Mitchell Thorson

Mitchell Thorson

@mitchellthorson.com

Data visualization engineer. Otherwise reading books, riding bikes, listening to music, or talking a walk. Brooklyn, NY mitchellthorson.com

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Been listening to this on repeat since Friday. Absolute banger! Grab your copy: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/edge-c...

intlanthem.bandcamp.comEdge Conditions, by Jeremiah Chiu11 track album
International Anthem@intlanthem.bsky.social

Congratulations to ๐—๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ต ๐—–๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜‚ !! ๐„๐๐ ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ is ๐—ข๐—จ๐—ง ๐—ง๐—ข๐——๐—”๐—ฌ !! Stop by your favorite record store and ask for it <3

I've watched this video so many times since Sunday. The power and speed of the riders and the energy of the crowd come through here in a way they never do on the regular broadcast clips. Bikes rule.

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Didn't plan to get absolutely hooked on a new game this week, but here we are. If you like puzzle/roguelike type stuff, do yourself a favor and check out this game.

Baxter@cosmicspooks.bsky.social

blessed to write a little bit about my current goty 868-Back and what makes it so special (aka constantly rewriting how you consider its space)!!

Excited to launch this new ๐Ÿ“Š data tool today. @yonahfreemark.com dug into the data to provide a look at how much housing is located near transit infrastructure across states and metropolitan areas in the US. Click the link to the numbers for your state. #dataviz

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com

How much housing is located near the nation's transit? 45% of units are located within a 1/2 mile of bus or rail. But only 10% is near frequent service... and 6% is near a rail station. Our new data tool @urbaninstitute.bsky.social allows you to investigate in detail! www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

The best news I've heard all day

International Anthem@intlanthem.bsky.social

*announcing* IARC0112 ๐—ฆ๐— ๐—Ÿ - ๐’๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐‹๐ข๐ฏ๐ž LP, Cassette, Digi album out June 26, 2026

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I have to say, I like seeing people get it. I really do. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlqxgn3hzk2...

aaronrosspowell.comThe Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's BlogLet a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.
Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com

"If you find the current Bluesky community grating, the answer needn't be "make Bluesky different." The answer can be "make a different community." Or use a different lens onto the same network. Or wait for someone else to build the lens you want and use that." Bluesky isn't the point, atproto is.

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Bandcamp Friday begins in T-minus 12 hours! From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.

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I maybe went a *little* overboard and turns out we're gonna have quite a few awesome folks speaking / presenting at our coming @atproto.nyc meetup, swing by if you're free! also already seeing some interest in working groups e.g. to make a website & get local communities involved :D

atproto.nyc@atproto.nyc

Excited for our meetup this coming Monday โ€” shaping up to be a good turnout; we've got not one, not two, not threeโ€ฆ Okay look we have SIX confirmed speakers! See below ๐Ÿคฉ Mon @ 5:30p (talks ~6) in Brooklyn โ€” see you there!

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Explained some details on how I run For You. The key ingredient is โœจtailscaleโœจ :)

Alex@alex.bsky.team

I'm excited to announce another guest post on the atproto.com blog! This time, we're featuring @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, the maintainer of the popular For You Feed (bsky.app/profile/spac...)! atproto.com/blog/serving...

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Alrightttt it's on the calendar! Found a great central venue & excited to make this more of a regular *thing* w/ talks etc (ping me with your talk ideas btw!) + plz DM if you'd like to join a Signal chat for local organizers, could use some help w/ setup & planning future things :)

atproto.nyc@atproto.nyc

NYC friends โ€” join us in Brooklyn for our next meetup the evening of Monday, May 4! We'll have pizza, do a few short talks, and hang and get atmospheric ๐ŸŒ€ Send us your talk ideas and reach out if you'd like to help organize this & future events. See you there! ๐Ÿ™Œโœจ

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Phenomenon of homes being used for investment or 2nd homes is rare overallโ€”but a major issue in small sections of big, rich cities like New York. Some areas of Midtown & Upper East Side have >30% overall housing vacancy, with a large share of that coming from homes being used as vacation properties.

Happy Tax Day, New York. Weโ€™re taxing the rich.

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Sol Cesto is a banger. Listen to @notquitereal.bsky.social and I talk about it in the back half of this ep of Side Story from last year. sidestory.show/12-the-succu...

sidestory.showsidestory.show

๐ŸŒž SOL CESTO โ€“ 1.0 OUT NOW ON STEAM ๐ŸŒž It took us nearly 3 years, but Sol Cesto is finally complete! We hope youโ€™ll enjoy our weird roguelite and all the surprises weโ€™ve added ๐Ÿ‘€ Please help us spread the word ๐Ÿ™Œ

Spent last weekend in the woods. Saw many lovely things like trees, moss and lichen-covered rocks, the valley shrouded in clouds from above. Freshly full of gratitude for the planet we live on here.

I've been getting by on second hand ThinkPads off of ebay running linux for the past 5 years. It has worked out great, and I have saved a lot of money compared with buying Apple. It has really shifted my whole relationship to technology as product and to consumerism etc. Highly recommend.

Nathan Edwards@grackle.space

@steviebonifield.bsky.social got a 9-year-old ThinkPad X1 Carbon on eBay for 250 of god's own dollars. It can't be upgraded to Windows 11 but it sure can be upgraded to Linux! Really enjoyed working with Stevie on this piece.

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I can envision at least three separate businesses bigger than substack (in terms of actual value created) built on top of standard.site each with their own value props. When you go from moats to roads you stop building castles and start building cities and *everybody* gets a whole lot richer.

Andrew Lisowski ๐Ÿ’ป@hipstersmoothie.com

I think the best example is the publishing apps Theyโ€™re all cool, but all have given their moat to @standard.site and atproto. Even with paid features I see a bunch of lifestyle businesses and not vs investable companies

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If all goes to plan, tomorrow night, a spacecraft with four astronauts will start its mission toward the moon - the first time since 1972. To illustrate the journey, we set out with a simple yet crazy idea: Letโ€™s show this journey to scale. Here's the result: www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

zeit.deArtemis 2: Fliegen Sie mit uns zum MondZum ersten Mal seit 1972 brechen Menschen wieder zum Mond auf. Unsere 3D-Animation zeigt die komplette Strecke der Mission Artemis 2 โ€“ und was dabei schiefgehen kann.

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Welcome to the new era of Anisota โ€” featuring a hand-carved brand mark, foundations of an immersive game world, swipe gestures, & lots more. This is Anisota senatoria... A new, more peaceful kind of social interface that helps you be offline more and oneline better. Enter the forest: anisota.net

anisota.netAnisota for Bluesky & the AtmosphereA new, more peaceful kind of social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky and the Atmosphere.

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Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

maybe im doing it wrong but i feel like the various crises of 2026 have revealed the limitations of this platform for me. twitter was always invaluable to me in chaotic times bc you had a lot of subj matter expert weirdos coming out of the woodwork. just dont feel like there's a much of that here rn

I think all coding agents need remote multiplayer support for collaborative sessions in the terminal built in. Hop on a call, go back and forth, watch a prototype come into view. Multiple people per agent, not multiple agents per person.