Mr Blue Sky
A question is asked and answered:
Highly neurotic, antagonistic, passive-aggressive. Borderline. https://t.co/xFEKa2jooG
— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨💻 (@JDHaltigan) May 24, 2026
Bluesky is, it has to be said, a strange, unhappy place. One where everything, but everything, is fraught, problematic and seething with complication.
Including grilled cheese sandwiches and the paranormal:
Readers may recall previous mentions of the platform as a favoured watering hole for those who demand the pre-emptive deletion of untoward thoughts:
Got banned from BIuesky within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact pic.twitter.com/uxQzPVn2SR
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 17, 2024
People so immensely progressive that they are enraged by even polite statements of fact. Such that, in response to polite statements of fact, they issue repeated, quite colourful death threats and publicly share the polite person’s home address, including photos of his front door and directions to the nearest subway station.
One might almost appreciate the attention to detail.
People so immensely progressive that they then complain that the person being threatened, by them, has taken screenshots of said threats. Because, in the world of the immensely progressive, that constitutes harassment, the “doxing” of trans people, and indeed “trying to have them killed.” By simply quoting their own words.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I don’t even know what to call that.
I was trying to find a clip from – I think – Channel 4 News, in which the reporter claimed that Bluesky is more welcoming than X, and more politically “diverse.”
Possible motive discerned.
A detailed account of the, um, exchange can be found here.
It is, needless to say, a bit of a rabbit hole.
The sun is shining in the sky
There ain’t a cloud in sight… 🎵
Current, um, vibe:
As I believe the switched-on kids say.
[ Feels self tanning, heads back indoors. ]
This banning those who present unwelcome facts reminds me of Charles Johnson of LGF, who was doing it 20 years ago. I wonder if he and his lackeys are BlueSky moderators.
Don’t fear that big yellow thing in the sky. Its rays are good for you.
If I want to be exposed to atomic radiation, I can get that in the lab.
31 chuffing degrees.
[ Muttering. ]
That reminds me: You haven’t mentioned the lab lately. What evil projects are in the works?
You’re going to need more than one gin and tonic.
The lamentations of a downtrodden immigrant:
She seems more like a hostile invader and parasite than a future proud Australian. Ship her home now, with four hours warning.
Notice the backhanded, revealing admission that “words have meaning” is considered a transphobic sentiment.
Still pondering a mind in which this is felt necessary:
Not only felt necessary but also in no way odd.
Bluesy? They should call the site Drain. It’s where all the drips end up.
Looks like sunlight, in what country was that taken?
Meanwhile, just an ordinary prom though TBF the MRAP is appropriate for location.
It’s a trap that never gets cleaned, to extend the metaphor.
Has it worked?
Asking for a friend.
So . . . new bar snacks in the pipeline?
Lemonade is your friend.
Heh. I’ll allow that.
I quite like Blue Hair, as some have dubbed it.
Also, “Bluesky isn’t a bubble. It’s a toxic containment dome.“
And as someone quips in the YouTube comments,
Also,
Also, the phrase tightening purity spiral.
Do wood-chippers have variable speed settings?
The hair-trigger suppression of references to reality was quite something, as seen above, but what struck me when I first poked a nose in the door of Bluesky was what wasn’t being removed or meeting with any discernible disapproval.
It’s a platform on which wishing violent death on entirely law-abiding people is commonplace and expressed in some detail, with numerous illustrations and the sharing of lengthy “wish lists” to that effect, and where you can search “minor-attracted” and find the term cropping up, repeatedly, quite proudly, in the bios of people called, for instance, “Childlover.”
Clearly, a blueprint of progressive utopia.
A graduate of the Willie Sutton Learing Center.
Oh no. I just got banned for three days from Reddit. Because I answered this question “How do I stop thieves from wanting to steal my stuff?” with “Shoot them.”
All the other answers were about hiding, your things and/or yourself.
I always thought I should be hanging out with the tough kids.
[ Buys leather jacket, takes up smoking. ]
It is because of people so immensely progressive that I stand in front of the mirror practising the look of disdain as perfected by Dame Maggie Smith. When confronted by said immensely progressives I can look at them in disdain before uttering the immortal words “Oh do fuck off”.
Not for nothing is the site referred to as blukake by my Japanese friends.
Originally promoted as a “safe space” from Twitter after Elon Musk bought it and allowed all the previously banned people back in, the creators of Blue Sky fancied their audience to be smarter, more educated, morally superior, better people than the rabble over on Twitter.
The reality is that those people were narcissists who considered themselves to be better than other people. They were emotionally fragile, hypersensitive, and they over reacted to even the slightest disagreement.
Not surprisingly, when you fill your environment with people who all believe that “words are violence”, all that entitles them to respond with violence, it takes is one disagreement to turn the entire environment into a cascade of violence.
And that doesn’t even include the fact that so many sexual perverts joined the platform that even the administrators of the platform had to put a warning in the signup screen that paedophile and child molestation was not permitted. It’s funny that Twitter, Facebook, and other social media never had that problem, isn’t it?
Don’t forget your scarf and mittens.
This. It’s the Chomsky thing again. He’s a much bigger problem than Soros but mention him to most conservatives and crickets. We used to at least have William Safire, though it wouldn’t surprise me if he would have developed TDS. Not sure who on the right has filled that role.
And in “ways of knowing” news.
More deep, deep wisdom from the not-at-all racist ladies on Bluesky:
Ms Prendergast is, inevitably, an educator. Paid to teach the unworldly.
Again, if sociology were a credible field and not itself ideologically captured, this is the kind of phenomenon that you’d think might be of interest. Maybe a study or two, a little interrogation.
As they say.
Not today, thanks.
And, lo, there shall be a great rending of clothes
And a great shedding of wigs
And a great flailing of hands
And a great sounding of horns
And onlookers shall gather amazed
Whether we should put any faith in her, white, thinking surprisingly unaddressed.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/24/angus-taylor-welfare-citizenship-migrants-immigrants-giving-up-home-ntwnfb
A lot of misdirection in that article, but the takeaway point seems to be that Australia has an immigration and citizenship system that ticks the liberal boxes in giving welfare to foreigners after a short waiting period, and in encouraging those foreigners along a path to citizenship that gives them all the rights and amenities of the descendants of the 1788 fleet, and that forbids historic Australians to prefer their own people. Or the takeaway point is that Australians are vile xenophobes.
She jumped the gun on a four year waiting period for Australians to subsidize the breeding of permanent residents, and she chooses not to become an Australian citizen because the Indian authorities, not the Australians, would require her in that case to renounce her Indian citizenship.
So because India has a nonliberal citizenship policy, disbelieving claims of multiple allegiance; and because Indian immigrants to Australia have a nonliberal insistence on holding on to the connections and commitments they were born with, the great liberal newspaper concludes that the liberal Australians aren’t liberal enough in accommodating and funding the entry, multiplication, and continuing foreign entanglements of these nonliberal people.
For those preparing for today’s picnics and such, don’t forget the potato salad. It’s solid! Don’t forget the mayo. Plenty of mayo.
But, but, all my pagan friends assured me that voodoo has nothing to do with casting spells to harm people! Gosh, could they have been lying? /sarcasm
[ Their propensity to lie is one reason I no longer have any contact with them. ]
If you are a liberal, we cannot trust anything you say.
The cheese sammich thing, the “words have meaning” quip, might be sarcasm, because the general tenor of the thread seems playful.
But such an exception by no means negates the unhappy rule that bluesky is more Cluster B than not, and they should all stay over there.
DARVO.
It’s called DARVO. It’s a giant red flag for Cluster B.
Yeah, I got purged back in the day, which is a pity, because I scored my best one-liner there. He’d posted an article about a kerfuffle in a U.K. school lunch room where a kid had brought a ham sammich in a brown bag and certain kids were offended.
“So are we finally going to get a ham sandwich indicted?” or something.
It’s been all downhill since.
On Reddit, it’s perfectly OK, in fact, practically expected, that you will hope for the violent demise of various well-known persons. Even in very graphic terms. Even directly wishing someone would just DO SOMETHING like that.
But suggesting with blunt language how to deter thieves is Streng Verboten.
Their policy is like the folks who think hunting and fishing are icky, but buy their plastic-wrapped meat and fish at Safeway.
Jurassic World on a budget
Which is a clue to Charles’ character, given that your don’t exactly have a reputation for insulting and trollish behavior. But even the most hyper-low-key, ultra-emperical person could get purged for deviating from the Party Line.
And an excellent one-liner that was.
By the time I got purged I was already drifting away in reaction to Charles’ descent into libtardery.
She is a queen! A queen!
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