it’s nice that the Giants, Red Sox, and Blue Jays are all as bad as the Mets are rn because that right there is like 80% of the people I talk to about baseball

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

The latest Heron release adds a dedicated standard.site button to profiles, allowing you view a user's long form writing and their publications. It also makes it easy to subscribe to the publications you care about.

Well friends, I'm podcastin' atproto.com/off-protocol

A few screenshots of a new labeler/moderation tool I've been designing over the past few weeks (mostly having claude write the code because it's a lot of CRUD type stuff). The idea is to have it also receive reports & expose labeler definitions. Mildly taking @alex.bsky.team motion here from today

Hey all! The @bskyplays.bsky.social bot was way more popular than I expected 🥰 While I slept, it ran into Bluesky's default 1000-blob-per-day limitation and did the correct thing (all its image replies are waiting in queue). Got a couple optimizations about to ship that will unblock it. Stay tuned!

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

RIP Clarence Carter. relieved he did not die within a few days of my last work karaoke event or I’d probably have sung Strokin’ and gotten fired.

unbelievably funny if they try to launch a 140mph bus program because the new train is taking too long. they would obviously have to get keanu reeves and sandra bullock to promote it. bus driver on the maiden voyage is sweating bullets, fielding Qs from journalists, "yup, goes really fast!"

I accidentally wound up with an evolutionary miracle of a shelter cat (he’s like a skinny 16 lbs, ridiculously muscular, walks like a leopard) and whenever I move from my desk to my chair in the afternoon he wakes up and competes very aggressively with my laptop for space

guess what everybody? It’s time to plug some of the speakers at this SF event next week! We’ve got: - @hipstersmoothie.com, talking about @atstore.fyi - @schwentker.sandboxlabs.ai, talking about Cloudflare tunnelling - @pfrazee.com himself, with some extra-special new work! still time to RSVP!

We're changing up the format of office hours a bit, starting with something of a rebrand. Tune in to Off Protocol LIVE tomorrow to find out more.

Excited to finally share this with you all — @aturi.to now has a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that helps you navigate between Atmosphere apps and clients seamlessly. If you’ve ever wanted to click on Bluesky links & have them automatically open in another client… now you can! aturi.to

One vision of an atmospheric web is the fun of the golden age of Tumblr minus the centralized platform. Each of these post types roughly maps to an existing atproto app (@standard.site, @semble.so, @kipclip.com, @stream.place, @grain.social) your personal site would aggregate them all.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

watching the Martin Short documentary only a few days after seeing Letterman interview him live on stage last week… I’m always offended when people my age act like it’s mortifying to love boomers… these are all my guys, my guys are 75 years old and sometimes Canadian

my entire life these days is constantly going "what do you mean that was only a week ago"

Personally, we get meaningful traffic and subscribers from Bluesky, and they actually pay for journalism. Far more than X despite the differences in the sizes of the site. We can see the MRR on individual stories in Ghost and it's like not even close.

we're hiring a Lead Product Designer at Bluesky. we've built the foundation — now we need someone to lead our design team and bring a fresh vision for how this app should look and feel. crazy fun & rare opportunity for the right leader! jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Holy shit y’all this is not a drill, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert are dropping stuff off the rooftop of a building near the Ed Sullivan Theater!

had a great dream last night where I was running some kind of larp or reality show, at one point a producer told me “the participants really loved the part where they had to assemble weapons out of garbage in an abandoned warehouse, it was fun teamwork!” my subconscious is such a reliable buddy

Yes great bookshop

I got so pumped about blogging this new Ozone feature that I decided to write a Labeler (modding) integration tutorial as a follow-up to our Statusphere example app! we didn't have a *ton* of end-to-end, non-Bluesky moderation example flows; now we do 👍 atproto.com/guides/label...

@sri.xyz making community relays work better every day. set this for your PDS: ``` PDS_CRAWLERS=https://bsky.network,https://vsky.network ``` and any `requestCrawl` your PDS sends will get broadcast to every community relay on the [list](tangled.org/firehose.clu...)!

I filed for unemployment for the first time when I was fired last year, and never got past MD's broken identity-verification system. I was the most famous fired person in America at the time, and a 20-year career bureaucrat, but I found another job before I ever successfully filed a UI claim.

what was the thought process here

updated Bluesky post embeds are live videos now play inline in most browsers (except Firefox) feedback welcome!

feeling pretty grateful that I got to eat at Kabawa in NYC a whole year ago before they got named the best restaurant in the city today

Way behind in writing up features on atmosphere.community! As well as @standard.site, we also aggregate community .lexicon .calendar events. For example, @alex.bsky.team’s event can be shared by anyone in the opensocial.community interface

What I find to be uncomfortable is how Chinamaxxing doesn't treat the country as a real place with real problems, it's somewhere that is everything your country isn't

We have some news you can use on the blog this fine Monday! Ozone, our mod tool, is adding a new *report-based* moderation workflow, which enables higher-context moderating, better collaboration, auditing, and more! Check it: atproto.com/blog/report-...

This is wild: Yomiuri News reports that due to the Iran War, Japan is facing a critical shortage in naphtha, a key material in making potato chip bags, and printing ink. As a result, the snack giant Calbee has announced that they are adopt black-and-white packaging for most key products 🫠 🫠 🫠

ok phew that's all the Ozone feature and SF meetup announcements and insulting Boston out of the way. it is now 10:09 AM on Monday morning and I get to have a regular workday now

atproto Bay Area event alert! Next Tuesday, May 19 in SF! atmo.rsvp/p/alex.bsky.... luma.com/event/manage... We'll have some new @attie.ai feature demos, community talks, and food! Be there!

extremely pumped about these improvements and had a great time writing up this feature announcement together with the Ozone team

I really love this thumbnail

Major @flashes.blue release. Hashtags now automatically turn into feeds once there are more than 10 photos. You can subscribe to them in @bsky.app as well. Check the feeds tab under @trending.flashes.blue

Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:

I like Go for the exact same reason that I used Flask for every project in the 2010s unless I had a good reason not to — it’s boring and works and the mental model is super straightforward

pretty pumped that Paige and Azzi were able to beat Caitlin

Not only are the new D Line stations gleaming, the art in all three of them is incredibly cool

College baseball is the best because sometimes Vandy and Mizzou are playing in pure fog after midnight and legitimately nobody can tell if a go-ahead homer with two outs in the ninth happened or not.

Kumail is swearing too much on Taskmaster and I can tell Iannucci doesn’t approve but doesn’t want to seem like a scold

Ended up boarding the first eastbound D line train from Fairfax and rode back and forth from Western to La Cienega, hopping on and off, for three hours 😂 Astonishingly beautiful stations, jam-packed with passengers. Spotted Fran Siegel giving an art tour at the La Brea station

“If the D line was open, I would’ve taken it from home,” says Jerry O’Connell, emcee for today’s @metrolosangeles.bsky.social D line extension opening, as VIPs arrive on the purple carpet at the Petersen Automotive Museum