I realize they hired him not to communicate and temper their wanton brand damaging posting, but just to get us to shut up about them needing to hire a comms person Still, one can try and hope they’ll do the right thing instead of just retaliatory ban you…

Aaron is just banning trans people at this point

"Recession-level industry decline" is certainly getting closer to labeling what is happening an actual Trump-created recession. I guess the legal department intervened in the wording there.

Executives for the whirlpool maker cited a “rapid deterioration” in economic conditions during the Iran war.

you know no one is forcing you to be a moron? you don't have to embarrass yourself like this

People with entirely ad-hoc views of convenience (read: neoliberals, centrists, USSC, etc…) can never convince me that I am a bad person. Because their views are entirely mutable in the moment. Their “morals” are whims that come and go with no anchoring foundational beliefs

These are not just accidental to the ”Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity” ban. In fact they prefer you see these as Oopsies instead of what they are: Social control. They’re banning works of art fundamental to our understanding of society not by accident but to remake society as they wish

Texas Tech is starting to reveal which texts are banned under its new prohibition against "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" research. Among them are six books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Galatians. 🧵 of other banned works. Yes, this is real.

chicks rock

Yes, we need wired to explain why the entire chain of command was seated at an event they normally do not attend with no additional security.

I find it interesting that the thing that most LGBTQ youth say is important is to respect who they say they are. Allyship gestures such as flying a pride flag or posting on social media ranked the lowest.

If you're not trans fem or sort of already locking arms with us (solidarity, friends, ilu), then you probably have very little idea just how bad it's gotten even in places that call themselves progressive. Tumblr, Twitter, and Bluesky are all packed to the gills with management driven purges.

Tapping the sign again… If only there was a comms guy who could both put together a useful statement and also talk to the T&S guy about knocking it the fuck off so as to not continue destroying their brand image

Bluesky Account Behavior: with your +1 for Socialism and +3 for Trans, your post "lol the trust and safety guy was jorkin it" will receive *rolls 2d8* fifteen strikes

so many people got suspended for talking about aaron roderick's liked posts, but not everyone. you might say it's barely legal to talk about

Multiple people keep calling me a ‘wrecker’. I have the same vote & the same right to an opinion as any other voter. But if my opinion diverts from theirs they can’t just hate it Over There. They want to try to get me brigaded with quotes & subskeets. It tells me they would throw me under a bus.

your post was classified as a serious boo boo, adding four goofs to your account, which elevates your permanent record to a gold bungle. we're putting you in the no no zone for a week

Hey @joshpetri.bsky.team isnt your job supposed to be like... talking them off this cliff they keep putting themselves at the edge of? Like come on… banning people over what should have been just a quick ”we screwed up” and chat with the bot runner… 18 MONTHS LATER?!

incredibly funny that this bullshit trust and safety team is going to Streisand Effect themselves into everyone knowing about this restore @cara.city you miserable babies

also, the documentation had expressly warned him against accidentally doing this, for months

That’s why things won’t improve. People been defending them since day 1. Regardless of antiblackness. Regardless of homophobia. Regardless of transphobia. Like lmao. The enablement since day 1 molded what’s now

I guess it's neither here nor there but I don't think namesearching yourself and banning a bunch of popular funny people for mentioning you is a way to memory-hole an event youre embarrassed about. It might even have the opposite effect!

I mean this so incredibly literally. if in December 2024 when the like occurred they just banned the bot and sent me an email explaining the situation, we wouldnt have to revisit this every 3 months

Can't fix racist maps because the election is only a year away, but you can stop an election after voting starts to make the maps more racist. Good thing racism is over. 🤬

It's run by the most fragile billionaire sycophants who are fine with tolerating violent bigots but get violent themselves whenever a marginalized individual calls them on their fuckshit.

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

how the average liberal talks to trans people while Democrats debate which bathrooms we should use and if we should be allowed to play sports

yah! i have been using the viewer for a while so i could see link but i migrated fully to the blacksky pds last night. it takes like 15 minutes. just read the guide. it explains how to do it, how to get your custom domain back, & how to get the bluesky app to work again until the blacksky app launch

They are going to do mass detentions of US citizens... The level of prosecutions and tearing down of their legislation and judge appointments is going to have to be extensive If you’re not voting with both of those things in mind, you’re actively making things worse

Picked up this strange italian Velvet Underground piece at a shop ran by this eccentric dude clearly mostly as his personal amusement and hobby place Has a neat lil booklet #vinylsky

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

read the guide it's easy. the one drawback is blacksky doesn't have a mobile app yet. but you can use the bluesky app still. it explains how in the guide. if you're using a bluesky client you won't see link though. blacksky app is supposed to be out this year. blacksky.community works in browser

yah before i was just logged into blacksky's viewer and that was fine. but now i want to be beyond bluesky's reach. especially after the moderation tantrums of the last week or so.

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

hr giger got gangbanged by trans women and it made him better

its literally follow prompts sign in with password go to email for confirmation code wait for loading done like holy shit, props to the blacksky dev team this is sick

Literally a few clicks and a couple inputs (password, desired domain, etc…) I thought it was going to be harder when I swapped a few months ago and nah!

a repeat offender maliciously doxxed several people on this site was able to have posts of users full names & home addresses when also targeting user’s spouses & children for several months longer than jokes like these are allowed to be funny or comedy to be legal (also why there’s no more louvre)

If bluesky’s recent arbitrary & deeply biased bans concern you, move off their PDS and use Blacksky’s viewer instead. You are not stuck with them, & its gotten incredibly easy to do. If you haven‘t looked at it in a while, its easier than you think You get to still see people they targeted too

Move PDSes. Don’t put it off any longer. Its so easy and while Bsky mods will still go out of their way to fuck some people (like Link) you can be somewhat divorced from their bullshit

OMG, I WAS JOKING BUT IT'S LITERALLY THE WAIFUS

You can easily get somewhat outside of Bluesky’s arbitrary moderation. Blacksky‘s tools are dead simple for migrating PDSes now - if you havent looked at it in a bit, its so much easier than you probably think

Do not form an attachment to this man. It is free ninety nine to not form an attachment to this guy. he is addicted to disagreement like a dope fiend and clearly lives for inane online knife fights that leaves him bleeding out hours later because of a small disagreement. Just don’t. It’s absurd.

Inescapably clear that there are in fact no moderation rules or policy, simply a moving target that is determined on a case by case basis.

the moderation policy on this web site is that everyone is allowed to doxx and send death threats to trans people and also trans people aren't allowed to get mad about that or so much as gently mock their abusers and harrassers.

Legitimately why else in a t&s head picking sides in completely bland beef. Nothing even really happened this time, it was all deeply contrived fake hurt? The answer is that when they kick us we swarm and what follows is that sweet sweet engagement sacrifice poison they love so much

I appreciate the hurt of not wanting to leave this place to THEM, but honestly if us being hurt is the main content boost that sucks people into the refresh slot machine, isn’t the ethical thing to starve them out? Wouldn’t it be justice to let this place become a blue maga ouroboros

She was in the crosshairs of some of this site's most abusive harassers so it's probably a targeted mass-report.