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This is an exceptionally clear presentation of New Mexico’s exceptionally clear findings that Facebook wantonly and intentionally deceived the public in regards to the theft of their data and the incentives to promote and profit from hate speech on the platform. Tap in, scroll down.

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Wow we really cooked with this today

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O how I love emailing with other competent women who also use exclamation marks to express affect

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Airplane wifi giveth, and airplane wifi taketh away

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 28/09/2026

Airplane wifi giveth, and airplane wifi taketh away

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All the party people in pre check at sfo

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I dont talk enough about how Germ is for the gig economy. As relationships and communities become transient, we need tools that let us modulate what we share with whom over time— Rather than the opt-in-forever paradigm of yesterday’s identities and the networks they become

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I agree with the first sentence here. But as for the second, I think young people are extremely aware they’re dodging censors everyday. What they don’t know is it wasn’t always like that.

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This, alongside world peace, is the actual holy grail

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the idea that any “safety” scene is at the heart of this conversation shows how deeply deeply fucked this and by extension all of us all are

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like I upgraded to priority pickup a bunch of times and now Lyft is throttling my standard ride waits ☹️

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That’s queer, too.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 26/09/2026

The latest answer in my brain for why is it called Germ: Because we’re the opposite of Facebook. Facebook plays innocuous and innocent when it’s hugely powerful and manipulative. Germ is honest and transparent about the joys and dangers of modern life, and builds tools that equip you for both

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 26/09/2026

1920s aesthetic seems cool, any lessons back there for us? No?

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is incredible.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 25/09/2026

We talk a lot about how the Discovery algorithm can be improved for users.... I would like to add that *search* is also a core UX that needs help. Searches always seek new, relevant results—so "Top" and "Latest" are both wrong. I need closer to "Top latest" cc cc @alexbenzer.com @toni.bsky.team

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 24/09/2026

All we wanna do is talk to each other ❤️

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Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 24/09/2026

Germ DM voice notes, with on-device transcription that never leaves your phone. Safer secrets start with Germ.

A pink and white graphic with a waveform and the copy: Voice notes are here. xoxo, Germ

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 24/09/2026

Those lesbians in Greenfield need some radical pragmatism, stat

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 24/09/2026

Rape culture got a Blacksky label 😭 I really fuckin love you guys

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does anyone have those 2 charts of bluesky user growth (spiky) vs atproto developer growth (linearly rising)? help plz

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literally even more but i know y’all aren’t ready for that conversation

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026

Oh are we being visibly bi today? Hi 👋 Bi

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> The Mozilla Foundation isn't holding back its disdain for Big Tech leaders. > Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do. AT Protocol and the broader open social web is one of the ways we take back power from Big Tech. (If you see me out in these New York City streets, let me know.)

Photo of Elon musk on blue paper.
"Elon buys the blue bird. He trashes the place"

Photo of Rudy on orange paper.
"Rudy builds Blacksky. Communities call the shots."

"Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do."

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kris‮ @kris.kralsei.stream · 23/09/2026

Add me on Germ

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Thanks Jim! I approve this message 🐻

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ummmmmmmmm i guess biters gonna bite #chomp

a screenshot of an x post by @etnshow reading Announcing the 2026 ETN100, the 100 most influential tech posters on X

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note to self: semantic notifications

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Just got off a great call with @kandake.africa around "Log in with [Your atproto term here]" My closing keywords for how I think we need to approach this web-scale consumer infrastructure project: Trust - Reliability - Legibility Toto, I don't think we're in microblogging anymore.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 21/09/2026

So @bsky.team, when spaces roll out, will people be able to have a plain old private profile? Maybe under the hood your followers are in a space or something, but … yeah, is there anything cooking there?

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Good yontov to the mishpucha And to the goyim: tomorrow is Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, so please hold that thought. Wishing everyone a sweet new year. 🍏🍯

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 21/09/2026

Yeah no kidding. But if you recall it was Nikole Hannah-Jones who went from being an educational segregation reporter to leading the 1619 project, about America's foundational racism, the backlash to which could be positioned (indeed, their own name positioned it) as the kickoff to Project 2025

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Anyway if you’re just meeting me, I was a scholar of literacy, multilingualism and pop culture before deciding the most impactful thing I could do on the face of the earth was build pro-social communication technology. Still at it, watch this space. 💚

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Despite the stats NHJ cites that Black students are the most racially segregated group in New York schools, nationally white students are the most segregated — underwriting the extreme racism someone like her daughter might have faced in going to school with them. Bad choices all the way down.

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I shocked my parents when at the end of 11 years at private school I wanted to go to public HS in Chicago. But it was wonderful. And yet a major topic of our big 20th reunion group chat was how much trouble my classmates were having finding excellent public schools like ours for their kids.

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Started my day as many of us did with NHJ’s essay. I found myself wondering if despite her expertise on the macro picture, she actually underestimated how bad a bad school can be. How do you not know intimately whether your 3rd grader can read or do long division or not?

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A great day to reup my most-cited statistic: Desegregation of US schools peaked in the 90s. We’ve been undoing the gains of the civil rights movement since then. Seems we’re pretty close to back where we started

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