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by rsynnott 580 days ago
Bluesky is itself presumably called that because it was _Twitter's_ skunkworks project back in the day.

Also, fun fact: the Bluesky CEO's name means "blue sky" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber#Early_life), _but_ she was only hired as CEO a couple years after the project started, so it definitely wasn't named after her. That's some serious nominative determinism; it's a close second on this one: https://news.sky.com/story/shoe-zone-announces-terry-boot-as...