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@j4ck.xyz
3.6K followers 1.2K following 38K posts
16 - posting everything into the void - follow for a mix of daily life/tech/atproto posts

I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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finally got around to cleaning my laptop screen for the first time!

there’s a few annoying marks that won’t come off (seem to be permanent), but other than that I’m pretty happy with it :)
A front-facing view of an open silver Lenovo laptop on a desk. The black screen is heavily covered in smudges, fingerprints, and oily residue, appearing dull and dirty. The same silver Lenovo laptop with the screen now wiped clean. The black display is clear and reflective, showing only a faint horizontal line and a slight glare from overhead lighting. The smudges and fingerprints have been completely removed.
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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it just shows this:
“Failed to load conversation” message in red when trying to access dms on anisota.net
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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lego crocs, what is this world becoming 😭
A pair of bright red slip-on shoes designed to look like giant rectangular LEGO bricks. Each shoe features four oversized circular studs on top and a pivoting heel strap with the word CROCS embossed and a LEGO logo tag at the base. The shoes are set against a plain light gray background.
January 24, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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oh, woah!
Screenshot of Tony Iommi’s bluesky profile (@iommi.com) with a message showing that his account was verified by Bluesky on the 24th of January 2026 (today as of writing this post)
January 24, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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til next time 🫡
Bluesky trending topics: "Anti-ICE Protest" (highlighted "The Traitors" "NATO" "Music Challenge" "California Politics"
January 24, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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i love that i am on both of these lists, and they're next to each other in order of me being added

this perfectly sums up bsky users lol
screenshot from the clearsky webapp showing that I am on 2 separate lists, added to 3 days apart: "Anti-AI" by @rcpinto.bsky.social, 8 days ago and: "AI, Tech, & Ratcult Shitheads" by @adrienneleigh.bsky.social 11 days ago
January 24, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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just realised I passed 3.6k followed! thanks all :D

4k is still the next big goal!
my bluesky profile - @j4ck.xyz - shown in the official client app with 3.6k followers, 1.2k follows, and 37.4k posts so far
January 23, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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I mean, my feed is now a ton of traitors posts as well (from my liked posts via my custom feed ofc), what’s not to like!?
Screenshot of the “For you” feed in the bluesky iOS app
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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still find this moment so funny😭
January 23, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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I also kinda wanna be able to remove the private school and US pol ones (not sure why I subbed to the former tbh, idrc lol) but I can’t because they have broken handles or are deleted(?)
January 23, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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just these — not all of them work or come up on every post tho:
Screenshot of the Bluesky app’s Moderation → Advanced settings page showing a list of subscribed moderation and labeling services. Visible entries include the official Bluesky Moderation Service, a US Politics Labeler marked offline, GitHub Contributor Labeler, Private School (and Landlord) Labeler, Alt Heroes, Joined Labeler, a research labeler from stechlab-labels.bsky.social, and Hailey’s Labeler. Each service appears as a selectable row with an icon and short description.
January 23, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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this made me curious to login and check mine (not posted since like 8th of jan?)

of course i have been spammed with suggested tweets, etc too 💀
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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wait what there are actually so many streams on @stream.place rn :O

normally there's like barely 1 or 2 if i'm lucky, damn
Screenshot of stream.place on web showing 11 different concurrent streams all happening at once
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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morning photo from a few weeks ago 📷
A morning sunrise, with an orange sky with dark grey clouds reflecting on the sea below
January 21, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Onion or Orion? :p
An iPadOS App Store result for “Onion Browser” after searching the store for “Orion Browser” (by Kagi)
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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am I too addicted 💀
A posting activity heatmap showing 2,015 posts made over the last six months. Small square cells represent days from August to January, with lighter purple indicating fewer posts and darker purple indicating higher activity. Posting is frequent and consistent across most days, with a few darker spikes showing especially active days.
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Skyscraper (@getskyscraper.com ) is finally out on the App Store!! 👀

You can get it here → https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/skyscraper-for-bluesky/id6754198379
##atproto
Screenshot of an iOS Bluesky client called Skyscraper in dark mode. The screen shows the “For You” timeline at 6:06 AM. At the top is a post by user “xan surnamehere” (@xan.lol) discussing potentially removing custom AppView support from witchsky.app due to a bug causing preferences to fail; the post includes a link preview card for “Witchsky” with a butterfly icon. Below it is a post by Eugene Vinitsky (@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social) stating that embedding models have made the Discover trending feed mostly technical, followed by an embedded image showing a list of articles from sources such as MIT Technology Review and Quanta Magazine. The bottom navigation bar displays icons for Timeline (selected), Activity, Discover, and Compose.
January 19, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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Check out my weekly summary from @getskyscraper.com! 👀
Dark-mode analytics card titled ‘@j4ck.xyz’s Activity This Week’. Displays four statistics in a row: 262 posts, 678 likes, 19 reposts, and 18 follows. A small note at the bottom reads ‘Powered by @GetSkyscraper.com’
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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hey look, chatgpt is trying to copy claude... 😅

not as satisfying as "You're absolutely right!" though
ChatGPT screenshot: "Yep -- you're basically right." after thinkinf ro 46 seconds (GPT 5.2 thinking)
January 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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what’s up?
Bluesky iOS app update with a new “What’s up?” post prompt box at the top of each feed
January 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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just reinstalled zen browser. will see how it is. it felt really slow the last few times i used it, but i really like the ui

(got this + helium in my taskbar next to each other now lmao)
My taskbar on CachyOS (Arch, KDE) with files, helium browser, zen browser, discord, spotify, signal and the system settings app
January 18, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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on the school pc

sadly we couldn’t join any servers (I assume they’re blocking outbound requests) nor could we open the single player world to LAN (also port blocking — I’m hoping just at the Windows installation level, not whole network)

somehow helium browser also installed as it doesn’t
A dell pc showing Minecraft 1.21.11 running on a dell PC (school computer)
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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i don't even think my laptop's specs are that bad?!
Windows Task Manager Memory tab showing 16.0 GB total RAM. In use: 10.9 GB, Available: 4.8 GB, Committed: 12.9/18.7 GB, Cached: 2.9 GB. Speed: 2400 MHz, Slots used: 1 of 2, Form factor: SODIMM. A memory usage graph shows a sudden sharp spike to nearly full capacity on the far right. Windows Task Manager Disk 1 (C:) tab for a CT1000P310SSD8 NVMe SSD. Active time is 1% with a 0.7 ms response time. Read speed is 618 KB/s and Write speed is 8.7 MB/s. Capacity is 932 GB. Graphs show low active time and a small green spike in disk transfer rate over the last 60 seconds. Windows Task Manager CPU performance tab for an Intel Core i7-8550U at 1.80GHz. A line graph shows usage spiking to roughly 80%. Stats: 80% utilization, 2.55 GHz speed, 272 processes, 4008 threads, and 0:22:38:25 up time. Hardware details: 4 cores, 8 logical processors, and 8.0 MB L3 cache.
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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where tf is this go live thing?

i don't wanna use it but it's pissing me off that i can't find it lol
A screenshot of the Bluesky profile overflow menu. The dark-themed dropdown displays four options: Copy link to profile with a link icon, Search posts with a magnifying glass, Add to starter packs with a dual-square icon, and Add to lists with a list icon featuring a small spark.
January 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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EW wtf

i just opened it on web... why are the feeds like this. this is gonna take ages to get used to
Screenshot of the Bluesky (bsky.app) web interface in dark mode. The left sidebar shows navigation items such as Home, Explore, Notifications, Chat, Feeds, Lists, Saved, Profile, and Settings. The central column displays posts in a feed, including a highlighted “Tailscale” feed with recent posts. On the right, a redesigned UI panel shows a searchable feed list with rounded icons; the selected feed (“Tailscale”) is outlined in blue. Below it is a new “Trending” section styled as a compact card, listing numbered trending topics.
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM