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Arthur
@arthurdearaujo.com
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full-stack iOS engineer • bird enthusiast • amateur photographer

ex-founder, ex-twitter • 26, they/him

https://birdsky.app
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Arthur @arthurdearaujo.com · Jul 9
New Birdsky update is live! 🚀
apps.apple.com/us/app/birds...

• Added Finnish and other language support
• Added Latin scientific binomial names
• Other fixes and improvements

Special thanks to @pavevaisanen.bsky.social! Most of this update is a result of their feedback.

#Birding #Birds #Birdsky
arthurdearaujo.com
New Birdsky update is live! 🚀
apps.apple.com/us/app/birds...

• Added Finnish and other language support
• Added Latin scientific binomial names
• Other fixes and improvements

Special thanks to @pavevaisanen.bsky.social! Most of this update is a result of their feedback.

#Birding #Birds #Birdsky
July 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
arthurdearaujo.com
my very first big bird. I’ve only captured two big bird species so far, gotta catch ‘em all! 🦅

🆔 Cooper's Hawk
📌 Liberty State Park, Jersey City
📸 Nikon D500 | Sigma 150mm - 600mm
🗓️ November 16, 2024

#Hawk #Birding #Birds #Birdsky
Black-and-white photo of a hawk looking leftward on a high branch. Hawk has remarkable rain-drop polka-dot chest feathers and a set of piercing claws.
July 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
arthurdearaujo.com
my first big bird in central park 🐦

🆔 Great Blue Heron
📌 Central Park, New York
📸 Nikon D500 | Sigma 150 - 600mm
🗓️ July 6, 2025

#GreatBlueHeron #Birds #Birding #Birdsky
Great Blue Heron standing on a branch looking leftward. Branch is hovering over the water with half of the branch bark stripped bare. Background is of leaves, branches and rocks.
July 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
arthurdearaujo.com
last night downtown NYC 🎆 from Jersey City rooftop
Rainbow sparkly fireworks above the Hudson river, river reflecting some of its light. Small yellow boxy lights from skyscraper building on the left and some below. Two blue sphere with red edges sparkly fireworks above the Hudson river, river reflecting some of its purple-ish light. Small yellow boxy lights from skyscraper building on the left and some below. Two bright yellow sphere sparkly fireworks above the Hudson river, river reflecting some of its light. Small yellow boxy lights from skyscraper building on the left and some below. Two big blue flower-like fireworks with yellow sphere center above the Hudson river, river reflecting some of its light. Small yellow boxy lights from skyscraper building on the left and some below.
July 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
arthurdearaujo.com
Hey everyone,
Excited to share that my new app Birdsky is officially live! 🚀

Birdsky is a Bluesky app built just for birders:
apps.apple.com/us/app/birds...

There are 1,000+ new bird photos posted every day 🐦

Give it a gander and share with your bird-loving friends!
#FeatherFriday #Birding #Birds
An app store screenshot with title "Beautiful Birds Posted Every Day" and subtitle "Beautiful, bold, sometime too hip". The iPhone screenshot below shows two Agami Heron birds next to eachother in greenery in an instagram-style social feed. It displays Birdsky logo branding, An app store screenshot with title "Connect with Local Birding" and subtitle "Explore nearby birds and community". The iPhone screenshot below shows a list of rows with bird photos and text. The text includes the distance from bird 7 miles away, the bird species, and the bird post text. Photo also displays Birdsky logo branding An app store screenshot with title "Curated Birder Context" and subtitle "Species, Camera Gear, Date, Location". The iPhone screenshot below shows a social media post in instagram-style format, the post image is a white Dalmatian Pelican bird on some dirt with rocks nearby. There is blue highlighted text on the left-hand side which include the bird species (Dalmation Pelican), the camera gear (Canon EOS R5), lens (Sigma 150-600mm), and location (Utah, USA). Photo also displays Birdsky logo branding An app store screenshot with title "Actionable Birder Context" and two subtitles "Species links to wikipedia.org or allaboutbirds.org bird page" and "Audio link to macaulaylibrary.org CornellLab bird recording". These subtitles have a white arrow pointing to the top right audio button and highlighted blue text bird species button. The iPhone screenshot below shows a social media post in instagram-style format, the post image is a white Dalmatian Pelican bird on some dirt with rocks nearby. There is blue highlighted text on the left-hand side which include the bird species (Dalmation Pelican), the camera gear (Canon EOS R5), lens (Sigma 150-600mm), and location (Utah, USA). Photo also displays Birdsky logo branding
June 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
arthurdearaujo.com
🆔 Gray Catbird
📸 D500 | Sigma 150mm - 600mm
🗓️ June 22, 2025
📍 Liberty State Park 🗽
sun shining on a Gray Catbird looking rightward, standing on a wooden post. blurry green tree background and some leaves in focus on the left
June 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
arthurdearaujo.com
test
Great Blue Heron on ice
May 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Reposted by Arthur
jay.bsky.team
Did you know you can control who can reply to your posts? We also recently added an option for you to choose a default setting for all future posts.
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Feb 17
📢 1.98 is rolling out now (3/5)

To set the default reply settings for all future posts, head to Settings > Moderation > Interaction Settings.

You can also always change reply settings per post.
A screenshot of the Settings screen. “Moderation” is highlighted. A screenshot of the Moderation Settings screen. “Interaction Settings” is highlighted. A screenshot of the “Post Interaction Settings” screen
February 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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mergesort.me
I’ve never resonated more with a billionaire. gizmodo.com/twitter-co-f...
Ev Williams, the billionaire who co-founded Twitter and Medium, is sad. To fight that sadness, Williams is doing the only thing he knows how: launching a new app.
December 14, 2024 at 3:04 PM
arthurdearaujo.com
😊🙏🏼
sunny spring day with trees in the back, selfie of arthur and jay
April 30, 2023 at 1:26 AM
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jay.bsky.team
i’m more like a priestess going around spreading the gospel of decentralization by setting up a nice city-state and convincing people who move here to set up their own. the key to them not turning into awful empires again is we’ll have passports and property rights that let us move between them!
April 29, 2023 at 6:52 AM
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jay.bsky.team
from my bluesky proposal presented to twitter back in 2021.

graphic design is my passion
April 12, 2023 at 5:05 AM