Scoiattolo
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Sin-eater for @skywatch.blue
Sin-eater for @skywatch.blue
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Scoiattolo
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
· May 13
GitHub - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod: This is the public release of some of our internal tooling.
This is the public release of some of our internal tooling. - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod
github.com
It's not the world's most elegant code (I taught myself TS this winter to do it), but as a general reminder: I have open sourced the code that we use for Skywatch automation, for anyone interested in monitoring the firehose and labeling based on rulesets.
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While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
I have some dear friends whose legal status I'm deeply worried about, even more than I was prior to this.
CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., suspect in custody, officials say
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and a suspect is in custody, officials say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I have some dear friends whose legal status I'm deeply worried about, even more than I was prior to this.
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The kinds of databases:
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The kinds of databases:
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
The year is 2028. A greater than Carrington level event takes down digital infrastructure across the Northern hemisphere. Bluesky users rejoice, before realizing they can't log on to gloat.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
here's what's gonna happen w/AI:
• normies are gonna demand fast, free AI BUT also no datacenters.
• the consumer model shifts to home AI rigs.
• electricity usage ⬆️⬆️⬆️. grid still struggles.
• Dems are forced to tax individual consumers or eat the political cost of infinite electric bills, forever.
• normies are gonna demand fast, free AI BUT also no datacenters.
• the consumer model shifts to home AI rigs.
• electricity usage ⬆️⬆️⬆️. grid still struggles.
• Dems are forced to tax individual consumers or eat the political cost of infinite electric bills, forever.
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The year is 2028. A greater than Carrington level event takes down digital infrastructure across the Northern hemisphere. Bluesky users rejoice, before realizing they can't log on to gloat.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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THE RYAN LIZZA SAGA
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
THE RYAN LIZZA SAGA
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
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as a non-binary person I also find “folx” to be intensely cringe
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
I do not understand the point of “folx“ AT ALL
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
as a non-binary person I also find “folx” to be intensely cringe
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
I only realized I was automatically doing this earlier this year
“USian” is awkwardly constructed, so my brain always inserts an extra A in there to get “USAsian”, which while technically proper, is more awkward in its own way.
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I only realized I was automatically doing this earlier this year
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as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
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One thing that drives me nuts about this is that the actual full government name of Mexico is “The United States of Mexico”. It doesn’t even make any sense that “Estadounidense” would be the appropriate term for Americans, it’s less correct!
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
One thing that drives me nuts about this is that the actual full government name of Mexico is “The United States of Mexico”. It doesn’t even make any sense that “Estadounidense” would be the appropriate term for Americans, it’s less correct!
1) If we're really doing this, we should bring back "Usonian"
2) Arguments in favor of "USian" would be more compelling if "Americanos" wasn't so widely used instead of "Estadounidense" by the same people USian is purportedly on behalf of.
3) USian only seems to be used as part of ingroup signaling
2) Arguments in favor of "USian" would be more compelling if "Americanos" wasn't so widely used instead of "Estadounidense" by the same people USian is purportedly on behalf of.
3) USian only seems to be used as part of ingroup signaling
Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
1) If we're really doing this, we should bring back "Usonian"
2) Arguments in favor of "USian" would be more compelling if "Americanos" wasn't so widely used instead of "Estadounidense" by the same people USian is purportedly on behalf of.
3) USian only seems to be used as part of ingroup signaling
2) Arguments in favor of "USian" would be more compelling if "Americanos" wasn't so widely used instead of "Estadounidense" by the same people USian is purportedly on behalf of.
3) USian only seems to be used as part of ingroup signaling
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fig's work on @microcosm.blue is hugely important for performant interfaces that need to use firehose data to perform lookups! they have made that data vastly more usable and accessible! and maybe it wouldn't have been possible without Rust, who knows! I have no opinion on Rust! Don't @ me!
i also received a bluesky grant, for @microcosm.blue
dozens of atproto apps you might know use constellation, for major features like red dwarf, minor ones like leaflet, or as fallback like Blacksky.
dozens of atproto apps you might know use constellation, for major features like red dwarf, minor ones like leaflet, or as fallback like Blacksky.
yup that's officially 10 billion atproto backlinks
indexed by constellation
across every lexicon
that you can query
at constellation.microcosm.blue
indexed by constellation
across every lexicon
that you can query
at constellation.microcosm.blue
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
fig's work on @microcosm.blue is hugely important for performant interfaces that need to use firehose data to perform lookups! they have made that data vastly more usable and accessible! and maybe it wouldn't have been possible without Rust, who knows! I have no opinion on Rust! Don't @ me!
Someone do the needful, please
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Someone do the needful, please
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Mary maintains lots of cool AT Typescript utilities, including an API client, OAuth client, and utility packages for various data formats. Take a look at ATCute! github.com/mary-ext/atc...
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Mary maintains lots of cool AT Typescript utilities, including an API client, OAuth client, and utility packages for various data formats. Take a look at ATCute! github.com/mary-ext/atc...
You know what, it's still an improvement
I'm Bam Margera, Welcome to the Department of Defense
*distorted guitar riffs play as Bam intentionally launches a FGM-148 Javelin backwards to propel himself on a skateboard, almost immediately wiping out*
*distorted guitar riffs play as Bam intentionally launches a FGM-148 Javelin backwards to propel himself on a skateboard, almost immediately wiping out*
I’d prefer anyone else, really. Bam Margera, Sabrina Carpenter, Jordan Balfort, basically any other living American would be better
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
You know what, it's still an improvement
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leaflet now ready for all your long posting needs! Esp excited to see people using polls and subpages! we have a lot of neat little primitives that you can compose in interesting ways.
New: *Looseleaf* publishing — a way to publish standalone Leaflets on AT Protocol! 📝🍃
We started with publications on atproto; now we're bringing it all together so _anything_ you write on Leaflet, incl single documents / posts, can be 'atprotated' :)
Learn more in thread! ⬇️
We started with publications on atproto; now we're bringing it all together so _anything_ you write on Leaflet, incl single documents / posts, can be 'atprotated' :)
Learn more in thread! ⬇️
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
leaflet now ready for all your long posting needs! Esp excited to see people using polls and subpages! we have a lot of neat little primitives that you can compose in interesting ways.
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Doing a quick Thanksgiving quote-post thread for some of our Atmosphere grant recipients this week, because we are so thankful for them! Nick does incredible work with @smokesignal.events, our OAuth ecosystem, @atwork.place, and more!
Grateful to announce that Bluesky Social PBC has awarded me a small grant to continue building in the ATProtocol ecosystem!
Building decentralized infrastructure is a team effort. Thankful to everyone who has contributed directly and indirectly.
Excited to keep shipping. 🚀
Building decentralized infrastructure is a team effort. Thankful to everyone who has contributed directly and indirectly.
Excited to keep shipping. 🚀
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Doing a quick Thanksgiving quote-post thread for some of our Atmosphere grant recipients this week, because we are so thankful for them! Nick does incredible work with @smokesignal.events, our OAuth ecosystem, @atwork.place, and more!
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
WHAT?
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
WHAT?
The WV Governor is now walking back the announcement of the WV Guard members' deaths.
Governor Patrick Morrisey (@wvgovernor)
We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information.
Our prayers are with these brave ...
fxtwitter.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The WV Governor is now walking back the announcement of the WV Guard members' deaths.
If I didn't have a smartphone, I'd have to quit my job, because work no longer provides physical one-time-code generators, depending instead on Authenticator apps.
Trust me, I've tried!
Trust me, I've tried!
yes, I feel like you can safely ignore anyone who tells you with a straight face in 2025 that you can just do without a smartphone
This article makes really good points about the inability of most people to cut expenses without entirely losing the ability to participate in the economy. I get tired of people telling me to live cheaper by eliminating things that are necessary for modern life.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If I didn't have a smartphone, I'd have to quit my job, because work no longer provides physical one-time-code generators, depending instead on Authenticator apps.
Trust me, I've tried!
Trust me, I've tried!
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Real talk. I appreciate the verification. All of my internet "fame" is from Bluesky mostly, but I'm hoping this helps others to trust me when I'm trying to help them with account migrations, sharing links to pdsmoover.com , and trusting the other atproto services I provide. Thankful for everyone <3
PDS MOOver
PDS MOOver – ATProto tools for PDS migrations and backups
pdsmoover.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Real talk. I appreciate the verification. All of my internet "fame" is from Bluesky mostly, but I'm hoping this helps others to trust me when I'm trying to help them with account migrations, sharing links to pdsmoover.com , and trusting the other atproto services I provide. Thankful for everyone <3
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✅ @newpublic.org has been verified by @bsky.app.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
✅ @newpublic.org has been verified by @bsky.app.
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These NG members should have been at home with their families.
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
These NG members should have been at home with their families.
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Well this isn’t good. (Don’t say something that could get you a knock from federal law enforcement in my mentions please)
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Well this isn’t good. (Don’t say something that could get you a knock from federal law enforcement in my mentions please)