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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Tomorrow I will talk about ActivityPub and ATproto at OmniOpenCon 2026 Bucharest: omniopencon.org/2026

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

The iceberg of poetry at any(?) given moment seen in retrospective... I guess.

An iceberg of poetry, with the lines "Major Canon", "Popular But Not So Canonical", "Minor Canon", "Trend Colleagues", "Trailblazers" over the water, and "Once Popular", "Tailblazers", "Dictionary Presence", "Child Prodigies", "Known Outsiders", "Folk Poetry", "Schoolbox", "Unknown Outsiders", "Lost Poetry" and "Uncollected Folklore".

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Next month in Bucharest, at OmniOpenCon 2026, I'm going to have a talk, "The Nuts and Bolts of Decentralized Social Media", on my experiences with #ActivityPub and #ATproto.

Sessionize page with a confirmation that my talk at the Omni Open Con Bucharest 2026 event is taking place, and a description of my talk on decentralized social media.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

@fashfreenw.bsky.social Friendly advice: you should be using a different PDS that is, ideally, not within the jurisdiction of US or some close ally, or even a whole different ATproto stack, at which point... better just use the fediverse. Disroot are another alternative to A/I

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The corruption is so staggering it's almost hard to explain in words" Yet @gilduran.com, author of The Nerd Reich, does a fantastic job summing it up on Democracy Now! Well worth your time for a concise run-down of the paperweight ideals guiding today's techbros and the US president.

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"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Apparently, once I move this account to a new DID identifier, I'll lose my followers, though not everything else, which is crazy. Hubzilla in the fediverse already had this figured out and Bluesky with all their VC money couldn't?

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

"Small Politics of Literature", new text available on my #Gemini capsule: gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/texts/5-SmallPolitics.gmi (need to use a Gemini compatible browser, like Buran or Lagrange)

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

My self-hosted database of #poetry books - princeps-poesis.xyz - is in a phase where I'm still working on importing the Romanian poetry dataset, now up to 1969. English when? Can't give an ETA, maybe next year.

A page on Princeps Poesis (https://princeps-poesis.xyz) listing poetry books in Romanian from the year 1969 that were added to the database.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke."

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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

A youth protest movement, born from an insult by India's Chief Justice and ignited by exam corruption, erupts into a massive, defiant march on Parliament in July 2026

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Surprised to discover an interview in Romanian with @afilreis.bsky.social! Though I should've figured other Romanians also found out about #ModPo! matcaliterara.ro/al-filreis-poezia-…

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Considering the impending tech dystopia, it might soon be the case that we'll have to move the fediverse to the dark webs.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Sometime last year, I signed up for @transrights.northsky.social. Time passed with no sign of life, I signed up instead for Eurosky and got the account transfer within few months. Now I received email that it's my turn for Northsky, but my handle seems deactivated! No, I transferred.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Someone on W Social made an account called TikTok (lol). It got flagged as spam by... bsky.social mods. Seems like W forgot to self-host the moderation service part of the ATProto stack (Ozone), so they're still tied to the US.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

you can spend the next decade lamenting that you’re no longer in your twenties or you can get a weird hobby and become friends with people you admire and set the stage for an interesting and fulfilling rest of your life

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

To read Prynne should be transformational for poets. But it shouldn’t co-opt them into the School of Prynne. Rather Prynne embodies a poet’s vocational duties. Poets should read widely, care deeply about words & meaning & experiment playfully. But of one obligation he particularly reminds us 101/104

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Does the #Bluesky app #TOKIMEKI only have light mode? before, I was using #RedDwarf, which had a great dark mode with customizable hue, but lacked some functionality.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

I write regularly on the #smolweb, in particular #Gemini and #Gopher. Download a browser like Buran or Lagrange and read my texts at gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/ (more about what this is further down the thread)

Screenshot of Buran browser, displaying the webpage gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Working right now on self-hosting most of the ATproto/Bluesky stack, my PDS is now online but I'll transition this account to it as soon as all the pieces fall into place. (writing now from Red Dwarf, Klearsky stopped working for me,)

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 09/07/2026

pretty excited to share that you can tune in to @mprnews.org Morning Edition tomorrow (Friday) to hear me talk to @gretchenbrown.bsky.social about mail art 💌 it will also be replayed on saturday, and posted online!

a photo of allison displaying some rubber stamped envelopes while wearing a shirt with a minnesota usps postage stamp on it, depicting a loon and and ladyslipper

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Anisota @anisota.net · 29/06/2026

While mothing under the full moon last night, @dame.is made a simple video showing the new Anisota. One take, no edits, just ambient nature sounds. And in honor of today's Strawberry Moon, Anisota membership is 30% off for 24 hours! It's the best way to support our indie project: anisota.net/join

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VIDEO: Anisota — A peaceful social media client that helps you be offline more & online better

YouTube video by atpotato

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

A poet of my generation whom I've not interacted with in a few years, out of the blue, drops an ironic reference to me in the middle of a literary enquête: in a world without hierarchies, "Tucă would win awards for poetry, and we would see Yigru Zeltil leading the Romanian Academy"... Context>>

Screenshot of https://matcaliterara.ro/cum-citim-poezia-astazi/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Does anyone still see my posts here? I'm dodging ID verification by using an AppView that doesn't enforce it, unlike the official Bluesky app and, infuriatingly, the one endorsed by Eurosky. In protest, I'm considering self-hosting my own PDS at the very least.

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Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Back from the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival after receiving the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award for best debut poetry collection for my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book New Famous Phrases, & having a new Macedonian language edition of the book published. Lots more pictures incoming!

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

Got hit with "age assurance" on both mu.social (Eurosky's new appview) and the Bluesky official app. Fortunately, not all appviews support this BS, but I wonder now whether it was Eurosky who lied about not collecting data and whether it makes more sense to run my own #ATproto PDS...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026

Black Sea Literary Festival in #Burgas - Bulgaria, 4-8 June 2026, "Black Sea Speaks Freedom. Elena Vlădăreanu was the only Romanian author who got invited now, but she assures it was a great experience >

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026

If you have in your house a sizable collection of books, yet out of them only a handful of poetry ones, all "canon" as hell... we can't really have a talk about poetry. Then again, does it even matter anymore?

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Glad I'm still too busy with my self-hosting and self-organizing to bother participating anymore in the Romanian "left intellectual" sphere that's still debating on Facebook as if there's a tomorrow...

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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The local laundromat here does the same. I picked up novel whilst waiting on Sunday morning, haven’t put it down since. 📖🤗

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Such blatant profiteering from human misery is sickening. And here at home families struggle to pay bills as energy giants rake in higher profits & destroy the climate. Time for a further windfall tax now

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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher

The energy giant said it had seen an

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 05/04/2026

I've migrated from bsky.social to Eurosky. Yesterday, moved my Hubzilla from hub.workersofthe.world to hub.princeps-poesis.xyz, my self-hosted domain.

hub.princeps-poesis.xyz

Arkivo YZ

This is the home page of Arkivo YZ.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/11/2025

Friendica, how's the peace and quiet going? I joined this place then put off my account in hopes of Friendica being joined by more Facebook refugees like me... but then I discovered Hubzilla.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 19/10/2025

The fire in Rahova, #Bucharest is yet another tragic example of how neoliberal privatization and descentralization affects the services which most need utmost responsibility and planning.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025

The newest #Nobel Award in Literature went to a male author who has nothing but male authors in his personal canon... No surprises there.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 06/10/2025

...But also there are books that are not meant to be mere containers of interchangeable texts - see Ulises Carrión's ambitions in The New Art of Making Books, which I found brilliant.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 06/10/2025

Not reading the entirety of a book can be perilous, and I say this even if I like books that can be read from anywhere...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/09/2025

Affectionate for this piece of writing (that Shakespeare analysis brings back fond uni memories), but it misses how we're in this dark place because of ableist capitalism...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025

Kind reminder that switching now to #Linux or #FreeBSD is the best thing to do at a time when #Microsoft decided to make millions of computers too obsolete for Windows 11.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025

One of the reasons I have been less active on Bsky is precisely that I disagree with their biased moderation. So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 15/09/2025

Dreamed of an architect who coined a certain philosophy of architectural sustainability, named something like 1:24/48, and also became insanely good at photography because the veŕy first photographer they hired was like "f@#% your ugly buildings, can't find any good angle for them"...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/08/2025

If my Bsky account gets shutdown, you can always find me on either Mastodon, Hubzilla (my favorite fediverse software tbh), Friendica, Lemmy, Piefed or Pixelfed, soon Akkoma too.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/08/2025

Except human rights were never a real priority for the powers that be.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 19/08/2025

A protocol for decentralized Internets? Sounds incredible, but good to be aware of. reticulum.network

reticulum.network

Reticulum Network

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 19/08/2025

Dreamed about Yoko Ono this morning. A bit later, reminded of how seemingly few read not just Ono's Grapefruit, but also the other Fluxus writings and Duchamp's earlier non-poems, which aged like aluminium cans in the desert...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 16/08/2025

"..But now Gaza’s sky is no longer a canvas for myths or dreams. It is weaponized, heavy with drones and death. Carson asks what it meant to write on the sky; in my context, the question becomes, What does it mean to live beneath a sky turned into a weapon?" www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...

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Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision | Mona Baker

By Alaa Alqaisi Arab Lit & Arab Lit Quarterly February 10, 2025 It began with an email from Dr.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12/08/2025

Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books. These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.

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Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned

A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...

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