ahh brilliant, hide it where no one will look
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 July 2023 21:36 (two years ago)
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.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 14 July 2023 21:39 (two years ago)
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.
― KPH, Friday, 14 July 2023 21:39 (two years ago)
To you, no. If you consider that some people reading might be colour-blind, though...
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 14 July 2023 21:42 (two years ago)
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.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2023 21:51 (two years ago)
(Also am in Bluesky and it feels like me and Albini and Parton Oswalt hanging out in a Delta Skylounge.)
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2023 21:52 (two years ago)
Xp: ha well they did include an alt text so that’s good
― KPH, Friday, 14 July 2023 21:55 (two years ago)
TIL blueski was (probably) a pun
― or something, Friday, 14 July 2023 23:16 (two years ago)
Holy SHIT you are not ready for this pic.twitter.com/1wMD4Jq9Kp— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) July 14, 2023
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:47 (two years ago)
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
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 15 July 2023 13:36 (two years ago)
i was @lebronjames on ello
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 July 2023 14:07 (two years ago)
in case anyone wants an invite code
bsky-social-ufxqd-dszmobsky-social-2biwx-cqxgy
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:46 (one year ago)
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:54 (one year ago)
both taken
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:01 (one year ago)
I'm on there now as chants.bsky.social. Haven't found very many people to follow on there, idk.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:04 (one year ago)
"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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:05 (one year ago)
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.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 08:11 (one year ago)
bluesky cant hope to compete with twitter until they get video so you can watch the cop eat shit on the slide
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 00:48 (one year ago)
Have atthem:
bsky-social-w77g6-ysjchbsky-social-zsizl-emv5ibsky-social-efm3v-h6eehbsky-social-7ch5w-6blgf
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 3 August 2023 06:42 (one year ago)
Thanks!
― Roz, Thursday, 3 August 2023 07:07 (one year ago)
thanks!
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 3 August 2023 07:33 (one year ago)
all taken (not by me, alas)
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Thursday, 3 August 2023 09:46 (one year ago)
I’m on there, easy enough to find.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 August 2023 12:49 (one year ago)
I've got to keep an eye out for the next invite dump!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 12:50 (one year ago)
Voilà
bsky-social-jl33a-obpxgbsky-social-q5c6l-q6owc
― rob, Thursday, 3 August 2023 12:57 (one year ago)
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Thursday, 3 August 2023 13:02 (one year ago)
welcome :)
― rob, Thursday, 3 August 2023 13:09 (one year ago)
if anybody needs one just DM me on slack or twitter, I've got 5
― 龜, Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:42 (one year ago)
will do ASAP, I'm stuck somewhere else right now. are you easy to find on Twitter?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:49 (one year ago)
yeah I'm @smashedmcdouble
or I can just ilxmail you if yours works josh
― 龜, Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:07 (one year ago)
that would be great, thanks! I am pretty sure my Gmail address is in my profile.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:37 (one year ago)
So jklein04 AT gmail.com. Thanks again! (Looks like I couldn't DM you on twitter if I wanted to without twitter blue)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:57 (one year ago)
I just used the ilxmail interface
― 龜, Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:57 (one year ago)
Got it, thanks! Will start porting over twitter peeps and whatnot later today. Now I need to figure out how to change my ilxmail, lol.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:42 (one year ago)
yeah i don't want to post mine here because you're nominally repsonsible for who you invite and people get banned if their invites misbehave but i have a few. ilxmail me if you need one.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:53 (one year ago)
I'm not even sure how my ilxmail works. Is that just the address I used to originally sign up/register? My login ID? How do I change that without re-registering?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:22 (one year ago)
https://ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/editprofile.jsp ?
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:42 (one year ago)
No, that didn't do it. When I send an email (to myself) through that portal, by clicking on my screen name, it just sends to my original login ID, which is an old email address. But when I try to change that old login address to a new login address, my current email, it logs me out, because it no longer matches the one associated with the password. Hmm.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:48 (one year ago)
who do we follow on bluesky?
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 August 2023 07:23 (one year ago)
everybody cool follows tracerhand iirc
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 August 2023 00:30 (one year ago)
thats right
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 August 2023 01:08 (one year ago)
I'm not nominally responsible enough to give a fuck about this platform or any of the people on it, anything online where you need invites to access it is for wankers, apart from private torrent sites - I don't make the rules.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 5 August 2023 01:44 (one year ago)
I'd never lower myself to ask for a fucking invite code and then get precious about who you are going to give them to. Ohh can't have any riff raff here. It's a site for snobby supercilious wankers - lol, even worse than this one!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 5 August 2023 01:51 (one year ago)
aww
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 August 2023 02:15 (one year ago)
Haha, funny posts. To be fair to them though, it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of infrastructure for a site like Twitter/Bluesky to run – as it is whenever there is a flood of new people the site starts to stop loading posts etc.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 5 August 2023 08:22 (one year ago)
Yeah, it is notably sluggish at the best of times.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 5 August 2023 12:13 (one year ago)
Lotta placeholder accounts there right now with virtually no activity (including Tracer's, lol). I often can't tell if they are squatters trying to steal/scam the handle or legit mirrors of their twitter accounts.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:43 (one year ago)
I don't know anything about this app other than I agree it is pronounced like brewski
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:48 (one year ago)
i'm still trying to "find my voice" josh
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 August 2023 15:58 (one year ago)
also need to settle on my bio, something like "Flâneur. Appreciator of gin. #fuck2017."
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 August 2023 16:02 (one year ago)
fuck off, my humiliation kink is leftist praxis
hahahaha
(i might be misreading tone, just to be sure, my post was not directed @ u at all kate)
― petey, pablo & mary (m bison), Tuesday, 24 June 2025 02:08 (one month ago)
I wish you could mute/block accounts based on having a blue wave emoji in their profile, then it would be perfect.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 24 June 2025 03:25 (one month ago)
using a social media platform like Twitter/Bluesky during a televised sporting event that many people are watching is one of the truly great uses of a platform like this ... *if* there are enough sports people on it.
if Bluesky is doing something to keep sports fans away, that's a mistake. they should be actively courting the leagues, writers/personalities, meme accounts, etc.
i guarantee you there are millions of people who would like to bail on Twitter but don't because of the sports presence.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 03:43 (one month ago)
many xposts
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 03:44 (one month ago)
also, please please please let us turn off retweets from individuals
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 03:45 (one month ago)
hahahaha(i might be misreading tone, just to be sure, my post was not directed @ u at all kate)― petey, pablo & mary (m bison)
― petey, pablo & mary (m bison)
nah, you got it, that was mock-outrage :)
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 24 June 2025 07:16 (one month ago)
yes yes
― Ste, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 10:42 (one month ago)
I hate it here
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/bluesky-is-adding-age-verification-features-for-users-in-the-uk-195753332.html
― from…Peru? (gyac), Thursday, 10 July 2025 21:40 (two weeks ago)
It's not just Bluesky of course
― Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 July 2025 21:47 (two weeks ago)
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 11 July 2025 19:00 (two weeks ago)
lol
I’m on Bluesky, because I simply have to post. It’s okay over there, though I have determined I am too earnest for Twitter and too cynical for Bluesky, and thus am looking for a secret third microblogging platform. Right now I like to post innocuous opinions about extremely popular old bands, or super vague opinions about music in general, just because the Bluesky folks seem to love that kind of thing. I’ll say “you know who really rocked? THE BEATLES” and get 20 replies being like “yes! Have you heard ‘Yellow Submarine’?”
― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 July 2025 14:22 (one week ago)
she has a blog titled "i enjoy music"? get outta here!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 23 July 2025 14:27 (one week ago)
https://bsky.app/profile/adapalmer.bsky.social/post/3lut4ksrv722y
"I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining."
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A bit like twitter, this, so I might post there more often now.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 July 2025 15:05 (four days ago)
"Historian here!"
― LocalGarda, Saturday, 26 July 2025 16:50 (four days ago)
From the academy of life, pal. School of hard knocks.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 July 2025 16:51 (four days ago)
Ancient Rome fell because they didn’t cook at home
― Black Sabaoth (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 26 July 2025 16:59 (four days ago)
probably cos a long time ago someone who loves lowercase lo-tech txt only websites grabbed the name she wanted to use.
― mark e, Saturday, 26 July 2025 17:01 (four days ago)
"Historian here!"you forgot the 👋
― jaymc, Saturday, 26 July 2025 17:21 (four days ago)
the food discourse is heating up
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 27 July 2025 04:46 (three days ago)
"this is your periodic historian reminder that..." AAAAARGH!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 28 July 2025 23:38 (two days ago)
I feel the same way about anything using the phrase "five-alarm fire"
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 15:42 (yesterday)