Bryan (they/them)
@chaosgreml.in
Fat. Black. Disabled. Trans. Agender. AuDHD. CPTSD. Hippobear.
Focused on freeing everyone from doing things that don’t bring them joy, and building communal infrastructure that makes it possible.
Focused on freeing everyone from doing things that don’t bring them joy, and building communal infrastructure that makes it possible.
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Bryan (they/them)
@chaosgreml.in
· Dec 30
I've been quietly building kindling.wtf — a regenerative feed layer that removes cruelty without removing controversy.
The idea: your feed shouldn't be full of spite masquerading as reasonable commentary, but it also shouldn't sanitize away legitimate anger at injustice.
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#atproto
The idea: your feed shouldn't be full of spite masquerading as reasonable commentary, but it also shouldn't sanitize away legitimate anger at injustice.
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#atproto
If you disagree with me aggressively on social media, except for the fact that I love to argue, i don’t give a fuck.
If you come to me with care & curiosity, acknowledging me as someone you have something to learn from, I’m happy to get deep with you & I’m gonna be way more open to your thoughts.
If you come to me with care & curiosity, acknowledging me as someone you have something to learn from, I’m happy to get deep with you & I’m gonna be way more open to your thoughts.
February 18, 2026 at 4:08 AM
If you disagree with me aggressively on social media, except for the fact that I love to argue, i don’t give a fuck.
If you come to me with care & curiosity, acknowledging me as someone you have something to learn from, I’m happy to get deep with you & I’m gonna be way more open to your thoughts.
If you come to me with care & curiosity, acknowledging me as someone you have something to learn from, I’m happy to get deep with you & I’m gonna be way more open to your thoughts.
If you want to convince me of something you have two options: go through it and explain it and answer all my questions or drop some resources and let me come to my own conclusions.
You don’t convince people of things in the moment by arguing with them on the internet.
You don’t convince people of things in the moment by arguing with them on the internet.
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 AM
If you want to convince me of something you have two options: go through it and explain it and answer all my questions or drop some resources and let me come to my own conclusions.
You don’t convince people of things in the moment by arguing with them on the internet.
You don’t convince people of things in the moment by arguing with them on the internet.
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Boulder, Colorado area friends—go see Dr. Kay!
Join our very own @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team at @medlabboulder.bsky.social on March 12 discussing how their own experience fueled their decades-long research on digital harm and how Blacksky is taking what was once considered "me-search" and creating a safer internet rooted in self-determination.
From Survivor, to Researcher, to Steward
www.colorado.edu
February 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Boulder, Colorado area friends—go see Dr. Kay!
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Those two ideas have quite literally been brought up to me by many of the tech people (the ones who walk the talk) I talk to though. Literally one of the ppl I talk to most who is most interested in AI DOES help their local govt implement data stuff
Tech people are better than tech "culture" imho
Tech people are better than tech "culture" imho
an earnest pro-AI leftist stand probably wouldn't be popular among tech as it would be like "nationalizing the data centers and giving universal basic token" or "redistribute data center racks to every community and build localized compute" vs "run your own local LLMs, very slowly, and embrace slop"
"probably not ideal that just before what might — or might not — be the moment of greatest job dispossession in history, or of democratic dispossession, or worse, or better, part of the group historically most concerned with such things is plugging its ears."
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
February 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Those two ideas have quite literally been brought up to me by many of the tech people (the ones who walk the talk) I talk to though. Literally one of the ppl I talk to most who is most interested in AI DOES help their local govt implement data stuff
Tech people are better than tech "culture" imho
Tech people are better than tech "culture" imho
It’s funny when you set boundaries with someone and they block you because they think they can speak to you however.
But nobody on this platform is so important to my education or edification that I’m going to let you speak to me without respect.
But nobody on this platform is so important to my education or edification that I’m going to let you speak to me without respect.
February 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM
It’s funny when you set boundaries with someone and they block you because they think they can speak to you however.
But nobody on this platform is so important to my education or edification that I’m going to let you speak to me without respect.
But nobody on this platform is so important to my education or edification that I’m going to let you speak to me without respect.
Hey @bad-example.com - I notice constellation only has six days of data and there’s no backfill - is there anything those of us who use it can do to help you build historical backfill? Any additional resources you need, etc?
February 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Hey @bad-example.com - I notice constellation only has six days of data and there’s no backfill - is there anything those of us who use it can do to help you build historical backfill? Any additional resources you need, etc?
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Designers like money
we have a severe lack of designers in atproto i think, and it’s really becoming a problem
February 18, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Designers like money
No, I’m sorry. If people weren’t constantly told that being fat is bad or lied to about how fatness is fundamentally unhealthy, or if racism and anti-Blackness weren’t built on the back of anti/fatness, we could have this discussion.
But fat people die every day because of unequal treatment.
But fat people die every day because of unequal treatment.
GLP-1 is a transhumanist dream, you should be able to reshape your body as you see fit. Some people want to lose weight and cant. Some people are fine with their weight. Both are fine.
Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism.
It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.
It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.
February 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM
No, I’m sorry. If people weren’t constantly told that being fat is bad or lied to about how fatness is fundamentally unhealthy, or if racism and anti-Blackness weren’t built on the back of anti/fatness, we could have this discussion.
But fat people die every day because of unequal treatment.
But fat people die every day because of unequal treatment.
I don’t even know why he thinks it’s not faster to use an LLM to help you research stuff initially than to not do so
February 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I don’t even know why he thinks it’s not faster to use an LLM to help you research stuff initially than to not do so
So excited to be a collaborative partner in what this collective may become and excited to see what this particular project discovers!
If you asked me last year what I might be working on today, I would not have said the AT Protocol. I was a wallflower at Atmosphere Conf 2025 for a reason. I had—and still have—other plans. After observing the Bluesky project since ~2019, I just wanted to see what ya'll were about.
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
So excited to be a collaborative partner in what this collective may become and excited to see what this particular project discovers!
You can’t be a leftist(generally progressive) and a conservative(anti-AI)especially in our current hyperpolarized moment - it doesn’t work.
So you must move to finding a progressive lens with which to address the concerns about AI, which means progress must still be at the center of things.
So you must move to finding a progressive lens with which to address the concerns about AI, which means progress must still be at the center of things.
I think Lauren is correct that this piece does ignore or elide the valid leftist critiques, but there is a dismissiveness around the users of AI that is a big part of why those critiques are largely failing. The stakes are too high to keep repeating unsuccessful tactics, or to keep scolding users.
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i... i wouldn't call this "directionally correct" as much as i'd call it uninterested in confronting the left critiques of the AI industry that the right has no objection to: the amorality of its leaders, its model of theft, and its environmental damage
February 17, 2026 at 7:07 PM
You can’t be a leftist(generally progressive) and a conservative(anti-AI)especially in our current hyperpolarized moment - it doesn’t work.
So you must move to finding a progressive lens with which to address the concerns about AI, which means progress must still be at the center of things.
So you must move to finding a progressive lens with which to address the concerns about AI, which means progress must still be at the center of things.
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Conferences that don’t let people present virtually in 2026 are ableist.
Don’t care what yall say, keep it.
Don’t care what yall say, keep it.
February 17, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Conferences that don’t let people present virtually in 2026 are ableist.
Don’t care what yall say, keep it.
Don’t care what yall say, keep it.
one thing that’s really interesting at this moment is that everyone is running so fast to build things for one reason or another I see everyone discovering the same thing again and again and again and again
February 17, 2026 at 4:09 AM
one thing that’s really interesting at this moment is that everyone is running so fast to build things for one reason or another I see everyone discovering the same thing again and again and again and again
just wanna be clear that I’ve seen some of the shit being said in the pdsls discord and it’s far worse than any of you can imagine - I don’t know how I’m going to be capable of using any products by folks who continue to intentionally collaborate or associate with people in that server, straight up.
February 17, 2026 at 3:59 AM
just wanna be clear that I’ve seen some of the shit being said in the pdsls discord and it’s far worse than any of you can imagine - I don’t know how I’m going to be capable of using any products by folks who continue to intentionally collaborate or associate with people in that server, straight up.
I’m sorry, but I deeply disagree with doll on this.
It was poorly implemented, had giant security holes in it, wasn’t particularly novel, but it did two important things:
1. It productized a helpful AI agent that had *access to your stuff*
2. It met a need for a lot of people
That’s business
It was poorly implemented, had giant security holes in it, wasn’t particularly novel, but it did two important things:
1. It productized a helpful AI agent that had *access to your stuff*
2. It met a need for a lot of people
That’s business
Its big problem with openclaw is that its just a terrible product that does nothing of value and a big company buys it and ignores real tools that do real work
February 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I’m sorry, but I deeply disagree with doll on this.
It was poorly implemented, had giant security holes in it, wasn’t particularly novel, but it did two important things:
1. It productized a helpful AI agent that had *access to your stuff*
2. It met a need for a lot of people
That’s business
It was poorly implemented, had giant security holes in it, wasn’t particularly novel, but it did two important things:
1. It productized a helpful AI agent that had *access to your stuff*
2. It met a need for a lot of people
That’s business
hey @atprotocol.dev - what's the #AtmosphereConf26 hotel promo code? The one in the ticket ( @aka.dad donated his to me) isn't working. Should it still work?
February 16, 2026 at 11:14 PM
hey @atprotocol.dev - what's the #AtmosphereConf26 hotel promo code? The one in the ticket ( @aka.dad donated his to me) isn't working. Should it still work?
Agreed!!
Then just give the bike delivery person a bunch of money to do whatever the fuck they want!
Then just give the bike delivery person a bunch of money to do whatever the fuck they want!
Is "bike delivery person" really a job that we want to be occupied by a human? It seems like it's the kind of thing we should want to automate.
February 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Agreed!!
Then just give the bike delivery person a bunch of money to do whatever the fuck they want!
Then just give the bike delivery person a bunch of money to do whatever the fuck they want!
I just want those of who you talk shit about LLMs on here that also use them in your software development to know: We can see your git commits on GitHub so you aren’t hiding anything from anyone!
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I just want those of who you talk shit about LLMs on here that also use them in your software development to know: We can see your git commits on GitHub so you aren’t hiding anything from anyone!
Cat is the absolute best. Hire her to be a speaker.
This makes me happy. I hope you don't mind a QT to say LOOK, GOOD SCIENCE UNLOCKS YOUR TEAMS' EXISTING INSIGHT. I AM HERE TO GIVE YOU THE STRATEGY
Actually I'm booking out 2026 talks right now if your org/event needs one about the science of learning in the AI era
www.drcathicks.com/speaking
Actually I'm booking out 2026 talks right now if your org/event needs one about the science of learning in the AI era
www.drcathicks.com/speaking
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Cat is the absolute best. Hire her to be a speaker.
all I want to see is the white people in the atproto community calling out racism and not just leaving it to the BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian) folks.
February 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
all I want to see is the white people in the atproto community calling out racism and not just leaving it to the BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian) folks.
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Blacksky.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Blacksky.
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🦕 atproto oauth demo stomping in
made with @deno.land, @hono.dev, @htmx.org, powered by @tijs.org's atproto-oauth jsr package
made with @deno.land, @hono.dev, @htmx.org, powered by @tijs.org's atproto-oauth jsr package
zeu.dev/atproto-oauth-deno
AT Protocol OAuth template in Deno, Hono, HTMX
tangled.org
February 16, 2026 at 11:56 AM
🦕 atproto oauth demo stomping in
made with @deno.land, @hono.dev, @htmx.org, powered by @tijs.org's atproto-oauth jsr package
made with @deno.land, @hono.dev, @htmx.org, powered by @tijs.org's atproto-oauth jsr package
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Just shipped bsky-comments!
Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component.
• Framework Agnostic (Native WC)
• < 3kb gzipped
• Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL
• Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind)
github.com/florianschep...
#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic
Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component.
• Framework Agnostic (Native WC)
• < 3kb gzipped
• Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL
• Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind)
github.com/florianschep...
#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic
February 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Just shipped bsky-comments!
Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component.
• Framework Agnostic (Native WC)
• < 3kb gzipped
• Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL
• Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind)
github.com/florianschep...
#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic
Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component.
• Framework Agnostic (Native WC)
• < 3kb gzipped
• Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL
• Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind)
github.com/florianschep...
#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic
Both
tech people: which would you rather read a long read post about
1) the journey of adding 4 bit quantization to elixir ML stuff (along w/bare metal GPU support for apple silicon) to the ecosystem libraries so that I could make a bot post like me
2) the process of how I've been building deciduous
💻
1) the journey of adding 4 bit quantization to elixir ML stuff (along w/bare metal GPU support for apple silicon) to the ecosystem libraries so that I could make a bot post like me
2) the process of how I've been building deciduous
💻
February 16, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Both