back home and happy in Pasadena! Thanks everyone at AtmosphereConf for a great week— super great to put so many faces to names and I’ll be sharing a new personal mini roadmap of work that came entirely out of conference discussions, hopefully by tomorrow, for viz so we can keep up the momentum!

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Have you heard the story of Barkley’s good friend Lin, a Chinese immigrant scientist in Iowa? www.wbur.org/onlyagame/20...

this is the year of the 17-year cicada cycle where theyre all gay

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

Since @atmosphereconf.org 2027 is as far away as it’s gonna get from today, we’re excited to announce our commitment to host a mini-conference in LA sometime in Fall 2026! More information to come!

How to Hide an Empire is a very good book incidentally

Score one for the preservation of art!

being back in Vancouver to see what a nightmare the Broadway subway construction has been is definitely turning me into more of a cut & cover partisan for LA Metro projects. turns out most things are less important than going quicker

HOLY SHIT UCONN

OH MY GOD UCONNNNNNNNNNN

Bari Weiss vs the round mound of rebound

My workshop participant from Friday @hadsie.com already designed and built checkmate.blue based on his work in the workshop 🥰🥰🥰 — made my weekend!

In an hour and a half, at 4:30 PT and 7:30 ET, I'll be giving my talk, "Wherever You Get Your Podcasts: Interoperability in the Atmosphere", in the Main Hall at #ATmosphereConf. Please tune in on @stream.place then if you're interested: stream.place/stream1.atmosphereconf.org

A new era of Anisota is here. Step into the Observatory, go on an Expedition into the Forest, & collect Moths while you read thanks to the @inaturalist.bsky.social API. A dynamic forest map w/ a "fog of war", inventory system, and more let you experience social media like never before: anisota.net

all the lights in the main hall of this conference just started flickering because Canadian Godzilla is having indigestion #CanadianGodzilla #tummy

what’s refreshing about #atmosphereconf is how interdisciplinary the subjects and speakers are - it’s not all code but instead showcasing the roles of scientists, journalists and creators. the community is multi-faceted and have a shared interest in combatting misinformation and abuse.

losing to the Pirates in the 11th in their second game of the season, absolutely beautiful stuff

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slides for my talk (now-ish) if you want to follow the small-text (or get spoilers)

a few people found this tool I made a while ago useful in @alex.bsky.team's lexicon workshop yesterday at #atmosphereconf, so resharing here for anyone else who wants to write their lexicons in typescript prototypey.org

Who do YOU want to see speak at this year's HOPE conference? It's OK to dream! And, the more tickets sold, the more we can do! store.2600.com/products/tic...

i think i am going to choose to refuse to accept this kind of moral suicide. for spongebob squarepants and all our national heroes. for the new york knickerbockers and the buick grand national. i refuse to surrender that to these freaks and their moral nihilism

20k Euro prize pool for active open social projects from the past couple years. atproto app and project devs, get in there and apply!

never been happier about giving up 7 runs to the Pirates. that’s the kind of winning we like to do here

Did you know that there's a third-party TweetDeck equivalent for Bluesky? Try the excellent @deck.blue

this is a great example of why, when people want us to add new integrations, we have to ask "have they thought about all of their potential moderation surfaces"

That's just Mr Met's lunch being delivered

It’s big ball chunky time

not many projects have implemented labeling for non-bsky lexicons!

I love the terrible pedestrian route to Dodger Stadium from the metro because it’s always me and 5 other Mets fans who are like "of course we’re walking, we’re normal, ooooh careful tetanus over here"

Today, Bridgy Fed begins expanding beyond microblogging, starting with long-form. If your Atmosphere (Bluesky, Blacksky, Eurosky, Northsky, etc.) account is bridged, all of your @standard.site publications and documents will bridge over to the Fediverse and the web 📜↔️📃 1/4 🧵

This is really common, and every indication is that people hate what “AI” represents in culture, hate the Big AI companies, and… are using it a lot. Just as happened with social media. Which is why we need to talk about accountable, public alternatives, not just regulating the bad actors.

“It’s Opening Day!” we all exclaim for the next three days, stretching the definition of time until the earth folds in on itself and starts anew.

Last year we had 179 people and one and a half tracks of content. This year is three jam packed tracks and twice the attendees. Super excited for @atmosphereconf.org's second arrival at the end of this week.

We've got an updated protocol roadmap out, covering the next few months. Look forward to seeing folks at AtmosphereConf later this week!

everybody HATES it when I point this out because they ontologically want America to be worst in these sorts of ways but I travel a lot and it's consistently true

If, like me, you’ve been traveling lately and have a hard time looking TSA workers in the eye knowing what they’re being put through, the San Diego-Imperial County Labor Council has a way to help:

I turned this on for 5 minutes just now because I was like “hey I should check in on UConn this year” and well it looks like they’re gonna be fine

over the weekend, @iwsmith.bsky.social's team rolled out a new version of the "suggested for you" interstitial on profiles that recommends accounts to follow. follows nearly tripled. should be a noticeable improvement for many of you. still room to improve, ofc. let us know if you have feedback!

The @atproto.com team will be hosting our usual fortnightly office hours one day early, live from Atmosphere Conf! Will there be surprises? Will there be special guests? You'll have to come to find out! atmo.rsvp/p/jimray.bsk...

WIP outline for the "Atmospheric Publishing" workshop I'm running at the conf this Friday! So far incl: ~(pre)-history / ecosystem overview ~the promise of atmospheric publishing ~time for a few lightning demos ~new directions / what to build next [bulk of the session!] Comment w/ any thoughts!

reminder @atproto.la meetup tonight! The Preserve! Hollywood! smokesignal.events/did:plc:h3wp... I'll be there!

honestly love how HBO’s Sunday night lineup rn is all just weird and off-key shows about middle aged people blowing up their lives in ways they don’t even like. it feels like the network should have prevented this happening and I couldn’t be more satisfied

ooh Tom Perrotta coming to Vroman’s in May vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

saw the coolest car in the world today… for context, this 10 year old blue Prius C was parked 3 cars down from my 10 year old blue Prius C, but this one somehow has an aftermarket 4x4 mod… 🥹🥹🥹

given the incumbent dynamics here, a poll like this in March basically looks like Nithya winning imo (I like that I can still post about LA politics on this account because it’s so much less contentious than all other politics rn)

extremely good thread here