Paul Rohr
@pevohr.bsky.social
Dad, startup guy. Ideas matter. Design matters. It's about we, not me.
hachyderm.io/@pevohr
hachyderm.io/@pevohr
Argh. Just got bitten by the lack of draft functionality for replies
1. Felt inspired by a specific point in someone else's 🧵
2. Picked the most relevant post to start from
3. Hit reply, started typing
4. Realized my ideas didn't belong inline after hitting the plus button once too often
1. Felt inspired by a specific point in someone else's 🧵
2. Picked the most relevant post to start from
3. Hit reply, started typing
4. Realized my ideas didn't belong inline after hitting the plus button once too often
BTW, are there any plans to allow saving draft replies? Or is the feature only for top-level posts + quotes?
February 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Argh. Just got bitten by the lack of draft functionality for replies
1. Felt inspired by a specific point in someone else's 🧵
2. Picked the most relevant post to start from
3. Hit reply, started typing
4. Realized my ideas didn't belong inline after hitting the plus button once too often
1. Felt inspired by a specific point in someone else's 🧵
2. Picked the most relevant post to start from
3. Hit reply, started typing
4. Realized my ideas didn't belong inline after hitting the plus button once too often
Tidy little howto
Shows how easy it is to leverage various pieces of @microcosm.blue infrastructure -- slingshot, constellation, spacedust -- when spinning up your own atproto service
Shows how easy it is to leverage various pieces of @microcosm.blue infrastructure -- slingshot, constellation, spacedust -- when spinning up your own atproto service
building a microblogging platform for fun over the last few days using atproto, and the number of open source tools that you can jump on and easily use is pretty astounding 🤯
third-party apis: community infrastructure on atproto
you can just build things from an open set of tools
keith.leaflet.pub
February 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Tidy little howto
Shows how easy it is to leverage various pieces of @microcosm.blue infrastructure -- slingshot, constellation, spacedust -- when spinning up your own atproto service
Shows how easy it is to leverage various pieces of @microcosm.blue infrastructure -- slingshot, constellation, spacedust -- when spinning up your own atproto service
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ICYMI: Finally blogged about an old paper (led by @groceryheist.cc) that explains why people often engage in multiple groups with overlapping topic and membership, and which helps explain why competition between online groups seems to be rare. mako.cc/copyrighteou...
Why do people participate in similar online communities?
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…
mako.cc
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
ICYMI: Finally blogged about an old paper (led by @groceryheist.cc) that explains why people often engage in multiple groups with overlapping topic and membership, and which helps explain why competition between online groups seems to be rare. mako.cc/copyrighteou...
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i love to debug things via making public posts. like, in many ways it's worse. it makes you afraid of making small changes (it can spam yr followers). but also it's more fun. and it communicates the fact that you're working, and what kinds of things you're working on.
February 16, 2026 at 11:21 AM
i love to debug things via making public posts. like, in many ways it's worse. it makes you afraid of making small changes (it can spam yr followers). but also it's more fun. and it communicates the fact that you're working, and what kinds of things you're working on.
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For offline feed reading on trains with bad WiFi I built @himmel.app. Offline likes get applied when you are online again. One button to update all your feeds! 😎
Himmel for iOS and Android
An offline-capable feed reader for Bluesky with simplicity in mind.
himmel.app
February 15, 2026 at 8:58 AM
For offline feed reading on trains with bad WiFi I built @himmel.app. Offline likes get applied when you are online again. One button to update all your feeds! 😎
"As the reports show, new facilities are coming online every week and existing facilities are reaching record populations. The geography of detention is expanding into states and communities that had no significant role in the system a year ago."
Behind the National Dip, Many ICE Detention Facilities Across the Country Are Surging
The national number declined, but individual facilities are growing fast. New detention centers are opening and existing ones are reaching record populations.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/behind-the...
The national number declined, but individual facilities are growing fast. New detention centers are opening and existing ones are reaching record populations.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/behind-the...
Behind the National Dip, Many ICE Detention Facilities Across the Country Are Surging
ICE detention dipped nationally, but individual facilities are surging. New centers are coming online and existing ones are hitting record highs across the country.
austinkocher.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:39 AM
"As the reports show, new facilities are coming online every week and existing facilities are reaching record populations. The geography of detention is expanding into states and communities that had no significant role in the system a year ago."
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We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recent data from ICE.
Find population information for 242 detention centers across the United States.
detentionreports.com
Find population information for 242 detention centers across the United States.
detentionreports.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recent data from ICE.
Find population information for 242 detention centers across the United States.
detentionreports.com
Find population information for 242 detention centers across the United States.
detentionreports.com
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“…Allied occupation zone after World War II, during the process of denazification, faced a very difficult problem, how to identify various levels of culpability and provide commensurate consequences—in a way to preserve democratic transparency, due process, and fairness.” @asharangappa.bsky.social
Some thoughts on what de-magafication of our institutions might look like when this nightmare is over (free post) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
Excising the Cancer in Our Institutions
We need to start thinking about how we are going to separate the sheep from the wolves in sheep's clothing.
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
“…Allied occupation zone after World War II, during the process of denazification, faced a very difficult problem, how to identify various levels of culpability and provide commensurate consequences—in a way to preserve democratic transparency, due process, and fairness.” @asharangappa.bsky.social
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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I'm writing a chat app with a unique use case, most of the front end and auth flow makes sense and now I'm looking into end-to-end message encryption and all I have to say is...
@signal.org is a goddamn miracle
@signal.org is a goddamn miracle
February 14, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I'm writing a chat app with a unique use case, most of the front end and auth flow makes sense and now I'm looking into end-to-end message encryption and all I have to say is...
@signal.org is a goddamn miracle
@signal.org is a goddamn miracle
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there's now so many cards in blento.app that even i sometimes forget some of them, so here's a thread with all the atmosphere cards so far (in no particular order):
(i'll do a thread with all the non-atmosphere cards some other day)
(i'll do a thread with all the non-atmosphere cards some other day)
February 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
there's now so many cards in blento.app that even i sometimes forget some of them, so here's a thread with all the atmosphere cards so far (in no particular order):
(i'll do a thread with all the non-atmosphere cards some other day)
(i'll do a thread with all the non-atmosphere cards some other day)
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Live-posting thread of the livestream
First up in the #ATProtoOfficeHours is a mention of @germnetwork.com and the new integration from Bluesky.
February 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Live-posting thread of the livestream
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"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence
New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.
www.essence.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
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Good thread.
There are disabled people in the future.
The only reason you wouldn’t see them is if that society has gone full steam ahead on eugenics and they’re unable to live freely or be accommodated in public.
There are disabled people in the future.
The only reason you wouldn’t see them is if that society has gone full steam ahead on eugenics and they’re unable to live freely or be accommodated in public.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Good thread.
There are disabled people in the future.
The only reason you wouldn’t see them is if that society has gone full steam ahead on eugenics and they’re unable to live freely or be accommodated in public.
There are disabled people in the future.
The only reason you wouldn’t see them is if that society has gone full steam ahead on eugenics and they’re unable to live freely or be accommodated in public.
Whistles are making law
( essay +/or 🧵)
( essay +/or 🧵)
February 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Whistles are making law
( essay +/or 🧵)
( essay +/or 🧵)
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Fascinating because this shows how operation-based CRDTs can be built on top of identity-based storage; store a user's operations in their PDS and event source then in an app view.
Need to think about the implications for collective governance and version control.
Need to think about the implications for collective governance and version control.
I recently tried to use Github Projects and got so mad I started another side-project: skyboard.dev!
Skyboard is Trello but on the AT Protocol, a collaborative kanban board where all the data lives in your atproto repo so you control your boards forever
Skyboard is Trello but on the AT Protocol, a collaborative kanban board where all the data lives in your atproto repo so you control your boards forever
Announcing Skyboard - A collaborative kanban board on the AT Protocol
Skyboard is a collaborative kanban board on the AT protocol so you control your boards forever.
leaflet.pub
February 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Fascinating because this shows how operation-based CRDTs can be built on top of identity-based storage; store a user's operations in their PDS and event source then in an app view.
Need to think about the implications for collective governance and version control.
Need to think about the implications for collective governance and version control.
The latest easter egg from @theo.io is this unassuming toggle in the upper left corner of bluesky-map.theo.io, which lets you visualize which clusters of the atmosphere a given account gets their information from
February 11, 2026 at 5:35 AM
The latest easter egg from @theo.io is this unassuming toggle in the upper left corner of bluesky-map.theo.io, which lets you visualize which clusters of the atmosphere a given account gets their information from
Nice reflection on how to foster the right social experience for a given app -- in this case, curating casual competition with less effort
Blog post on why we moved to follows: blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...
Follows Not Friends
Heyo folks,
When we set out to figure out what a platform for daily games looked like, having it be social was really important to us. We imagined everyone playing games, chatting, comparing scores, a...
blog.puzzmo.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Nice reflection on how to foster the right social experience for a given app -- in this case, curating casual competition with less effort
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$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
A new report from Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee finds that the deployment of the National Guard in D.C. is costing $1.65 million a day, and over seven months has hit $332 million. The report is here: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
aka "ya basic"
(see alt text for details on where this cluster analysis places me)
(see alt text for details on where this cluster analysis places me)
February 9, 2026 at 3:51 AM
aka "ya basic"
(see alt text for details on where this cluster analysis places me)
(see alt text for details on where this cluster analysis places me)
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It’s as Sara Ahmed said: solidarity doesn’t mean that our dreams are the same dreams or that we hope for the same future; it is a recognition that we stand on the same ground.
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
It’s as Sara Ahmed said: solidarity doesn’t mean that our dreams are the same dreams or that we hope for the same future; it is a recognition that we stand on the same ground.
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I'm thinking of building a logged in version of the For You playground: linklonk.com/bluesky
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
Bluesky "For You" feed playground
linklonk.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I'm thinking of building a logged in version of the For You playground: linklonk.com/bluesky
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
"There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of."
...
"Waiting to be led does not make sense."
...
"Waiting to be led does not make sense."
February 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of."
...
"Waiting to be led does not make sense."
...
"Waiting to be led does not make sense."
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also think this is a good point, finding "superconnectors" and getting them to use your platform is way more high-impact than trying to get tons of individual people to join
mosh.leaflet.pub/3me5e6vqtkc2...
mosh.leaflet.pub/3me5e6vqtkc2...
Building for Organizers - The People Layer
The most enduring social networks aren’t the prettiest or the most addictive – it’s the ones that empower organizers.
mosh.leaflet.pub
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
also think this is a good point, finding "superconnectors" and getting them to use your platform is way more high-impact than trying to get tons of individual people to join
mosh.leaflet.pub/3me5e6vqtkc2...
mosh.leaflet.pub/3me5e6vqtkc2...
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👇 important 🧵 about Surprise, Arizona residents urging City Council to oppose “a massive warehouse concentration camp in their community.”
Powerful testimony drawing a parallel to the complicity of a WWII-era mayor in Germany who disclaimed any responsibility for the concentration camp in the town.
Powerful testimony drawing a parallel to the complicity of a WWII-era mayor in Germany who disclaimed any responsibility for the concentration camp in the town.
A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
February 5, 2026 at 4:58 PM
👇 important 🧵 about Surprise, Arizona residents urging City Council to oppose “a massive warehouse concentration camp in their community.”
Powerful testimony drawing a parallel to the complicity of a WWII-era mayor in Germany who disclaimed any responsibility for the concentration camp in the town.
Powerful testimony drawing a parallel to the complicity of a WWII-era mayor in Germany who disclaimed any responsibility for the concentration camp in the town.