This place is made of books.

Anyone interested in standardising political ad libraries on AT? We could get all parties to post (under their legit handle) in this way and have a unified-but-decentralised transparency database that way.

A very telling chart. Open Source funding has been frozen for the past four years, while everyone's needs for our shared commons infrastructure have continued to grow exponentially. Pay maintainers properly if you want your dependencies to stop feeling like a minefield.

You should read a pretty nerdy piece of legislative text actually mentioning the need to support financially OS, browsers etc to achieve tech sovereignty 🤓 - it is the @imco.europarl.europa.eu opinion for the European Competitiveness Fund here www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/202...

huh! good to see internet rewilding being taken up as a frame and a rallying cry by @mozilla.org Be great if you guys linked to where the idea was born and the people already working with others and bending the whole shape of our lives around how to do it: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

These digital sovereignty pieces, they never mention mobiles or OS's or browsers. They probably think these are public goods.

Seneca on the ChatGPT-addicted millionaire

Well, at least I can use @eurosky.social!

HappyView 2.5 is out, and I've added support for one of the most anticipated things in atproto: Permissioned Spaces. 🧵

Live from Labour Party HQ

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Wake up babe, new monetary policy just dropped!

European institutions are *packed* for #EuropeDay. I only wish our institutions loved us back.

@greens-efa.eu secured major wins in the EU Competitiveness Fund vote in the IMCO Committee. Stronger support for Europe’s tech sovereignty, open-source software, backing for core digital infrastructure, and explicit support for European alternatives to dominant online platforms and social media.

Next month is ten years since INFOMOCRACY was published. I am planning to write an essay about the perspective from a decade later and would love to hear what people found memorable/interesting/useful in the book!

For those who, like I do, could use some uplifting #fridayvibes on a short video: Congratulations to @sebastian.eurosky.social @sherif.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com @ivansigal.eurosky.social and @eurosky.social staff 🎉🥳 #eurosky

Every other week I hear from yet another European clone of some big tech social media, except with "European values" (which are conveniently never detailed). We need something different, because we can do so much better. That's why we're building Eurosky.

Keep pushing Keep pushing Keep pushing…

What's remarkable about this analysis is how well it applies to other leaders who are hapless in the same way in this time. How come, and how can we put an end to this stupidity?

"In the American context, the idea of a small party unifying voters across left and right sounds like a pipe dream. But there is evidence it worked in Japan" www.techpolicy.press/japans-team-...

Because I'm a cutting-edge next-generation political analyst I can tell you: if you keep repeating far right talking points, it actually promotes the far right. Of course, no political leadership would be dumb enough not to know that.

A year and change into President Trump’s second term, it has become abundantly clear that appeasement only leads to short-term wins wrote @armida.bsky.social for @carnegieeurope.bsky.social buff.ly/hD7Phbo

Just found out that my DMs were set to "Allow new messages from NO ONE" which is a setting I know I never saw before, let alone set. Has anyone else had that bug?

"The digital sphere is still in its early days. It may currently suffer under an authoritarian private government, but that need not be its adult form. We stand at the doorstep of democratic renewal that can take us out of the 18th century and into our better future."

Willkommen bei @eurosky.social @annaluehrmann.eurosky.social 👋

Rewilding the Web will take place @schoolofppls.bsky.social on the 28/29th May! With @philosodave.bsky.social, @anil.recoil.org + Jon Crowcroft, Elena Rovenskaya, Orit Halpern, @georgien.bsky.social, @r-emrys.bsky.social, @blaine.bsky.social + others Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-...

"It only recognises two institutional arrangements: one system accessing the resources of another (vertical) and two systems communicating as equals. You couldn't even run a garden club on such a restrictive toolbox" berjon.com/interoperabi...

In policy circles I keep hearing about "horizontal" and "vertical" interoperability, notions that I haven't encountered in tech standards. I sat down to write about why it's a limiting understanding of interoperability and how we can do better. berjon.com/interoperabi...

You know we're making a difference when the fascists point their propaganda machine at us. It's only the beginning — help us keep winning!

Can we stop focusing on single statements and pretend they influence US policy? Trump wants to reduce US support for European defence. Merz’s statements (or any other) are a pretext, not the cause. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How Germany’s Merz torpedoed his plan to contain Trump

Yessss, this is amazing news! Get your pre-orders in!

On #StarWarsDay this from #Andor is relevant today and every day: “The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.” -Mon Mothma (1/2)

Who's the idiot who missed the CfP deadline for LocalFirst?

Whatever floats your boat.

Is this the time that @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu will understand that surrendering Europe's future to save German industrial darlings of the 20th century is a strategy that will leave us with neither? Or will it take a little bit more humiliation?

this is so silly and I love it, who did it

ATproto Belgium's kickoff will be remote on Friday 22 May 2026 at 6pm (Brussels time UTC+2). Confirmed attendees: @robin.berjon.com @mathewlowry.eurosky.social @tokono.ma @vdbdavid.eurosky.social - open to more if available at that time! Please reach out via DM to receive the meeting link 🙏

Environmentalism without class politics is gardening.

the world is stranger than you imagine the world is stranger than you *can* imagine www.ft.com/content/3b04...

Trump's petrowars threaten to unleash carbon shock therapy around the world - disorderly decarbonization and deindustrialisation. The answer, we argue w @benbraun.eurosky.social, is decarbonised sovereignty, a pathway for the Santa Marta coalition. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...

Not to take you out of any kind of discourse, fam, but next Friday it's David Attenborough's 100th birthday. How do you plan to celebrate?

Many people saying this isn’t gonna work out well. I think it’ll work out because we all *need* it to work out; we need a web of trust. Of course this very first iteration isn’t gonna get it all right on the first go, but this is just a start. This is the open social web, it’s a living standard.

Watching Slow Horses series 2 and laughed out loud when River interviews at a data intelligence company called Elessar

Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi - or Praying Mantis there are 2,400 species This is the African Spiny Flower mantis

"Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual" by @xabibaran.bsky.social & Arantza Etxeberria (eds) A broad and stimulating collection of essays, many of them fresh and at times surprising, on the many questions of autonomy.

"The Beginning Comes After The End" by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social An excellent, hopeful, lucid thrust through the Gramscian hegemonic transformation that is our lives.

There was an outage of the WebTiles site. A production cronjob was not generating wildcard certs correctly, but it went unnoticed because earlier generation worked and the certs were valid for 90 days. All is back to working. I of course recommend that people run their own servers :)

oh hey another good day to listen to www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVp...

Lamar diss ruptors move fast & Drake things.

Mortician disruptors move fast & wake things.