I'm saving this post (I had posted it to social media earlier and then found the link was 404 today). I'm not running WordPress now but I'd like to crosspost my Bluesky posts into my blog, Blogger in particular. It would be handy rather than cut and pasting over and over. So, one day I will try this code. I hope it works, when I try it. Meanwhile, it could be a great help to someone else right now.

How to Embed Your Bluesky Feed In Your WordPress Site Without Plugins or Paying Posted on February 17, 2025 by ΞVΞ

I’ve always liked embedding my main social media feed to my WordPress site, so I had Twitter easily embedded to the sidebar on it. However, with the downfall of Twitter, I’ve moved to Bluesky and unfortunately, I found no documentation on how to do this except for a couple plugins, of which one of them required a paid subscription since Bluesky is so new. My personal preference has always been to have as little plugins as possible on my WordPress blog to avoid any potential conflicts with other plugins or themes, so I set out for a way to do this and found none.

I don’t remember how I found a way because it was some time last year, but I did through fiddling with the Bluesky code, so I hope you find this useful.

Go to your WordPress Admin page > Appearance > Widgets and create a new Custom HTML block in your preferred location Paste this code into the block changing “BLUESKY-HANDLE” to your Bluesky @username without the “@”. Below that, you can change the limit for number of Bluesky posts to show. The default is 5, but you can make it as many or less as you want. The quotes on either side of the username and limit are required. In WordPress, click “Update” on the top right corner and that’s it!

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bsky-embed@0.0.5/dist/bsky-embed.es.js" async></script>
<bsky-embed  
  username="BLUESKY-HANDLE"  
  limit="5"  
>  
</bsky-embed>

Hope this helps!

Is there some social rule about not commenting on social media posts of people who don't follow you? I'm finding this exchange on bluesky kind of weird. It started when I commented on a post she made to bluesky which was a video post from someone else. I'm not going to hash over that, because it isn't relevant to what came along next.

Her

Hmm. Sure, it says nothing to you and that’s okay. I don’t follow you, so perhaps you commented without realizing that, or thought I needed to know that. Not sure why. But it’s possible you followed me by mistake. Also okay. No need to comment, I was posting for me & my mutuals. I’ll be doing that.

Me - I don't follow people by mistake. This kind of post/ video annoys me. It assumes to say everything needed for both sides of an issue. Plus, it name calls people, which isn't useful. I think people posting something like this are judgemental and misleading. I wouldn't usually comment my thoughts.

Her

Again, I’ll point out that I don’t follow you, so the post wasn’t meant for you. That’s why I ask why you’d comment. If a friend of yours posted, sure - discuss. But I’m an internet stranger who’s never interacted with you. If it annoys you, move on? Unfollow? It doesn’t have anything to do with me.

Me - OK. You only accept comments from people you follow. If bluesky has an option for private accounts you might look into that. Or let people who come across your profile know you don't want to hear from them. Meanwhile I'll unfollow you since it seems to be upsetting for you.

I think it must be that she only wants to chat with people who agree with her completely, 'yes' people. I like to hear from those who have different opinions from mine. How else do you learn something new? Anyway, I did unfollow her. Partly because I won't remember who she is enough to not comment on something she posts again. But, I think she is not understanding what social media is, that it is public, not private.

If she has last words I'll post them. Otherwise its done for me.

I'm starting to get fed up with cookies, especially having those notices half filling my screen and no option to say NO/ deny them. Some sites do let you say no to cookies and then you can go on to see the site. Most do not. Why not, wasn't that the point of being asked? Otherwise why ask at all if the site is still sticking me with cookies I don't want?

The other thing, are sites that try to make me shut off my ad blocker. Yes, they want to make money, fine. But, how can I decide if I care enough to look at their site before I've seen any of it? They could give people an option to at least see the site before they stick me with a bunch of ads which most likely include cookies, tracking and whatever other junk.

Marketing continues to suck the life out of the Internet, like a parasite.

I posted this to the forums on the Curlie site. As someone who reviews, edits, and lists sites (a lot of them) the cookies and assorted marketing junk really get annoying, quickly. Before you think sites are not asking me to list them... you're wrong. I'm reviewing sites which have been submitted to the directory. I'm not usually looking for sites to list, out of the blue.

Also, last night I was thinking about advertising in general. I've written before that marketing and advertising preys on people, finding weaknesses to sell them stuff they likely could do without. Last night I went a bit farther down that idea.

Marketing and advertising finds ways to make us feel incompetent. "You can't do this without buying that." ... "You can't wash your car without buying this or that product because without it you will do a botch job". You get the idea, I hope. Marketing is training people to think they can not succeed at life on their own. It belittles people and softly bullies them. The whole thing about adulting as a verb is a marketing scheme. There is no reason you can't be an adult. Adults are not omnipotent beings. Why make people needy, unsatisfied, neurotic even unless you have the cure/ solution they need for 3 easy payments of $9.99 a month...

AI is set up to "help" us even more because we are just that incompetent. Why can't people make a cake, fix a toaster, etc, etc, etc, as they did twenty years ago? Of course they can. But, they are trained to believe they can not. Think about the ads you've seen lately. How many have told you (not in so many words) that you can't do something? Ads making men look like clumsy fools. Men are not, in general, clumsy or fools. Children are not uncontrollable wild animals and women are not idiot trolls trying to look like Barbie dolls, or whatever the marketing twists people into so it can sell us stuff.

How will people be living in another few generations? If you're not generating money somehow, in order to buy stuff, will people become a nuisance population? Like an out of control population of mice. Will we be herded up like cattle, as some science fiction has suggested? (Even that will dwindle down as supply and demand fall off). Will we be used as sort of living batteries to power the machines, the artificial intelligence? Our abundance of population will only be useful if we contribute to the economy and then... what if the consumer economy tanks?

What happens when there are not enough human consumers to support the industries, the businesses, and services geared to human beings? How much of what exists, only exists for some form of human consumption? Whether physical, mental, or emotional... so much of what marketing sells is based on having a human population with the money to support it. If things keep going as they are and humans become useless, how will that change everything? Quite a lot, I'd think. Hard to even imagine once you start to think about all the pieces falling out of place.

Life after humans... what would it really look like?