I suspect a party platform of 1) turning back every Trump action and policy, 2) arresting every employee of ICE for involvement in or abetting of crimes against humanity, would do very well.

If these ID laws stay in place across America we will see more identity theft then ever before. It could genuinely become a type of financial epidemic. If you're in a state with these laws: PLEASE GOD email your reps about the recent Discord hack and ask them how they plan to protect you.

i think i would prefer it if bluesky leadership was honest with how much they loathe having a large social media app that they never wanted, spun it off into separate company, and then went back off to Protocol Land where they never have to think about the opinions of plebeians ever again.

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Imagine being the CEO of a company that solely exists, & attracts investment, because a critical mass of people abandoned your competitor over bigotry. Now imagine crashing out publicly & asserting your userbase has no value to you because you don't want to eject a specific & named bigot.

nobody who works at bluesky has any idea what bluesky is, eh

I really fear that we've lost all our momentum. Feels like I haven't seen any posts about this issue in a while, and it's STILL not resolved. Payment processors have been praying we'll stop calling and finally fall in line. Don't let the issue die. PLEASE keep calling!

He already defunded you. You don't need to keep debasing yourself, @npr.org

I think a conversation should be had about how admin and moderation seem to hate the community responsible for this websites success and instead of destroying the whole thing they could try to hand ownership to a user co-op and try to create their libertarian crypto utopia again elsewhere.

Its important for the bsky team to not just make sure that nazis feel welcome but also make sure people only see posts that agree with this decision

What’s really crazy is that with everything going on lately, I truly don’t think artists are asking for much. I don’t know a single creative that aspires to be rich, everyone’s aiming for “comfortable”. We just want to work and have our basic needs met and to not have our shit stolen or censored.

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

you hate trans people so much it makes you look stupid

Whenever a writer comes to me with concerns about their work being misinterpreted or approached incorrectly, I remind them that many people are just incredibly stupid, incurious, and dull.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

I really wanna point out this post where someone called out the bluesky dev for their double standard on banning people who didn't break the rule, the dev asked for specifics, and then stopped responding after getting an answer. Absolute fucking clown shoes behaviour.

So many bluesky employees who aren't involved in moderation (and some who are) have been making the whole company look so stupid by just refusing to shut the FUCK up about moderation

In a way, after seeing @jay.bsky.team now I understand why royalty in general doesn't mingle with the general population: it's better for them to maintain the illusion of being unreachable than being caught saying the stupidest shit in public

why do so many CEOs have the maturity of a 12 year old

"singal never broke tos" yeah he did and so did the NYP but you just selectively enforce tos and are choosing not to now because your actual active userbase is calling you stupid you know the TOS update isn't about rape but you got ratio'd and are mad about it grow up you're running a business

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany. If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

Australians! Yall have 2 days left!

KOSA is now in red alert priority. Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

"are games art?" asinine question "are games treated as art culturally?" not even a little bit, not even by the vast majority of people who care about proving that games are art

remember, you have something to live for (2/2)

cw: transphobia, suicide my best friend is dead — reupload, 2023 (1/2)

if you have democrat rep/senators i recommend calling and reminding them you will never vote for them again if they bend the knee on this. shutting down the government is the correct choice. that is the exact phrasing in my 3 calls and it took 5 min total bsky.app/profile/pink...

The purpose of these laws is to censor LGBTQ speech and make children less safe and easier for predators to abuse. Extremely disappointed in Bluesky for this.

I need help getting rent for October. My Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/coywolfy #mutualaid

It's really cool that the devs are just openly admitting to sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling "la la la I can't hear you" when thousands of creators are panicking about what future we have on this platform

BlueSky deleting Palestinian accounts and sweeping queer issues under the rug/silencing us is the online equivalent of trying to shove all the impoverished people out of a city or neighborhood because the privileged get uncomfy and think it makes their spaces dirty, unsafe, and undesirable.

*Bluesky artists asking for better labeling tools to help people avoid their work in case the topic would upset them* "Boy, these freaks are bad at consent"

This is the rub of the matter If enforcement isn’t changing, why word the rule in a way that implies enforcement could escalate? Why not just change the rule? Why punky promise with users everything is gonna be okay?

If Bluesky wasn’t going to clamp down on noncon artwork, it would just publish a direct clarification. We wouldn’t see all this contrasting information, confusing wording, and these bizarre one-on-one calls to assuage various posters. What’s going on right now is suspicious. It’s not transparent

Maybe paradoxically, I think this is also better strategy. Voters cast a ballot for a person, not an abstract slate of policy stances, and they can smell focus-grouped inauthenticity.

someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat

The deadline for the australian petition is coming up [oct 3rd]! So aussies, get on that! Additionally, canadians, the deadline for your petition is ovtober 25th so you only have a few more weeks to push this!

Okay hear me out: Imagine a multiverse. But like instead of multiple worlds there's just one. And instead of mixing all sorts of bullshit concepts and worlds you stick to one cohesive concept that doesn't suck

A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read. rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...

The big one

Bluesky's review aggregate on the play store in my region is down to 1.1. Absolutely bonkers. Definitely continue sending feedback and yelling about the TOS!

I think one of the more unfortunate consequences to creators being more interactive with fans is that a lot of fans/fandoms normalized this idea that creators have to explain/validate every headcanon they have.

Automatically insisting what someone’s gender identity SHOULD be (read: should NOT could) based on how they look/act is toxic as fuck. ESPECIALLY when you’re attacking the person who fought for actual YEARS for queer rep and had their show cancelled for it.

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

now that the dust has settled on the kirk shooting and with the benefit of hindsight and the kimmel thing playing out i sure hope bluesky's leadership is asking itself why their mod team so instinctively behaved exactly the way this fascist administration wanted them to before even having been asked

"pride over kink" dog we are literally still considered kinks in bumfuck nowhere please get your head out of your ass people literally died for you and you're out here desecrating what they built