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Nosybear the Curmudgeon

@nosybear.bsky.social

(he/him) Antifascist. Retired old fart. Veteran. Curmudgeon. Homebrewer. Certified beer judge. Proudly woke.

created November 26, 2024

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Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Appeals court rules most of Trump's tariffs are illegal and he overstepped his authority in imposing them. There will be ketchup on the White House walls tonight...

30/8/2025, 1:05:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Whodathunk the Second Amendment crowd would not only fail to rise up against fascist tyranny, but become fascist boot lickers.

29/8/2025, 9:14:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Troops should be the bright red line where blue states start their soft secession by refusing to forward the Federal tax they collect.

29/8/2025, 9:12:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

It is my profound hope that by then, Trump is conscious, on life support, unable to communicate, and being tended to 24/7 by former Epstein girls.

29/8/2025, 6:13:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

You really think President Mike Johnson would be better?

29/8/2025, 3:00:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

E, although a crippling stroke which leaves him conscious but unable to show it, years on life support tended by Epstein girls doesn't sound bad ...

29/8/2025, 2:32:03 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in a blue part of Colorado and hope you take us with you.

29/8/2025, 2:26:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, my (sorry, George), some spicy language may be used.

29/8/2025, 12:43:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I sense a strongly worded letter in her future.

29/8/2025, 12:42:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like the brain worm had another snack...

28/8/2025, 8:45:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Once again my former service sickens me...

28/8/2025, 6:26:43 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, half of us are above average, too...

28/8/2025, 6:08:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

American here: picture in your mind how stupid the average American is, then realized half of us are stupider.

28/8/2025, 5:05:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 3:14:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Article is paywalled.

28/8/2025, 2:01:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Why have Democrats not formed a shadow cabinet to counter the daily dumbfuckery, or at least to point it out?

28/8/2025, 2:00:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm hoping for a coup but our generals are far too gutless.

27/8/2025, 8:55:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Fly that flag proudly and high, yet another expression of a young white man's second amendment rights. The flag at half staff rings hollow when nothing is done to prevent shootings.

27/8/2025, 8:54:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Thoughts and prayers: When you care enough to do the very least.

27/8/2025, 8:51:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 8:49:34 PM | 75 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Prayer. When you care enough to do the very least.

27/8/2025, 8:49:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

While the National Guard is picking up trash in DC, could they please pick up the steaming pile at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

27/8/2025, 5:13:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Just, no. Leave it and go on. Even if you're right, it changes nothing.

27/8/2025, 2:45:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I read somewhere that over 40% of ships at sea are carrying fossil fuel. Again, the shills are misdirecting their marks.

27/8/2025, 2:43:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Just when I thought I couldn't be more indifferent to an event than Taylor Swift's engagement, Cracker Barrel changes back their logo...

27/8/2025, 2:41:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I have never cared how.

27/8/2025, 2:12:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for caring.

27/8/2025, 3:12:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, they need to be doing something useful, given they aren't trained to fight crime.

27/8/2025, 1:45:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

The police have never been on the right side of social change.

27/8/2025, 1:42:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure that in some distant alternate universe, some version of me cares more about the Cracker Barrel logo than the Epstein files...

27/8/2025, 1:20:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Trump is threatening China with 200% tariffs if they don't give him rare earth magnets. It's time for China and the rest of the world to say aloud, go ahead, Trump, screw your country with taxes, you get nothing from us.

27/8/2025, 1:01:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe it is some kind of incurable rot.

26/8/2025, 11:01:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Must be crowded in there, sharing the confined space with the entire Republican party.

26/8/2025, 11:00:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Still waiting for the NRA to rise up against tyranny...

26/8/2025, 10:58:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 12:05:34 AM | 2068 550 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't have the words to express my indifference to this.

26/8/2025, 7:11:48 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Lisa Cook has shown more cojones than all of the generals who meekly complied with Trump's illegal orders. Or every Republican in Congress.

26/8/2025, 7:09:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Taylor Swift is engaged. Armed troops are patrolling the streets of Washington. I am completely indifferent to one of these things.

26/8/2025, 7:04:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I would rephrase to "This is no longer the country I wish to be a part of." Don't surrender.

26/8/2025, 4:23:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Can some journalist do their job and ask why Bolton is being raided and what evidence led to it? Could one of them ask Trump to list the ten wars he has ended? Challenge the administration on its economic statistics? Can one of them step up and do their job? Oh, I remember Walter Cronkite..

26/8/2025, 4:20:01 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't unsee that...

26/8/2025, 4:32:10 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

What amazes me is that none of the generals have had the balls to say Mr. President, that order is illegal and I cannot ask my soldiers to follow it.

26/8/2025, 4:31:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Just when you think the Trump administration can't get any stupider, they exceed your expectations: Now, based on a discredited 2022 study, Trump and Kennedy want to take the COVID vaccine off the market.

25/8/2025, 8:12:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

And while you're at it: Tell us why Bolton's home was raided, on what evidence, and under what suspicion? Name the six (now ten) wars Trump has ended and what was his involvement?

25/8/2025, 6:12:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed.

25/8/2025, 5:20:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't a judge just rule in plain language: Leave him the fuck alone?

25/8/2025, 5:19:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, amazing how that no longer seems to matter...

25/8/2025, 5:16:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Pritzker should deploy his own National Guard to stop the Federalized storm troopers being sent to Chicago. Might be the start of a hot civil war but it's really starting to look like we need one.

25/8/2025, 5:16:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

What baffles me is how Congressional Republicans can watch all this crap unfold and somehow justify it enough to let it happen.

25/8/2025, 5:10:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Put Elon on it... There's no way you could get me to ride one of those. The Kia approach to quality doesn't work for rockets.

24/8/2025, 6:25:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

This is beyond retribution. Everyone involved in this should be prosecuted.

24/8/2025, 6:22:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

No pardons. Everyone involved prosecuted down to the ICE agent wearing a mask while on duty.

24/8/2025, 6:21:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Hurry up.

24/8/2025, 6:19:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Dictators rarely surrender power peacefully.

24/8/2025, 6:19:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Way to go, San Francisco!! πŸ‘πŸ‘

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23/8/2025, 10:34:08 PM | 19145 7211 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Sheinbaum-Carney 2026 Make North America sane again

24/8/2025, 6:16:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Things I wish Kristen Welker would have asked Couchfucker Vance: Exactly why is Bolton being investigated and what evidence do you have? List the six wars Trump has ended and describe his role in ending them.

24/8/2025, 6:12:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

May he burn next to Pat Robertson and save a spot for Joel Osteen.

22/8/2025, 8:17:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Why is it that Chris Pratt's position on matters of health care are of even less interest to me than RFK Jr's? Can it be that, while neither of them are qualified to remove a splinter, only one affects my life on any meaningful way?

19/8/2025, 6:44:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Starting now, let's all agree that there is no need to fact check anything Trump says. Just assume it's a lie and go on.

18/8/2025, 8:37:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

People voted for every damned bit of it.

18/8/2025, 8:31:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Time for a hearty "We will not comply" from blue states.

18/8/2025, 8:30:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Met with a war criminal. Didn't arrest him. Still a pedophile.

15/8/2025, 7:10:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Screw the files. Believe the victims.

15/8/2025, 2:25:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Is anyone aware of any time when the police were on the right side of social change?

12/8/2025, 6:19:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Second biggest. Biggest was the election of the man who made Trump possible, Ronald Reagan.

12/8/2025, 3:48:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

That case of dementia started with Ronald Reagan.

12/8/2025, 3:47:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel the same way about Lindsey Graham.

12/8/2025, 3:43:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karpov's Machine (@karpovsmachine.bsky.social) reposted

Never forget that when Congress asked the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy if they WANTED a new strike/fighter aircraft, all three branches said no, but then Lockheed Martin said yes, so we bought 900 of them at $90 million each. But we definitely can't afford universal healthcare.

11/8/2025, 6:08:04 PM | 171 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

The epicenter of crime in DC seems to be 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I hear there's a man there with 34 felony convictions.

12/8/2025, 12:49:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Today I'm saddened that I served in the US Air Force.

8/8/2025, 6:41:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bob Geiger (@bobgeiger.bsky.social) reposted

This is your periodic reminder of the difference between Blue and Red states.

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7/8/2025, 4:09:09 PM | 217 72 | View on Bluesky | view

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Read today that Trump thought the global economy was 14 years old and so decided to fuck it. Can't stop laughing...

5/8/2025, 7:03:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

It's interesting that nothing in the US Constitution guarantees fair elections...

4/8/2025, 3:06:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

(Checks controversy over Sydney Sweeney blue jeans ad) Nope, no fucks to give...

2/8/2025, 8:05:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

We could be building guillotines...

2/8/2025, 2:46:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

It's so normalized the press no longer cares, unless you're a dentist poisoning your wife with Visine.

2/8/2025, 2:42:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Respectfully disagree: These Democrats are corporate shills. Elect socialists.

2/8/2025, 2:41:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

I think we should secede but no one is listening...

1/8/2025, 3:23:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Question from an engineering perspective: Where is the water going? Unless it's being boiled away, it would simply carry heat from the data center back to the river, warming it. The water would still be there, warmer, but no less usable for showers...

1/8/2025, 3:21:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Where is the draft of Democrats' Project 2029?

31/7/2025, 3:52:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

No, look at the source and imagine their agenda.

31/7/2025, 3:00:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

One more panel: Same image, captioned "Donald Trump cheating."

31/7/2025, 1:56:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Colorado should ignore Trump's malice toward the homeless and withhold our Federal taxes to make up the lost revenue.

29/7/2025, 12:25:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Insurance companies are asking for a 28% increase in premiums for next year if you buy your own coverage through the exchanges. So much winning...

29/7/2025, 12:06:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Where is the Democrats' Project 2027? Project 2029? Come on, Dems, up your game.

29/7/2025, 12:04:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Can I come live with you?

28/7/2025, 9:34:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump's tariffs are looking more and more like a backdoor national value-added tax.

28/7/2025, 6:44:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump's European deal: You pay a 15% tax on imports. So much winning...

27/7/2025, 10:49:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

"Meet the Press" this morning should have been titled "Republican Shit Show."

27/7/2025, 3:32:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

If you give Trump a colonoscopy, you'll find Lindsey Graham. Examine Trump's stool and you'll find Mike Johnson.

27/7/2025, 3:21:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

He absolutely can. No more pardons, no matter the President.

26/7/2025, 10:44:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

An "underage woman" is a child. There is no consesual sex with a child, it is rape. Pedophilia is the practice of raping children. Trafficking is selling children into sexual slavery. Let's call it what it is.

26/7/2025, 9:20:24 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Perhaps the reason we haven't had a revolution in the United States is we have come to accept that the status quo is the only possible society and we have no other vision for how things could be...

26/7/2025, 3:07:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

There is no such thing as an inalienable right.

26/7/2025, 2:39:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Logical "or" used here...

26/7/2025, 2:09:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Maxwell will be pardoned next week, or dead.

25/7/2025, 11:37:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Maybe they should change the name of the Washington Commanders to the Epstein Distractions?

24/7/2025, 6:55:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent

Tennessee logic: Son, you ain't a man unless you're getting some. Pregnant woman: Slut should have kept her knees together. See the disconnect there? Full disclosure: I grew up in Kentucky. Same logic, worse spelling.

24/7/2025, 4:01:10 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)

Tomorrow we will buy school supplies to donate to underprivileged children, and lament that we live in a society that thinks this is somehow a solution to their need.

24/7/2025, 3:57:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view