Phone, phone in the range (of free wifi)

I have a freezer drawer devoted to ice packs for this. (Though I don’t strap them. They’re bean bags, the weight keeps them in place)

‘Tis the season!

The mix of people I know IRL to people I don’t know is off-balance. I’m happy to make new friends, but here I feel like I’ve walked into a mass event where I know almost no one.

To be quite honest, I am following too many accounts here. And though they all came from bookish starter packs, there are too many for me to get a sense of individual identity and continuity: it’s just an endless patter of disparate posts, even if most of them are bookish.

Well yes, but what I’m comparing in this thread isn’t X vs Bluesky but two different approaches to starting an account in Bluesky. The primary account I’m referring to is @gilibug.bsky.social

To be honest, I’m surprised to get any response at all here. Hi, Hayley! 👋🏼

I’ve never had a post on the primary account, or indeed on the old Twitter, get as many likes as this account got for the post about my header photograph being a miniature and not a real library.

And yet… despite the impressive numbers, this account lacks human connection. It’s socially sterile.

And I have a bunch of followers on this account alone. The numbers went up so fast, I thought the followers here might surpass those on my primary account, but then someone put my primary account on a popular starter pack and my followers there doubled overnight…

I had one big, viral post here. >

DEFYING GRAVITY

IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES by Katherine Rundell

THE THIEF series by Megan Whalen Turner

MARS EVACUEES and SPACE HOSTAGES by Sophia McDougal

The Northern Lights trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Shadowhunter books by Cassandra Clare