We're thrilled to welcome @benparker140.bsky.social to the Newsmast Foundation team! Co-founder of The New Humanitarian and a former international aid worker, Ben joins us as Editor. He'll be helping keep our Channel experience looking good across the Social Web through careful curation 🧹

1/3 Case study: how can we have less toxic, non-extractive #SocialMedia, that works the way internet pioneers originally envisioned? Well, look no further than my old haunt @thebristolcable.bsky.social, and my new #Fediverse friends the @newsmastfoundation.org!

And @alexandrageese.bsky.social is on fire today. Frustration from yesterday's tech sovereignty summit? #EuroskyLive

Good morning #EuroskyLive! #Berlin #ATproto

This week, @playawfulthings.bsky.social & @michaelfoster.bsky.social are heading to Germany for the European Digital Sovereignty Summit and @eurosky.social Live 💫 Links to learn more about each event are below 👇 #SocialWeb #Eurosky #DigitalSovereignty

Local news and community in one app 📱 We are incredibly excited and, honestly, really proud to be launching The Bristol Cable iOS app with @thebristolcable.bsky.social today. If you're a Cable member, check it out! #SocialMedia #DigitalCommunity

There's a lot to look forward to at the #Fediverse track at #SFSCon but @saskiakezia.com and @michaelfoster.bsky.social talk on growing the open social web, in the context of liberalism's crisis.

Yesterday, we visited @thebristolcable.bsky.social for their AGM to announce our exciting partnership. The Bristol Cable is a co-op, 100% locally-owned publication and we're very proud to be developing new ways to help them connect with their community away from Big Tech. #LocalJournalism

Politicians that have showed up in my dreams: Ted Heath Barack Obama 💫New💫 George Bush Sr. (Simpsons version) 💫New💫 John McCain (Simpsons version)

Started watching #theHack on ITV and want more? 'After the Hack', our recap show with @bylinetimes.bsky.social is now out! Weekly episodes on the real politics and behind the scenes goss of the phone hacking scandal, plus what action you can take to build a better media youtu.be/VlCYtc_IGoU?...

Pay to illuminate the Caravaggio. A pay wall for art.

Advice please: what are the new local journalism outlets sticking it to power? I'm thinking of publications like the Bristol Cable, Inside Croydon and West Country Voices. Which others should be on the list? Thanks.

Such a wonderful presenter and a wonderful show. A powerful piece of our country's intellectual life. Every episode is so refreshing because it demands something from its audience - almost totally alone in the media landscape. Thanks Melvyn! A wonderful project.

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Today, we're launching the first Beta of Bounce, a tool that lets you migrate your social graph across protocols! We got such a positive response from our announcement, and we're so excited for folks to try it out. Here's what you need to know when you Bounce: blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-...

Today, we're launching $1 & $2 tiers on our Patreon so more of our community can support us! As a part of that, we also wanted to share where our funding is currently coming from and what community funding can help lead to for the future of Bridgy Fed & Bounce. Check it out in the post below 👇🏼

I've been paying for Bridgy Fed myself, out of pocket, since the beginning. I'm happy to, and I'll continue to, but it's not cheap. We have big ideas and plans for the future, and funding is our main blocker. Please help if you can!

The media is broken and it’s breaking us. Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract. But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising. This is the #MediaRevolution 🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day. 🔗 mediarevolution.org

Ah! I am the shame of London. I have a squeaky Lime! #London #Ebike

A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money

Australia seeing #JofraArcher take a wicket in his first over after *4 years* of injury #Cricket #EngVsInd

Bristol graffiti ❤️

We're really excited to be attending @atproto.london‬ this evening! @playawfulthings.bsky.social and @saskiakezia.com ‬ will both be there to chat decentralised social media, learn more about AT protocol, and enjoy the drinks very kindly provided by @graze.social 🥂 See you soon!!

Peace plans - Dead Tariffs - Dead Mass deportations - Dying? In the first *6 months* What is he going to do for *3 years* He'll quit, right? It can't go on.

Just finished up at the Evanston No Kings rally. It was safe, peaceful, and a show of solidarity by *at least* 1,000 people. Go to your local protest. Don’t let this administration scare you. Stand with your community when our leaders won’t.

“According to KMSP-TV, the lawmakers were shot by two men dressed like police officers and driving a car that looked like a police car. One of the suspects was taken into custody in Brooklyn Park after an officer-involved shooting. The second suspect is still at large.” bnonews.com/index.php/20...

This merits wall-to-wall political pressure until he resigns, is removed, or reverses himself. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

been on a run of watching Hitchcock classics (Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest) and it's almost painful to observe the level of thematic and aesthetic sophistication that pop culture aspired to (let alone achieved) at the peak of the midcentury High Modernist moment

@testgroup.channel.org Hello from Bsky

Seems like a good day to have this on. Stay strong LA ❤️ #Resist #Nonviolence #DirectAction

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

If you had any possible temptation to downplay how bad it is, stop immediately. Thread (add your own in replies, please) of things we can do to melt ICE and support immigrants here.

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

Exciting update 👉 We're inviting select users to Channel.org services now 🎉 For this beta launch, we've decided to keep Channel.org invite only but we're excited to open the beta to the public soon 👀 If you'd like to be on the waitlist, just drop us a message! #SocialWeb #NewRelease

this made me chuckle.

"If you do not assert your principles against the status quo, others will assert them for you." Excellent article by @willdunn.bsky.social on the shadow of George Osborne's class war. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

The shock of this stuff is how little it matters.

Why only tomorrow? Surely it's time to start thinking about your eXit strategy? mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

Tomorrow is Save Social day - Boycott mainstream social media for a day (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok) Send a message to Mark Zuckerberg & Elon Musk. savesocial.eu/day/

We are live on Product Hunt🚀 We would very much appreciate your support 🙏

Our Foundation Ambassador, Freddie, is heading to Hamburg for @ahoy.eu 🎉 Although we're not ATProto experts, it's a great opportunity to meet up with friends in the space and to make some new ones. If you're there, give Freddie a message at @playawfulthings.bsky.social #Ahoy #SocialWeb

NEW 2025 has become the UK's worst wildfire year on record After just 15 weeks, 28,771 hectares have been burned That's an area roughly 2x area of Bristol More background in this story here 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The folks @dairinstitute.bsky.social are publishing a paper, accompanying short video, and statement on the role social media plays in genocide through the lens of the 2020-2022 Tigray war (deadliest armed conflict of the 21st century) They are warning about the same thing happening again

I feel like I'm going crazy listening to panel after panel at #IJF25 talk about needing an EU alternative to Big Tech. There is one! Learn about it, fund it - or just listen when we say it exists 😤 If you want to learn more, come to the Mastodon aperitivo. @journalismfestival.com #IJF25

Some experiences at #IJF25 A lost cloud drifting through the valley. Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @werd.io. Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile. River of cloud this morning.

caley's gut market call is that we're in a "wait for hard data on the real economy" period where Trump isn't going to retreat absent a crisis, which apparently isn't happening now, and we're going to find out what these new trade barriers do to an economy (probably not good things)

Ah interesting, they know I'm approaching 30 so they're squeezing in a fourth or fifth once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Touchè sir, I confess you have bested me again 📉

greenwashing bankers are giving up on greenwashing to openly celebrate wrecking the planet