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Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53 Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by the Australian, the Saturday Paper and the Hobart Mercury

RIP @kudelka.bsky.social (1973-2026)

With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy. [Image and AltText provided by family as announcement on account]

RIP @fobettarh.bsky.social (1989 - 2026)

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...

RIP @dhm.bsky.social (1983-2026)

Support for alternate appviews is available on some current and upcoming third party apps. Tested as working on iOS ‘skeets for bluesky’ app. As noted by comments, the blacksky appview is still loading info and may appear ‘buggy’ still for a while.

Ok, good news! Easier already. Apparently you can skip finding your bsky mushroom, and just use bsky.social as the host in the login.

Blacksky Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

So, you'd like to login via blacksky and re-connect with banned friend(s)? Web app is staging.blacksky.community. To login, you'll need to know your PDS (your mushroom, unless you self-host). You can get that from clearsky.app or many other places. Probably good to use an app password, too.

‘Fed posting’ is a reference to any post that is considered to be likely to elicit law enforcement attention as an actionable threat. It is not exclusively an accusation of undercover activity.

Who is Emma Johnston? Melbourne University vice chancellor dead at 52 after brief cancer battle Melbourne University's vice chancellor, Professor Emma Johnston, has passed away at 52. She died after a short fight with cancer. Professor Johnston was a respected marine ecologist and academic leade...

RIP @dremmaljohnston.bsky.social (1973-2025)

An undated black and white photo of Michael with a full beard, dark glasses, and a beautiful view of nature behind him.

RIP @wombat37.bsky.social.

Image shared by bsky associate picturing man in blue tuxedo, captioned @ManWithPez (1975-2025). Family requested that personal details not be shared on social media.

RIP @manwithpez.bsky.social (1975-2025)

The current oh no posts about weird (derogatory) sexts are about excerpts from writings of Olivia Nuzzi’s ex, Ryan Lizza, who is relating purported exchanges between Nuzzi and RFK Jr.

Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62 The gaming community mourns a beloved mentor and LGBTQ+ advocate with a storied career.

RIP @burgerbecky.bsky.social (1963-2025)

Alice Wong writer of Teen Vogue's Disability Visibility column, has Died. by Lord_of_Knitting

RIP @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (1974-2025)

Yes, according to the generally reliable labeler that lists join months, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joined in Apr 23 (a very fine time to join), and is thus very much a bsky elder.

The "Torment Nexus" post is about a condition created by a tech leader, that took a cautionary tale of a horrible design choice by a technology company as an reason to implement a horrible design choice.

This seems obvious... and yet.

Bluesky Jobs Bluesky Jobs

Bluesky seeks Head of Communications, no experience necessary. Just kidding. All the experience necessary. Learning from it, however, is discouraged.

White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

You've probably blocked them already, so here's a free link to the NYT summary of their bullshit.

maybe it WAS. I honestly don't cover 5% of what's going on these days. Site too big. I still dabble sometimes.

Kevin Glen Austin - View Obituary & Service Information Share Memories and Support the Family.

RIP @kevingaustin.bsky.social (1961-2024)

Discussions with Link reveal that he has retained access to his posts and data, even if he is currently not visible to others (until other PDS's create their own appview).
plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

Bounce Beta Now Live! In early June, we previewed Bounce: A Cross-Protocol Migration Tool. This first-of-its-kind service enables users to migrate their follow graphs between ActivityPub and ATProto with Bridgy Fed as a me...

from @ap.brid.gy the creators of the famous mastodon-bsky posting bridge, there's another service available; Bounce.

blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-...

Many describe moderation action as ‘permaban’. Past suspension notes described bans as indefinite or provided timeframe for suspension. Early indefinite bans were lifted when bsky left beta. Moderation decisions are not often explained publicly, but they sometimes respond to journalist inquiries.

Several accounts describing correspondence btwn Link and Bsky moderators indicating reason for the ban was inciting violence by sharing an image of Charlie Kirk, taken just before his murder. Some, but not all descriptions, have said it was in a reply to bsky staff but I have no confirmation yet.

Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.

A more comprehensive write-up of what some are calling the waffles event.

*it's me, I am some 👋

How ‘Clanker’ Became an Anti-A.I. Rallying Cry

'Clanker' is a reference to discussions about Anti-AI sentiment and the extrapolation of this into behavior that mimics racism. Most bsky references are joking in nature, with occasional philosophical posts exploring the connection more seriously.
NYT synopsis of discourse (not just on bsky).

some posters have shared that bsky suspensions occur on the Appview level, and blacksky does not (yet) have an independent Appview. Once it (or other hosts) have their own Appview, they will be able to override bsky.app suspensions.

Adding to growing list of accounts afoul of moderators, @spacelawshitpost.me (fka @knilirabaj.bsky.social) is currently suspended. Reason for suspension has not been shared. Adding to questions- account may be hosted in outside PDS, raising question about scope of suspensions under federation.

waffles is a reference to an old post about someone liking pancakes, and someone replying 'what about waffles'.
In current context, @jcsalterego.bsky.social made a reference to this, the site CEO @jay.bsky.team QP'd we can do better. Someone said 'did you ban Jesse Singal', Jay replied 'waffles'.

Life is a problem that can’t be solved Remembering Kaleb Horton

RIP @kalebhorton.bsky.social (1988 – 2025)