An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter under scrutiny.

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ATmosphereConf 2026 Replay — HUGHLOU Every talk from ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver, on demand. Three days of workshops, demos, and deep dives.

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it feels like I have homework to do 😆

"sean this sauce is very nasty, it's a very nasty trick to play"

A screenshot of a direct message that reads: “am I allowed to eat the public roads? They are public and asphalt in concrete taste pretty good.”

Just another beautiful day of being a public servant. Let’s check the DMs — oh.

buddy, these replies literally show up for nobody. you're not setting the correct fields in the post

he's wrong, this site is a nursing home for zillenials who LOVE bedtime

he's trying to save the site by engagement baiting lol

which is also why the average user complaining that features like "group chats" need to be added, should largely be ignored. If they were trying to growth hack, they would just make a 1 for 1 twitter clone.

I don't want the site to just become a crypto bro funded nursing home for zillennials. I want people to get paid, I want the site (and many, many other atmosphere sites) to get the revenue they need. It can't just be the same 100 developers passing around a $20 bill

I mostly align with this sentiment, I don't think there's a huge demographic of younger people using text based social media. And the people old enough to have used it, are tired of moving. Bluesky might be the last time they have to, because their accounts are portable to who ever wants to build it

Where are you getting the $20-50 million burn rate number from? They’ve never disclosed this as far as I know

It's great so far! I love the camera / settings front and center on each post

I've been cranking on a new iOS app for @grain.social since #atmosphereconf. Pretty excited to finally get it out to testflight.

Let me know what you think! Aiming to be somewhere between instagram and flickr while giving more control over your feed (with different/pluggable feeds like bluesky).

not now kitten, daddy is monitoring the situation

when tiktok still had an open endpoint for doing text-to-speech, someone in an IRC server I'm in made a bot to quote people and play the sound on mIRC clients

rejoice! the tshirt bots have finally landed

I'm not disagreeing with you btw

I believe the FEMA guy who says he teleported to Waffle House. It happened to my buddy once

I wouldn't say that 0.3% blocking it means that "nobody" wants it. The people who even care are in a very, very, tiny minority

Making Twitter 2.0 was just the first idea they came up with when making atproto. It was just supposed to be an example application that you could build on atproto tech

> the people who run bluesky seeming totally uninterested in growing it at all

this line is interesting because the sentiment I hear from people is how the developers are doing X thing because it's all for the VCs. I would think growing the site would be included here

Last I checked, Attie was sitting at 150k blocks which is 0.3% of the current userbase. Essentially nobody cares either way. Most people just want Twitter 2.0 which they've delivered like 60% of that functionality so far

Reflections on AtmosphereConf A reflection on AtmosphereConf, understanding this network as a subculture, joy, and what "We Can Just Do Things" actually means

My reflections on an amazing atmosphereconf

On how the atmosphere can be understood as a subculture, what the holdfast is, and what We Can Just Do Things means

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

Wrong, but I'll give you one guess who does. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this guy can't even shoot 1 MOA at 100 yards

Is anyone hosting a Glaze service? If you’re an artist and you’re interested, I could look into spinning one up. Depending on how expensive the GPU time is

enders game type of situation

Actually they use fertilizer derived from liquid natural gas, here’s why the Strait of Hormuz matters

Rehome him omg