I’m Not on Bluesky, but the Blog Is

I’m told that Ancient World Twitter was a thing and many of the same people have moved to Bluesky. I am an open web person not a corporate social media person, but if you prefer following this site on Bluesky to following it on RSS or by email or by checking the URL every few days, there is a way. For a few months, it has been possible to follow bookandswordblog at https://bsky.app/profile/bookandswordblog.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy

I am not there! I am unlikely to see any likes or replies. I think all corporate social media funded by other people’s money will follow the same path as Facebook and Reddit and birdsite. I wonder if in a thousand years people will talk about microblogging like the Romans talked about the time they invited the Goths across the Danube then started to shake them down and enslave them without calling in the army first (or maybe like the Athenians talked about how they realized that speaking persuasively was a skill that could be taught for money). But if you want to follow this site on Bluesky, that is possible.

(scheduled 12 October 2025)