Bluesky

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This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.

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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House

Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/jd-vance-suspended-from-bluesky-minutes-after-joining-what-was-his-first-post-article-152105999

Also helps that most of the website has them blocked explicitly for ragebaiting or responding to ragebait lmfao

https://bsky.app/profile/gxldsociety.bsky.social/post/3lr7mkb4a4s2j

If you want to expand your reach, this seems like a simple way to do it.

Hi, does anyone know a good Bluesky client made for landscape on Android? I don't like using the portrait mode on the official client...

It's a minor thing but I've found that some accounts especially some of the bigger ones cross post to both Twitter and Bluesky so often times when someone shares a screenshot of Twitter the same exact post is available on Bluesky. I urge you to consider screenshoting the post on Bluesky instead of the Tweet. This helps support Bluesky and helps chip away at Twitter.

Here's an example: https://lemm.ee/post/65627384/20884823. Same exact post available on Bluesky.

When you're posting on Bluesky prefer quoting posts instead of screenshots of Twitter or even screenshots of Bluesky because quoting lets people watch videos if the original post has a video and because it helps support whoever originally made the post.

If you have a website consider taking a screenshot of the Bluesky post as a personal backup in case the post gets deleted later and embed the post instead of uploading the screenshot. The reason why is because there's a chance someone might register for Bluesky after clicking on the embedded post.

ATProtoViewer ~ PWA + #Bookmarks + bsky share feature.

Announcing a new edition to my github pages of the above. What start from dame.is development of a guestbook for my pds And me trying to do something similar for bookmarks, which sparked the desire to have something to display the records. Resulting in developing the ATProto Record Viewer, mainly for my own use.

The script now accepts 'did=' (using the string and not handle) and 'uri=' parameters which will auto detect PDS Host!

uri Parameter:

If the page is loaded with a ?uri=at://... parameter, the form fields (repo, collection, rkey, pds) are automatically filled based on the parsed AT URI. The user can then fetch the single record or modify the fields for further queries. Also supports the Bluesky web urls. Both can be enter/pasted on the page URI field. Example:

https://corkiejp.github.io/ATProtoViewer/index.html?uri=at%3A%2F%2Fdid%3Aplc%3Aqxlh6bohvep3taqhmtpipx4b%2Fapp.bsky.feed.post%2F3lpx3s7avxc5r

https://bsky.app/profile/corkiejp.github.io/post/3lqb3j3wrocta

It also works as a Android/Chrome PWA! With support for the Bluesky Share buttom. View any post record. For example see my very first post on Bluesky from 21 August 2024, visit the viewer

It provides handy quick access links to likes of https://pds.ls/, https://atp.tools/, https://blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/ and more for every post. Click the more link.

Latest addition a simple #Bookmarks method using localstorage! As each record display has links for handy bluesky utilities under the more option. You now have bookmarks to these for the post. It currently requests a title+description for bookmark creation, in future I will see if I can autofill these from the record. Can't believe I have created a bookmark system for Bluesky, when the app has yet to do so?

Disclaimer:- I'm not a developer, webpage/PWA was created with the assistance of AI Powered search engine, https://www.perplexity.ai/ as an experiment into what can be done with static html on github. Static webpage so no monitoring in place with a server backend, no login details requested so no privacy issues. If you use it, your not interacting with the AI.

Source code available
So you can just download it and run it localy or on your own site. Just get index.html, bookmarks.html, BlueskyPostViewer.html and Blueskyessentiallinks.html, put in a folder. You would lose the bluesky share on a local system. But if hosting yourself you would also need the associated PWA files with edits for your server.
As it uses static HTML files there is no backend server, no account details are request so no privacy issues.
Utilizes LocalStorage for bookmarks, import/export feature built in.

The Bluesky moderation team is unfairly suspending the accounts of Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip left right and center, and suppressing their ability to keep the world informed of the hell they're being subjected to. Why? We've no clue, but we're hoping a popular wave of support will help change that. Please sign up!