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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 15h

If the firehose is a buckin don’t come a knockin

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 16h

woah [checks the firehose] she’s buckin like a bronco

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Almost time to drop the hammer and crack this nut
#BlueJays #birds ⚾ #Game7

Blue jay standing on a fence with a peanut clenched in its talons. The bird is lining up a bill strike to crack that nut.

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 4d

Remember to brine the pumpkin seeds for 6-24 hours before roasting them!

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leaflet.pub @leaflet.pub · 6d

We've got a new block: POLLS!

And we'd love for you to test it out by voting on the top block you'd like to see us add — we've got a shortlist, but comment if there's another you'd put first :)

Coming soon: publishing standalone docs to atproto, to more easily make one-off polls for anything!

Polls in publications — what block should we add next?

Help us test our newest block type…by voting on what block to add next in Leaflet!

lab.leaflet.pub

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 6d

Love it. It’s almost too simple though. Literally doesn’t have a power switch, haha.

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 6d

Rebuilt this little guy and I gotta say it makes a decent pot of #coffee.

A vintage “Philips 12” coffee maker. Very sleek mid-century modern stainless steel design with black accents

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 7d

i’m going to kiss one of the monkeys that escaped and then i’m going to go touch a bunch of fruit at the grocery store

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 7d

Lets go coast to coast!

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 7d

A train from Saskatoon to Regina! Let’s get some trains going up north too, out a little train up to La Ronge! Let’s gooooooo

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7d

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 8d

Hey iOS 26 users, there’s a new app on the way and they are looking for beta testers. It’s definitely early in development but it’s actually really nice to see an app using native iOS UI elements!

testflight.apple.com/join/RRvk14ks

Join the Skyscraper for Bluesky beta

Available on iOS

testflight.apple.com

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 8d

That's so cool and a deep dive I'll have to remember to come back to!

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 8d

Yeah, at the end of the day it's going to be developers building with the lexicon, so there's an element of trust there... or mistrust, haha.

At the end of the day the Lexicon grammar is there for me to make it difficult for people to cheat the system.

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 8d

I don’t have to model the validity at the lexicon layer, I could just depend on the client or the App View to enforce rules for serving properly formatted content. Users would need to be aware of what app they used though if they want the “correct” experience. Feels wrong.

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 8d

I've been building an app on the #atproto network and I have some tricky lexicon design decisions I have to make. Defining really strict text formatting at the lexicon level while still being open for future changes is hard.

Defining Dark Souls in ATProto

Weakness: kicking

joel.leaflet.pub

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john granule @bogbird.bsky.social · 9d

i want my friends to remember me fondly. and my enemies to remember me as The Creature

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 9d

The people celebrating the#Playstation2 anniversary are forgetting some of us had Sega Dreamcasts and this is actually a really difficult day.#RIP

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 9d

I remember that boss and I’m having some not good feelings. Was he hard or something? I feel like he made me angry.

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 12d

Why didn't any of you tell me there is a fan made Pokemon MMO based on White/Black? And that it's free?? And on Linux????

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dan @danabra.mov · 14d

i mean… jay literally tried to redefine it to mean something broader. still one of my favorite articles even though it didn’t catch on

Web3 is Self-Certifying

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about what Web3 is and isn’t. Here’s my definition: Web3 is user-generated authority, enabled by…

jaygraber.medium.com

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dame @dame.is · 14d

hate to break it to you bud, but if you’re on bluesky then you’re on web3

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 14d

The protocol and app are maturing, but always remember we are definitely still in an era where a single account can swallow some bad data and the devs have to ask around for them.

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 14d

Does anyone know the owner of the @besttest.bsky.social account? (if its you, congrats, you managed to produce some invalid PLC ops in the past lol)

Joel Hill @joelh.social · 14d

Maybe LLMs are more like real brains than we thought...

WIRED @wired.com · 14d

A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...

AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too

A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.

www.wired.com

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 14d

It applies to both for sure, haha. I'm also in #yxe and I also want us to have better biking infrastructure.

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 14d

11 ⭐ on @tangled.org is like 11,000 on Github

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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 14d

Saskatoon or Regina?

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