A Guide to Missing Out On Blue Sky, The Hot Invite Only App You Are Not On

I've already published a book to cash in... as performance art.

Have you heard about BlueSky Social?

The Story Thus Far….

• Someone bought Twitter.

• Jack Dorsey and a bunch of extremely prolific developers build a federated competitor.

• I got an invite. @psychiatrist.bsky.social

• Somebody figure out how to make an artificial intelligence duck.

  

• Things got really weird, really fast. Then all the journalists got there. Sup

  Casey Newton
  Then there was a Hellthread. You had to be there. Then I wrote a book of poetry, and published it, and called it that.
  Slow Boring
  had an offer for death by bludgeon that he declined.

  

• The news coverage heated up. NBC? Yes. Even the most up-to-date news source for aging boomers is on the story.

• Look, it is invite only. I don't have any invites. I don't know what to tell you. Just buy my book to tide yourself over? Yes, it's a book of poetry. It is called hellthread but is not about the hellthread. Its a shameless performance art cash in. Did I mention the duck?

  

• Most crucially, the media coverage has left out the fact that certain early psychiatrists on the platform like

  Carlene MacMillan, MD
  i've gotten quite a few invite codes, and other early Psychiatrist of the platform, like me, have gotten none. This is evidence of an appalling presence of judgment on the part of management. Clearly some thought has gone into this process, and I'm having none of it.

Then I wrote another one the same day about the experience on BlueSky. I’m not saying it’s good. I’m saying in less than time it will take you to get an invite code, two physical and real world books exist about this buzzy thing you are excluded from. The only copies that have been physical. This is a real book also. People believe physical things. I can’t explain why. This is an academic book:

But that exits. New things can exist fast. I wrote the second admittedly slapdash poetry book the same day I figured out how to publish the other one. I am a not-award winning poet:

But as you can see they genuinely enjoyed time with my work.

I was on a tear proving a point, though.

The internet can move fast. It can cross over into our physical world. You are not part of the cool kids club if you are not on a new cool thing. Sorry. FOMO is powerful technology.

No, I don’ have any invites. Still.

—O. Scott Muir, M.D.