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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

Resource on migrating to Blacksky or one of Blacksky's servers for non-Black users: bsky.app/profile/rude...

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

Migrating to Blacksky PDS: Complete Guide | Blacksky Documentation

Complete guide to migrating your Bluesky account to Blacksky's infrastructure. Covers migration tools, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting, and how to use Blacksky services without migrating.

docs.blacksky.community

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

I don't exaggerate when I say that @rude1.blacksky.team and Blacksky team may be saving the entire Bluesky endeavor right now.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

Rudy is the real deal. Been waiting for an update, and he sure has it! Makes me really glad I migrated @gregpak.com to Blacksky's myatproto.social PDS for non-Black users - gonna migrate @gregpak.net over asap as well.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9h

oh! i thought you'd already migrated your blobs!

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

have you tried "Post-Migration Steps
Fix Old Account Issues
pdsmoover.com/turnoff.html... ? 🤔

flashbacks to me trying netscape navigator as a very small child and having no clue 🤣

PDS MOOver - Turn OFF

ATProto account migration tool

pdsmoover.com

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

yes, i just moved over, and i'm reading through some stuff and i was just about to reply "give it an hour"?

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

but for the quoted post I get

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

hihi

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

great thank you

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

switched over to blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

testing testing 1 2 3

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10h

This is the way.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 10h

I'm going to delete my Bob Ross post to avoid my misremembered misinformation from making the 'rounds.

But I wanted you all to read and repost this instead.

Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 11h

This post is getting shared a lot, but it's inaccurate. Bob Ross donated most of his paintings to PBS stations to use in pledge drives to raise money for stations, which is why the estate auctioning paintings now is so appropriate, because it's what he would have done to raise funds for PBS. 1/?

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12h

I don't know how we get out of this...

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15h

still out here talking on background about the broader downfall of social media (and bsky's fundamental ineptitude)

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Morgan (they\them) @soupgargoyle.bsky.social · 16h

ah hell, SOAR is such an important (and super economical) program

but then, budgeting isn't really their goal, it's harming people

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

The Trump Regime is killing SOAR

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

Access to the SOAR Works website ended August 18, 2025.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15h

I could spend awhile just posting pictures of Link with sitting members of the US House of Representatives and US Senate. And at the White House.

Unfortunately, there are more pressing matters (the authoritarianism off this platform is a greater threat than on)

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Daniel Spook-itano @dfarnitano.bsky.social · 18h

If I understand correctly what aaron is trying to say is that they use Hive for image identification/flagging but *don’t* feed anything in as training data…he just doesn’t know how to actually explain that clearly because bluesky hasn’t hired any comms people and desperately needs to.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18h

I'll explain this better in a little bit, I'm genuinely pretty upset rn

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18h

When I look around at the field, SOAR is producing the only initial applications I respect.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18h

The majority of SSI and SSDI applications are denied at the initial stage. The majority of those denials are reversed on appeal - a process that takes years.

SOAR trains attorneys to do the kind of initial applications for homeless disabled people that can win at the first stage

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

I'm something of an anomaly — my reaction to getting diagnosed with complex chronic illness? Getting graduate training in both public health and law. I speak enough medicine and enough law to prepare *initial* Social Security Disability applications (SSI and SSDI) that win.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

fuck. i need to walk away for a bit. fuck

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

The Trump Regime is killing SOAR

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

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