Erm, okaaaay? I’m going to take that as ‘looks a bit like a young Brad Pitt’ instead of violent insomniac split personality?

Pieter Montoulieu@montoulieu.dev · 23m ago

Hell yeah

French interior Minister on Ceuta after meeting with EU counterparts "The problem isn't Schengen. Schengen is the solution. Schengen didn't let a single person from Ceuta onto the Spanish mainland. The problem is "outside interference" whipping up divisions within Europe"

interessant interview met @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social over haar boek Zondagskinderen, de aard en de rol van de Europese unie en het tijdsgewricht waarin we leven. podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/d...

“De EU beschermt burgers, China de staat en de VS bedrijven”

Podcast Episode · De verrekijkers · 21 May · 1hr 8min

podcasts.apple.com

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

Is it too cynical of me to think that this will just be used to train models to write less AI-slop sounding texts...?

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6d ago

AI slop has gotten so bad on Linkedin that they’ve added a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button

So odd: this post Is visible on the author’s timeline through @mu.social but not in the @blackskyweb.xyz app. Am I missing something? Isn’t the timeline on an author’s profile always the same and full list of posts?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d ago

EU GDP flash estimates are in today—In total, the EU grew 1.2% over last year, the Eurozone 1% Fastest: Lithuania (3.8%), Sweden (2.8%), Spain (2.7%), Portugal (2.5%), and Finland (2.2%) Slowest: Ireland (-5.6%), Belgium (.5%), France (.7%), Austria (.8%), and Germany (.9%)

Good points in this article. For me it gets to the core of what is ‘social’ about social media. It’s about interaction, not reach.

Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 7d ago

My contribution to the "Should writers switch to the Atmosphere even though Substack is bigger?" discourse.

Testing an idea that I've had for a while, but I think is even better suited for atproto Internet, meet plts.at

Plates · Your menu, everywhere

Publish your restaurant's menu once, as structured data you own. Plates gives it a beautiful page, and the open network carries it everywhere else.

plts.at

Am sending this from the @blackskyweb.xyz ios app. Seems to work, no? App looks good. Still not very clear on how Blacksky is different from Bluesky contentwise (i feel like such a novice saying stuff like that 😉).

Something something about geopolitical soft power and pop music

Pop Base@popbase.tv · last wk.

BTS announces they will not submit their music for the 2027 GRAMMY awards, following the Recording Academy’s addition of an Asian-focused category: “I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language.”

I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇

Why websites?

Personal websites as an atproto onboarding strategy

anna.pckt.blog

I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

wrecka.ge

Impactmeting gaat niet over flashy-maar-onbegrijpelijke dashboards, maar over je succes bewijzen in je eigen woorden. Dit voorjaar mocht ik samen met het fijne R&D-team van @paradisoadam.bsky.social aan de slag met hun impactstrategie. www.congrespodiafestivalsevenementen.nl/programma-on... 👇🏼

Impact meten in de praktijk: Paradiso als talentontwikkelaar

Bekijk deze sessie en meer tijdens het Congres Podia Festivals Evenementen 2025!

congrespodiafestivalsevenementen.nl

Any good podcasts about Berlin? Prepping for a trip. Can be in English oder -Warum auch nicht- auf Deutsch.

The scale thing really hit me when I tried out the excellent @beaconbits.app when on a trip in Paris. Am I really the only person to have used that app in the whole of Paris? Or am I missing something?

Ken Veerman@kenveerman.eurosky.social · last wk.

I agree. Even when filtering it feels like 80% US content and 19% about Europe. Might this be a scale thing? Like most AT protocol stuff it feels like the infrastructure is there, but there's hardly anybody on it (yet).

📍 Fondation Louis Vuitton Museum · Paris, Île-de-France, FR ☁️ 22°C Alexander Calder exhibition #BeaconBits

📍 Comer Restaurant · Paris, Ile-de-France, FR 🌙 24°C ★★★★★ #BeaconBits

Just like me They long to be Close to @mu.social

dan mentos@danmentos.com · 5mo ago

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

📍 Fogata latina Restaurant · Paris, Île-de-France, FR 🌤️ 27°C ★★★★★ #BeaconBits

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/

"If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 2/

Do you like your social media less toxic? Yeah, we do too. @eurosky.social and Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) just signed an agreement to collaborate on precisely that: eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

eurosky.tech

As part of my #degoogling I finally switched from Microsoft Office to @libreoffice.bsky.social That also involves setting LibreOffice as the default software to open .docx and .xlsx files. ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-m...

If this is happening in public, you've got to wonder what's happening behind the scenes. Any three-letter agencies involved? What are they up to these days? Perhaps some light election-interference? Interesting times

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w ago

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

Té accuraat 😂 Ik hoop dat de kleine Jelle weet dat hij negen keer per week een ander antwoord gaat moeten geven op de vraag “Maar wat doe jij nu eigenlijk precies?” (I know I do)

De Speld@speld.nl · 3w ago

Jelle (5) wil later systemic transformation alignment coach worden #despeld

If you're building apps for the social web, this survey report by Incogni is really worth a read. People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. blog.incogni.com/digital-fati... Extracts in the thread 🧶 👇

The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use [2026] | Incogni

People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. While they may not be deleting accounts en masse, many are:

blog.incogni.com

Excellent podcast, this one.

The Next Best with Marcel Dirsus@thenextbest.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 Legendary Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan joined the podcast to discuss Putin's legacy, Trump's "unprecedented" foreign policy and the end of the liberal international order. Watch below: youtu.be/93CxFtM3VlQ