B. Coyle

I’ll probably be more active over on my political account @bcoyle.bsky.social, but this account is reserved for my future [mostly] non-political posts. Things I like: - Philosophy - Anime & Manga - Pop Punk - Console Gaming - Reptiles & Betta Fish - Fandoms! - TCGs - Genetics & Genealogy Hi! 🦤

Anthropic has a wet lab in SF where they’re using Claude to accelerate fundamental biology research This is the first big result from that lab — discovery of a CRISPR-like enzyme www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Rat Purse — Paul Frey, 20th C. brass, ruby

To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning

Now in the Colibri spaces alpha: multi-activity and game activities! We've been developing a lexicon for game activity sharing in the ATProto Games WG and it's slowly getting ready. You can use sync.atplay.games to link your Steam and Discord, then head to spaces.colibri.social/app to try it out!

I've been on an AT Protocol podcast binge and I know tons of people hate it here and hate the devs and think the focus should be building something that's just like Twitter but tuned to the hater's particular tastes, but, man, what's getting built has me optimistic about the future of the internet.

I gotta say, the first bracket of matches were my favorite to watch. Spain put up one helluva fight against Saudi Arabia! #OWWC

People can be both marginalized and wrong. People can be without power, and also be assholes. People can be oppressed, and be cruel. People can be discriminated against, and they can be incorrect sometimes. This is because people are human beings first, not categories. And humans are messy.

it’s pretty wild that we as a society of have just completely normalized (and at times encouraged) people to act insanely rude and inappropriate to complete strangers online, in ways they wouldn’t in real life, to the point that a lot of pro-social behavior has is even stigmatized on social media

in case you didn't know, deck.blue is currently my main source of income while i'm also getting into photography work here in são paulo, so i really appreciate everyone that's currently subscribed to the patreon; making all this possible if you can't subscribe but want to help, there's a ko-fi too!

Excited to announce that the Graze team is joining @flipboard.com! We're thrilled to be working with such a stellar team continuing to build the next era of the attention economy. Read more below:

The communities globe is now live. Thanks @davidwhittingham.com atmosphere.community/communities

A very good explainer of how the AT protocol stuff actually works. overreacted.io/a-social-fil...

Want to embed a button on your website that allows reader to subscribe anything you write in @standard.site? Now you can! This includes loose documents and even your contributions on other pubs standard-reader.app/guide/embeds

I was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way.

The mastodon server I joined in 2022 is shutting down permanently. > Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive. Yeah totally similar to atproto 🙄

I kid y'all not, I had this idea literally the other night and asked Claude about the feasibility of such a project 😭

hope everyone’s having fun at @atproto.nyc community day !!

We’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: mta.info/auction

turns out the way to keep all the atproto nerds (complimentary) occupied is to just give us all a little messageboard to play around with, doesn't take much

Your unread queue, on your e-reader. Standard Reader now publishes OPDS, so every publication is a catalog any e-reader app can browse. Articles come down as real EPUBs with the images. Comics as CBZ. Read on the device, and your place shows up back in the app. standard-reader.app/guide/e-read...

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

we've shared previously that we were planning another community day for August 22nd at @recurse.com, here are the details! more to come soon on talks and workshops 👀

Pepsi dog 💙

Foregrounding this question is an obviously a good thing—and something probably still largely absent from everyday consumer consciousness. Makes me optimistic that one byproduct of ATProto’s open architecture adoption might be a rise in digital literacy amongst the public at large. A dude can hope 🙏

Had a fun time at the Dublin (Ohio) Irish Festival last weekend. Seeing an Irish wolfhound in person was unreal! It was also nice volunteering for something non-political. Although... Quite a few people were asking about their chances for getting Irish citizenship bc they wanna leave the US 😭 Mood.

💞NEW: RECOMMENDATIONS 💞 The best way to discover amazing new publications through friends, authors and trusted communities! Recommendations are our first step towards that social discovery! Spread the love and recommend your favorite standard site publications to your readers!

BookHive now syncs with your e-reader. Upload your ebooks, browse them from KOReader, Crosspoint, or Readest, via OPDS, and your reading progress syncs back into BookHive.

The AI community is SLEEPING on atproto's potential. With all the "on-tap intelligence" we have these days you'd think they'd be faster to figure that out

HURRAY! A well-written, delightfully illustrated, NON-TECHIE explainer of the Atmosphere. This is *exactly* the kind of explainer that will be easy for me to share with my non-tech friends and work colleagues. THANK YOU, @leaflet.pub!

This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >

Said something interesting to a friend today when they asked about different open social web protocols. It might be a little bit controversial, but: I think that ActivityPub is decentralized in principle, whereas AT Protocol is decentralized in practice. 🧵

Would love for @bsky.app to adopt a feature like this, where people can optionally add a section to their profiles that allows users to see their publications and subscriptions. Also the ability to add a newsletter subscription button in bio - similar to how @standard.site blogs show up in posts.

We just added a feature that makes it easier than ever to find your friends and their blogs! Head over to Discover, and you'll see a new bit of UI where you can browse all of the publications from the people you follow on Bluesky.

UPDATE: making good progress on the @aaronrosspowell.com Leaflet wish list! ✅ Mentions (authors, pubs, posts) Longer shared quotes ✅ Notifications ✅ Email / bundled digests [partial] ✅ Navigation to pages & external links ✅ Tags Recommendations ✅ Stats 🔜 Monetization ✅ Design options

By the way, in case you couldn't tell from that little Leaflet post, ATProto isn't just Bluesky. There's a whole ecosystem of apps you're probably overlooking. Do yourself a favor and check out atstore.fyi and explore the MANY different things you can use with your Bluesky/Atmosphere account!

Folks, you know what I realized just today? If someone subscribes to my standard.site publications, it can actually outlast my domain. 😲 You can change your handle without losing your followers. You can change your whole blog's domain, without losing your subscribers. 💫

Last night I was at a bookstore in the village and there was a woman who was purchasing "Ulysses." While scanning the shelves, I spotted "Dubliners." "Here's another one by James Joyce," I said, handing it to her. She might unknowingly embark into the world of Joyce studies after this! 😅

The 1926 Irish National Census has been digitised and is being made available online from today - a treasure trove for researchers and for families! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...