Our July update is out! Semble MCP and Subscriptions shipped, Zotero libraries start roaming on Semble, and lots of exciting community contributions (we love being able to say this every month and really mean it 😇)

Cosmik Updates: July 2026

Cosmik at DWeb Camp Berlin, Semble MCP and Subscriptions shipped, Zotero libraries start roaming on Semble, and a new blog series on the sensemaking patterns we're seeing on Semble. Plus an interactive map of the Sembleverse by @davidgasquez.com, and lots more community contributions

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Off Protocol LIVE is back tomorrow. Reply with your questions and your hosts will do their best to get you an answer on the stream.

Off Protocol LIVE

Jim and Alex are back on the livestream to take your questions and go through everything that's been happening on the Atmosphere for the past two weeks. As always, you can @-reply us with questions ahead of time or bring them to the stream.

atmo.rsvp

finally bringing bluesky to parity with the a star is born press tour

Bluesky@bsky.app · 20h ago

Update: group chats can now host up to 100 members.

one of very few unabashedly left wing works of art that I don’t think becomes didactic or diminished by its politics

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d ago

A masterpiece. And it has some of the all-time great John Sayles lines, which is saying a lot. The one that never leaves my mind is David Strathairn as the sheriff saying of a person he dislikes "I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire."

at what point does it cease to be a rebuild and turn into arson fraud

New York Mets@mets.com · 2d ago

We have acquired INF Jefferson Rojas from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for OF Tyrone Taylor and RHP Clay Holmes. Thank you, TT and Clay!

auth flow redesigns! shipping soon! customizable background images! feedback welcome!

Chad@chadtmiller.com · 2d ago

PDS folks! Working on a redesign of the authentication and dashboard screens for the reference PDS, bringing in a proper component library and consistent patterns across the UI. One notable change: customizable light/dark backgrounds on the auth screens. Let us know what you think! #atproto

back down to a perfect 90 degrees this week after a couple that trended unpleasantly more like 95 which is a nice reminder that I like it exactly this hot. I have limits! they are just excessive. curiously this is how my ITX builds trend as well except in Celsius

story.roomy.space

I had to go and look on streetview to be sure this wasn’t some sort of complicated New Zealand joke but no, this is a real place

Sara Passmore@kingsara.bsky.social · 2d ago

What I love about Christchurch is the seemless blending of brutalist architecture and play.

🥲 i swear i'll try to keep chill today as best i can (thanks for your patience with me, whoever you are) but mark playing this game with his family (in our big walk preview thing!) was a real 'oh… this might work' moment and i won't soon forget it

Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney@blueskynoise.com · 2d ago

Big Walk is incredible. My review: www.gamespot.com/reviews/big-...

CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...

Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all

Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.

theverge.com

Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post

public rail transit in the US wasn't killed by greedy private companies with no public mandate, it was all just greedy private companies with no public mandate in the first place

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 2d ago

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

new Araki was fun enough but reminded me of how much more I liked his Starz series even if it seemed at the time like peak “not sure why they got a TV show” (as mentioned, it was on Starz). “we didn’t appreciate 2019 enough” is one of my favorite recurring bits after all

Potential atproto hackathon in SoCal 👀

Bryan (they/them)@chaosgreml.in · 4d ago

ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve been working on putting together something between a retreat and a hackathon for #atproto builders for the past several weeks. I’ve been in discussion with potential funders and some funding has become available to make this a reality. now, I need your help!! KEEP READING 👇🏽

new exhibit at the Autry is good

just got a demo of this, it is crazy

Scooty@scottlanoue.com · 5d ago

Happy Friday! I've been building towards an "Atmosphere OS", where my atproto account is the identity layer on a real phone. I wrote a little bit about it here:

a bit embarrassing, but hopefully helpful to someone

saving >$400/mo on atproto infra

(eventually) trying to make operating atproto infra cheaper

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Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.

The world is starting to notice

Jim Ray@jimray.bsky.team · 5d ago

"As a Bluesky user, you own your data and have greater control over the algorithms that serve you content. Also, the platform is extremely publisher friendly and aims to ... be a quality partner to high-quality news sources." Love to hear it, @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reflections-...

Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d ago

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

I have seen the Maine attack ads about Troy Jackson marrying his second cousin and they reminded me of my favorite part of the FDR museum: Teddy’s amusement upon learning Eleanor Roosevelt would not have to change her name when she got married

Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.

scariest part of getting older for me is hands down becoming less patient/fussy/deliberate. my nothing-special grind and brew coffee machine motor died on Tuesday and I have been ineptly fighting my obsessive brain on “just get a new one ASAP” vs “research a worthwhile upgrade” since

Labelers v2 in Standard Reader: we deleted our own labelers. Any atproto labeler now works with zero setup, and your installed Bluesky labelers follow you to our app! The directory is the whole network, ones we think are for @standard.site near the top.

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

speaking as someone who finds it impossible to forgive reactionary tendencies in members of my extended family, I’m kind of glad I have to entertain it from my stupid baseball team instead. I’m sure it’s helping me practice patience, somehow or other

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 6d ago

MLB gets embroiled in a gambling scandal two years ago, with its once-in-a-century player, so it's very natural and reassuring that the NY Mets now partner with a prediction market. www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...