Time to buy Oxide!

#atproto peeps, I’m curious who has setup their own #PDS? What PDS software have you used? I want to setup my own or use a paid PDS provider. However, I don’t want a lot of hassle. Managing infrastructure for a living has made want to do less of that in my personal life… Also, it has to be cheap

One of my biggest regrets is not developing good drawling skills. Whenever I see stuff like this I kick myself

Does it bother anyone else that #MacOS preview doesn’t support #HEIC? I know there are benefits to this format but the support is still terrible even after years…. #apple #$AAPL

#gattodellenevi #JoJo Il gioco più bello del mondo: fare il minchionauta nella neve fresca 😁😸

TikTok also went down, and even with their infinite money spigot, all Oracle could do was apologize, too. On ATProto, video platforms switch to other infra providers as they please. Tell me decentralized protocol-based social apps aren't reliable and aren't better for users again. I'm waiting.

helpful heuristic: actual active user statistics for Bluesky that accounts for lurkers is firehose-visible active users times two so actual MAU is around 12M, DAU around 3M bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/b...

It is grimly comical that with some of the largest online platforms now basically open adjuncts of the Trump administration they can still whine about “big tech censoring conservatives” with a straight face.

the number of people i know -- all of whom should know better -- who are doing exactly this

@standard.site is very cool! put together this little diagram: #atproto

Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

There should be a React/WebComponent library for common #atproto components One being the login button, it could help devs reference ATmospher or whatever the preferred term. Likewise, could host simple utils like embedded post similar to bluesky web or other app views. #devtools #devvelocity

Days like today, I wish #atproto supported stories in the protocol It’s like the only feature I miss from Insta… 😭 Lowkey, I would be even more annoying with that feature hahaha

#philly #phl #philadelphia #snow #rittenhouse

Lowkey won’t watch this. It’s crazy that is the 40th anniversary…

So, I watched #Industry last night! I hated the last two seasons but this first episode was off with a bang! It’s super relevant to the times, and the characters are still all in their destructive spirals. The dynamics and scenarios have completely changed. It’s very meta

X's algorithm source code drops: what it reveals about the platform's feed mechanics #Algorithm #MachineLearning #SocialMedia #DataScience #TechNews

Happy 80th dolly <3

As a software engineer who worked mostly in #finance but has a deep love of #environmentalism, this podcast episode made all the dispersant viewpoints make sense #ai #economics #circularEconomies #debt #societalChange #podcast #simplification #climateChange #wealth podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Traitors gives us a peek into people’s reasoning or lack of. Most of the time, competitors just reveal their biases with their incomplete data. Michael Rapaport definitely did airthoughts.leaflet.pub/3mcswmcajxc26 #TheTraitors #RealityTV #MichaelRapaport #PeacockTV #gay #homophobia #lgbt #tv

Hudson and Ricky Martin watching the Giorgio Armani fashion show via leshommespublics

A Man and a Woman (1966) 🤍

My brain exclusively works in drag race memes, but this really reminded me of Bosco’s prank 😹😹😹😹 P.s. please no guns, more pranks though

I've been trying to get my version of the Bechdel Test to catch on called the Ballard Metric. It basically asks if the creator was able to work for free or for slave wages due to an invisible financial safety net and recontextualizes the work. (I'm kinda joking idk)

After fair amount of banging my head, I got the PDS test service to run locally. Tried my best to turn my notes into something usable for others airthoughts.leaflet.pub/3mcnqs35sbs25 #atproto #bluesky #devops #localfirst

Been seeing a steady uptick in people wanting to repeal section 230, and that it is not good. I think these censorship bills have a higher chance than ever of being passed, partially because some Liberals are so out of touch, or now view it as good because of X, etc. We gotta beat these.

Getting some flurries in #Philly

In 2025, I started my #deGoogling process. I was already using Brave because it’s the only real option these day. Proton for email, pCloud for storage, but #GooglePhotos was hard #Ente is enticing, but downloading a 200gb GoogleTakeout to my desktop is a pain github.com/ente-io/ente...

ooh this will be cool for AT Toolbox 👀 apps.apple.com/gb/app/at-toolbox/id6747999688

This fed my inner-flaggit 🏳️‍🌈 #palmRoyale #iHadABall #tv #tvShows #appleTv #musicals #KristenWig #RickyMartin #gay #gayMusicals #lgbt #streaming

lol excited to see people abuse this 😹

Cirrus PDS now supports specifying a placement region for your data. Give a region hint, or specify EU-only storage. 🥂 🇪🇺

This misses the key distinction which is that the Online Safety Act (& KOSA in the U.S.) is about punishing, censoring and surveilling *users*. None of these “child safety” laws are about punishing actual big tech companies. They’re ONLY about censoring speech, they reward big tech financially

#atproto peeps, has anyone been able to get in the full setup working locally, #PDS, #PLC, handleResolver, etc? I’m trying to hack around locally to not pollute someone’s cloud with my experiments. However, it is brutal getting this to work locally. I’ve worked in DevOps professionally…

The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.

Mondays feel like

If one were interested in really Fucking the United States economy indicting the Fed chair would be one of the steps you might take

Confession: It bothers me how a simple PR is so difficult to land in a Bsky repo. Not here to criticize—just highlighting a friction point. To put my experience in perspective, I dug into their contribution stats. I’m no statistician, but data-driven reflection is key #atproto #bsky

I wrote a demo/example showing how you can walk a user's atproto repo via an export faster than doing individual calls inside a browser if you need to process a lot of their records using atcute. 22s vs 262s for my repo. Hosted on @wisp.place walktherepo.wisp.place

This #cat is being treated like a puppet, but my lovely little demon does this to me daily source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTR7Bid...

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while designwanted.com/polyfloss-re... #plastics #plasticRecycling #circularEconomy #polyfloss #sustainability #plastic

#TLDR AI is stopping people from going to the Tailwind website. As a result people don’t see their commercial offerings, their revenue has dropped by nearly 80% despite increased usage

When your dyslexia makes you sound like Yoda haha

“Information adulteration” and institutional decryption keys will certainly solve all our problems, for researchers, the scientific progress, and society at large. arxiv.org/pdf/2601.00274 Could be straight from a novel by Cory Doctorow. #science #information #cryptography #LLM #AI #Slop

I spoke with Jack and Sam of Tech Talk Live about legislation in congress regarding ID verification to visit sites, end of end to end encryption, the proposed repeal of section 230, Mastercard and Visa censoring adult sites’ content and much more! www.youtube.com/live/tYU7l5F...

IMDb ratings for every episode of 'Stranger Things' • S5 had the lowest-rated season finale • S5 had four of the lowest-rated episodes in the show's history

I would really love tags for saved posts in #bsky Why use tags and not folders? Posts overlap in multiple categories in my opinion Here is an LLM generated mock ui. Unfortunately, I can’t find a bookmarks in the lexicon If anyone knows more, would love to hear #atproto #bookmarks

TIL that modern Node not only supports `--env-file` / `--env-file-if-exists` but also a new method to programmatically load .env files. It's been marked stable since Node v24 (current LTS), and I'm now on the journey of removing all the `dotenv` dependencies. 😅 www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

2025 was another eventful year for PyPI! Critical security enhancements, powerful new org features, a better overall user experience, and transparent security incident response 🎉👏 Thank you, PyPI team & community! Learn more on our blog: blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...