of a button on @firefox.com, @zen-browser.app, @waterfox.net, or any other Firefox-based browsers 🚀

Hello world! We're a non-profit research lab dedicated to ensuring the stability of the global Open Source ecosystem we all rely on.

Heads up to Chrome users who prefer not to not allocate 4GB of their drives to Gemini Nano weights.

Infrastructure isn't cheap, especially when you have nearly 150K accounts, most of which are *very* active. Please consider donating! We have tiers starting at less than $1/mo if you subscribe annually. We have a lot more coming, and Bridgy Fed and Bounce will be the foundation for all of it.

Get these guys paid! They do so much critical work that is legitimately changing the internet for the better.

This would be a major political win and milestone for the atproto community! And not just one clone, a fleet of interoperable clones. With the caveat that trust and safety work needs continued investment & integration so that we're not creating new eventual pipelines for far right radicalization.