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"Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity, the Financieele Dagblad reported.
Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms"

Alt Left Journo and Political Podcaster Sarah Kendzior was apparently suspended from the elitist corporate "social media" platform for #libturds known as #BlueSky
#FThatShid

A prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …

Users on BlueSky not too happy about the idiots who run that place suspending Sarah Kendzior. So they are putting their opinion on that in their profile name 😄

Bluesky Konto gelöscht.
Bringt mir dann doch nichts.
#Bluesky

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen
Damit Bluesky-User deutlicher machen können, welche Inhalte sie mögen und welche nicht, soll es bald auch eine Möglichkeit geben, diese negativ zu bewerten.

Pessoas no bluesky com conta fechada, a exigir login, que tentam falar comigo, repito:
Eu. Não. Leio. O. Que. Vocês. Escrevem.
Querem que eu vos leia? Abram a conta. Querem contactar-me tão facilmente como se estivéssemos na mesma rede? Bridgy fed.

I have missed that bridge.gy can federate websites as well. That really looks neat and useful…
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started

What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

Courtesy of Maggie Miller over on BlueSky: With the House coming back into session, the House Budget Committee has scheduled a hearing for next week — on oversight of the recently hacked Congressional Budget Office. Expect the intrusion to a top subject of conversation.
https://budget.house.g…

I saw a nice initiative for an european BlueSky instance. I am always wondering why people don't like Mastodon?
For me Bluesky and Mastodon can co-exist but many people disagree 🙂
#eurosky #bluesky #mastodon

And another thing about bluesky, it's incredibly slow and clunky.

I can see a case for Bluesky really doubling down on content safety, as a way to differentiate themselves from X. At some point, constant questioning of the content being posted becomes a feature.

Those assholes who run BlueSky have just suspended the account of the great Sarah Kendzior - without explanation, and for no obvious reason.

Bluesky and Mastodon mentioned! He's right. Make those billionaires open their platforms and watch them run their websites as they should have in the first place.
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From #Enshittification | The Daily Show

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Minderheidskabinet kan er vlot komen, de problemen beginnen pas daarna #Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/minderheidskabinet-kan-er-vlot-komen-de-problemen-beginnen-pas-daarna~bb01b8fc/
Via Bluesky...

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen

"I ... think the odds of #Bluesky following #Twitter’s path is (sic) very high, given the structural similarities. Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue" — @…

Was machen wir denn eigentlich mit BlueSky?
Würdigen wir, dass die überwiegende Userschaft gewisse Neuankömmlinge in einer #Blockorgie gekickt hat?
Empören wir uns, dass sich im zentralistischen Netzwerk zweifelhafte Charaktere tummeln, und beenden das Bridging vom #Fediverse? (BTW,…

The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…

This is a really good assessment (why people are complaining BlueSky is “mean”), IMO.
It’s also true of Mastodon, for very similar reasons.
If I may mangle a line from “Grosse Pointe Blank”:
“if people are hot in your mentions, you did something to bring them there”
OTOH, BS and Masto have tools to manage that. (though they need improvement)

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

So apparently this is why Sarah Kendzior was suspended on BlueSky.
[alt text too long for the app, follows on next toot]

Which UK politicians (or candidates) and which UK journalists are in the Fediverse? (Partial points for accounts visible from here on BlueSky or Threads etc).
#ukpol #ukfedi #ukjournalism

My days on Bluesky are counted https://www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrapped/seeingwithsound.bsky.social

Bluesky Will Test a ‘Dislike’ Option. It Could Help Fix a Huge Problem
https://gizmodo.com/bluesky-dislike-2000680426

"Natuurlijk kan zo’n Europese troepenmacht de Amerikaanse militaire macht niet weerstaan. Maar dat is het punt niet. Het doel is om de Amerikanen te tonen: jullie willen vazallen van ons maken, en wij pikken dat niet langer. Geen statements, maar daadkracht."

HELLO BLUESKY USERS!
You can follow me over here on Mastodon **but** I won't see your replies and won't be able to follow you back unless you give permission for that…
…which is easy. Just follow this special BlueSky user:
https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
(1) click on th…

It is an interesting data point that the "resonant computing" thing was pushed on Bluesky by a lot of people and it's basically non-existent on the Fediverse.

A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:
“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when
Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”
“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”
YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @… ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

Zum Thema wiederaufgetauchtes Raubgut: HHStA-Direktor Thomas Just hat drüben auf Bluesky dankenswerterweise auf diesen Akt zu den Steinen des Anstosses verlinkt: "Temporäre Entnahme des Allerhöchsten Privatschmuckes aus der Schatzkammer" 1.11.1918: https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/de

Election Night Live updates: Democrats notch wins for governors, mayor over Trump's picks (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/2025-election-updates-news?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=690ac56df274f70001345a08
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p171#a251104p171

Since I was following too many people anyway, I decided to unfollow everybody
- on Threads
- on Bluesky (via the bridge)
I'll miss some of them, and for others I'll follow their blogs via RSS.

🛰️ I'm on Bluesky!
You can follow me at:
@brichapman.com
https://bsky.app/profile/brichapman.com

On the subway yesterday someone sitting next to me was scrolling through either twitter or bluesky; I couldn't tell which, and I didn't want to obviously stare. But it was incredibly tempted to turn to them and say, "Have you heard the good news? The good news about John Mastodon?" If only I had literature with me!

I have to say, the Bluesky bridge is confusing for me(!)

I don't use it myself but sometimes I respond to posts and only realise much later it was from a bridge account, in which case the user may or my not see my reply. I certainly don't see my reply on Bluesky. Same thing can happen vice versa.

I don't want a compulsory opt-in to another service, I want the AT and ActivityPub protocols to be compatible. In lieu of that the bridge accounts need to be a lot more ob…

Tjonge wat zijn de druiven zuur bij de SGP.
Merk ook even hoe hier schaamteloos genormeerd wordt wat 'de' christen zou moeten vinden of voelen.
https://www.rd.nl/a/1126353-een-christen-voelt-zich-ni…

RE: https://nerdculture.de/@fluchtkapsel/115858570659003019
Wenn das hier die Föderation ist, dann ist Meta eindeutig das alles assimilierende Borgkollektiv. Twitter ist definitiv Ferengi. Bluesky? Vielleicht Dominion? Wie ein Zerrbild der Föderation: …

No, it's not. I've been signed in for 21 years until you logged me out just now. But for some reason, almost every site I have a login for has decided I've logged out, on multiple unrelated machines even. Sure GMail/Google but also Apple, Mastodon, bluesky, GitHub, reddit, even some TV channels I stream. Not all at once, but over the last few days. Is this something I didn't hear about?

Dear #Bluesky #TOTP-ers. If you reply to me, or quote my posts, and you are not following the Fedi bridge, then I can't see your replies/quotes. You're shouting into the void. Don't do that, it's silly. Follow the bridge 😄
(you can follow the bridge here: https://fed.brid.gy/login)

"There’s been a new feature in my #Mastodon feed lately: People who have abandoned #Bluesky in protest at various controversial decisions there that don’t bode well. There have been flurries of departures related to trans rights, the treatment of Black users and Blacksky including banning accounts…

Is there a “quick” to follow all the folks i follow on bluesky, over here? I know about the bridging bot, but is there a way to automate that?
Related, is there a way to automate reaching out to bsky folks that I follow that aren’t bridged with that bridging bot?

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/geas-gesetz-dobrindts-kinder-in-haft-gesetz-stoppen?source=bluesky&time=…

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

Wondering how many folks here are also on #Bluesky but experiencing the birthdate bug so can't use the app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7077

Toronto's 2600 meeting is on this month again!
We meet on the second monday of the month at Victory Cafe 6pm (tonight!)
See you next month and next and next too!
@… @… and whoops also bluesky! We'…

"My strongest social media belief is that Threads isn't real"

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.
CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers against taking some of what they read in the paper’s columns at face value.
And all across the country, local news is on a ventilator;
the right-wing Sinclair network is taking…

Thread about gifting (or buying yourself) a telescope and avoiding getting something terrible.
(sorry for Bluesky link but I’m auto-removing posts on Mastodon, this is from last year)
https://bsky.app/profile/thomasfuchs.at/post/3lbx2egm5222k

Via @… on Bluesky.

I somehow got tagged in a post on #Bluesky, but the post doesn't contain my handle... Unless there is a bug that is being exploited... #noxp

What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide

Olha. Parece que vai vir aí mais uma vagazinha de refugiados, agora do Bluesky. Preparem-se.

Wann genau muss man extra betonen, dass es innerhalb eines Vereins keine "Vereinsmeinung" gibt, sondern man diskutieren könne?
Genau. Wenn diese Behauptung zweifelhaft ist.
https://archive.ph/MS52T
Es ist vermutlich kein Zufall, dass dieser Vorstoß kommt, kurz nachdem sich ein Mitglied zu…

People on #Bluesky, did you realise that the list of who you are blocking there is public?
There is even a website that shows some stats about blocks: https://clearsky.app/
Clicking on any of the users shows y…

Live updates: Rubio says US won't govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/us-venezuela-trump-maduro-updates-01-04-2026?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=695aa60d3265bb0001581d41
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p35#a260104p35

absolute banger on Bluesky if you missed it https://bsky.app/profile/rianjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mb6is5pgi222

Technologists for Democracy, a new org based in Toronto that advocate for a more ethical tech, just joined the fediverse through the Bluesky bridge
@…

Burning platform news:
A Bluesky thread suggesting the non-Russian parts of (former US site) LiveJournal may be going away - since they can't accept payments due to sanctions.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

Over on #Bluesky there was a bit of a controversy over the suspension of Sarah Kendzior. I thought it was an interestingly nontrivial moderation problem, so I wrote up a little case study on how this would have been handled on Mastodon: http…

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released.
Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Maxwell remains behind bars and called her "entitled" and that she lives in an "alternate reality."
"I certainly don't know of any grounds that would allow a …

"Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue."
A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/…

Via @… over on BlueSky:
“I hope this is how you find out about Dick Cheney”

Less than 48 hours after joining Bluesky,
the White House has already become one of the most blocked accounts on the social network.
According to ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats,
the White House account is blocked by around 91,000 accounts, while being followed by only 10,000.
The only account that’s been blocked by more Bluesky users belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined back in June. 
While the various new government accounts hadn’t qu…

Jury Acquits Man Accused of Soliciting Trump's Murder on Bluesky (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/jury-acquits-man-accused-of-soliciting-trumps-murder-on-bluesky
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p148#a251029p148

Fed up with not being able to visit the "Live Feeds" tab without instantly encountering explicit pornography.
It's because of the porn that many people didn't stay on Masto after leaving X, but went to BlueSky instead.

Op BS brengt Micheal Persson even z'n column van 25 januari '25 in herinnering.
Grote vraag is wat we in de tussentijd gedaan hebben.
T meest springt wel in t ook de NLse kroonjuwelen van de overheid (data) in de Amerikaanse cloud gestald. 🙈
Maar vooral dat project 2025 en de gevolgen vooral compleet genegeerd zijn.
commentaar 25-1-25:
We zullen de VS moeten wantrouwen, is de les van een week Trump-II
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/we-zullen-de-vs-moeten-wantrouwen-is-de-les-van-een-week-trump-ii~bb8f275d/
(Via @mickpersson.bsky.social — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/mickpersson.bsky.social/post/3m7bbbng3yc22 )

"“I’m going back to the #Fediverse. Back to #Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival…

Lembrete periódico Šs pessoas do Bluesky sobre como e com quem posso interagir pela ponte.
Para interação total, vocês têm também de estar na ponte, i.e., têm de seguir a conta do bridgy fed no bluesky. Nesse caso é praticamente como estarmos todos na mesma rede.
Para os outros só hš interação parcial, e só SE tiverem a conta aberta.
Se não a têm, e/ou se as vossas opções exigem que se esteja com login feito, a interação possível é um redondinho zero. Nem vos posso ler.

Watch this clip shared on Bluesky with the extremely aggressive and crazy statement by this US member of Congress, Ogles.
#USA

@… it would be nice to have bluesky posts formatted more like posts, not like links, e.g. here https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115492273452689792

With the advent of Blacksky and Northsky, I was seriously considering creating a bsky account and checking things out over there. Turns out I don't need to after all!
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115402352112431443

Wurde auf #Bluesky in 48h 100k-mal geblockt: Einige Accounts
Wurde auf #Mastodon in 48h nett begrüßt: Du. Bald.
https://mastodon.online/…

Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges' rulings (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-3-2025?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6908e45236c292000189047b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p78#a251103p78

"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/cps_41m_crypto_twitter/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and a few iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.

Savvy people are readying themselves for BlueSky's demise
https://bsky.app/profile/dmandl.bsky.social/post/3m6va6ntuws2g

The January wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles forced the state to spend billions in disaster aid
-- and delay tax filings for LA residents.
The cost of Medi-Cal,
the state-run health insurance program for low-income residents, ballooned to $6 billion more than anticipated.
Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariff policies rocked the stock market,
which California heavily relies on for tax revenue.
And the state lodged a flurry of lawsuits again…

This thread on Bluesky about college students in 2025 is terrifying
https://bsky.app/profile/jesbattis.bsky.social/post/3m6q26hzqoc2l

To ensure you get a postmark that reflects the day you mail something, you’ll have to go to a post office counter and ask for a manual postmark.
This may affect the eligibility of your mail-in ballot, or tax payment
https://www.

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks (Erin Kissane/The Tech Policy Press Podcast)
https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p166#a251022p166

New dietary guidelines delayed again
as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods.
The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.

The White House Joins BlueSky and Instantly Becomes the 2nd-Most Blocked Account -- After JD Vance (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/the-white-house-joins-bluesky-and-instantly-becomes-the-2nd-most-blocked-account-after-jd-vance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p45#a251020p45

Isn’t this the plot of “Gravity”
https://www.wired.com/story/three-astronauts-are-stuck-on-chinas-space-station-without-a-safe-ride-home/?utm_content=bufferf1781&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and some iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI

Not going backwards is a win.
Given Donald Trump's fraught relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that's important.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting did not materially move things forward
but nor was there a bust-up like that Oval Office moment in February.
There were however some notable takeaways.
First, Zelenskyy's facial expressions...

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.
And as you know: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge.
The huge airship is the Pathfinder 1,
billed as the "largest aircraft in the world" and developed by the company LTA Research.
Clocking in at 406.5 feet long and 66 feet wide, the Pathfinder 1 is among a class of airships known as "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.
For comparison, a Goodyear blimp is 246 feet lon…

Stephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …