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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 4h

Bro wth are you and how did you get here? 🤨🧐🤨🧐🤨🧐

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 29/09/2026

Okay, y'all, they say it right there in the prompt: #AskAnything

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 26/09/2026

Roll on, you bears 🐻🐻🐻 #GoBears

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 24/09/2026

Lock feature is great! 🙏🙏. The follow sync did still knock me offline on desktop, looks like same error as last time, when running my bsky session and the bye-sky in the same browser, in this case on Brave.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 23/09/2026

Very simple way to see which models an “ethical AI” system is actually routing to at inference time.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 22/09/2026

Forget the centerfold, read it for the articles: The Propaganda Monitor - The China Edition from @rsf.org rsf.org/sites/defaul... These images really are pretty great tho...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 18/09/2026

Skysquare makes something interesting visible here: Ben Collins has one of Bluesky’s biggest posts of the last 24h—26k likes, 6.5k reposts, 1.4k replies—yet the linked article was shared by fewer than 100 other users.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 15/09/2026

App dash looks great. ONe item to flag, could be coincidence but during the user activity load process Bluesky was locking me out of my account? Rate limited maybe? I saw this, had to logout and log back in.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 06/09/2026

If you've never been to Cupertino, you may need this information to understand the post.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 04/09/2026

This is glorious. September 21st as an important day for the Bluesky community in honor of Earth, Wind & Fire is 🤙❤️ and we should all help try and make it a thing.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 01/09/2026

Hi @attie.ai , I created a feed called Taiwan News a while ago that shows fine on attie.ai/bin/684 when I'm logged in, but when I click to Open in Bluesky I'm getting an empty feed.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 30/08/2026

We bound to wreck your body and say turn the party out...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 27/08/2026

Anyone else seeing this? Two separate contacts who I haven't heard from in a long time sent the same "Your Invitation is Waiting" type emails that take you to a SSO type page with multiple major platform sign-ins. Smells like a worldwide credentials hack in real-time. Major scam underway.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 23/08/2026

Lunch, baby. Twelve hour smoke in the WSM. Overnight at 225. Not much of a stall this morning, ramped to 203 from 160 in about 90 minutes. Smoke ring on point—that's what I'm talking about right there. 😎

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 23/08/2026

@skysquare.app is built from a representative slice of Bluesky—as of August 2026, the users we track are the top almost 1M accounts who commonly share links to a select group of about 1,000 publishers. Here’s what the most-linked domains across that population look like.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 22/08/2026

Here's something interesting you can see about Bluesky when using @skysquare.app that isn't available in the feed. Look at this post from Mamdani yesterday, sharing a CBS News article. It has 809 reposts and 3.5k likes. But this article only has 3 other shares on the network.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 21/08/2026

No such problems for other important works of political theory

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 21/08/2026

No matter how I phrase it, ChatGPT refuses to make an image for The Communist Manifesto, every turn is censored by OpenAI. It's clearly public domain, hard to figure out whose interests are protected here? Gemini 3 pro made the second image immediately, no hesitation whatsoever. Weird shit.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 20/08/2026

"Google on Thursday threw a bone to those publishers..."

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 18/08/2026

Friends, come read with me using @skysquare.app. Find something interesting in the article to share on Bluesky.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 13/08/2026

Not as pretty and couldn't find black lentils but this dish is really good! The gochujang adds a really nice sweetness that you would not typically expect with lentils. 10/10 will make this again 💪🍴

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 11/08/2026

Trying out @joe.germuska.com's meme-museum.at. Used 5.6 Sol to make "The Open Door Delusion," a satire on the apparent folly of Elbridge Colby's China policy doctrine: organize Asia to deny China regional power, then expect Beijing to welcome him in to explain it-40 years of US policy as cartoon.

Editorial cartoon titled “The Open Door Delusion.” Elbridge Colby crouches inside a wooden Trojan horse packed with Pentagon policy binders and machinery outside Zhongnanhai. Colby holds a finger to his lips while Chinese guards refuse entry and Xi Jinping and several officials point and laugh from behind the gate.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 10/08/2026

Tracing provenance for my admittedly unusual professional title—I have for a few years used “Semiological Guerrilla Warrior” as an homage to Eco. Don't miss this choice line: “Eco (2015) lambasts social media as giving rise to a ‘legion of idiots.’” www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/sunil-m...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 10/08/2026

Today @skysquare.app introduced me to @katie-drummond.bsky.social, who shared a line from this @wired.com article that also resonated with me. From there I can click into Katie's profile inside the Skysquare sidebar and find other articles she's shared. (in-app author detection is wip—apologies 🙏)

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 20/07/2026

The answer to weaponized openness isn’t defensive closure, but better offensive openness. Instead of limiting visas, fund censorship circumvention and make systems like ATProto accessible inside China. Less flailing, reactive defensiveness; more strategic offense. Draw a circle that takes them in...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 20/07/2026

Seven Steps to Heaven www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMJ...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 14/07/2026

Yes, you are correct, sir!

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 09/07/2026

An example of how I'm using @skysquare.app: yesterday I read and shared this article. Today I came back and found other people had noticed it too, including @johntreynolds.bsky.social and @shawnsie.bsky.social. Shawn even shared the same quote I did. Naturally, I followed them both. 👋 guys!

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 26/05/2026

👀👀👀 Interesting phenomenon today in the world of agentic coding with @anthropic.com Claude Opus 4.7 👀👀👀

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 26/05/2026

This Memorial Day, I’ve been thinking about my grandpa Earl, who enlisted in the Army immediately after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He used to tell me that the young men he knew were all doing the same—not because anyone forced them to, but because there was a deep sense of moral clarity...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 10/05/2026

Sneak peek and status update on @skysquare.app. Now about halfway through migration to TAP using a full PDS backfill to Bluesky day one. This snapshot shows the shared URL distribution across the most discursive cross-section of Bluesky users —effectively a map of where collective attention...

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 08/04/2026

Friends, we delayed the private release to do this right. Moving from Jetstream to TAP gives us access to the full historical graph of the network. Skysquare will be much more useful for historical research and trend analysis. Major milestone hit today. The plan is coming together. 🤙 Sign up at 👇

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 05/04/2026

Rack is in the sous vide. Thanks for the recipe @kenjilopezalt.bsky.social! Using these cool tea towels I got in Vancouver on my way home from #AtmosphereConf to help insulate the cook. Happy #Easter to everyone who celebrates. Hope you are surrounded by good food, friends and family this day 🙏

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 29/12/2025

Hot take: Derrida is more important than most famous computer scientists for understanding AI. Here’s why. 🧵👇

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 28/08/2025

Preseason AP top 25 rankings are out. Happy football, America.

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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 11/06/2025

Heads up y'all, Gavin Newsom is making a primetime speech right now. x.com/GavinNewsom/...

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