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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨

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🌐 Working at the intersection of movements, media, and the social web to expand collective agency 🛠️ Seeking collaborations to reshape systems that concentrate power and shape how we live 🧭 Field Notes @spacecadets.love 👂 Current focus @ecosystemaction.com

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Graze Social @graze.social · 29/09/2026
Thinking about the US midterms and how feeds could play a part? Join the @graze.social team + community TOMORROW, Tue Sept 29 at 2pm PT for an open call on building election-ready feeds and the product changes we're making to support you. Everyone is welcome! 🗳
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Meet
Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 29/09/2026
@blaine.bsky.social Question! I've noticed over the years that many major products and platforms started as virtual world projects that pivoted into other things. I vaguely recall Twitter may have been one of those pre-odeo? Am I remembering something real or imagining? Or maybe it was Flickr?
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 26/09/2026
@at3d.app you around?
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/09/2026
For years, Signal has required a phone number to register for an account. That’s all changing. You can now pay a small fee for an account with no phone number. Read about it in our digital security newsletter, and subscribe.
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Signal introduces registration without a phone number
One of Signal’s most sought-after features is now available to Android beta users
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 26/09/2026
It's not been the best mental health week and now I have fomo for not having been on bluesky for most of it. What have I missed?
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 25/09/2026
This is really specific, but does anyone know any trans women with bipolar 2 taking estradiol and lamictal at the same time?
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sean @deamplified.com · 22/09/2026
was just talking with someone about how we almost never see monarchs anymore, how we used to see them every year (northeast US). I saw 3 at the park the other day.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 21/09/2026
New heat from our Head of Trust and Safety @jdot.blacksky.team on why it is important to build a culture of digital safety! blackskyweb.xyz/building-a-c...
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Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety
Black culture is in a lot of ways synonymous with how internet culture exists writ large. From what is now described as “Gen-Z slang” (or as Black people have always known it, AAVE) to our methods of ...
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 22/09/2026
@jakelazaroff.com what fonts are you using on your blog? They're pretty!
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 21/09/2026
Ugh. The activist tech security collective I co-run has been in stasis for a little bit and i think we accidently let our domain expire right when we were about to finally update it. Great look. 👍
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 20/09/2026
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR give me death through lack of coordination of collective action to address systemic issues
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 20/09/2026
@atmosphere.games Idea! Android app version that's essentially both an installer of web apps whether PWA or not, and later on an spk installer. Seems like someone should have some boilerplate code or tutorials for this. I was just playing with the Hermit app and was like, wouldn't it be great if...
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20/09/2026
pretty interesting project by @s0hw.bsky.social and @andresmh.com building an ontology of community guideline decision points. I think this will be very relevant to high-context moderation within atmospheric groups
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Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire
A collaboration with Princeton explores how Governance Cards can help communities explain how they organise, make decisions, and care for their shared spaces.
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 18/09/2026
more people gotta lay it out like this: these people are immoral, incompetent, and corrupt self-dealers. tech will be better if we keep their violent and dehumanizing brand of politics out of it
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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (Accessible Version)
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source. Accessible, high-legibility version.
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Tynan is afk til 10/19 ⁂ @tynanpurdy.com · 17/09/2026
THEYVE DONE IT AGAIN
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 17/09/2026
This is what antifascist resistance against the corporate AI and social media establishment can look like. We can build our own grassroots open social media systems even better and more ethically than the big companies in ways that shift the economics of the tech industry away from data centers, etc
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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 17/09/2026
I’ve been thinking about how extinction is not some future singular event. Communities around the world are experiencing apocalyptic conditions every day. Harm and extinction are not separate risks. They are a continuum of pain that hundreds of millions traverse daily
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 17/09/2026
"A counterculture does something else entirely. It finds the ungoverned space, builds the parallel system, and reaches the audience first. The mainstream is then forced to respond to something it had neither authorised nor understood." Great theory of change for science (and a lot of other fields)
A counterculture does something else entirely. It finds the ungoverned space, builds the parallel system, and reaches the audience first.

The mainstream is then forced to respond to something it had neither authorised nor understood.

It’s less about heroism and it’s also not about victimhood.

It is more of a niche-serving approach.

You find the use case the dominant system cannot see, or cannot afford to serve, or has actively written off as worthless. You build for that. You make it work for the people who need it. And you let the alternative become obsolete not by confronting it, but by making it irrelevant.

That is the crux of it.
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hailey @hailey.at · 16/09/2026
i guess in a way this is the most widely used one, but also one that is severely underused in other ways. definitely identity. i've long been of the opinion that there are obviously cool things that come from public data and all the public pieces of the proto, but identity is higher impact.
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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 16/09/2026
Every time I build something I just slap atproto oauth into it. I just wrapped up an admin interface and asked for everyone's handle/did rather than "here's a bunch of credentials to put in your password manager"
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celine @cozylittle.house · 11/09/2026
Hi I wrote a big thread that I'm going to turn into a blog post. But this is the real reason I want you to leave substack and use Leaflet or Pckt or Offprint!
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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣🔁✏️Help me Hire Social Media Writers!✏️🔁📣 Friends, in April I burned out so hard on posting I couldn't talk about my or @fujocoded.bsky.social work at all. I've resolved to fix it—by hiring someone to do what I can't. Know writers who get fandom? Help me reach them! forms.gle/KZ2yvEWYC2W2...
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FujoCoded Call for Hire: Social Media Writer Edition
FujoCoded is looking for a Social Media Writer to keep our supporters up to date about our many projects and products, and increase both the visibility and legibility of what we do. You’ll take a shor...
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 17/08/2026
We built a new social media algorithm from the ground up that gives you full control. And we figured hey, while wer're doing that, let's design it to help people out with their conflicts. www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/the-first-...
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The First Social Media Algorithm You Control is Designed for Constructive Conversation
GreenEarth is an open, controllable feed algorithm that is scientifically tested to reduce polarization
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MySky Feed @mysky.social · 06/08/2026
A personalized feed designed for constructive conversation. Settings | Why am I seeing This | How It Works | Feedback
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization We find that: 1) ideologues post opinions more than moderates 2) extreme attitudes are posted more than moderate one 3) This replicates in 40 countries 4) Opinions that users post are more hostile than the beliefs they keep to themselves
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Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026
Here's a direct link to the new mysky.social feed (formerly Green Earth) by @jonathanstray.com and team. First atmosphere feed I know of designed to promote constructive conversation. bsky.app/profile/mysk...
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The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development @fujoweb.dev · 16/09/2026
📣 HIRING CALL: Social Media Writers 📣 Want to help build a better future for the (fandom) web with a ragtag team of professional fujin, and maybe even—gasp!—let people hear about it? Want to do so for $15/hour, 2 hours a week? Check out AND spread our hiring call! fujocoded.com/hiring#hirin...
📣 Voice of the Fujos: We're hiring a social media writer to save our founder help show our most sociable supporters that yes, indeed, we do things! A lot of them! If you can write in a fun, casual, and slightly chaotic style, and have 2hr/week for the cause (and a fee), fill out our Social Media Writer (ongoing) Application!
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The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development @fujoweb.dev · 16/09/2026
Fujoshi, fudanshi, fujin, and friends: we have NEWS! 📣 In this edition: - 💼 Now Hiring: social media writers - 🗺 FujoGuide’s cutest roadmap - 📚 Issue 2 (Pre)²view announcement + cover And (🥁🥁🥁) seeking our very own, very first "Funblr Sexyman"...and its artist! 👇🧵
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 16/09/2026
Vaccine maxxing today with 5 vaccines. 💉 A little achy, but I did this for all of us. Ok, mostly me, but also you're welcome.
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Acetaminophen Tylenol My Beloved
ALT: Acetaminophen Tylenol My Beloved
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Tony Zhou @tyzhou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bluesky gives users the power to choose their algorithms, but how does this actually work in practice? In our new preprint, we explore the ecosystem of Bluesky custom feeds and the feed creators behind them! 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.12958
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Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on Bluesky
Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...
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Belle @ autumnal wonderland! @torrentempress.neocities.org · 15/09/2026
Okay, since a lot of folks have been asking me exactly how to get involved after the popularity of this - I am working on a volunteer educational project to get both devs and artists together Please get in contact! Reply, feel free to message me, ect! special thanks to @nerdigrey.bsky.social
Image: Tan skinned muscular man with beard wearing a pink shirt with a leather harness peaking through with a camera hanging off of it in the bottom righthand corner 

Title: ATprotoc - calling creatives & Developers

"Looking for help on a volunteer multi-media project to educate people on new social media & tech alternatives using mascot characters :

Illustrators
Character Designers
Technical & narrative writers
Developers
Programmers
Researchers

Not sure where you fit in? Let’s figure it out! "

to the right and then: "Let’s make an internet that doesn’t suck!"
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Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com · 15/09/2026
anyway PBS just released a documentary about the history of AI: youtu.be/dLQzVLtvdv8?... CN for racism, race science, anti-Blackness, misogyny, ableism, eugenics, Elon Musk
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Ghost in the Machine | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 15/09/2026
calling all artists 👩‍🎨 writers 🪶 zine makers 📒 crafters 🧱 pckt.blog wants to hear from you 🫵 we want pckt to be an online home for your craft, whatever it may be. what kinds of features would you want in a place to share your work? 👀
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 15/09/2026
It’s up on YouTube now!
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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 15/09/2026
The brilliant AI documentary Ghost in the Machine characterizing AI, or its originating philosophical and eugenic ideas, as a kind of “white flight from the human body” is 🤌
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 15/09/2026
@blackskyweb.xyz @stream.place from the looks of it yall are already probably working on this issue, but I thought I'd flag it anyways just in case. Errors when attempting to log into streamplace. Errors attached from two separate attempts. Android client.
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Bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 14/09/2026
If you would like help writing user-facing documentation that is clear and understandable at the level of the common user, I have spent 15 years translating technical jargon into user-facing instruction and documentation for social workers, nurses, care workers, teachers, store clerks, etc.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 14/09/2026
Debbie is such a generous writer I’m delighted she’s working on building the Atmosphere. Some excellent advice here.
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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 14/09/2026
A good read about sociotechnical systems in fascist times
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 13/09/2026
NoKings is back October 17. On a public street near you. See you then? www.nokings.org #NoKings
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're above accountability — it belongs to the people, but only if we use it.
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soundsgoodman @emotionengine.rip · 11/09/2026
If you're developing in this area: ask yourself what bottleneck in your domain can be solved WITH the protocol—not just "on" the protocol. How can a PDS change the way people live off the Web? Otherwise we're just building new ways to do the same things.
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soundsgoodman @emotionengine.rip · 11/09/2026
Guys... GUYS, listen. I am begging you all to think bigger! The Atmosphere may be a fun space to explore how familiar services and apps interact—but it's still just social media. The protocol enables us to change behaviors and solve *systemic* problems It's the thing that gets us TO the thing.
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Eli Mallon @iame.li · 11/09/2026
Some of the biggest @stream.place streamers got together to do a 24-hour streaming marathon this Saturday, come tune in!
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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 10/09/2026
An open letter about how Bluesky's public behavior keeps alienating creatives and marginalized users the ecosystem needs to grow and thrive. Belle outlines examples of staff public conduct and product choices and has clear asks like hiring PR people and setting priorities based on user research.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏽 If you haven’t already, check out my recent essay about Star Trek IV, Moby-Dick and Cetacean Ops in @orionmagazine.bsky.social! orionmagazine.org/article/plan...
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Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine
Learning from Star Trek’s space whales
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