Bluesky an' clear: the social media app that will definitely last forever

So if someone were to try to extract user data from this new service, would that be

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/MidnightOil_BlueSkyMining.jpg

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

what a world

abolitionism starts here

Bluesky: It died in Beta

"seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform."

Just joined 😂

ha i thought that would catch your eye.

leadership here is as sus as threads or twitter. like jack, they seem to share a lot of intellectual heritage with thiel, although i'm sure they'd deny it (60s bay area libertarianism, girard, etc.) but with burning man and shitposting (as an alibi for race wierdness) and some weird fash-adjacent stuff about nature.

grasscist

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 July 2023 19:17 (one hour ago) link

tbh this is very funny

dril's second skeet was good: "im going on a posting strike from here until the.y make every one not racist or whatever"

first post from someone other than that one poor SWE who had to ship the n-word regex. replies are good. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3k2izrg6k6o2j.

someone normal should make an app imo

first post from someone other than that one poor SWE who had to ship the n-word regex. replies are good. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3k2izrg6k6o2j🕸.

lmao the mods are being called out and people are snitch tagging the investors on ... linkedin!

no

i mean someone else can, but i can't be bothered to be honest. no offence. it's very silly.

its all fun and games til you bring the beef to linkedin

ahh brilliant, hide it where no one will look

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 14, 2023 3:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

'scuse me, while I diss bluesky.

Not a screenshot but: the post is from a bsky team technical advisor that says “Some of that Blue.” with a photo of a blue sky with which is just not remotely helpful.

To you, no. If you consider that some people reading might be colour-blind, though...

I almost went back to LiveJournal after seeing my posts from the 2000s and missing writing in paraphernalia, and then I found it was owned by Russians and…subject to Russian law.

(Also am in Bluesky and it feels like me and Albini and Parton Oswalt hanging out in a Delta Skylounge.)

Xp: ha well they did include an alt text so that’s good

TIL blueski was (probably) a pun

Holy SHIT you are not ready for this pic.twitter.com/1wMD4Jq9Kp

— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) July 14, 2023

Bluesguy

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, July 14, 2023 11:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

I joined ello but lord only knows when I was last on it or if the account still exists

i was @lebronjames on ello

in case anyone wants an invite code

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

both taken

I'm on there now as chants.bsky.social. Haven't found very many people to follow on there, idk.

"I joined ello but lord only knows when I was last on it or if the account still exists"

the app still exists, so I assume the network does (I think I wound up deleting it, but I would occasionaly open it up as recently as a year ago and see just random images). Confusingly Ello is also now the name of a more high profile reading app that has nothing to do with old Ello.

If anyone wants to follow me on there I’m matthewbalaam.bsky.social - I won’t post much except the odd link to a radioshow or gig probably.

bluesky cant hope to compete with twitter until they get video so you can watch the cop eat shit on the slide

Have atthem:

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Thanks!

thanks!

all taken (not by me, alas)

I’m on there, easy enough to find.

I've got to keep an eye out for the next invite dump!

Voilà

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Thanks!

welcome :)

if anybody needs one just DM me on slack or twitter, I've got 5

will do ASAP, I'm stuck somewhere else right now. are you easy to find on Twitter?

yeah I'm @smashedmcdouble

or I can just ilxmail you if yours works josh

that would be great, thanks! I am pretty sure my Gmail address is in my profile.

So jklein04 AT gmail.com. Thanks again! (Looks like I couldn't DM you on twitter if I wanted to without twitter blue)

I just used the ilxmail interface

we all just gotta move to tropical cities at 7000ft elevations

friend of mine is from bogota shes telling me because its at the equator and at elevation its basically just 65f every day of the year there are no seasons some months it rains more but its not a real monsoon or anything, sounds nice but also weird idk

theres no heating in kathamadu but it gets cold enough there in the winter that you might like some heat but maybe you dont really need it but still if you get cold it feels like theres no way to get warm

friend of mine is from bogota shes telling me because its at the equator and at elevation its basically just 65f every day of the year there are no seasons some months it rains more but its not a real monsoon or anything, sounds nice but also weird idk

My wife is from Medellin and she says it's kinda like that there, too, plus they have the shelter of being in a mountain valley. Just really nice weather all the time, no extremes.

i have a neighbour with a window unit which they're very pleased with but they never move it out of the window because it weighs approximately 5 million pounds so it just stays there all year

In our NJ apartment we had two window units that we never took down; we sealed them in there nice and tight with cardboard and duct tape. In fact, we left them there when we moved out for the next people to enjoy. But they were really only good enough to cool off the room they were in, so we also had a "portable" unit which we lugged up from the basement and plugged in during the "hot months" (which by the time we left was from about April to October) to cool the living room. When we ran all three at once, with all interior doors open, during June, July and August, the apartment could get very nice.

In the house we're currently renting, we have central air/heat. But we're at 3000 feet elevation where NJ was 20 feet above sea level, and we're in a valley surrounded by mountains, and the house is tucked away under tall trees, and we live by the shore of a huge lake, and it's been unseasonably cool and rainy (it's in the mid 50s to low 60s lately, and it's been raining a lot), so we've only had to turn the AC on a half dozen times this year.

The demented it thing about baked beans in America is that they're not vegetarian, unless you specially seek out a veggie version. Also the cans are twice the size of the UK.

Twice the size of the UK version, that is. Twice the size of the UK would be taking the piss even for gluttonous USA.

Ranch style beans are the best beans straight from the can.

Black beans are the very best after sprucing up.

feel like there's some generational vitriol directed england-ward that my gen didn't have

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, June 27, 2026 10:34 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

my little piece of anecdata on this is getting to know a gen z guy, gay even, and hearing him direct minor ire toward england on a somewhat regular basis. with my gen it was cool to be an anglophile.

i blame viral ragebait content meant to heighten the contrasts (read: narcissism of small differences) between ppl from anglophone countries, much more likely to be consumed by younger gens than, idk, the fuckin beatles or whatever

kinda waayyyyyy downstream of the general tendency of online media to prime ppl for fascism, like these people who are different from you are BAD and you are BETTER bc you belong to the GOOD GROUP, not saying its Actual Fascism or anything

tbf to the youth you'd have to be demented to develop anglophilia in the 21st century. harry potter probably the last possible portal for that and look what happened there

to be less fair, I can see both what m. bison is saying and a shitposting leftist version where "England" is eternally synonymous with colonialism & imperialism and nothing else (CaAAL already explained why this is actually reactionary)

transphobe swamp island?

I’m sorry, “ranch style beans”?

https://www.foodandwine.com/ranch-style-beans-11732411
you can buy them as a canned flavor, though

my first thought did go to "ranch dressing style beans"

my first thought did go to "ranch dressing style beans"

Me too, and it was a horrifying thought.

I had never had ranch dressing in a non-salad context until moving to Montana. It's not really a thing in New Jersey, especially not in the heavily Latino city I lived in for 30 years. But out here I get offered it all the time, and it tastes really good on onion rings.

Hahaha that is what I was thinking, along with “exactly how high would I need to be to eat beans steeped in ranch dressing”

I think it would be fine, washed down with a can of blueberry lemonade sparkling bone broth

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an acquaintance was telling me that his wife went on a work trip to several locations as part of a human resources training thing, and when her group ate at a restaurant in York, Nebraska the wait staff put two carafes down on the table before they ordered

the first was obviously a carafe of water for refilling their glasses. the second? a full carafe of ranch dressing

even as a self-identifying meathead i feel like all of these horrible new ways to consume protein are absurd and grotesque xp

i'm sure utah would be a ranch state too if it wasn't for fry sauce.

Boston baked beans are vile. It’s the overprocessed piece of pork belly fat floating in each can that gives me the boak. Assuming ranch beans are similar.

with my gen it was cool to be an anglophile.

― shaking babies (map^2), Monday, June 29, 2026 4:00 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i never approved of this behavior tbh

Boston baked beans are vile.

I couldn’t read the rest of this post due to the red haze that subsumed my vision while my brain screamed BLASPHEMY

i was a bit of a "tea-a-boo" when i was younger - grew up with doctor who and all that. i got on the internet fairly early - when i was '17, in '93... and being a fan of doctor who and pink floyd, i learned fairly quickly that people who actually had to _live_ in england were sometimes less than enthusiastic to hear idealistic teenagers who only knew about them from tv talk about how great their country was. for whatever reason i've found myself since then in a lot of spaces with heavy british representation (more than the internet at large, i mean). i've, uh, kind of disengaged with british culture since the corbyn thing... i am _not_ equipped to argue with anyone about the nuances of british anti-semitism. i know how grim america is now... from my perspective, britain has been that grim for a fucking decade now.

looking back i think my past anglophilia was also to some degree motivated by my family, who were of irish descent and thought of themselves as "irish". i was tired of hearing about the Troubles and the potato famine and Parnell and all that. well, my family don't think of themselves as irish now, and the actual irish people i know seem alright to me, even if some of them do seem to drink rather a lot.

the Irish on ilxor are a pretty good bunch

tbf the kids these days don’t concentrate on the country of origin of culture and get as weird. weebs still exist i guess. just not a lot of art with a sense of place that uses england specifically

The Trader Joe's ranch style cashews are great.

Ranch dressing is gross.

I see the specific strain of England hating coming from a Ron Swanson mentality.

The UK feels more Americanised every year and yet we don't have American products like Boston baked beans wtf

The app is asking me to do age verification. WTF, is anyone else getting this?

prob cause of a state law

yep me too, in Nicaragua

Ranch Style Beans have nothing to do with ranch dressing; in fact, they predate them by about 20 years.

9am: "I'm not going to mourn evil bigot Anne Widecombe, may she rot in hell"
4pm: "It's in very bad taste to make light of the potential murder of Anne Widecombe"

https://i.postimg.cc/L6Jv5Lt9/image.png

All Murders Matter

Posters coming back to clarify their position on bludgeoning is very funny tho

all power to the Onion for buying Infowars but I think I'm going to have to mute "infowars' because half my feed is just people reposting Tim Heidecker stuff which I find profoundly unfunny and annoying

I appreciate that he is out there but his general brand of humor is nails on a chalkboard.

my mute list shall forever remain secret