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Alan Farago

@alanfarago.bsky.social

Writer, environmental activist. Grandfather.

created February 10, 2024

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Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Nate , who?

2/9/2025, 2:30:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

And where is the House Oversight Committee on this?

2/9/2025, 2:25:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Press: where is Joe Biden?

2/9/2025, 2:24:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Beyond pathetic.

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2/9/2025, 1:51:00 PM | 1727 624 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted

No, russia is.

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2/9/2025, 1:51:33 PM | 211 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

And what relief is being ordered to victims?

2/9/2025, 1:32:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Trump did this.

2/9/2025, 1:28:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Whoever threw a trash bag from the 2nd floor did not want its contents going out the 1st floor.

1/9/2025, 9:12:09 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Has Trump responded to the claim that Putin jammed the electronics of a plane carrying the president of the EU, forcing a landing? Doesn’t Trump want to get on the right side of condemnation?

1/9/2025, 9:09:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 4:30:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted

What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:

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1/9/2025, 12:09:31 PM | 2912 832 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t even …

1/9/2025, 3:33:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

So he won’t be replacing the Village People?

1/9/2025, 3:26:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is unifying China, India and Russia against us at the same time he is persecuting his domestic enemies. What a catastrophe.

1/9/2025, 1:41:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder if he went to bed thinking of Rudy Giuliani dying alone on the side of a road.

1/9/2025, 12:26:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) reposted

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?

1/9/2025, 4:28:01 AM | 4146 1358 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

True. GOP voters need to answer that question.

1/9/2025, 12:23:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

So Trump drove India, China and Russia together while at the same time he broke our leadership of the free world. Great work by Republican voters.

1/9/2025, 10:42:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karen Pickell (@karenpickell.bsky.social) reposted

"That’s nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money, at least, that may as well have been burned to ashes. In fact, Ron DeSantis and his enablers actually would have done a lot less harm—to people, to the environment, to the rule of law—if they had simply set the cash on fire." #Florida

31/8/2025, 6:12:23 PM | 148 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Agree. But this is how Trump “thinks”.

31/8/2025, 4:12:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Here’s Trump’s “deal”: Russia gets Ukraine. China gets Taiwan. US gets Venezuela and Cuba. Prove me wrong. @jfallows.bsky.social

31/8/2025, 4:05:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

30/8/2025, 4:18:58 PM | 10514 4261 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Two weeks is up?

30/8/2025, 8:18:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 (@alcappuccinoit.bsky.social) reposted

We went from modern science to medicine wagon in 7 months.

30/8/2025, 3:19:27 PM | 2672 509 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump lied. Say it.

30/8/2025, 7:46:07 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) reposted

Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill

30/8/2025, 2:24:07 PM | 5278 1041 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hertling (@markhertling.bsky.social) reposted

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

30/8/2025, 11:44:49 AM | 22003 6297 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

In a cone of silence meeting with the Roberts majority.

30/8/2025, 12:21:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Settle down. He’s just meeting with the Roberts majority in a Faraday cage.

30/8/2025, 12:02:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 11:59:41 AM | 15954 3096 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he in a Faraday cage meeting with the Roberts majority??

30/8/2025, 11:39:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Is he meeting the Roberts majority in a Faraday cage?

30/8/2025, 11:31:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Is he meeting with the USSC majority in the Cone Of Silence?

30/8/2025, 11:27:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Someone call Walter Reed.

30/8/2025, 11:16:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Someone call Walter Reed.

30/8/2025, 1:05:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

34 x convicted felon who triggered an insurrection is reelected president and implements radical tariffs now judged illegal. I'm shocked.

30/8/2025, 12:25:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides rigging elections for the GOP, building a White House ballroom on hallowed ground, grifting crypto, wrecking the economy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, a mass murderer, is Trump doing ANYTHING positive for the American people?

29/8/2025, 10:20:18 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides rigging elections, building a ballroom on hallowed WH ground, grifting crypto, wrecking the economy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, a mass murderer, has Trump done ANYTHING positive for the American people?

29/8/2025, 10:14:56 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides rigging elections, building a ballroom on hallowed WH ground, grifting crypto, wrecking the economy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, a mass murderer, is Trump doing ANYTHING?

29/8/2025, 10:10:10 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides rigging elections, building a ballroom on hallowed WH ground, grifting crypto, wrecking the economy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, a mass murderer, is Trump doing ANYTHING?

29/8/2025, 10:09:32 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides rigging elections, building a ballroom on hallowed WH ground, grifting crypto, wrecking the economy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, a mass murderer, is Trump doing ANYTHING?

29/8/2025, 10:08:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Besides rigging elections, destroying the economy, and rolling out the red carpet for mass murderer Putin, is Trump doing anything? Anything at all?

29/8/2025, 10:07:09 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

And just at the moment where the flames of inflation are licking at US consumers … No wonder the price of gold is going haywire.

29/8/2025, 10:05:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Everything is broken: that is the point of Trump MAGA.

29/8/2025, 10:00:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

So … Trump wrecked our international prestige and our economy for … nothing?

29/8/2025, 9:49:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

So Trump wrecked our economy and international prestige for … nothing.

29/8/2025, 9:49:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh. So Trump wrecked our economy and international prestige for … nothing.

29/8/2025, 9:48:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh. So Trump MAGA wrecked our economy for … nothing. I get it now.

29/8/2025, 9:48:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Oh. So Trump Republicans wrecked our economy for nothing. I get it now.

29/8/2025, 9:47:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Cruelty is the point.

29/8/2025, 8:00:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Food prices already rising sharply. Restaurants closing in record numbers. The Trump GOP economy is catastrophic.

29/8/2025, 7:53:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 4:46:30 PM | 14673 5798 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

A question to ask the WH: a few weeks ago Trump said that Japan would invest $500 billion in the US. Is that true now? Was it true then, or, did Trump lie? @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social @foxnewspolitics.bsky.social

29/8/2025, 5:49:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

You don’t say. Prices already hugely higher. Trump GOP economy is catastrophic.

29/8/2025, 5:01:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Time for her to clip her coupons.

29/8/2025, 3:39:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?

29/8/2025, 3:29:31 PM | 4104 647 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

A study of the psychopathology of JD Vance. One year ago, America was a hellhole. After he was sworn in, America is a paradise, and anyone criticizing it should be attacked. Over that year, conditions in the US have deteriorated by all objective measures. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

29/8/2025, 3:23:49 PM | 19 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Literally EVERYONE could see that coming.

29/8/2025, 2:30:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Does that standard apply to presidents who have been convicted of 34 felonies?

29/8/2025, 2:28:31 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Whatever you think of Gavin Newsom as a governor, as cleanup hitter for the DEMS he’s knocking the cover off the ball.

29/8/2025, 1:18:45 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

But political leaders: food production and life services provided by the environment required for 9 billion people will be unaffected. Madness.

29/8/2025, 1:17:01 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. Right.

29/8/2025, 2:38:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Did Trump stop the war in Ukraine yet? Did Mexico pay for the wall? Do you think the Trump inflation prices of groceries you buy weekly is already above or below 5% this year?

29/8/2025, 12:39:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, voted to confirm anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. as health secretary because Cassidy thinks his re-election is more important than whether children die of measles or are crippled by polio.

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28/8/2025, 10:37:06 PM | 1099 352 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

MIAMI (AP) - Judge won't halt closure of 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. @apnews.com

28/8/2025, 1:53:00 PM | 2636 525 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted

The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.

28/8/2025, 7:21:17 PM | 1438 439 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Is Japan still going to invest $500 million in Trump?😎

28/8/2025, 8:09:29 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted

I don't want to live in a country where 10-year-olds are on the news talking about how their friends saved them by lying on top of them during a shooter incident... and got shot. Thanks, GOPNRA.

28/8/2025, 1:06:00 AM | 4438 981 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lori (@loribedell.bsky.social) reposted

Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?

28/8/2025, 12:10:58 PM | 9583 2066 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

F'ing incredible.

28/8/2025, 2:32:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Social media brought the fringe into the center of the public square and US politics. As a result, we live in a simulacrum of fact and expertise. The grifters and charlatans waltzed right in like bank robbers. Our analog generation should NEVER have allowed this to happen... so much for THAT.

28/8/2025, 2:30:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Social media is the immediate cause; bringing the far right from the fringe into the center of the public square and US politics. As a result, we live in a simulacrum of fact and expertise. The grifters and charlatans waltzed right into power. A wise people would NEVER have allowed this to happen.

28/8/2025, 2:17:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Trump said he’d stop the war in Ukraine with a phone call to Putin, 24 hours after being elected. Then, nine months later, he gave Putin two more weeks. The two weeks are up. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

28/8/2025, 12:33:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) reposted

It just absolutely blows that RFK Jr. looked at this and said, no that’s not bad enough, we can do worse

Average life expectancy of the US versus other rich nations. We spend more and live shorter.
28/8/2025, 12:50:18 AM | 493 174 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything in the US is suddenly much more expensive.

28/8/2025, 1:38:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

And everything is expensive. A lot more expensive.

28/8/2025, 1:04:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Mitchell Merritt (@modalbluesky.bsky.social) reposted

Truth… Fox needs to be taken off of the air. They are the enabler that is brainwashing Americans and destroying our country by pandering to their fears… www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-...

27/8/2025, 4:57:52 PM | 2864 774 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) reposted

This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out

27/8/2025, 4:25:28 PM | 3551 625 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Elect clowns, expect circus. @heathercoxrichardson Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

27/8/2025, 6:30:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Recession already here. Trump economy is a disaster.

27/8/2025, 3:38:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly, it looks and feels like a Great Recession already.

27/8/2025, 3:37:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kimberley Johnson (@kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social) reposted

Funny how the big bruise has been on his hand for months but no mark was on his ear days after the PA thingy.

26/8/2025, 8:11:04 PM | 3278 701 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

They want to help the country the way Roy Cohn “helped” the country.

26/8/2025, 6:32:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA Republicans: you did this.

26/8/2025, 6:31:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted

Yay, socialism. 😒

25/8/2025, 10:44:23 PM | 138 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted

The FBI just scrapped its decades-old bachelor’s degree requirement for recruits—and slashed academy training from 18 weeks to 8. What could go wrong? www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

25/8/2025, 8:18:38 PM | 1534 680 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

If Biden or any other DEM president had said this, what would the reaction of the right wing media have been?

25/8/2025, 3:28:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

No one could see this coming.

25/8/2025, 3:27:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Imup2late (@imup2late.bsky.social) reposted

Neil deGrasse Tyson “ How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."

24/8/2025, 4:56:19 PM | 2091 530 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CHOPPER - Woke Boomer (@unclechopperrip.bsky.social) reposted

SORRY (from Australia) The USA should not be allowed to host the world cup next year 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️

25/8/2025, 2:10:30 AM | 22819 3201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) reposted

“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

25/8/2025, 11:29:17 AM | 1301 635 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social) reply parent

True.

25/8/2025, 12:40:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture redherringbear (@qutzupalotl.bsky.social) reposted

This administration is like watching Charles in Charge. Charles MANSON

24/8/2025, 9:53:12 PM | 657 140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Has every media outlet decided the dominance of social media designed to agitate by manipulating the algorithm requires capitulation?

24/8/2025, 12:39:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

Newsom’s trolling works because begging an authoritarian changes nothing — but pointing and laughing? That drives them mad.

23/8/2025, 5:41:35 PM | 2129 437 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

Someone needs to show this to Donald Trump. @lincolnproject.us

23/8/2025, 7:21:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Farago (@alanfarago.bsky.social)

apnews.com/article/russ... Trump lied.

23/8/2025, 3:32:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view