oh if you see a post that has a weird link preview that goes nowhere that's because of a weird thing bluesky does when you make a typo involving a period. the explanation for why would be kind of boring but if you have one of these come up, you can get rid of it by hitting the x in the corner

TO CHANGE YOUR DM SETTINGS: click on the speech bubble icon that takes you to your DMs. click the upper right hand button. change your settings to allow only DMs from people you follow, or for no one at all. there. now you don't have to put "no DMs" in your fucking bio