Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

Bit tired of being told "clanker" is a slur by people who spent a long time on here pretending "retarded" isn't one.

When you’re chronically ill, your world can be quite small. People abandon you when you become disabled. When you can’t hide your pain. The isolation can be just as hard as the illness… but please know you’re not alone. None of us are ever alone. We are all fighters & this community has your back

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

when they say some shit so robophobic u just gotta hit them with the sonny stare

Reports indicate there has been a week-long gas leak at Bluesky HQ

chat, is saying you want to destroy a computer program the same as genocide?

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this. Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's bravest fascist pigs

They brutally attacked and kidnapped a legal observer, literally drug them into the complex

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Tear gas is an abortifacient It will fuck up your cycle for months & much worse Absolutely avoid breathing it at all costs Get rid of and clothes that have it on them

World that lets Gaza burn is the world that will let the world burn

this is a state sponsored terrorist operation being laid out on an american and every one in ICE needs to be treated as if they are terrorists after trumps regime is over

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

This is an outright lie.

So DHS shot someone and is lying about the context. Got it.

An Ohio judge blocked several Ohio laws mandating a 24-hour waiting period for abortions because they violated Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment. This bill is unconstitutional and we will fight it.

watching waffles turn from a light-hearted joke about social media dynamics into a right-wing dog whistle in a few days on here has been wild.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Just on a practical note, it's a terrible idea for a CEO to personally wade into TOS violations and the banning or not banning of users because the minute they touch it, they own it. Everything that happens is no longer an amorphous "mods" issue, it's a CEO issue.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Banned from reddit for using a VPN It's starting...

If you're ever less than certain about the world Please don't let the worry make its way into your work And if you would stick up for me in the face of some adversity Know that I would only do the same

Is it bad if your writing and general persona becomes such that you’re used as a device for trolling trans people?

greta ily what an outfit

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

If you were online before 2010 you know it's not a true mod crashout until a mod takes all the Adderall and then posts a sprawlingly incoherent sephiroth speech manifesto, breaks the site, and then vanishes for 3 months

Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

Chicago isn't pleased.

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique. If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you. Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

I don't recall them being so upset at the existence of trans people in pop culture when we were only portrayed as punchlines and monsters, and their favorite comedians don't know how to shut up about us. What's changed is suddenly they're hearing the stories we want to tell

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

"are you paying us" is a particularly funny response from the CEO of a company who has failed to deliver an actual monetizable product

This guy not wearing a mask makes him the bravest ICE agent and yet is still, like all of them, a pathetic bullying coward. Look at him grab Fuentes, who’s literally just standing there. Look at the hatred in his dumb face.

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

Congrats to @jay.bsky.team and the whole Bluesky team for creating a new dogwhistle for transphobes in record time. Excellent work all around.

He dead dead

donald trump has died

what if we all went goblin mode

the white house quickly posted and deleted a donald trump statement israel and palestinian peace deal and had it signed as “hamas” instead of trump lol