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Jason G. Butterfield

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Fueled by coffee, guided by logic, sustained by sarcasm. Stoic humanist, vet, dev, and indie author trying to make sense of the noise. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ally. He/Him. 🍁 Working on: https://byline.app Find my stuff: https://linktr.ee/JasonButterfield

The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchSep 1, 2026
The Turing Collapse
When we can no longer tell who's real online
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The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchAug 29, 2026
Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language.
What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership
writingjourney
The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchAug 14, 2026
Bluesky Is Flat. Fine. Look Under the Hood.
Monthly active users are useful. They’re just not enough to measure the Atmosphere.
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The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchJun 28, 2026
Why I Built Byline.pub
Owning Your Books Beyond One Website
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journeyat-protocol
The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchJun 23, 2026
The importer: WXR, dry-run, idempotency, and why slugs are sacred
A practical guide to migrating WordPress content to an AT Protocol PDS
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The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchJun 16, 2026
Why AT Protocol, and Where WordPress Ran Out of Road
The architecture call behind the rebuild: what a decade on a CMS taught me, and what I'm betting on instead.
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The Butterfield Dispatch
The Butterfield DispatchJun 14, 2026
Thirty Years Online, and I Never Owned the Ground
From Windows 95 to the AT Protocol, and why this is the last time I rebuild this site (at least the backend).
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Jason Butterfield
Jason ButterfieldJun 6, 2026
The Win Was Never Bluesky. It Was the Protocol.
The better question is whether we can stop rebuilding the same landlord model with a different logo on the door. Right now, our social graphs are corporate hostage files. One model lets you leave a platform and take your world with you; the other forces you to download your history as a static zip file and start over from zero.
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Jason Butterfield
Jason ButterfieldMay 24, 2026
Testing a Plugin by Writing About Not Knowing What to Write About
There’s something beautifully recursive about installing a publishing plugin… then immediately not knowing what to publish with it.
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Jasonbu
JasonbuMay 10, 2026
Behind the Pages of Pejorative: With the Author
Every story starts with a spark. For Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation, that spark was a question I asked on my blog, just a few “what if” scenarios about Alberta leaving Canada. At the time, it felt like speculative fiction. But the more I followed the rhetoric, the clearer it became that the lines between reality and fiction were blurring. What started as a thought experiment grew into something much deeper, a layered story about propaganda, memory, and the quiet erasure of national identity. In ...
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Jason Butterfield
Jason ButterfieldApr 3, 2026
The Gander Passport: Why a Sovereign Node Beats a Digital Bunker
Why is Gander connected to Bluesky, and why should you care? Explore the architectural shift of the AT Protocol and how Wingspan is building a "Third Way" for Canadian data residency. This is an early adopter’s take on the infrastructure required for true digital land back and the end of vendor lock-in for the human experience.
BlogDigital Sovereignty
Jason Butterfield
Jason ButterfieldFeb 20, 2026
Gander Social Community Based New User Guide
This is a community-created guide, not official, not corporate, just here to help new folks get oriented and get comfortable faster. Gander Social is a Canadian-built social platform focused on Canadian conversation, civic literacy, and community-first interaction. It is currently in a closed BETA.
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