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Josh @oracularhades.com · 04/10/2026

Both parties are styling their Public Announcements as News Cards. I assume so it’s easy to scroll past and think you’re reading a real headline. Crazy way to run a propaganda service.

Post from New Zealand National Party. There is a large “BREAKING” banner with headline “LABOUR WANTS TO INCREASE FOREIGN AID SPENDING BY $6.5 BILLION”. The background is an unflattering photo of Chris Hipkins.

The Instagram caption is: Labour will increase New Zealand's foreign aid to 0.7% of GDP, as stated on its website. That's $4.45 million more of your tax dollars going overseas every single day, while you and your family are left to foot the bill through nine new taxes.
This new multi-billion-dollar commitment is on top of Labour's $18.8 billion hidden bill, which will already cost Kiwi households $2,263 in extra tax every year.

Posts from New Zealand Labour Party. There is a “BREAKING” banner with the headline “LABOUR’S FISCAL PLAN FULLY FUNDED, FULLY COSTED” with the subtext “OUR PLAN TO LOWER YOUR COST OF LIVING” and the caption: maxfortamaki and others
nzlabour #BREAKING Labour will get the cost of living under control, fix the health system and create good jobs, and EVERY part of our plan is fully costed and paid... more

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 14/08/2026

I'm testing v2 rn bsky.app/profile/orac...

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 10/08/2026

8% of my battery in 20 minutes is *awful*. And the performance issues on mine has been bad for months but even worse recently.

Barry usage by app:
- YouTube (On screen for 3h 30m longer): 22%
- Bluesky (On screen: 23m): 8%

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 01/07/2026

this is unbelievably desperate. If they're trying to target a gen-z audience, this is honestly derogatory towards us than marketing.

@threads in Dating threads: So what are we 👀
bluesky_social: opps

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 01/07/2026

Also Comms needs to stop virtue signaling with shit like this. Everyone knows Bluesky isn't a sunglasses company. Posting through it doesn't help anyone.

bluesky_social (1d): For the record, we will never sell surveillance products disguised as sunglasses.

The next 2 posts are the same thread:
bluesky_social (1d): wishing a happy Monday to all of here on Threads

bluesky_social (1d): hey. we're sorry about the previous post. it was supposed to be a dig at Meta, not Threads users, but that obviously wasn't clear enough. we love guinea pigs. if you were our guinea pigs, we’d never do things like train our AI on your content or sell your data to advertisers.

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 30/06/2026

99% of the discourse against Bluesky Team is unwarranted. But why is this comms person shilling the product in their apology? The apology's tone is insincere and narky and the reasoning doesn't make sense.

bluesky_social: wishing a happy Monday to all of [covered in glitter: Mark Zuckerberg's little guinea pigs] here on Threads
836 likes, 2.1k comments, 150 reports, 119 shares.

bluesky_social: hey. we're sorry about the previous post. it was supposed to be a dig at Meta, not Threads users, but that obviously wasn't clear enough. we love guinea pigs. if you were our guinea pigs, we’d never do things like train our AI on your content or sell your data to advertisers.
280 likes, 206 replies, 10 reposts, 7 shares.

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 26/06/2026

Here’s 2 examples, trying to read messaging notification is so annoying

Radio NZ notification dropdown with a blank space before a notification

Blank Notification box, just the shape no text

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 17/06/2026

why is Fortnite trending on my elder millennial app

"Fortnite" #1 trending on Bluesky. Labelled "Hot"

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 11/06/2026

that group chat descended into chaos very quickly, probably for the best

Samuel: okay fun over, goodbye
[This chat has ended]

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 09/06/2026

I really want iOS to limit third-party messaging notifications to certain people. iMessage gets this and others don’t. An API would be easy, and third-party contacts already almost exist in the Share composer.

“Silence notifications from” and “Allow notifications from” options in iOS Notification preferences UI

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 06/05/2026

I admire the creative names for nonsensical lists, a true display of unemployment. (these are all the same person).

4 people have added you to lists

(Poster A) has added you to the "People Who Post AI, Images, News, Videos etc." moderation list

(list URL)

(Poster A) has added you to the "The Reply Guys/Gals and NB Pals, Now touring Bluesky" moderation list

(list URL)

(Poster A) has added you to the "Heart heavier than a feather" moderation list

(list URL)

(Poster A) has added you to the "Curse of Ra 𓀀𓀁𓀂𓀃𓀄𓀅𓀆𓀇𓀈𓀉𓀊𓀋𓀌" moderation list

(list URL)

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 03/05/2026

It’s 1 bad race, I’m sure we’ll do ok next race. It’s still pretty funny.

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 09/04/2026

What happened to Call of Duty? Fucking hell

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 04/04/2026

hmm. this is a weird scrolling bug

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 02/04/2026

Bluesky users convinced that buggy software is AI’s fault, Windows bugs have existed for literally decades.

oracularhades.com: People who are upset at this have no idea that almost every program now contains Al-generated code. Even if you make a program without Al, it's likely the underlying libraries are using Al. It's incredibly useful.
For example, the Linux kernel: (reddit link)

drjohnfrancis.bsky.social: Yeah, the genie's out of the lamp. It's amazing tech and lifts the boundaries of software development

redacted poster: Yeah the Internet tab on Windows 11 keeps disappearing but this spaghetti code is revolutionary MAO fuck off

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 01/04/2026

you can also turn the badge off lol

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 01/04/2026

this is absolutely terrible but I'm proud of it

An image captioned "Most people rejected his message."
[Image of a person in a crowd yelling "Shut up!"]
"They hated (Jerry because he told them the truth"

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 01/04/2026

literally already an option to bring your own AI against a standard endpoint.

AI Model
Choose which model powers your conversations. This setting takes effect on new chat sessions.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: Balanced performance and cost. Good for most everyday tasks.
- Claude Opus 4.6: Most capable model. Best for complex analysis and reasoning.
- Bring your own LLM: Connect your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 01/04/2026

i scrolled past hundreds of anti-ai grifters in the jay thread mentioning me to find this

Paul liking my post: "Claude will never program like a human" exactly, Claude fixes warnings lol

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 31/03/2026

Yup! Here's what happens when you try to post quote-gate protected post with deer.social link under my PR.

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 31/03/2026

see if you actually read the article and the referenced article. it is quoted as being a coding assistant. which is how most devs are using it right now.

theregister.com: For now, Al is showing up more as a reviewer and assistant than as a full author of Linux kernel code,

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 31/03/2026

Like you can't be doing this shit. This is what the PR patches.

Post: you yourself changed the subject here, and we are talking about that. alternative frontend link because you're a weird control freak that disallows linking to your post, probably because you're disingenuous frequently.

[deer.social link to evade quote-gate]

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 31/03/2026

Someone in my mentions was linking deer.social to evade someone's quote-posting preferences and harass them, so: github.com/bluesky-soci... At scale having a static list of domains won't do much, and its really an AppView problem, but I think this code is good to have ready to go.

$export function isThirdPartyFrontend(url: string): boolean { // A non-exhaustive list of third-party Bluesky frontends. const alternativeFrontends = ['bsky.dev', 'deer.social', 'blacksky.community'] let parsedUrl try { parsedUrl = new URL(url) } catch { return false } for (const alternativeFrontendDomain of alternativeFrontends) { let incomingRawDomain = parsedUrl.hostname.split('.').slice(-2).join('.') // Automatically filter subdomains. E.g. staging.bsky.dev and main.bsky.dev should be considered the same. if (alternativeFrontendDomain == incomingRawDomain) { return /profile\/(?<name>[^/]+)\/post\/(?<rkey>[^/]+)/i.test( parsedUrl.pathname, ) } } // No alternative frontends matched. return false }$

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 31/03/2026

Attie can fine-tune feeds to the point of writing custom code. Existing feed gens rely on keywords or overly complex regex that is impossible for regular users to maintain.

$Attie feed edit page: 1. Sources: - Keyword Search - Keyword Search - Keyword Search 2. Pre-Filter function filter(posts: PostView[]): PostView[] { return posts.filter(p => { // Language filter if (p.record?.langs && !p.record.langs.includes("en")) return false; ... 3. Labeling You are analyzing a Bluesky post to determine if it is about the TV show "How I Met Your Mother" (HIMYM). The show features characters Ted Mosby, Barney Stinson, Marshall Eriksen, Lily Aldrin, and Robin Scherbatsky. It includes famous running gags like slap bets, Slapsgiving, "Legendary", the yellow umbrella, the Mother, MacLaren's bar, etc. Determine: 1. is_himym: Is this post genuinely about the TV show How I Met Your Mother? Be strict — posts mentioning "Robin" (a bird), "Lily" (a flower), "Barney" (the dinosaur), or "Marshall" in an unrelated context should be false. Only return true if the post is clearly about the show. 2. post_type: Classify as one of: "discussion", "reaction", "quote", "meme", "fan_content", "other" 4Curator function filter(posts: PostView[]): PostView[] { // Only keep posts genuinely about HIMYM posts = posts.filter(p => p.aiLabels?.is_himym === true); ...$

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Josh @oracularhades.com · 30/03/2026

Me: "hmm I wonder if Claude is any good at finding code errors" (I fully expected it to be terrible) Claude: If you change the configuration to something malicious, something malicious will happen!!! cybersecurity twitter brained