www.kcrw.com/shows/tana-y... First episode of Tana Yonas exploring Ethiopian Jazz and some of the history along the way on KCRW!
Clinton Bowen
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Infosec, climate change, memes, and whatever strikes my fancy on torrho.com blog Also founder of @slavecodes.org Maybe one day will get to @jimcrowlaws.org former handle - @torrho.com Maker of @tektite.cc
Status Update as of 8/3/2026: We have fixed the issue with the appview. You should be able to use both the web app and the public beta mobile app without any delays. Thank you all for your patience!
Hey everyone, new month, new reports. This is a reflection of both the user reported content and the content labeled by our Peer Moderators who labeled content for Blacksky-Only posts! Really excited to dive into some of the details and hope you subscribe for more T&S related content.
Community in Practice
Moderation events in July 2026
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Pls help blacksky get a server so the appview can scale up! my posts be disappearing
Clinton Bowen@torrho.blacksky.team · 5d ago🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU
🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU
You asked, Blacksky delivered. Public beta live now!
Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 7d ago🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇
Mark your calendar, folks. Rishi sat down with us for a chat right after Acorn was announced, give it a listen to get ready atproto.com/off-protocol...
Blacksky As a Service: a First Look at Acorn - AT Protocol
Rishi Balakrishnan joins to talk about the work that went into building Acorn, Blacksky's new platform for creating moderated communities on atproto — and why the landing page never mentions a PDS.
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rish@rishkebab.blacksky.team · last wk.Excited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
Joining the beta is easy. Download for iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/ST8N2Qda Download for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... If you run into any issues, you can follow the instructions here for help: docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...
Blacksky - Apps on Google Play
Discover communities, trending conversations, and social media built for you.
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🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇
Hello. @mozilla.org is in the market for a "0→1 engineer" for a consulting role focused on open source AI 🌍 remote friendly 💰 budget ≈ $200K–$227,250 🕰️ fixed term contract (not FTE role) 🧑🏾💻 fluency in Python and/or TypeScript 🤖 comfortable working w/ agents 📧 contact mike@mozilla.org if interested
Check out the interview with our very own @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team and @thehost.theinvite.us about Blacksky, Blackness, and the importance of having your own safer space online as Black people from The Invite's @stream.place on Juneteenth! youtu.be/4hrPb4egyis?...
Thank you all for sharing your features for Blacksky-Only posts on the community tab! Our first feature update is the ability to see Blacksky-Only Posts in your "following" feed and on your profile! Learn more about Blacksky-Only Posts via our @stream.place VOD : youtu.be/UAsnRO1B8Pg?...
Blacksky-Only Posts Launch
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Blacksky-Only Posts can now be viewed in your Following feed and also on your profile! We are making more feature changes that have been highly requested, so stay tuned!
We Back!!! Oooo We Back! Today is my first day as a full time employee at Blacksky! It's good to be back with the team and excited to build what's coming next for y'all!
i'm an example of this! my account is currently using a custom domain and does not have blacksky.app at the end of it, but bc i am hosted on the @blackskyweb.xyz PDS, originally had a blacksky.app handle, and am black: I CAN ACCESS BLACKSKY-ONLY POSTS 🥳 migrate today! move.blacksky.community
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Kay Coghill, PhD.@drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 4w agoThe handles that can access Blacksky-only posts are ONLY Blacksky.app handles, custom domains on our server that were Blacksky.app handles (we can see that), and those on the Blacksky feed. Only on Blacksky.community — this is unique to our web app.
The handles that can access Blacksky-only posts are ONLY Blacksky.app handles, custom domains on our server that were Blacksky.app handles (we can see that), and those on the Blacksky feed. Only on Blacksky.community — this is unique to our web app.
Happy Saturday! For all Blacksky community members People’s Assembly is a great place to submit feature requests. Not everything will be available but we will try! Thanks to those who have been submitting! I’m always checking! — it’s always open: assembly.blacksky.community/8bbfunvvau
What features and changes would you like to see from the Blacksky team?
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Steady tryna find BlackSky and BlackSky end up finding you 🙂↔️
We’re publishing a zine and want to use it to highlight the vibrancy of our community ✨ If any visual artists have existing work that they want featured, we’d love to include you and your work. To submit, send an email to hello@blacksky.app with your name, your handle, and your artwork attached.
When @bsky.app goes down I legitimately do not notice. My account hosted is on @selfhosted.social. I use the @blackskyweb.xyz app service with the @skeetsapp.com and @jollywhoppers.com's Witchsky clients. You all have agency here. We have self determination.
The Barrio just got bigger. When you migrate your account to @blackskyweb.xyz using move.blacksky.community, you now have the option to choose either a .latinsky.app or .afrolatinsky.app handle. If you’ve already moved your account, you can change your handle in the account settings on Blacksky.
You can now access Latinsky & Afrolatinsky handles on Blacksky by either starting fresh with a new account or migrating your PDS with move.blacksky.community. If you’ve moved to Blacksky’s PDS already, you can switch to Latinsky in account settings
Latinsky Barrio@latinsky.app · 3mo agoThe Barrio just got bigger. When you migrate your account to @blackskyweb.xyz using move.blacksky.community, you now have the option to choose either a .latinsky.app or .afrolatinsky.app handle. If you’ve already moved your account, you can change your handle in the account settings on Blacksky.
Haha, this whole bun rewrite thing is- what the fuck do you mean *merged*?
NEW: We’ve launched AI Preferences - a feature that lets you decide how AI can use your public data (or not). Your preferences will automatically apply to your Blacksky account and will also be shared across the ATmosphere network for other apps to implement at their discretion.
Keeping them wednesdays at 3pm Pacific time! Next up is @katexcellence.io!!! And then in no particular order we’ve got @richferro.com @aka.dad and @torrho.blacksky.team (when his time becomes available again) and then also working on a few more!
A good time for folks to do some reading on the Redemption period that immediately followed Reconstruction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeeme...
Redeemers - Wikipedia
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Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 3mo agoTennessee’s Republican senator, who is the overwhelming favorite this year to become the next governor, calls for eliminating the only majority-Black and safely Democratic congressional district