An offline-capable feed reader for Bluesky with simplicity in mind. Himmel is a place to read your Bluesky feeds even when you don't have an internet connection. Connect Himmel to your Bluesky account and enjoy your pinned feeds just as you've set them up on Bluesky.

Hello newskies! (And oldskies too) Bluesky doesn’t have just one algorithm, it has many, and you can pick what you like (or write your own). Here’s a few I made and a few i like: Quiet Posters, posts from people you follow who don’t post that often whose posts you might normally miss

The default Bluesky settings are kind of bad? Here's my advice for making it better. In the Settings, go to Home Feed Preferences: Reply Filters and turn on "Followed Users Only" to mimic old Twitter behavior, only showing replies in your home feed when you follow both people.

A perfect gift ✨

Hiiiiiiii

Domain handles mean we know this is legitimately Bloomberg, on Bluesky Welcome to the network!

Yay! Domain handles FTW! 😁

The Erik Wernquist short film 'One Revolution per Minute' is finally out. It features a luxury spaceship cruising across the solar system with a 450m rotating ring. Watch it here (it doesn't deserve Youtube's compression): erikwernquist.com/one-revoluti...

New newsletter, What we seek to save when we seek to save the world. open.substack.com/pub/ribbonfa...

today some teens were messing around on the train and one was wearing a paper Burger King crown and it fell off and rolled under my seat so I handed it back to her and seized the once in a lifetime opportunity to say “you dropped this” and they all went nuts and I am still buzzing with excitement

cats will get the zoomies, knock over a bunch of shit, dash away in terror, then look back at the mess like "woah what happened over there"

Sky above the port, folks:

I miss being obsessed with incredible indie mobile games like Waking Mars, Eighty Days, Device 6 — are there still great ones out there or is it all just in-app-purchase garbage?

Are there any prediction markets around this with concrete predictions? I would love to bet money against something like “published high-resolution photographs of non-human made vehicles parked inside hangars by date X” or “published high-res photos of non-human bodies found inside alien craft” etc.

here comes the airplane

I tried the “LLM” feed on here and from what I can see 95% of posts on there are some iteration of “I hate LLMs and also they’re trash”

This app is exhaustingly neurotic Long periods of therapy-posting punctuated by bursts of either apocalyptic political freakouts or horny-posting All vibes no posts really. A kind of stormy subcultural hormone soup of eternal adolescence

Merry Pacific Rim Day to those who celebrate 🥳 This is arguably my favorite movie of all time, a gift from @realgdt.bsky.social I will cherish until I myself am no longer drift compatible 💖

Pacific Rim was released 10 years ago today. I love this sci-fi gem. Art by Alex Jaeger, Carlos Salgado, Doug Williams & Hugo Martin:

People will refuse to drink a Diet Coke due to fear of getting cancer and then without a care in the world take off their clothes and go soak in the ionizing radiation from an active fusion reactor 😄

Elmo, his arms wide, the flames high

Live a little

genuinely the best of luck to threads, mastodon, nostr, and every other project in this space. these projects are darn tough and I know a lot of passionate & talented people are involved. no matter how it ends, I think there's a lot of reason to hope for good outcomes for people

Hey, this is a great idea to get some monetization! 😁

Happy birthday to Dolly the sheep 🐑 ! Dolly, born 5 July 1996, was a trailblazer. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. ⁠ Dolly was cloned from a mammary cell, and her name is a tribute to Dolly Parton.⁠ 🧪

On the count of three, everyone stop referring to this place as Dorsey’s Bluesky. The CEO of bluesky is @jay.bsky.team

Feels actually quite nice to know that the godlike Jupiter Brains of tomorrow got to where they are due to a tiny bit of help from my humble posts 😊

We've found strong evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background (GWB). Gravitational waves are formed from some of the most energetic processes in the Universe, like black hole mergers, or inflation! So, what does the GWB mean? (GIF source: newrepublic.com) 1/n

PSA: It might feel like you're skeeting into a cosy walled garden right now, but at the protocol level it's more like this:

modern computers

haha holy shit yeah send this guy straight to jail

Getting reacquainted with my old friend the N95 mask 🔥 💨 😷

wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/

Playing Resident Evil 4 Remake with the new vision pro

Hey everyone, I just pushed a Custom Feed where you can catch up on all the insights and discussions about the Apple Vision Pro announcement from WWDC 2023, here on Bluesky. Check it out 👇 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7gdbr6mkxcukdnjd7vdl4q4/feed/wwdc23avp

Wow, this is such an awesome use case for custom feeds! 😃

the secret is that someone who rails against "techno-optimism" has merely found an acceptable cloak for their opposition to all optimism

The “newskies” feed shows people’s first posts as they join — I’m boosting and engaging with lots of them. Highly encourage everyone to go welcome some newcomers if you have time!

Interesting to watch Farcaster deal with a similar moderation crisis on the same day, while at a similar phase of “the protocol is decentralized, just nobody practically benefits from that fact yet”. I think this was a pretty nice way of explaining.

Seems like the devs must have pushed a bug to production where the default feed has become “orcas only” 😄

A++ meta post 👌

Playing around with building custom feed generators, currently have a PositiviFeed which curates all (English) posts with a positive sentiment confidence of > 0.65, also a Hellthread feed which includes ALL posts in the hellthread in realtime. Try them now at https://skyfeed.app/#/ by @ottr.sh

Made a simple moderation endpoint that uses gpt-3 turbo to filter out negative vibes from my skyline and it kinda works. Don’t trust it for an everyday prod experience but the idea of putting my own logic in the middle of calling my timeline is very interesting. Even if just string matching.