I love that Lush has left Meta and X and joined Bluesky!

a nice byproduct of my backfill is i'm now the proud owner of one of the largest dataset of bluesky posts, roughly all 2.6 billion of them, with all their metadata from the post lexicon living in 552GB zstd'd parquet files, which for now live on a simple hetzner storage box

but i can ask 5.5 for fun things like "which World Cup country's flag emojis spiked the most" and the top 3 are Cape Verde, Curacao and Bosnia & Herzegovina, respectively

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(re-)introducing ✨ Emoji Stats for Bluesky ✨ now 100% backfilled!! (and capable of historical analytics down to the hour) technical details and war story below emojistats.at

🇬🇧 Russian hackers blamed for largest cyberattack in UK history, — The New York Times   A cyberattack on the computer systems of Jaguar Land Rover, which occurred in late August 2025, slowed production in the United Kingdom in the third quarter, causing losses of $2.5 billion to the British economy.

"Writing is thinking." This, a hundred times over We learn more about problems and how we understand them when we have to communicate them to others

got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...

JOB

eYou think did:plc isn't GDPR-compliant... and yet they've just added support for signing in with it? 🤨

🧵 this post that appeared at the top of a trending topic looks *extremely* suspicious 🤨 there are apparently 283 likes, but if you scroll down many of the accounts must have been taken down, and the early likes look like they're from bots bsky.app/profile/supportlgbt.bsky.social/post/3mp7atatikk2e

when claude says "the smoking gun"

THEYRE SHARING SCREENSHOTS OF BSKY POSTS ON X

oh my god

bisous

hear me out: @™️🅾️💲🅿️♓3️⃣®️e

The wait is over... Anisota virginiensis is here! A big evolution in our experiment of what social media can be. • Spells • Post Poetry • Blended Feeds • Alt Text Generator • Post Adviser • Support for @standard.site, @grain.social, @teal.fm, @leaflet.pub • More... Enter the forest: anisota.net

PSA Anisota is no longer a Bluesky client, it is an Atmosphere client. You can publish directly to @grain.social + @leaflet.pub / @standard.site among many other things. You can also cast, craft, & share Spells. There's a new way to engage called Post Poetry. + alt text generation. So much more!

the advanced search UI is looking good 🔍

ok time to shut it down folks. this website has reached full cognitohazard

My dumb self thought it was typehead instead of typeAhead. I was like “yeah you type and heads show up. Makes sense”

just so people have some heads up: gonna have to do a 2x price hike to use microcosm services. this is to keep up with rising tech costs, as everyone is facing. - $0/mo today - increasing 2x to $0/mo next month thanks for your continued support and happy querying

I miss when local businesses had bad art and advertisements instead of weird AI generated ones

does anyone know the latest on this? I thought I saw somewhere that it had been resolved, but maybe it's still happening?

The cat app has a website hello.mu.social and it even has a little game. Check it out!

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

i'm working on a sign-in form prototype that automatically resolves your host from the handle you enter. here's a demo with some test cases: 1. handle not hosted by Bluesky 2. invalid handle 3. email address instead of handle 4. setting a different host for #3 thoughts? am i missing anything?

blacksky.app totally dominates the .app TLD accounts ranking 🙂 blue.mackuba.eu/directory/app

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)

If you use Skythread often, I have a bookmarklet which lets you open the current post you're viewing on bsky.app in Skythread with one click from the favorites bar:

lol I'm guessing that's the first time one of my posts has appeared in trending

I just bought my first Mac 💻🥳🤞 it was £400+ cheaper at Amazon than buying from Apple as they haven't passed on the price increases yet 🙌

Apple price increases: -MacBook Neo entry $599 increasing to $699 -MacBook Air 512GB $1099 increasing to $1299 -MacBook Pro 1T $1699 increasing to $1999 -iPad Air 128GB $599 increasing to $749 -iPad Pro Wifi 256GB $999 increasing to $1199 Macbook Neo Amazon Resale deals still up

Those Apple price increases are extremely punchy. 20% or more for some products.

* APPLE RAISES PRICES OF IPADS, MACS IN RESPONSE TO INCREASES IN MEMORY CHIP COSTS * APPLE SAYS AI DATA CENTER BOOM HAS CAUSED UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND FOR MEMORY AND STORAGE, FORCING PRICE INCREASES - STATEMENT @reuters.com #$AAPL

oh shit! Apple products are increasing in price because of the RAM crisis!!

oh no, I should've bought a macbook instead of dithering about it 🫠

As Europe is being hit by an enormous heatwave, made much likelier by the fact we keep on burning huge quantities of oil and gas and coal every year, we can reveal some of the likely results… Anyway, on other pages… From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Britain’s armed forces have reportedly signed up to militarised satellite network Starshield. And who owns Starshield? Why, it’s Elon Musk! That’s another piece of national infrastructure in the hands of someone who believes the UK is on the cusp of a race war. More in the new Private Eye, out now

with alt text 💫

Exclusive to all right-wing papers: It’s clear that Andy Burnham has been a complete failure as Prime Minister, although he hasn’t technically taken up the role yet. From the new Private Eye, out now.

These people are building distributed, cooperative infrastructure for AI models. A potential positive, alternative future for AI that is not the data center model we have now

this was done so clumsily – they only doctored the number of replies on these posts, not the like or repost counts so it makes it look like Anna Zeiter and Ursula von der Leyen are getting ratioed 😆

W Social stop doing bullshit like this challenge: impossible