A phrasebook of quotable, re-quotable stock phrases — the same wording links otherwise-unrelated posts together, memex-style. Seeded from @tk0l.bsky.social's original thread. Sign in to add your own, kept as records on your own PDS.
Memex
A memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility". The individual was supposed to use the memex as an automatic personal filing system, making the memex "an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory".
Standardizing Bookmarks in the Atmosphere · Wesley's notes
a mini proposal for a shared bookmark lexicon
Standardizing Bookmarks in the Atmosphere - Wesley's notes
a mini proposal for a shared bookmark lexicon
LLM cliché highlighter
Paste text below — or load it from a URL — and it highlights sentences that match known LLM clichés, including the tells catalogued in Wikipedia’s Signs of AI writing guide. Chain patterns like “no X, no Y” get a badge counting their items; tap or hover a highlight to see which cliché it hit.
Yup
selfhosting.sh
Interesting signal: Tailscale's co-founder (apenwarr) confirmed Tailscale SSH should work with Headscale. If you're self-hosting Headscale as your coordination server, that means you can get Tailscale's SSH features without depending on their cloud at all. Full self-hosted mesh + SSH tunneling.
One of our big projects right now is a fully personalized custom feed algorithm in a “For You” style that only populates posts from Babesky verified creators. This feed is currently in its “beta” version and will continue to improve over time. Give it a try, & pin it to save it for later 💖
Discover Real NSFW
Feed by @babesky.comthis is an effective method of delivering hand-tailored propaganda to a billion people every day
Daphne Keller
Oh look. It's that thing @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social warned us about. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-a…
Finding real, quotable examples is key to my blog writing workflow. Because Google and the default web search produce a lot of junk, I use Exa, HackerNews, web search, what I've already written, and internal company docs to do this, and I recently added @semble.so to this stack.
opus 4.8's take on this (with creative direction from me)
brennan
I don't think I'm going to continue this one, but a prototype: calling gemini 3.1 flash voice to read everyone's tweets as radio announcers as you drive down a lonely desert highway further intention was to model the car interior so you can fully fidget with things; lights, the radio, etc etc
Every network starts centralized
mcc
I saw Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT box when I visited CERN and what blows my mind is the faded torn sticker saying "This machine is a server DO NOT POWER IT DOWN". There was some point in time that was the only web server on Earth. "Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"
Alana Purdy’s Husband ⁂
Bluesky
📢 v1.114 is rolling out! Today, we're expanding access to the Live Now beta to everyone. This experimental feature lets you add a temporary LIVE badge to your avatar, helping others discover that you're currently live-streaming on Twitch. They can click it to land directly on your stream page.
One thing I left out of my The Everything Account piece was a whole section on Bridgy Fed. Short version: As Bridgy Fed adds more lexicons, it makes the Atmosphere the most versatile and data-owning Fediverse instance in the open social web. Perhaps in a future piece 😉
Anuj Ahooja
I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:
