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Emily Liu

@emilyliu.me
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 04/08/2026
even law schools are hiring for members of technical staff
job posting for “member of technical staff” at stanford law
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 13/03/2026
what it feels like catching up on new atproto projects (lovingly)
screenshot of a post: "It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now."
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 02/10/2025
this but good
one figure says "i made this." another figure takes the item and says "you made this?... i made this"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 20/08/2025
reading alexander hamilton's biography and becoming a hamilton-laurens relationship truther > hamilton meets eliza schuyler > decides to marry her > doesn't tell best friend john laurens > when he finally does, he's like "she's fine i guess but you're still my #1" > historians: "just friends"
excerpt from ron chernow's biography on alexander hamilton. this paragraph describes hamilton's letter to john laurens where he describes eliza schuyler
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 19/06/2025
why? i'm right!
freedom of speech by norman rockwell
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 30/05/2025
thank u king 🙇🏻‍♀️
a photo of Paul aka Pai wearing butterfly wings
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 29/05/2025
text screenshot of person in hospital, message that reads "I lived bitch"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 23/05/2025
Bored Cow animal-free dairy milk review: it has the creaminess of whole milk but not the sweetness. the flavor is milder but the difference is less obvious in coffee. it's not a true replacement for whole milk yet but i'm glad someone is working on it
Bored Cow animal-free dairy milk
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 21/05/2025
guys be like "i know a place" and then take you to the cloudflare AI labyrinth
Cloudflare AI labyrinth feature. Trap AI crawlers that scrape your website content without permission in a maze of never-ending links
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 01/05/2025
2014: "Information wants to be free." 
2018: "It's not about the money, it's about the mission."
2025: "Have you considered monetizing empathy?"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 25/04/2025
real jumpscare when they zoomed out to a room full of men in the last two seconds
three kids discussing
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 03/04/2025
will be in perugia for @journalismfestival.com next week to talk about breaking news on bluesky w @peter.andringa.me @fadahjassem.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social! pls drop me a note if your org is hosting any side events there, would love to attend :)
Panel name: "Breaking on Bluesky: live news in a post-Twitter era" with Peter Andringa, Fadah Jassem, Sarah Jeong, and Emily Liu
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 02/04/2025
pov you put in a bid for tiktok and then you get hit with
leave a tip screen
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 01/04/2025
we’re so back
a tweet from Mayor Daniel Lurie of SF announcing that the Asian grocer T&T market is opening a location at Geary and Masonic
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 26/03/2025
i think if jeffrey goldberg changed his signal display name to MAR there's a very good chance he'd get added back to another group chat, given that there are at least two MAR accounts
screenshot from the Houthi PC small group signal group chat. at the bottom, a line reads "MAR added MAR."
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 25/03/2025
this time last year, we were struggling to get mainstream press to see bluesky as anything other than a "twitter alternative" very cool to now read articles that situate bluesky as just one part of the AT Protocol ecosystem, where social media isn't built by a company but rather by community
Screenshot of a TechCrunch article by Sarah Perez. 

Text reads: But although Bluesky is the largest app built on ATProto at this time, the social network itself was not the ATmosphere Conference’s focus. Here, Bluesky was just another developer — albeit a prominent one, given its stewardship of ATProto, the social networking protocol that offers a framework for building a decentralized social network.

Instead, the conference was dedicated to the protocol itself and its many possibilities, which include building not only other types of social apps, but also communities and giving people a way to sign in across apps and web services with an open social identity via the authentication standard OAuth, and more.

The conference was about putting users back in control over their data, as well as their algorithms and their overall online experience.

In short, the 150+ people in attendance, alongside others in the community who attended virtually, are working to rebuild the web by putting the power back in the hands of the people who actually use the web.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 21/03/2025
ben stiller i need answers #severance
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 19/03/2025
from the days before bluesky even had a logo
hat, mug, and sticker
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 17/03/2025
lol
Screenshot from Careless People: "Two days later, at a state dinner in the White House, Mark [Zuckerberg] gets another chance to speak with Xi. In Mandarin, he asks Xi if he'll do him the honor of naming his unborn child. Xi refuses."
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 10/03/2025
zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil"jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 06/02/2025
put all the signatories of this letter that i could find here in a starter pack: go.bsky.app/SPRtK6r
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 05/02/2025
you have my word that for as long as i work at bluesky i will ensure we never post like this from main
Screenshots of posts: "commenting on their stories for extra aura >" "the vibe is vibing (still in bed)"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 28/01/2025
Bluesky is fast approaching both 30M users and 1B posts bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Screenshot of stats dashboard. 29.9M users and 980.81M posts
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 27/01/2025
we are very smart 🤓☝️
big brain wojak
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 26/01/2025
person mapping out a conspiracy
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 13/01/2025
alternative atproto relay 🔜 👀
Screenshot from the article: Free Our Feeds will first focus on building a second relay.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 10/01/2025
this is how i found out the supreme court mentioned bluesky today
Screenshot of a text: "Mama there's an algorithm behind you"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 09/01/2025
here's a visual: pin a trending topic to the homepage of your app via this icon
screenshot of the LA Fires trending topic, with a red arrow pointing to the pin icon in the top right corner
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 17/12/2024
only your most recent bsky.social username is reserved for you
screenshot of blog post: For every account, only your most recent .bsky.social username is reserved for you, and this reservation does not expire.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 17/12/2024
this is basically how usernames work on bluesky btw
galaxy brain meme. level 1: having different usernames across multiple social apps. level 2: using linktree in bio to unite all of your social profies. level 3: your website (link in bio) just is your username
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 26/11/2024
this context is important and missing from a lot of articles that cover bluesky / threads - bluesky: $0 marketing spend - threads: injects posts directly into instagram feeds with dark patterns (like trailing `...` instead of the full post) that incentivize users to download the app
clip from the untitled goose game. a character labeled "threads: 100M users!" runs away from a goose asking "and how many of them are active?"
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 26/11/2024
congrats king
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 26/11/2024
i'm obsessed with the speed of devs building here @joneslloyd.bsky.social built a chrome extension that allows you to use bluesky replies as the comments section for *any URL* with an open network, bluesky can be the comments section of the entire internet
screenshot from Lloyd Jones' demo, showing how comments from a bluesky post appear on a website through a chrome extension
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 24/11/2024
also, any replies in this thread will appear as comments on the blog post itself. made possible by the aforementioned Open Network 🫡 ft. @shreyanjain.net's reply below
Screenshot of blog's comment section, powered by posts on Bluesky
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 19/11/2024
crab smoking a joint
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 17/11/2024
also early adopter flex @mikeisaac.bsky.social
Mike Isaac's bio: "Mike Isaac has used Bluesky since shortly after it launched last year."
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 15/11/2024
#NewProfilePic
anxiety from inside out 2
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 15/11/2024
hi lizzo! welcome to bluesky :) there’s a follow all button at the top:
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 15/11/2024
NOOOOOOO 😭
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 14/11/2024
alright fine, time to update our bio on the other sites again 16M!!!!
A screenshot of Bluesky's bio. It says "Join 16M+ people," and the 16 number is highlighted.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 14/11/2024
this was actually a networking issue on the east coast though and our servers were fine 🫡 how i sleep knowing bluesky’s backend team has it under control
cat snuggled up in bed
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 13/11/2024
the mascot
the Go gopher
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 11/11/2024
the ~10 bluesky employees back then watching Threads say they built their app with a "small team"
zuckerberg looking into a window
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 11/11/2024
mfw reading posts saying "bluesky is dead because they tried to be an exclusive club for too long" when we were just trying to build the network responsibly
mark zuckerberg staring into the camera
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 11/11/2024
bluesky joining meta at the conference table
App Store rankings for social apps. Bluesky is listed among Meta appsBig Bird at a conference table
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 24/10/2024
her mind
expanding brain glowing blue
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 23/10/2024
when a bluesky employee joins a thread about the app without being tagged
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 18/10/2024
while you're posting about how you're never downloading this app, this is us on bluesky
colorful mice playing on a large bed
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 17/10/2024
bluesky's engineering team waking up in the middle of the night to pager alerts
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 16/10/2024
bless 🙏
Bluesky tweet: "welcome, new bluesky users :salute-emoji:"
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