Finally got myself a little manual hand grinder after years of pondering whether I actually needed one. Enjoying grinding different decaf coffee beans on the same settings to see which are the best in a direct face off.

A 3-step guide for iPhone users annoyed to discover they have to fix the clock transparency on each new lock screen individually: STEP 1: While phone is in lock mode, long-press your wallpaper to bring up the customize button at center bottom. Click it.

Really enjoying the Instagram experience where they stop your scrolling to force you to consume ads. The perfect example of enshittification.

When regulators design social media frameworks as if every platform is Meta-sized, they risk creating an internet where only monopolies can survive. Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team & @rabble.nz discuss how Meta-scale regulation creates barriers that smaller social teams can’t operate under. Out now.

When the core primitives of trust and safety infrastructure are open source, everyone gets to experiment, tweak, and make it work for them, like @hailey.at just did.

There’s so much here already. The collection of products that make up the early ATmosphere is a nearly complete social media ecosystem in miniature, ready to be turbocharged. 🦋🐝🌳🦒🦠 rhosf.leaflet.pub/3ma4qrtzhhc2...

TBH this entire piece is making me think about the future of social media as more companies flood the user experience with AI.

Meet the Bluesky DevRel team, @alex.bsky.team & @jimray.bsky.team, who will be delivering two half day workshops as part of our pre-conference events.

I invested in Gander and all I got was this lousy t-shirt… I mean equity (we aren’t doing merch). We officially surpassed our goal of $1.5M CAD in equity crowdfunding last night, and we're now 1,800 Canadian co-owners in Gander Social. Crazy.

Our co-founder & CRO @jeffallen.bsky.social joined @techpolicypress.bsky.social to break down Trust & Safety’s past, present, and future. The conversation explores how the field has evolved and what the future will require from platforms. Listen here: bit.ly/48ycWXq

v1.111 is live today! We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia and other regions, and to restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi. Plus, we fixed some bugs and laid the groundwork for improved "who to follow" suggestions in the near future.

Amazing analysis considering how much I use Google maps and categorize all my fav / potential dining options.

There is so much shade thrown around in this article that it ends up being quite the spicy read.

Great infographic and standard playbook for disinfo / misinfo

My kid is watching k-pop demon hunters while I'm on work calls (solo parenting for a few days) and I can't recall a time I've been more jealous of them.

Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓 Here’s the program: platgov.net/assets/site/...

To give you an idea of how up to speed I am with pop culture I’m hoping to watch season 1 of severance over the holidays.

🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency. Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...

A huge thank you to the Bluesky team, and congrats to all the other well-deserved grantees! Excited to see the ATmosphere continue to flourish in 2026 and beyond 🙏🏼🚀

Excited for all the Bluesky grantees today. Let's ship 💙💚

Grateful to announce that Bluesky Social PBC has awarded me a small grant to continue building in the ATProtocol ecosystem! Building decentralized infrastructure is a team effort. Thankful to everyone who has contributed directly and indirectly. Excited to keep shipping. 🚀

Just thankful that @ichotiner.bsky.social doesn’t reply to anyone here. Small blessings.

Reads study. Pondering... hmm, how do we add more Batman to Bluesky? futurism.com/health-medic...

logging on to see the feed filled with posts about olivia nuzzi and ryan lizza provides a great incentive to just close the app and go on with my day

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop. It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!). I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Digital sovereignty in Europe without the cold start problem. Watch live 👇 @bnewbold.net and I are here irl. Come say hi if you’re here 👋

Reviewing the applications for our T&S policy lead role. There are candidates that put such deep thought into their applications that I wish we had the time and capability to meet with so many of these folks who want to be part of the Bluesky story.

I mentioned this a week ago and got a few "no thanks grandpas" - which, fair, I get it. But people want to find their friends! We resolved not to touch this until we could reasonably solve enumeration attacks and consent from all parties. I'm optimistic, but we're presenting for scrutiny now

A fascinating but dystopian read on the state of Nation States integrating AI into their espionage activities www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

I hope you get yelled at significantly less on Bluesky every time a story on Matt Gaetz breaks out by ‘people who can’t read good’ @mattgertz.bsky.social

Next week - join our webinar on trust and safety standards! With reflections from regulators, practitioners, and academic experts. cc @aaron.bsky.team

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

If you are in Berlin today, join me for #DisinfoCon2025 Only a week before #European #Summit on #digital #sovereignty we will speak about the #socialweb and why decentralized #networks matter. I will also speak about an upcoming alliance that demand #EU #public-interest #digitalinfrastructures.

What it’s like working in Trust and Safety in 2025. Always a delight.

Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.

One happy realization over the past day of wins is that this site can be a place where political magic happens. This comes as a shock to folks on other sites who say we are in a filter bubble. Makes it all the more important that non-billionare controlled spaces exist. Media diversity matters.

I normally don't pay any attention to celebrity gossip - but as a former disinfo specialist, this case is 'the future' of what coordinated inauthentic messaging looks like. Don't look at Russia or China - they are looking at Hollywood dark PR firms for how to evolve.

Sharing some personal thoughts and feelings about the last weekend on the world's number one baseball app

We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!

Trying to watch the user counter tick over to 40M as my kid tries to convince me that we should start trick or treating in the mornings to make the most of the time.

39,983,508 bsky-users.theo.io

I’m impressed that scammers updated all their logo assets faster than we did as a company after the latest app update. The sheer evolutionary speed of spam/scams these days is insane.

Oh hi! You should check these out. Especially that Technical Recruiter role, there... bsky.social/about/join

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Totally wild to me that Irish politics ends up being #2 in trending on Bluesky. Congrats to Catherine Connolly on her win as the new Irish President and looking forward to Bluesky having more globally representative trends in the future!

atmosphere devs! 🧑‍🚀 just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco... tl;dr expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social

Thought this was an interesting case on evolving speech norms, and the challenges of writing policy that covers emojis. This is something we struggled with at Twitter with racial abuse against footballers. In that when is a monkey or a banana emoji acceptable, and when is it intolerant speech.

Just broke the magic number at Bluesky — more than 8 hours of meetings in one day. 1/3