Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 14/03/2026Spotify decided to enshittify its API this month, which is forcing me to shut down the Daily Random playlist I've been running since 2015. The app randomly selects 30 songs daily to expose you to different types of music. open.spotify.com/playlist/6p2...open.spotify.comDaily Random 371
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 10/03/2026I'm going to "We’re All Builders Now: atproto LA × ACE Los Angeles — March 23"!smokesignal.eventsWe’re All Builders Now: atproto LA × ACE Los Angeles — March 23LA! It’s time. atproto LA is officially here — and we’re kicking things off with the kind of inaugural event that sets a tone. We’re pairing up with ACE Los Angeles (the Atlassian Community Events ... 000
Reposted by Max HawkinsGraze Social @graze.social · 04/03/2026Our founder @devingaffney.com also got in the mix with a "chill" for you feed that intentionally tries to minimize politics and news for when you need a break from the nightmare 2103
Reposted by Max HawkinsDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page. 34870551
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 14/08/2025@cmonstah.bsky.social Hi! What’s the best way to pitch you on a story? 100
Reposted by Max HawkinsJordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The Chemical Safety Board does not duplicate OSHA or EPA. It's more like the NTSB of chemical plant incidents. Eliminating the #CSB will mean more chemical releases, evacuations illnesses and deaths -- everywhere in the US, not just cancer alley. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...yahoo.comTrump shutdown of chemical safety watchdog could mean ‘more explosions, more deaths’ in Cancer AlleyOn a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the... 08853
Reposted by Max Hawkinsjoemag @joemag.games · 09/06/2025for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle 7260912566
Reposted by Max Hawkinsbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 08/06/2025just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there. 212450987
Reposted by Max HawkinsYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/05/2025US Census updated its city-level pop estimates today, showing population increases from 2023–24 in most cities. Interesting data: —NYC added 87k, up to ~8.5 m —LA added 31k —Chicago added 22k —Seattle added 17k, up to 781k. This is up from 563k in 2000! Its density went from 6700 ppl/sq mi to 9300!census.govPopulation Growth Reported Across Cities and Towns in All U.S. RegionsCities of all sizes grew on average from 2023 to 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 Subcounty population estimates released today. 57821
Reposted by Max HawkinsTobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 03/04/2025NHK on the tariffs on uninhabited islands: 6383136
Reposted by Max HawkinsOK Doomer ☮️🏳️🌈🤷♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Historically prescient. What he said six and seven decades ago is still relevant and likely to become yet more so. www.liberalcurrents.com/existential-...liberalcurrents.comExistential Liberalism: James Baldwin and the Problem of FreedomThe burden of freedom has always been heavy, and Baldwin forces us to confront whether we are willing to bear it. 162
Reposted by Max HawkinsNikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape... 23535299
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 19/12/2024@bcantrill.bsky.social re: your comment on the latest oxide pod about wanting feeds for podcasts, @listennotes.com kind of does this! thebrowser.com has an excellent podcast feed there called The Audio Browser. It’s a feed of hand-picked episodes from other podcasts. Highly recommended.thebrowser.comThe BrowserFeed your curiosity with daily writings and listenings on art, politics, science, history, and every other topic you can imagine. 041
Reposted by Max HawkinsAfroLA @afrolanews.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Now, neighbors and advocates in a group called Open Sidewalks LA (@opensidewalks.la) want the gates removed. Read Maylin Tu’s (@maylintu) story to learn more about why the gates separated the community in the first place and what neighbors are doing about it now. buff.ly/3N9102X buff.lyDecades ago, homeowners gated public streets in the name of curbing crime. Now, a group is trying to take them downTo some neighbors, the gates are an ugly symbol of exclusion and segregation. 064
Reposted by Max HawkinsLynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Interesting work from @drib.net exploring and clustering image concepts with Gemma Scope got.drib.net/latents/ 0112
Reposted by Max HawkinsInvisible Food Truck @invisiblefoodtruck.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Hello, LA! We have set up shop at 3rd and Catalina in Koreatown! Try our new low-fat steak elote! 021
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 07/12/2024@depthsofwiki.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.wikipedia.orgList of disasters in Antarctica by death toll - Wikipedia 020
Reposted by Max HawkinsDorian Quelle @dorianquelle.bsky.social · 20/06/2024Who uses Bluesky? We look at the political leanings of Users, and investigate polarisations and political leanings on Bluesky. Bluesky users are almost exclusively center-left leaning with a unimodal distribution of political opinions. 2273
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 29/11/2024@jaz.bsky.social Is the embedding at bsky.jazco.dev/atlas being updated anymore? I was thinking of building a feed based on it.bsky.jazco.dev Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social) 000
Reposted by Max HawkinsDon’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I’ve come around the world and back again on my feelings after a decade of digisec work, facing this next chapter of madness. We know all the kinds of data that get collected, carry risks. But we overwhelm people with recommendations, spend too little time repeating fundamentals: Switch to Signal. 17422
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 12/11/2024@jaz.bsky.social is the discover feed algorithm open source? I was curious how it worked but don’t see it on the GitHub. 100
Reposted by Max HawkinsKnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 07/10/2024Hello Bluesky! It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: the Knock LA Voter Guide (November 2024 edition) knock-la.com/the-knock-la...knock-la.comThe Knock LA Progressive Voter Guide for the November 2024 General Election - Knock LAThe Most Anticipated - with breakdowns of city, county, state, and federal races, plus ballot initiatives! 04221
Reposted by Max HawkinsSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 11/07/2024Happy "new USCSB video" day to all who celebrate (via @shi.pe) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkR...youtube.comDesigned to Fail: Chemical Release at LyondellBasellA CSB safety video on the fatal release of acetic acid at the LyondellBasell La Porte Complex in La Porte, Texas, on July 27, 2021, that killed two contract... 4104
Reposted by Max HawkinsRetroNewsNow @retronewsnow2.bsky.social · 26/06/2024On June 25, 1961, the ‘space age’ Theme Building structure at Los Angeles International Airport was officially dedicated 011
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 21/06/2024@johnpfaff.bsky.social Do you have any writing about Prop 47? I’ve started to see more people talking about it with the new ballot initiative this November. I’m having a hard time finding good academic writing about the issue. 000
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 20/04/2024@voberoi.bsky.social Awesome work on citymeetings.nyc. Do you have any plans to expand to other cities like Los Angeles? 110
Reposted by Max HawkinsMike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/08/2023I am jealous, as I don't think I'll ever get to write an opening graf as good as this one in LA Mag. And the story only gets more bizarre as it goes on. lamag.com/news/exclusi... 97822
Reposted by Max HawkinsDr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 21/08/2023Did you feel the recent M5.1 earthquake that hit north of Los Angeles? It was larger than any recorded quake in this part of the Western Transverse Ranges - and does not match the faults in the SCEC Community Fault Model. Read more on our blog: earthquakeinsights.substack.com 🧪 13316
Reposted by Max HawkinsJulia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 17/08/2023Hey Bluesky - I write my latest NYT opinion piece about Bluesky’s custom feeds and how it would be great if all social media had them. (Gift link)nytimes.comOpinion | We Need More Say in What We See on Social MediaWe have no control of what we see on social media. This needs to end. 23553183
Reposted by Max Hawkinsjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 25/07/2023is anyone curious to know what the x.com domain was like before elon bought it in 1999? check this shit out 3453093
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 24/07/2023I’m attending IETF 117 in San Francisco this week. If you’re in town say hello! 000
Reposted by Max HawkinsRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 20/07/2023wake up, new @chemsafetyboard@twitter.com video, time to get safe at your workplace!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3BFXpBcjcyoutube.comThe Danger of Popcorn Polymer: Incident at the TPC Group Chemical PlantA CSB safety video on the November 2019 incident at the TPC Group Chemical Plant in Port Neches, Texas. A series of explosions destroyed a portion of the TPC... 2144
Reposted by Max Hawkinswint @dril.bsky.social · 19/07/2023shut da fuck up and follow DRIL on Blue Sky . I want to see those numbers go crazy. Lets go 782288257
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 03/07/2023I’m thinking of making a randomly generated feed of some kind on Bluesky. Maybe a feed filtered on a daily random topic. Would you subscribe? 210
Max Hawkins @maxhawkins.me · 03/07/2023@sandbothe.bsky.social fedifinder does Bluesky now. You might be able to find people you followed on Twitter that way: fedifinder.glitch.me 182
