diff --git a/js/app/hooks/useAvatars.tsx b/js/app/hooks/useAvatars.tsx
index c11015e37..4a0f8b487 100644
--- a/js/app/hooks/useAvatars.tsx
+++ b/js/app/hooks/useAvatars.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { ProfileViewDetailed } from "@atproto/api/dist/client/types/app/bsky/actor/defs";
-import { useEffect, useMemo } from "react";
+import { useEffect, useRef } from "react";
 import { useStore } from "store";
 import { useCachedProfiles } from "store/hooks";
 
@@ -8,17 +8,21 @@ export default function useAvatars(dids: string[]) {
   const getProfiles = useStore((state) => state.getProfiles);
   const profiles: Record<string, ProfileViewDetailed> = useCachedProfiles();
 
-  const missingDids = useMemo(
-    () => dids.filter((did) => !(did in profiles)),
-    [dids, profiles],
-  );
+  // Ask for each DID once. Callers pass a fresh array every render, and a DID
+  // the Bluesky app view doesn't know (an account on another PDS with no
+  // Bluesky profile) never lands in the cache, so keying on the array, or
+  // re-asking for whatever is missing, refetches in a loop.
+  const requested = useRef(new Set<string>());
+  const missing = dids
+    .filter((did) => !(did in profiles) && !requested.current.has(did))
+    .join(",");
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (missingDids.length > 0) {
-      console.log("Fetching profiles for DIDs:", missingDids);
-      getProfiles(missingDids).then((e) => console.log("ok", e));
-    }
-  }, [missingDids]);
+    if (!missing) return;
+    const toFetch = missing.split(",");
+    toFetch.forEach((did) => requested.current.add(did));
+    getProfiles(toFetch);
+  }, [missing]);
 
   return profiles;
 }
diff --git a/js/app/store/slices/blueskySlice.ts b/js/app/store/slices/blueskySlice.ts
index 40ee76a7e..d87d9be3d 100644
--- a/js/app/store/slices/blueskySlice.ts
+++ b/js/app/store/slices/blueskySlice.ts
@@ -450,10 +450,14 @@ export const createBlueskySlice: StateCreator<
       const bskyAgent = new Agent("https://public.api.bsky.app");
       const payload = await bskyAgent.getProfiles({ actors });
       let parsedProfiles = {};
-      console.log(payload);
       payload.data.profiles.forEach((p) => {
         parsedProfiles[p.did] = p;
       });
+      // an unchanged cache must stay the same object, or every subscriber
+      // re-renders for nothing
+      if (Object.keys(parsedProfiles).length === 0) {
+        return;
+      }
       set((s) => ({
         profileCache: {
           ...(s as BlueskySlice).profileCache,