Appears BlueSky had a systemwide crash this morning. They say it's "mostly" back up and counsel patience.
They've been stampeded with newbies like us the past few days.
"Dammit, Scotty! I need more bandwidth to the servers!"

Look. I'm an old man. Up every hour or two in the night to go pee. During Trump 1.0 I learned to take my phone to the bathroom with me so I could doomscroll.
I don't know how to stop.