Beautiful!

Well deserved. Always a great read.

Yeah - clicked through to the article with that same thought. Glad it’s not matrix.org !

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

A bitcoin logo with the phrase “make war unaffordable” on a sticker, attached to a petrol pump.

Spotted at my local servo

A baby mynah bird facing the camera. They are sitting on a grey pavement near some grass.

Met a baby mynah who was learning to fly. Hadn’t quite worked it out.

Trick-or-treating - Wikipedia

I often hear that Australians don’t “do” trick-or treat at Halloween, or that it’s “an American thing” but in my childhood back in Scotland on the 31st Oct we always went “guising” - dressing up and knocking on doors, maybe reciting a poyum, for sweets.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...

Migrating my Twitter follows into bsky.

Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!

Don’t think so - heard a few folks have had to recreate accounts in order to do tax etc.

I’d love to see an offical release of Justice at Coachella 2024 à la Alive 2007 - it’s such a great set!

A screen grab showing password login disabled on the Australian MyGov website.

My Australian myGov account was closed due to too many failed logins.

I created a new one, and I’ve found that after enabling passkeys you can disable password login. Good to see govt taking security seriously.

Looks like there are more null checking fails out there in the wild.

That’s one thing I do see on nostr - a real drive to expand the underlying protocol beyond micropost social media. Haven’t seen that here yet - or maybe I’m following the wrong folks.

Yeah same. Soon I hope!

Yes. There’s also Damus (on Nostr)

Ok! Did you know that the character of Spock & the Vulcan “live long and prosper” 🖖🏽 is actually drawn from the Torah & informed by Nimoy’s Jewish heritage?

As a child, Nimoy was in synagogue & snuck a look at the Konahim blessing 🖖🏽. ST centered pluralistic society & he made it part of his character

Stencilled spiders on a communications cylinder

Though I suppose there’s nothing to stop that content being proxied by the relay.

Currently, just the URLs.

Underrated comment!

Gosh, so much and yet so little.

Tell you though, my youngest (10) has taken to playing that gorgeous bass guitar I picked up from you all those years ago! Long may that continue!

Hope you are all keeping well?

Yes, can’t help feeling that one needs a birb though!

Yeah exactly.

Yes, it’s great! S3 is shaping up well, too!

Also, hi Mark 👋

Janglebrackets

I *think* it’s when an account is very similar to a well-known twitter account and the Bluesky team can’t verify. It’s a manual process, from what I can tell.

apparently muting the hellthread doesnt work? technically that's a bug but it's hilarious so