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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Terry Schilling, a main architect of Republicans’ transphobic campaign messaging, has talked about the "magic" in spreading hate-driven propaganda. "How do win, how do we replicate this on other issues?” he asked on a right-wing podcast. What might those issues be?

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ændra. @aendra.com · 29/09/2026

Damn; Big Week For Aendra already and it's only Tuesday

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026

Carly responded to a Bluesky post two years ago when I was in a panic and needed someone to do some really basic photoshop. Instead she came up with illustrations that shaped how the publication looked. Do send her more work if you need actual talented human illustration.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 28/09/2026

Cannot wait to utterly disconnect from the news for two weeks while I pull looks on Spanish beaches, this entire news cycle can eat shit and die.

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 28/09/2026

employment tribunals happen all the time and rarely make the news. If we had actual journalists in the UK maybe one or two of them could investigate why so many funded by rich people and which target minority rights get such extensive coverage? could be nice.

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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

atlas.jazco.dev

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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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 25/09/2026

Weird happenings in my neighborhood

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ændra. @aendra.com · 25/09/2026

Wild horse-sized geese couldn't hold me back, will so be there 💚

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ændra. @aendra.com · 25/09/2026

Omg this is so cool to see 💚💚💚

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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/09/2026

I'm 18 minutes into the new season of Slow Horses and I've snickered so many times at the writing already, oh my god it's so bad

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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/09/2026

This is the funniest Reddit post I've read in years

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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/09/2026

Lmk if anyone wants this

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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/09/2026

That lesbian bar piece is the most egregious use of unnecessary scrollytelling I've seen this lifetime

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 10/09/2026

I've just done the largest update to the #dataviz starter pack, with 30 accounts (20%) replaced. It means it will generate more content now. Might be worth re-clicking. Sadly, gender imbalance got worse. I saved 5 spots for women-run accounts. Send suggestions, including yourself! Replies or DMs.

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ATProto London • Bluesky social events in London, UK @atproto.london · 18/09/2026

We're tentatively planning our autumn event for 4 November, so plenty of time to pitch a talk or presentation. Ping @aendra.com if you have any ideas!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 17/09/2026

@support.bsky.team Hey I can't login to blewit.us-west.host.bsky.network and this is preventing me from fixing XBlock, mind looking at that please?

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ændra. @aendra.com · 17/09/2026

This is super cool to see

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ændra. @aendra.com · 16/09/2026

Words cannot begin to describe how much I want one of these tshirts

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There were nearly three times as many people at the recent trans rights lobby than residents of Piddington

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NHS Wales’ Joint Commissioning Committee said it had to suddenly stop trans surgeries for an urgent investigation. Several weeks later and it still hasn’t even started investigating yet. Enough’s enough, it’s time to tell the JCC: give us back our healthcare. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09...

transactual.org.uk

Take Action to Restore Access to Gender‑Affirming Surgeries in Wales – TransActual

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/09/2026

We wrote about the rights trans kids still have at school 👇

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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

arxiv.org

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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ændra. @aendra.com · 14/09/2026

I think we're back now... Time to go fight the other fifteen fires I have burning today I guess; ugh Mondays suck

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So they didn’t even bother to justify it with the square root of fuck all Absolutely shocking basic failure of governance

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ændra. @aendra.com · 14/09/2026

There's apparently an issue with @xblock.aendra.dev right now, I need to update Ozone or some such, please bear with me.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 13/09/2026

This is utterly fascinating

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Sophie Perry @sophieperryportfolio.com · 12/09/2026

Check out my analysis of the day 👇

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ændra. @aendra.com · 11/09/2026

Had to buy a WiFi router for my partner because apparently downloading every image on Bluesky's firehose over a residential connection isn't so good for playing VR games

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ændra. @aendra.com · 10/09/2026

Aww shucks, I'm mentioned in this splendid piece about why @graze.social is super cool 💚

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ændra. @aendra.com · 10/09/2026

Never change, LinkedIn

A connection invitation on LinkedIn:

Hey Ændra! I saw your PR on Hubot and thought you'd be perfect for a new project I'm running where we collaborate with top oss devs to push the capabilities of leading LLMs. Want to hear more?

That Hubot PR in full. It's from 2013 and I removed a single "S" character from a regex.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

RTFT the entire anglo-sphere's ruling classes are collectively melting their brains on far-right propaganda which they think accurately reflects reality. Which means we're all increasingly living in the shitty world the fascist tech bros are building. get. off. fascist. tech. now.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 08/09/2026

First day I've been back to the office in like 4 months and I suddenly have an urge to start smoking again

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌗🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 06/09/2026

anyone following me still in the northsky queue, hmu, i could use help testing something

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Can we please compare this to the response to some chalk on some statues saying ‘trans rights are human rights’ lol?

Home secretary calls damage to statues disgraceful
IRANS
RIG
ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
PA MEDIA
A statue of former South African prime minister Jan Smuts was targeted by vandals
Tony Grew
BBC News
20 April 2025
Updated 21 April 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the vandalism of several statues in Parliament Square, including one of women's votes campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett, "disgraceful".

Ch Supt Stuart Bell, who was leading the policing operation for the protest, said: "It is very disappointing to see damage to seven statues and property in the vicinity of the protest today.
"We support the public's right to protest but criminality like this is completely unacceptable."
A spokesperson for Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson, speaking on the damage to Dame Millicent's statue, said she "utterly condemns the appalling defacement of such an important national monument to the fight for women's rights"
"There is no excuse for this disgraceful criminal damage."
The Met confirmed it is also dealing with a number of complaints from the public about signs and images shared on social media that were reportedly displayed at the protest yesterday and "action will be taken if there are signs displayed that breach of the law"
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ændra. @aendra.com · 05/09/2026

The cruelty of this decision is absolutely staggering. People in hospitals, being prepped for surgery suddenly being told "Nah nevermind, you've been discharged, buh-bye!". If this were happening to cis people, there'd be wall to wall coverage.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 05/09/2026

Be influential on *Bluesky*, as in, people actually *want* to sip from that poisoned chalice? Oh dear.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 04/09/2026

Brighton Psych Fest was amazing, like every act was phenomenal. Highly recommended if you want a chill seaside rock festival.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 04/09/2026

I'll be watching very closely how these new dogpile rules are actually enforced. They give me an intense "we gotta do *something* about those goddamn transes" vibe...

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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 02/09/2026

Want to create a forum that is free to run, uses the atmosphere (no new accounts) and you have pretty cool control over? also no ads? atmobb.app/host invite code: 22687476dea9

atmobb.app

atmoBB Forums

🤟 bringing back forum culture

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XBlock Screenshot Labeller @xblock.aendra.dev · 02/09/2026

Huzzah! First new model since November 2024! Should catch Instagram and Discord a bit better, and also yield fewer false positives! Please give feedback if you think it's working better/worse! 💚

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ændra. @aendra.com · 02/09/2026

Shipping the first retraining of the xblock-m Swin TIMM model since like 2024 or something, really excited

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ændra. @aendra.com · 01/09/2026

Building a new dataset to retrain XBlock from the firehose, and once again struck by the fact that a solid 10% of Bluesky's total image output is 100% dong

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ændra. @aendra.com · 31/08/2026

Figured out a way to increase inference throughout by an order of magnitude today, am very excited

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ændra. @aendra.com · 31/08/2026

Finally making some overdue progress on XBlock

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ændra. @aendra.com · 31/08/2026

I will ignore you so long that you'll think I've died if you ever make the mistake of sending me a voice note

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 31/08/2026

Today is the last day to apply! Let us fund your professional development, from conferences to trainings and everything you need to grow professionally. bit.ly/TJA-LU

bit.ly

Level Up

The Trans Journalists Association is offering stipends up to $1,000 for journalists' professional development.

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