— Steven Soderbergh’s sleek and lean spy thriller
Or someone might share one with you. After I signed up, a colleague pointed me to one for. There are tens of thousands of starter packs, ranging from broadly appealing topics like Taylor Swift to niche interests like
. You can follow the whole pack or scroll down the list to choose individual accounts.What about people you followed on X? There’s a browser extension tool calledthat will help you find X users who’ve migrated to Bluesky. But check before clicking the follow button to make sure it’s not a different user using the same display name or handle.
Ready to join the conversation? You can write posts or reply to others but keep it short because there’s a limit of 300 characters — 20 more than on X. You can also upload photos and videos, though videos can’t be longer than 60 seconds. GIFs and emojis are, of course, available too.You can still @ people by typing in their username, like posts by tapping a heart icon or use hashtags to highlight a theme. Bluesky has added a
to hashtags, so when you click on one you’ll get different options for seeing, or muting, posts on that topic.
Bluesky’s decentralization ethos extends to the content control options it offers.ahead closer to Jupiter.
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) long and 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) wide at its widest point — resembling an irregular bowling pin. It’s so long that the spacecraft couldn’t capture it in its entirety in the initial downloaded images.Data returned over the next week should help clarify the asteroid’s shape, according to NASA.
Lucy passed within 600 miles (960 kilometers) of the harmless asteroid known as Donaldjohanson on Sunday in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It’s named for the paleontologist who discovered the fossil Lucy 50 years ago in Ethiopia.The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through 2033.