Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

No one could have predicted…

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

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  2. 2.

    Barbara

    Just sent a request.  If you don’t get it, please let me know.  I am not sure that the email I use is the one connected with my nym.

  4. 4.

    Alison Rose

    I wonder if we could do a FP post with everyone’s handles? Meaning FPers and commenters. We’ve had multiple threads where people have mentioned their handles but it would be great to have them all in one place. So like, we could either comment here or email you or WG or someone with our handle and then they could be compiled in a post? Don’t wanna create a lot of work for someone but if that’s feasible, it would be helpful.

    Anyway, I’m alisonrose over there and I also have invites.

  7. 7.

    fancycwabs

    I have a handful of invites just sitting there, so I can forward to you if you run out. (Also, changed my “website” on this post to my bluesky profile if anyone wants to follow).

  8. 8.

    dc

    When is Blue Sky going to be visible to outsiders? On Mastadon I read that Threads is testing whatever they have to do to make their accounts followable from Mastodon servers and vice versa. I don’t know the technical language to describe this. When is Blue Sky going to the same?

  14. 14.

    Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq)

    Confirming: the email address format is firstnamedashlastname? Not firstnamelastname?

  17. 17.

    Miss Bianca

    @Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq): Ha ha, you kept that as your nym, I love it! A glass of wine with you, sir!

    As to Bluesky, is that where everyone is migrating now? I do have a Twitter account, which I hardly ever access, and I do follow some BJ peeps there – in fact, that’s why I got it, in addition to the laughable notion that a local journalist would ever need it – but I’ve been waiting for it to go public, as it were.

    Maybe I need to rethink that idea…

  18. 18.

    Kelly

    I sent you 2 more codes to hand out. I sent them to Betty a few days ago. This seems like a good thread for them.

  19. 19.

    Ladyraxterinok

    Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, is my niece. Her middle name is the  Chinese word translated to English as Bluesky.

  21. 21.

    RaflW

    Just emailed three codes for David to add to his larder.

    I’m @ralfw.bsky.social

    eta: Uhoh, didn’t see that I maybe needed a dash between David’s first and last names.

  25. 25.

    Tenar Arha

    1) Hi, I’m datenar on  bsky dot social or DaTenar on mastodon dot coffee

    2) @Timill did you ever get that invite code I sent you? Your email bounced & it’s currently showing as unused. (I can get Water Girl to send it to you, like I did the others)

    3) @David Anderson:  do you want some more invite codes? Bc I got 2 or 3 extra right now

  27. 27.

    BeautifulPlumage

    I’ve been adding BJers to a list I have on Bluesky. I can share that via Bluesky. I do need to update it from this post first. I included Cheryl Rolfer & Imani Gandy as BJ Emeritus.

  34. 34.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Is former front pager DougJ posting or cross posting his “NY Times Pitchbot” at Bluesky or anywhere but Xitter? That account is pretty much the only reason I was on Xitter but I deleted the app from my phone although I find the posts hilarious it wasn’t enough to keep me going there.

  38. 38.

    Timill

    @Tenar Arha: I did not – GoDaddy decided to drop some of my mail on the floor, and then FLDOE decided we should change our systems on the 21st (College is closed from EOB on the 20th).

    It’s all fun here…

    And we got given a free kitten. One $2800 vet ER bill later..

    [edit: that was with the U of Tennessee – commercial would have been double.]

  39. 39.

    FlyingToaster

    I have a Feed* called Balloon Juice Jackals.  Click on Feeds — or # — and search for it.

    *Feeds are the equivalent of Xitter Lists.  Mine is hosted at BlueSkyFeeds, and hopefully shows 3 days of posts from all the Jackals I’ve identified.  I’ve bookmarked Alison Rose’s spreadsheet, so I’ll try to keep the feed up to date.

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    I’m dattaxpony on Bluesky. I went with that nym because it’s the one most of my friends outside y’all know me as, and unless something radical happens it’s staying like that.

  44. 44.

    Matt McIrvin

    @dc: yes, and there’s a lot of angst about it, with some people basically thinking of the coming of Threads federation as doomsday for Mastodon.

  45. 45.

    Doug R

    I finally got an email invite from Bluesky-let me know when Homers are allowed to read without signing in.

  46. 46.

    dc

    @Matt McIrvin: Instances that don’t want to have anything to do with Threads can just block it. I personally think it’s a good thing, so people on Mastodon who want to keep up with accounts that are on Threads and hopefully Blue Sky too can do so without having to have accounts everywhere.

  47. 47.

    MomDoc

    Hi! I missed the earlier discussion on here about BlueSky. I added my nym to the spreadsheet and I have some codes (4) available. Are we sending them somewhere to be distributed?

  48. 48.

    Ron

    The true alternative is Mastodon. You’re just helping another pro fascist, anti vax, rfk supporting billionaire get richer by moving to bluesky. How is he any better than musk?

  49. 49.

    stinger

    @MomDoc: Might people list their available codes on the spreadsheet? When someone uses a code, they should delete it, rather than copy it, so the list would stay up to date.

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    FlyingToaster (Tablet)

    @Ron: Jack Dorsey walked out when the Bluesky team told him he was wrong.  He still sits on the board, but they meet once quarterly.  So who are you referring to, exactly?

    Oh, right, you’re a troll.  Never mind.

  52. 52.

    TooManyJens

    @dc: Bluesky was planning to make everything readable without an account this month, but I think they ran into a snag. Theoretically it should be soon, though.

    As far as federating (which is what you’re talking about with Threads and Mastodon), Bluesky uses a different protocol. I think theirs is called AT and the other is ActivityPub? I don’t know a ton about it. AT is still under development. I’m guessing there will be some way to bridge between AT and ActivityPub servers, but I’d guess not for a while.

  54. 54.

    SteverinoCT

    Just pick someone that everyone wants to follow: Cole or a front pager, and everyone follow them.  That’s how I find other jackals. Just scroll down betty crackers list and if all put “jackal” in their profile, you can find and follow them right there.

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