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A hand-drawn graph. The axes are drawn in black and the x-direction has the label "now" at the right-hand side. The y-direction has the label "100" near the bottom and "a billion" at the top. There is a hand-drawn blue line that bounces around near 100 and then shoots up past a billion. I swear 2 god it's a real graph
not sure why people aren't talking about THIS bluesky graph
side effect: @mackuba.eu now has some competition for best PDS distribution dashboard 👀
re: my #ATmosphereConf presentation: for folks interested in quantifying PDS centralization/atmosphere health, check out @nbartley.bsky.social's new dashboard!! it provides a bunch of added info including cross-PDS interactions, geographic mapping, etc.
atproto.barn.city
should call it the "Germ x Blacksky x Eurosky x Bluesky x Three Dudes" meetup tbh
woah woah woah... plus two dudes! Plus a third dude behind the camera!
Main #ATmosphereConf takeaway: this is a ridiculously tall community. Towering. Average height over 6’. Never looked up in so many conversations. My neck hurts.
I’m sorry “Atproto” you say?
Awesome talk @dholms.at 👏 great that y'all are thinking about this in terms of such "threat modeling against evil Bluesky PBC" 🫡 #atmosphereconf
@mackuba.eu one more
Luckily, talking with @bnewbold.net, sounds like they’ll be hardcoding unverifiedJerry at the protocol level
Presentation slide photo: acceptable and unacceptable abbreviations of @proto
@dholms.at presenting the most controversial slide at #ATmosphereConf
a photo of me eating a carrot stick
a cloudflare-sponsored carrot stick
eating carrot sticks in da club (sponsored by cloudflare) #atmosphereconf
Paul showing my weekly users posting from non-Bluesky PDSes chart
Drink every time the blue.mackuba.eu/stats charts get featured at #AtmosphereConf 🥃😃
Screenshot: Jerry Chen liked your post
EVERYBODY STAY CALM, @jcsalterego.bsky.social 's IN THE ROOM
trivia question: what do @rude1.blacksky.team and I have in common? referencing @mackuba.eu 's stats page in our talks (everyone go check out blue.mackuba.eu/stats/, it's great)!
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
Jason Isbell Explains How Music Is Like The News But For Sounds. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com/
It's true, I'll be presenting at @atproto.science!! Looking forward to meeting everyone at #ATmosphereConf this March :)
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
Trump hearing “man I need” every time he looks at Mamdani
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
one month as the vogue political correspondent actually killing me
The goal is to count the number of accounts hosted on each PDS, but both listRepos (with ID Resolution) and listHosts only capture a fraction of total accounts (26M and 13M, respectively).
