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Chad Kohalyk
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Generous with Likes ❤️ 📸 🖊️ 📿 🙏 He/him 日本語 🙆‍♂️ THFC.

https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/

#japan #photography #buddhism #books #PublicInterestTechnologist

Also @protocolsforpublishers.com & @dwebyvr.org

PfP @kawaiirailroads.millie-may.net‬
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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · Nov 11
Once all the Starter Packs are made, and we move on to *Advanced Packs*, someone will finally make a “Radical Politics, Open Source, Cooperatives, Governance nerds, Book reviewers, atproto Missionaries, Japan history, Photographer, Travel Writers, Rap fans, Dad Jokes Pack” and add me to it.
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quillmatiq.com
Dear Diary,

This morning, I woke up and was immediately attacked,
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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werd.io
It’s probably the poutine
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d
Australians are deciding USA is not a place to visit… oddly they still are going to Canada. Almost like there is something specific about the US..
#ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Index Australians travelling to the USA and Canada - showing while travel to the US is falling it is rising to Canada
January 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM
chadkoh.com
Good first ep in @themaybe.org’s new series on Digital Public Infrastructure with a wild story about how Walmart and Google ended up owning the digital pay rails in India 🫨

www.themaybe.org/podcast/t…
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 AM
chadkoh.com
a man with long hair and a beard is looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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protocolsforpublishers.com
Big thanks to

@newsmastfoundation.org
@bsky.app
@mozilla.org
@atprotocol.dev
@interledger.org
and newspeak.house

for their support in convening this event!

👏🎉🥳
Newspeak House
The London College of Political Technology
newspeak.house
January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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protocolsforpublishers.com
Final details for #PfP✨London are locked in. We have our 🏛️ venue, last 🗣️ speaker confirmed, and the 🎟️ registration is now completely open!

protocolsforpublishers.com/final-detail...

#ActivityPub #ATProto #AI #webpayments #webpublishing #events #London
We're All Set: Final Details for PfP✨London
The last pieces have been locked in for our next in-person event in London. Firstly, we would like to announce or last speaker: Jeremiah Lee from the Interledger Foundation who will be discussing dev...
protocolsforpublishers.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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wesleyfinck.org
Vancouver folks who like to write, please join my bi-monthly @dwebyvr.org writing club out of @z-space.ca! luma.com/2e9uxcuc
DWebYVR Writing Club · Luma
Join us for a two hour writing session to work on all those writing projects that never get the time they deserve!
luma.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:54 AM
chadkoh.com
I too am a poem freak. Keep them coming. Also, take a look at @theincomparable.com’s website for a long running podcast that covers a lot of stuff. They have excellent metadata to help you find back eps. Shorter single purpose eps will surely help tho. More poetry?
January 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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protocolsforpublishers.com
Next newsletter is dropping soon with all the finalized details for #PfP✨London

Be sure to sign up here: protocolsforpublishers.com
Protocols for Publishers✨
Bringing together publishers and developers for a sustainable agentic web
protocolsforpublishers.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 PM
chadkoh.com
Dan, you could try the Hacker News Tokyo community too. There are a lot of designers in that community.
January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
chadkoh.com
Just wondering if you know anyone?
January 15, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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imcmillan.bsky.social
First line of haiku
Second line of the haiku
Third line of haiku
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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@emgoto.com ATTN
January 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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robin.berjon.com
We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun.
luma.com/jj7nths0
@proto @fosdem · Luma
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. https://atproto.com/ Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual…
luma.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
chadkoh.com
Yes we need stickers!
suibari.com すいばり @suibari.com · 4d
#あつめあっと
#AtsumeAt リリース！

Blueskyデジタルシールアプリです
Bluesky digital sticker exchange & collection app
atsumeat.suibari.com

📛最初にあなたのアバターのシールをプレゼント
🎨オリジナルシールを何枚でも作れます
🤝作ったシールを友達と交換してあつめよう
📑集めたシールはシール帳に貼ってシェアしてみよう

ぜひ遊んでみてください！
January 15, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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kuramasuben.bsky.social
My department at Aichi Prefectural University is offering one tenured position in Japanese ancient and medieval history. Start of employment is April 1st, 2027. Application deadline is Friday, March 27th, 2026. For more details:
jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...
#AcademicSky
JREC-IN | 愛知県立大学日本文化学部 歴史文化学科専任教員（日本古代・中世史）の公募
イノベーション創出を担う研究人材のためのキャリア支援ポータルサイト
jrecin.jst.go.jp
January 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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devtools.fm
Join us this week with @pvh.ca of @inkandswitch.com and @automerge.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgyd...
open.spotify.com/episode/4J3m...
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
chadkoh.com
Wife brought back a nice Ebisu omamori for from Osaka for my home office. Keep the house safe, business successful, and also a bag to hold happiness 💰🧧
A very fancy luck charm standing about 30cm high with all sorts of ribbons and paper streamers, a rake, a crane, a peach, koi, a fan, and faces of Ebisu one of the 7 Lucky gods.
January 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM
chadkoh.com
10 years!? I literally dreamt about him last month micro.blog/chadkoh/7924...
January 14, 2026 at 8:52 PM
chadkoh.com
Interviewing Surrey and Vancouver school officials @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social learns about how they teach critical media literacy. Luckily all of them have defunct Twitter accounts except BC gov. However they all still list X on their sites.
January 14, 2026 at 8:48 PM
chadkoh.com
@ntnsndr.in I know this book is in GovSpaces biblio, but I couldn’t find a reference to the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium in the text of the book. Do you know what happened to that Bill of User’s Rights? (Maybe it is later in the People’s History… just got excited by the precendent)
January 14, 2026 at 6:20 AM
chadkoh.com
Chapter 5 of A People’s History of Computing in the United States has this amazing anecdote of how the statewide computer network was governed by the users via a bill of rights!

hardcover.app/books/a-p…
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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knowtheory.net
A good reminder for folks who need a passport to join us in Vancouver got #atmosphereconf!
zzstoatzz.io nate @zzstoatzz.io · 5d
had to take a picture of myself to renew my passport for #AtmosphereConf

but i live alone. capo ftw
capo on top of my laptop stand, which is stacked on the back of my work chair my submitted passport photo
January 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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modalfoundation.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky! We're Modal Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. We grew out of the @freeourfeeds.com campaign and support @eurosky.social. Our work will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet.
A card that reads "Social media is critical infrastructure. It needs to work for people, not exploit and mislead them. Modal Foundation supports decentralized social tech that helps people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information."
January 12, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Are those gold FANGS? Or grillz?
January 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM