If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

NPR's hourly news bulletin went so far as to link other previous racist and racially coded things Trump has done.

We sent the first ~100 invites for @eurosky.social. We might send some more on the weekend, then start sending 100s daily if everything holds up well.

@karenho.bsky.social check it out, a guy made to a whole functional lego typewriter. its uh, pretty chonky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWT...

IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!!!! If you want to find bandcamp links that folks are sharing today, we've got a feed for that! bsky.app/profile/did:...

feeling normal #art

Great post. The best conversations I have w/ folks building on atproto are ones that are about building with communities and organizers.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 4th 2026 (Medium), in 02:51 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Billie Eilish is _24_?

@mackuba.eu I take that back, the thread choked some how?

Yeah, The Freedom Of The Press is just the "become ungovernable" meme. There's a great episode from NPR's Throughline about conspiracy theories all the way back to US founding fathers that really cemented this for me: www.npr.org/2019/11/27/7...

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

It's bonkers to me that you'd lay Joe off. He's one of the best sourced people reporting on cybersecurity issues.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.

I know it’s annoying that I constantly ask people to sub, but subbing makes a huge difference. @aftermath.site has around 5,000 paying subs right now; most of us still work other jobs on the side. we have over 90k bluesky followers. if a fraction subscribed, it would literally change our lives

Surreal seeing someone you knew while she was in grad school get laid off, by a billionaire, while she is in a war zone for said billionaire.

#ProtocolsForPublishers @kevinmarks.com: I'm going to be live skeeting the Protocols for Publishers talks at Newspeak House tonight https://luma.com/2d2s26jg

Oh no! Laying off Nitasha is such a bummer. She's done so much great work for such a long time!

Well that's freaking fascinating. The AP article about it is an interesting read: apnews.com/article/john...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

It's very exciting to see Eurosky launch their first piece of open infrastructure. It's been great to help this come into shape from early discussions of running independent Bluesky infrastructure to getting something to users.

I've just moved to eurosky.social, and you can too! For European data storage, and to demonstrate how a decentralized, open social network looks like in practice. We are testing the personal data service (PDS) transfer this week, sign up if you want in! www.eurosky.tech/register #eurosky

Heading to #PfP✨London 2026? We’ll be there! @protocolsforpublishers.com is exploring open protocols for a sustainable, agentic web. The infrastructure decisions made now will shape how publishers navigate an AI-mediated web. If you’re there, let’s connect! protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/

Today is the day! #PfP✨London protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/

Sveltelowdas. Do your part!

First to like Backbone on @npmx.dev

I hate that we need it, but I’m really proud of our @unbreaking.org team quietly working away on food safety. (Be warned: it’s unsettling 🤢) unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

was it you?

I've been thinking about this a lot and this is gamergate energy.

We’re very excited to have @smcgrath.phd present “Reigniting the Party: Lessons from a Stalled Migration to Bluesky” at #ATScience! The talk will detail an effort to migrate the @amia.org community to Bluesky. Scott will share lessons learned and outline revised strategies to rebuild the network! 🧪

wow @signal.org is down status.signal.org

Several of these books are absolutely worth more than $18 by themselves.

I'm not even mad

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

I've been using Facebook apps as one antecedent to this conversation. Dan's framing tho has me thinking about embedded data journalism graphics. Also how much of a mess the latter became in the era of apps (which we're still in)

Remember like 15 years ago, when Russian dash cams of horrible accidents went viral? And everyone in Russia was using them because they couldn’t trust the authorities? Fundamentally, the dash cam and the body cam are the visual record of a failed state. They are a symptom posing as a substitute

This whole heap is gonna go public soon. So he made twitter investors whole with AI venture money and soon he’ll make the AI investors whole with public equity market money, on the back of an enterprise the US government won’t allow to fail.

i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script

Earthquake?

Contemplating networks of folks 3d printing whistles for distribution across the US and @cstross.bsky.social's Singularity Sky.

@microcosm.blue mentioned #fosdem

official public beta launch of blento.app 🎉🥳 lots of new features and cards added and (mostly) works on mobile now too share it with your friends, family, neighbors and random strangers on the street!

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We're working today with the newly assembled npmx maintainers and contributors to carve out good spaces in our community for working together. So I don't have time to chase zorro for the weekly #caturday pic. Instead, bumping a photo of his first months attempting to climb his first trees.

so this is a thing now

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

A slide of @snarfed.org agreeing with the premise of bringing DIDs to the fediverse