OPAD #27 – Feb 29, 2024
Bluesky now has over 5 million users. I’ve been over there a year plus, since Elon Musk took over Twitter.
We’ve done a few posts over here specifically about Bluesky, check those out below and then sign up for Bluesky. And please stop logging into the site owned by Elon Musk.
Since Bluesky is in early days, sometimes your feed may get a little stale. Mix it up by adding some additional feeds. Below are 6 feeds to add to your Bluesky account.
Bluesky Lists
Who To Follow | Feeds To Follow | Starter Pack List | Artists To Follow | Transportation and Urbanism | Politicians and Activists To Follow | Comic Creators To Follow | Funny People | Famous People | Sports Teams and Accounts
Good Bluesky Posts
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[Climate Accounts] GreenSky – https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/feed/aaabkznpn5x2g
[Photos of cats] Cat Pics – https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q6gjnaw2blty4crticxkmujt/feed/cv:cat
[Photos and info about Birds] Birds! – https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ffkgesg3jsv2j7aagkzrtcvt/feed/aaagllxbcbsje
[Chicago] Chicago Posters – https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sws7j25bfy45z53elulnjc47/lists/3kdngqcr4hz2z
[Admin] Quiet Posts (posts from people who don’t post too often) – https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/feed/infreq
Find more feeds here: https://bsky.app/feeds
About: Car bad. Bike good. Public Transit good. Walk good.
About: Brown Thumb? Green Thumb? Who gives a shit. Please, I’m begging you, help me, I’m killing my fiddle-leaf fig.
About: I’ve been trying to answer this question for 17 years. I think this feed might finally help me answer it.
About: One of the most liked and fun feeds on Bluesky.
About: Baseball, you ever hear of it?
About: I think looking into the depths of space and time is scary, but you might like it.
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When Instagram isn’t trying to be four other apps, it’s still a pretty good place to see pictures and art.
Below are 8 Unique Art and Design accounts that you should be following.
What: Baseball Card Vandals take often vintage baseball cards and through the clever use of subtraction and addition creates a humorous one-panel comic.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/baseballcardvandals
What: Graffiti can sometimes be fun. Graffiti can sometimes be bad. Graffiti can sometimes be silly. And Graffiti can sometimes be powerful. Radical Graffiti can sometimes be many of the above.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/radicalgraffiti
What: Learn about all the flavors of seltzer, including: Toe Beans, New Jersey, and Buying a New Plant.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/seltzerflavors
What: Architecture memes sound boring, right? Especially when you aren’t an architect, nor studying to be one??? WRONG. The lived spaces we inhabit are interesting, and get this, pOLiTicAl. Read more about this account and others in the world of architecture in Dwell by Alana Hope Levinson.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/dank.lloyd.wright
What: If you’re a subscriber to the blob newsletters (you. should. be.) you are not surprised by an urban design/transportation account making the list. Finally, see all the ways in which our infrastructure makes our cities and communities worse (And racist!).
Link: https://www.instagram.com/segregation_by_design
What: Very little more soothing to me than concrete or wood. But concrete and wood together?!? Brutalism is back, baby!
Link: https://www.instagram.com/brutbuilds
What: Famous and not so famous moments in sports, as famous and not so famous works of art. You only need to be into one of them, art or sports, to enjoy this. Into both? Cool.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/artbutmakeitsports
What: Art is allowed to be horny. And so are you. Warning: Cartoonishly graphic.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/alphachanneling
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