utzbooks.bsky.social
Opened this account so I could follow ALL the starter packs that kinda interest me. I hope at least most of you are as cool as you seem.
(I’m also @gilibug.bsky.social)
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Phone, phone in the range (of free wifi)
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I have a freezer drawer devoted to ice packs for this. (Though I don’t strap them. They’re bean bags, the weight keeps them in place)
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‘Tis the season!
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The mix of people I know IRL to people I don’t know is off-balance. I’m happy to make new friends, but here I feel like I’ve walked into a mass event where I know almost no one.
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To be quite honest, I am following too many accounts here. And though they all came from bookish starter packs, there are too many for me to get a sense of individual identity and continuity: it’s just an endless patter of disparate posts, even if most of them are bookish.
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Well yes, but what I’m comparing in this thread isn’t X vs Bluesky but two different approaches to starting an account in Bluesky. The primary account I’m referring to is @gilibug.bsky.social
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To be honest, I’m surprised to get any response at all here. Hi, Hayley! 👋🏼
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I’ve never had a post on the primary account, or indeed on the old Twitter, get as many likes as this account got for the post about my header photograph being a miniature and not a real library.
And yet… despite the impressive numbers, this account lacks human connection. It’s socially sterile.
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And I have a bunch of followers on this account alone. The numbers went up so fast, I thought the followers here might surpass those on my primary account, but then someone put my primary account on a popular starter pack and my followers there doubled overnight…
I had one big, viral post here. >
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DEFYING GRAVITY
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IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES by Katherine Rundell
THE THIEF series by Megan Whalen Turner
MARS EVACUEES and SPACE HOSTAGES by Sophia McDougal
The Northern Lights trilogy by Philip Pullman
The Shadowhunter books by Cassandra Clare
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Oh wow, so REALLY tiny! And that’s a lot of work. But they grow out of that phase fast.
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Looks barely 2 months old - 6 or 7 weeks? I’m glad he found a home. He’ll be lording it over her in no time.
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So smol! Is Ms Milly ready for a new companion?
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Oyster = The English bloke trying to get your attention.
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No one being able to read his comments meant no one rushing to my defense, either. And there’s some entertainment value there. But it also meant that the original thread was able to continue on-topic, instead of being derailed by this jerk.
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Takes a bit of getting used to. The other day I blocked someone for being a male chauvinist who randomly inserted himself in a convo he hadn’t bothered to read, then doubled down. I realized that on Twitter the thread would have turned to roasting and shaming him, which has its appeal… but is toxic.
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It stops pile-ons before they begin.
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Both
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I have had one of those (Onion, Mince and Gravy) from the pie stall at Stokesley farmers market
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I covet the tins