Wendy Kloiber

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

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Sending love Jaime

I have a modest proposal to address the Bluesky toxicity crisis.

First, we find a big boat.

Second? We get it stuck in a canal.

Love to see a government make a ubi pilot permanent

👁️👁️

This is not work you crowdsource, especially as an alternative to rebuilding trust with users.

A Bluesky designer offering up a definition of “toxicity”

I come here for both earnest and hilarious rebuttal of fascist speech and action. You will catch everything that feeds me in a net this size and shape. I expect free posters to be disrespectful of and hostile to fascism, so I do not agree.

I didn’t know Ben Daniels was in this!

If you breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, and exhale for 8, it tells your body you’re safe. This slows your heart rate, relaxes your nervous system, and helps shift you out of fight-or-flight mode. Now do it.

Get free and be kind.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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It’s one thing to know that the world is too complex to for anyone to begin to understand every system essential to their survival and another to find yourself reading immunology on a compromised platform as federalized troops land in states that really do not want them.

Sending love, friends.

This card came to life immediately in my mind. So good.

A small painting of 6 dead house flies arranged in 2 columns and 3 rows of 2.

"6 of flies", ink, watercolour, oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #sciart

Quick Sunday night (and maybe Monday and Tuesday) sale is happening now, because I have inconvenient bills that could use some convenient sales.

35% off a lot of things.
Done when the bills are covered.
Have fun!

www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...

You aren’t alone, friend.

Portland never stops being Portland.

A screenshot of an iMessage conversation at 7:31 AM with 47% battery. The contact is labeled “AJ” with a profile photo showing a person wearing a cap. The conversation shows a blue message bubble containing “This post requires authentication to view” with the username “Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social)” and “bsky.app” below it. A gray message bubble below reads “Can you tell her I am permabanned.” followed by a blue response bubble saying “Yup” marked as “Delivered Quietly”. At the bottom is a notification that “AJ has notifications silenced” with a “Notify Anyway” option, and the standard iPhone keyboard is visible at the bottom of the screen with an empty message input field.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hey Erin here is Link confirming his permanent ban.

This maybe wasn’t a term in general knowledge before but it should become one.

I'm aware of it. BlackSky is the most successful and well-implemented implementation. And yet, Link, who is on BlackSky, is effectively banned

You can say "this stuff is available," what is the effective outcome?

These are wonderful

“A woman” here is Greta Thunberg, the same Greta that organized the kids (by which I mean the ones in my life) to strike from school on Fridays for climate change.

I don’t get what this place is about and it makes me itchy.

So that would concern me if I was a toolbox maker!

Would you not then pour a lot of time into essentially makerspaces to get nerds using your stuff? Maybe they do and it’s not visible? But also not much progress. Where is the friendly VP of Barrier Removal?

Grateful to people twenty years ago who were out there on Twitter being fascinated with the difference between what they thought would happen and what did happen.

Good!

I always had a slide in my deck saying “we built this thing but we’re trying hard to stay open to the fact that users will tell us what it is and that might not be what we thought we were making” which was a thing I learned from following tech people.

Greg’s thread feels right but with 39 million users even at 1 in 500k having desire and skills, there would be more? There must be massive barriers (Greg names several.) bsky.app/profile/greg...