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@olly.st
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If it ain’t open and decentralized, I’m looking for an alternative that is. Formerly @saltedlolly on the bad place. Creator of @diginode.tools

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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 19/07/2026
2/ Checking the Index 01 specs on the website, it said specifically that showering with the ring is possible. Presumably the risk of getting soap in the mic hole is something that Pebble watches are vulnerable to as well, no? Those are okay for showering. Is the ring more vulnerable ?
How durable and water-resistant is it?
It's primarily made from stainless steel 316, with a liquid silicone rubber (LSR) button. It's water-resistant to 1 meter. You can wash your hands, do dishes, and shower with it on, but we don't recommend swimming with it.Specs for Pebble Index 01. 

Regarding Water Resistance it says “1M water-resistance (washing hands, showering, getting wet is ok)”
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 19/07/2026
@ericmigi.com Hey Eric, I don’t have my ring yet but was poking around in the Pebble app and discovered the onboarding screen where I noticed it specifically says it is not recommended to shower with it. This is a use case I have been really interested in. Is this correct?
Onboarding screen for Pebble Index 01 smart ring that recommends not wearing it in the shower.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 21/05/2026
My Pebble Time 2 finally arrived! (It only took 10 years!) I guess good things DO come to those who wait. 😁
Box for the Pebble Time 2 smartwatch
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 22/03/2026
I am big fan of the 'US Government Contributions' labeller - it adds labels to the accounts of members of government so there is full transparency on who they are beholden to. bsky.app/profile/did:...
Screenshot of Katherine Clark's Bluesky profile with added labels displaying the PACs that back her.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 05/03/2026
Who wants to tell them that they are already using a centralized propaganda platform…?
A Twitter user tweeted re Bluesky: “The problem is with the people using it. Censorship, no matter how you choose to phrase it is still wrong. It should always be done on a personal level through individuals blocking others. Otherwise it's a centralized propaganda platform and I don't want to be a part of that. Propaganda will always be a problem as long as people are naive and lazy. So, it'll always be a problem. At least keep it decentralized.”
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 03/03/2026
@realDonaldTrump tweet from 2012: “Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.”
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 02/03/2026
So Trump is starting WW3 out of some desperate attempt to distract from the Epstein files and improve his abysmal approval ratings. He knows that if the Dems take control of the senate and house during the mid-terms he will be powerless to stop them from investigating his criminal activities...
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 25/02/2026
But at least the eggs are cheaper now….. right?
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 24/02/2026
It has ‘Hearted’ and ‘Show incompatible’ but I can’t see any other filters.
Screenshot of Prbble smartwatch app.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 18/02/2026
I just finished the First Law trilogy by @joeabercrombie.com. These books were a blast! Such an incredibly final act too, where even plot threads you'd forgotten about were wrapped up satisfyingly. I can't believe it took me till now to read them. Perfection! Next up "Best Served Cold". #booksky 💙📚
Artwork depicting Sand dan Glokta, Logan "The Bloody Nine" Ninefingers, and Bayaz, First of the Magi from Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy. The images are AI created from /r/AudioBookCovers. Not all AI art is great, but I love these!
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 16/02/2026
It’s great to see a PR bringing iOS Shortcuts support to the #Pebble mobile app. Adding notifications & timeline pins to your #smartwatch via #Shortcuts has so many potential use cases. I love how the community are all working together for the benefit of Pebble users. github.com/coredevices/... 🪨⌚️
iOS Shortcuts for the Pebble smartwatch
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 16/10/2025
2/ I previously read "Breaking Twitter" by @benmezrich.bsky.social so already had some familiarity with events. BT was a good read, with much of the story focusing on Esther Crawford. Like Mezrich's other books, it dramatized events for narrative effect, so it felt like reading a movie in book form.
Audiobook cover of "Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History" by Ben Mezrich. It shows the Twitter logo cracking apart.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 16/10/2025
I just finished "Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter" by @kateconger.com & @rmac.bsky.social. It's definitely one of the best books I've read this year. It was fascinating to get the perspective of current and former Tweeps as the company was eviscerated by Musk and his Goons. #booksky
Audiobook cover of "Character LImit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter" by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. It features the cover text and benath it a letterbox image showing Elon Musk glancing to the left.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 09/10/2025
I finally read “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I already knew Facebook was damaging to society but it’s so much worse than I ever realised. This book is simply essential reading/listening. It’s also a perfect companion book to “The Chaos Machine” by @max-fisher.bsky.social Read both! 💙📚 🎧📚
Audiobook cover to “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams depicting a shark fin within a blue rounded square.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 21/09/2025
Remember when Elon said this?
“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!” said Elon Musk in this screenshot of his tweet from 21 April 2022.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 28/03/2025
I found the #ADHD tshirt we all need!
A yellow T-shirt that says “sorry I’m late!“ on the front.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 11/03/2025
Bluesky has just passed 33 Million users! 🚀🚀🚀
Bluesky user counter showing 33,000,499 users.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 03/12/2024
And that’s 24 million users on Bluesky! 📈📈📈🚀🚀🍾🥂🍻
24M users on Bluesky
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 02/12/2024
President Biden’s unconditional pardon for his son, Hunter Biden in full:
President Biden's pardon for son Hunter in full:

"Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.

Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.

Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.

The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election.”“Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution.

In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further.

I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 27/11/2024
Iggy is an ally. 🌈
Working cocker in the rainbow.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 27/11/2024
23 Million users on Bluesky!
User counter showing 23M Bluesky users!
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 27/11/2024
I’ve been reporting and blocking a bunch of AI bots promoting something called byitts.com. Anyone else seeing them? If so, please help get them removed by doing the same.
Bot account promoting byitts.com
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 26/11/2024
I’m currently two thirds through “Breaking Twitter” by Ben Mezrich and I can’t stop thinking what a train wreck it is going to be if Elon guts the federal government in the same way he gutted Twitter immediately after he bought it.
Breaking Twitter book cover.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 26/11/2024
Bluesky is currently bigger than Guatemala but smaller than Kazakhstan. 🌏
Chart showing the current Bluesky total user count against the population of other countries.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 24/11/2024
Elon wanted to make X the “Global Town Square”. He’s now learning the hard way that if you let the worst people in society take over the town, then the civilized people will eventually leave and go and live somewhere else. Life is too short to spend every day hanging out with people you don’t like.
AI Image of a town square with people all pointing at each other angrily.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 24/11/2024
And that’s 22M users on Bluesky!!
Bluesky user counter showing 22,000,001 users
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 22/11/2024
Everyone! Please help report this account that is impersonating the real one (Note the two Zs). We need to get it taken down.
Fake jojo profile - jojofromjerzz.bsky.social
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 22/11/2024
Hey you, yes you! New #Bluesky signups have fallen to a still impressive but totally could be better level of only 3 per second! Go out there & find a friend to join us. Sign them up! Let’s help keep the momentum going! We want Bluesky to become the first social app everyone opens. Spread the word!
Screenshot of the Bluesky user counter showing 21,375,914 users with a growth rate of 3.07 new users per second.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 21/11/2024
If everybody on Bluesky wants to own a Bitcoin, I’m afraid that some of you are going to have to go without! Bluesky just passed 21M users!
Bluesky total user counter showing 21,000,000
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
I present Bluesky’s new #FailWhale
Shirtless, pasty, overweight Elon Musk.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
The #FailWhale was a near daily occurrence in the early days of Twitter. The Bluesky team, made up of 20 people, are successfully scaling to handle almost 1 million new users every day right now. Legends.👏👏👏
Twitter FailWhale.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
Do you remember when Elon Musk said “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!”? He is obviously not trying hard enough.
On April 21, 2022, Elon Musk tweeted: “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!”. He followed it up with “And authenticate all real humans”.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
I just watched Alex Garlands “Civil War”. The cinematography is phenomenal. Brilliantly made - much more grounded and character driven than gung ho action. Electrifying cinema but it cut way to close to home! #filmsky
Alex Garland’s “Civil War” poster showing soldiers around the flame of the Statue of Liberty
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
The @github.com iOS app can now display Bluesky handles on user’s profiles. 💪
GitHub iOS app release notesExample Bluesky profile on Guthub
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
What’s even better is that X have just updated that summary to remove that sentence! Owned by your own AI!
Grok’s AI summary of why users are fleeing X for Bluesky.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 20/11/2024
“Users praise [Bluesky’s] user interaction, the absence of constant feed refresh, and its open-source approach, which they find refreshing compared to the issues of propaganda and bot activity on other platforms.“ Grok’s AI summary of why users are fleeing X for Bluesky is perfection.
Screenshot from X showing Grok’s AI generated summary of why people are fleeing to Bluesky.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 19/11/2024
Another day, another new Bluesky user counter! This one has been built by @kyle.so scroll.blue/stats
Bluesky total user counter from scroll.blue
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 19/11/2024
We need Bluesky to enable passkeys. 🔐 For now it has email based 2FA. 📍🔄📧 Turn it on now in Settings, or you may live to regret it. It makes your account way more secure:
Turn on email based 2FA in Settings.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 19/11/2024
And that’s 20 Million users on Bluesky!! 🍾🍾🚀🚀
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 19/11/2024
“Defending tolerance requires to not tolerate the intolerant.” Karl Popper’s “The paradox of intolerance” explains why Bluesky will replace X:
Cartoon explaining Karl Popper’s “The paradox of intolerance”.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 18/11/2024
It really is pathetic how the MAGA trolls are so mad that we have left X that they are now coming on here, posting intentionally inflammatory tweets to try and get banned, so they can then go back back to X and tweet about Bluesky having no free speech. What a way to spend your time.
MAGA troll posts “There are only two genders” simply to get a reaction.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 18/11/2024
2/ Please help the visually impaired and other users who rely on screen readers by ensuring you include alt text with your images. You can do this by going to: Settings > Accessibility Then turn on "Require alt text before posting". 🙏
Screenshot of the Bluesky Accessibilty Settings menu.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 18/11/2024
1/ Currently, only 13.1% of images being shared on Bluesky are including alt text. Alt text is crucial for web accessibility and inclusivity. It provides a textual description of images for users who rely on screen readers, have slow connections, or when images fail to load. altometer.atdev.pro
Bluesky altometer shows that only 13.1% of images being shared are including alt text.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 17/11/2024
Meet Hulu. He’s a Beijing Hutong cat. He was born in 2005 and the streaming service stole his name. He is still angry about it.
Hulu the pussy cat.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 17/11/2024
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 17/11/2024
Make America Healthy Again! 🤦 #MAHA
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Don Jr, and RFK Jr. pose together eating McDonalds on a flight.
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 17/11/2024
@tom.frontpage.team I’ve had a problem signing in or sharing to @frontpage.fyi since at least yesterday.
Bug with front page
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 16/11/2024
The X trolls are claiming that there is no freedom of speech here. The truth is that you can say whatever you like on the #ATProtocol. However, if what you say breeches Bluesky PBCs TOS, or the users don’t like what you say, they have the freedom to block you. Other ATP apps may choose not to.
XKCD comic about Free Speech
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 16/11/2024
18M Bluesky users!
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𖣠ꚳꚳꚲ.ꜱᴛ @olly.st · 15/11/2024
Another day, another 1M new users join us! We now have 17 Million users on Bluesky!
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