Mike McCue
@mmccue.bsky.social
Co-founder, CEO Flipboard Host of DotSocial Podcast Check out my custom feeds in the feeds tab Made with surf.social beta Also Flipboard @mike.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy Mastodon @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy Pixelfed @mmccue.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
I made a DID-derived profile picture generator (always the same for a given DID) as well as a 90s style RPG game interface to @freeq.at freeqworld.boxd.sh
FreeqWorld
A federated chat protocol rendered as a 1992 multiplayer RPG. Every room is a real channel on irc.freeq.at — walk in.
freeqworld.boxd.sh
Chad Fowler@chadfowler.com · 2w agoI'm now my FreeqWorld self ✦ Your identity has a face — mine's derived from my DID: pfp.freeq.at
🇺🇦✊ In Kyiv, people are taking to the rally for the second day, and there are even more people today.
There is no way that "278,000 noncitizens" are voting in US elections, as Trump claims in his speech. Its just not physically possible, as WIRED and other outlets have consistently reported. This is a scare tactic, and it's working. And the repercussions are endless:
Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls
The Trump administration keeps threatening to send federal agents to oversee elections. State and local officials are preparing, and even gaming out what happens if they're arrested.
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Listen, I want you all to make a firm commitment. Next time we join an online community we all have to insist it's on the open social web so this can never happen again. We have to stop making the same mistake over and over.
Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 4w agothis is the wooooooooooorst
Excellent news for Bluesky, developers and the open social web.
Toni Schneider@toni.bsky.team · 4w agoStaying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/
One thing I want to specify about this post — Virginia, the state whose rules were just struck down, is choosing not to appeal the judge’s ruling. So this particular case won’t be escalating to SCOTUS; this is the end of the road for it.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW: After the Civil War, Congress readmitted the southern states under a key condition: don't expand felony disenfranchisement. But the states quickly violated their promise & weaponized criminal statutes to skew elections. It finally caught up with one of them this year. Fascinating read:
We are attacked at night. And in the morning, we wake up and continue living. My new letter comes from one of those days: a local charity market in Kyiv. Part of it is open to everyone: www.patreon.com/strategywoma...
Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC
Former prisoners accuse the men of abuse in detention centres and want to see them brought to trial.
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@mmccue.bsky.social presented Surf at this year's #AtmosphereConf and @maboa.bsky.social worked on getting it (and all the other talks) transcribed. Here's the link to Mike's "Feeds Are The New Websites." atmosphereconf.org/event/81Xovjr
ATmosphereConf 2026
ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.
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Mark Boas@maboa.bsky.social · last mo.That's all the talks transcribed and live for atmosphereconf.org/talks/ Was super happy to try out the latest Hyperaudio Lite lib and some new batch techniques for correcting Thanks to all who helped out! @bmann.ca @blaine.bsky.social @iame.li @essentialrandom.bsky.social et al. It's been fun :)
Accounts (particularly huge ones like media orgs) should be able to set a "default feed" where, when you visit their profile, instead of seeing the reverse chron, gives you a feed they've created for their audience. This is a killer differentiator and @bsky.app needs to have built it a year ago.
Andrew Lisowski 💻@hipstersmoothie.com · last mo.1. Make Discover like For You 2. Improve feed UX (Both using and sharing) 3. Add more opportunities to discover feeds (anywhere from the new Discover feed showing you where it got a post or actual new items in feed generators that allow for cross promotion)
Surf.social is an app that allows you to "surf" the ATmosphere and the Fediverse at the same time. Create your own feed for whatever you want. I created one for photography and it's amazing, now I can see accounts from all over the world in other platforms! 🧵1/2 bsky.app/profile/surf...
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This feed by @jonathanag.bsky.social is awesome to follow all the Supreme Court action and reaction from knowledgeable people. Check it out: thebenchmark.surf.social
The Benchmark by Jonathanag on Surf
Surf - SCOTUS news, opinions, and happenings from trusted sources and leading scholars.
thebenchmark.surf.social
This is an excellent and poignant encapsulation of Om. He was the zen of tech and I will miss him greatly.
M.G. Siegler@mgsiegler.com · last mo.Beyond personal sadness, the world is worse off in losing Om's voice – his inclination to pushback with the appropriate, earned and lived context – just as we wade deeper into the AI waters. spyglass.org/om/
Poland’s PM Donald Tusk is choosing the future over historical grievance. That matters. Russia benefits when allies argue about the past. Ukraine benefits when partners focus on the security challenges ahead. A rare example of political leadership putting strategy above emotion.
Excellent Decoder episode with Patreon's @jackconte.bsky.social: - Covers social media and its implosion - Discovery for human creators - Shoutouts to @surf.social, @bsky.app
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
Decoder with Nilay Patel · Episode
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Well, team, I had a hoot watching tonight's premiere of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON with you on @surf.social -- my recap of that rowdy Battle of the Gullet is now live over at @avclub.com. See you next week www.avclub.com/house-of-the...
Sails meet scales in the blistering season premiere of House Of The Dragon
Corlys Velaryon faces his past in the Battle Of The Gullet.
avclub.com
Jarrod Jones@jarrodjones.bsky.social · last mo.Tonight, I will experience two Battles of the Gullet: the complicated one I just had during dinner and a far more exciting one in tonight's HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, which we'll be watching together over on @surf.social 🤙 surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01kv96zb8s87nbgb4yabfg7hqd
In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...
They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real
The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators. ‘Is this just free money?’
wsj.com
Kudos to Irish journalist and film producer Caolan Robertson for single-handedly dismantling the myth of his country's 'neutrality' by exposing the collaboration between Ireland's political elite and the russian terror state!
Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.
To mark the return of the HBO hit on June 21, we're announcing a new online space for all things House Of The Dragon: Westeros Watch Party @surf.social, hosted by The A.V. Club TV team and contributors. Sign up today and get ready for the #hotd premiere with us! surf.social/feed/surf%2F...
Westeros Watch Party by The A.V. Club on Surf
Surf - Your place to talk about all things House Of The Dragon, hosted by The AV Club.
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Love this. Exactly what we're building Surf for.
Jarrod Jones@jarrodjones.bsky.social · 2mo agoStoked to say I'm recapping season three of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON for @avclub.com! Head over to @surf.social and keep up/hang out at AVC's Westeros Watch Party feed; that's where you'll find me each and every week surf.social/feed/surf%2F...
Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
co/core — an AI cooperative
co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, instead of renting from the big clouds. An experiment in AI infrastructure we bu...
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i'm not sure any tech criticism i could put forward rn would be more effective than the totality of this screenshot
Donald Trump has forced the Department of Justice to launch a sham investigation into Governor Newsom and his family solely because he's a political enemy. They don't have any evidence, and they aren't even looking for a particular crime. (1/2)
Governor Gavin Newsom@governor.ca.gov · 2mo agoMy office is demanding the Trump Administration release any and all records on the Trump DOJ’s politically motivated, baseless fishing expedition. The American people deserve to know who ordered this abuse of power and how far it goes.
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