📢 App Version 1.60 is rolling out now (1/5)
We have a new logo! 🦋
Bluesky is emerging from its cocoon of clouds to transform into a social butterfly. Read more about why we chose this logo here: blueskyweb.xyz/blog/12-21-2...
lots of trick-or-treaters this year but luckily we had enough candy.
one house in our neighborhood gave out packs of pokémon cards and the kids looked like they’d won the lottery
Speaking of Britney Spears, I don’t think we’ve fully vanquished the demon that is Perez Hilton. He’s often harassing young women influencers on TikTok now in a fashion similar to the way he used to go after women in the early 2000s!
Housing people is cheaper than treating the effects of people being unhoused
Free school lunches are cheaper than the consequences of children being hungry
Free medical care is cheaper than the costs of people being sick
Universal Basic Income increases productivity and makes people happy
So weird how as soon as the pandemic started it became very immediately clear that things like socialized medicine and giving people money so children don’t starve actually work really well but now that it’s been a couple years we have to all pretend we didn’t notice that
We're rolling out email verification in the latest Bluesky app release (1.52), as part of a larger effort to improve account security and authentication on the network.
Update and verify your email in Settings. In the coming days, you'll also receive an in-app prompt to verify your email.
Foundation as a show is a fun mix of nerdy AND horny, especially season 2.
Need more mutuals to start watching this and appreciate the many clones of Lee Pace with me
I borrowed a vampire BL manga from the library recently and it was fully uncensored 🫨 had no idea tokyopop was doing that for the english market but hoping it continues
Lately, + and - stopped working as well, which means the only way to do advanced searching is with double quotes. My students are very unhappy about these changes.
BREAKING: Disney VFX workers have voted unanimously to unionize with IATSE.
They become the second ever VFX team to form a union.
Marvel workers won their union just last month.
📢 1.51 (cont.)
• Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!
📢 1.51 (cont.)
• Only show replies from people you follow by toggling on Settings > Home Feed Preferences > Reply Filters > Followed Users Only.
• Control the sort order of replies via Settings > Thread Preferences: oldest, newest, most-liked, or random!
📢 Version 1.51 has a bunch of big updates!
• The icon for the feeds tab is now a hashtag, and the tab lists saved feeds and suggests new feeds.
• On Web desktop, your pinned feeds are now in the right sidebar.
(We're working on hashtags too, so consider this a teaser!)
Absolutely imperative that everyone make a plan starting now to attend a minimum of 3 school board and/or library board meeting in 2024 in your locality. Reading banned books is nice but that's not going to reverse anything happening. Be present, get others to join you.
