I think people in leading corporate roles for a company/protocol should not do memeified nonsense on main about their own TOS/policy issues. Like, suck it up, buttercup, you are running the ship, have more dignity than cringe Elon posting if you want to have a better social media site

my favourite thing using the Merlin app is that now i know there are kingfishers in my area even though i never even got close enough to one to realise it's a kingfisher

Belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) – From the Instagram archive… I love seeing kingfishers, but they rarely let me get close enough for a decent photo. I actually like how I could frame this one against the culvert. www.instagram.com/ryan.bebej.photography 🪶 #birds #birding #wildlifephotography

I’m yelling at him bc he’s being flippant about our safety. He could have just said nothing, but instead he seems to believe it’s fine if trans ppl’s safety is endangered as long as no TOS is violated. Yeah, it’s not his department, but the lack of solidarity is a personal choice he’s making.

This is actually the part that is upsetting me the most from both him and Jay. I completely understand that bsky is a smol bean and the reality is that they are caving every time legal action is threatened that could take them down. Best option would be to just say that, IMO, even if obliquely.

i don't really see much merit to yelling at paul here as he's not T&S (and i gotta say, surely it is not ideal for the company to have every dev be required to justify its moderation), but aside from this being substantially false, a TOS that permits people like him is simply a flawed TOS.

Whether or not you choose to believe it sometimes to maintain a healthy community you have to ban people who haven't violated the ToS. Bad actors take pleasure in "not breaking any rules" it's classic "I'm not touching you, can't do anything if I'm not touching you" taunting.

ermmmm actually it’s a protocol 🤓👆

if I was feeling spicy I would ask Paul exactly which trans woman told him was ok for him to call us dolls like that.

Toussaint Louverture is interesting because he's an actual real life exemplar of the TvTrope "Magnificent Bastard".

the entire internet loves paul frazee, the bluesky dev that wears little butterfly wings and is learning portuguese! *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you the dev is telling trans people their concerns are "tedious"

i'm so sorry sir ᵐᵃ'ᵃᵐ ˀ sir i came expecting spices and herbs but that is clearly not your business. the townsfolk, they ... they called you the Hero of Thyme. your green tunic and hat also led me to believe you would have what i need. hiyaa to you too, sir

Ppl will hate this but it’s true

we buzz hair tomorrow

Your CEO used her official work account to remind people of the moderation policy and offer thoughts and prayers to Charlie Kirk, but she never did either of those things for Melissa Hortman, Harper Moyski, or Jonathan Joss. To many of us, that gives the impression of bias in the moderation system.

When the camera pans around outside and there’s like 100 people chasing him. An absolutely perfect moment in antifascist cinema.

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

just added the labubu / lakiki meme into my slides for today 😌

A common thread between Bsky management's attitudes and the increasing bigotry from liberals/centrists is that the gentry really, really resent something they're part of being associated with trans people.

Bluesky's current moderation policy is crafted specifically to allow the coordination of mass transphobic harassment campaigns off-site. Crafted specifically to protect one guy, a well known pedophilia apologist, harasser, and child doxxer who is *currently* openly collaborating with kiwi farms.

This is an abject failure of moderation policy, no normal person would think to choose to protect fucking *kiwi farms* over their core userbase. To protect a guy who writes pedophilia apologia over its core user base.

for the love of christ log off and hire a PR person for your fucking moderation comms and everything else comms while you're at it

your lead mod being moots with both a pedophilia advocate and a transphobic bigot "gives me the ick", but both those users didn't get banned he sure did ban a lot of Palestinians for being from Palestine though and banned people who noticed he was reskeeting stolen teen porn on his main account

I mean, this is Protestantism.

i probably should just stop being sociopaths idk

the problem is as usual that no one is good enough

On the subject of the "inevitability" of AI: "emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable."

Big congratulations to Chunk for taking the crown as this year's #FatBearWeek winner! Today feels like as good a day as any to tell you all about a little trick that bears have to ensure pregnancy takes place during OPTIMAL FATNESS.

Having re-read your comment, I think you're absolutely wrong about this. You can't bring, say, trans folks and people who think trans folks are subhuman monsters together by algorithm. It's not a thing. The problem isn't misunderstanding. It's literally bigotry and racism.

Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets

Everything I see from Bsky leadership (especially Jay and Why) is not only extremely disappointing, it’s also incredibly embarrassing.

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

"Langauge in the Brian" - free title for grant proposal for studying the neural basis of the Transposed Letter effect

cool that's the last member of bsky staff who still had some reliability is also doubling down in support of his boss catastrophic pr and the terrible mod management

i'm trying to get the tech people who follow me to draw, the artists who follow me to fiddle with tech, the marxist academics to read lesbian fiction, the lesbians to read marxist academic texts, the ...

D'anciens élèves du collège Saint-Pierre du Relecq-Kerhuon, de Notre-Dame du Kreisker et de Sainte-Ursule, à Saint-Pol-de-Léon, déposeront, mercredi 8 octobre, 60 nouvelles attestations faisant état de violences, y compris sexuelles, dans ces établissements catholiques du Léon. 👨 1/

CEO: we're all trying to improve this place You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right CEO: You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right CEO: WAFFLES

Il y a la bonne et la mauvaise laïcité. La mauvaise laïcité, elle fait former ses enseignants par des institutions religieuses. La bonne laïcité, elle fait aussi former ses enseignants par des institutions religieuses, mais bon, c'est de la bonne laïcité parce que Bolloré et Le Pen gueulent pas.

BIG SUBSTORM NOW! Naked-eye aurora is being reported from many central U.S. locations.

Rather than take any accountability for her actions or those of her team, Jay's solution is always something along the lines of: "if you don't like how we repeatedly target systemically marginalized communities for harassment, then figure it out yourself."

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

I'm so happy to see the Canadian Linguistics Society issuing this statement - I want to see more linguists leveraging our expertise and scientific grounding to push back against linguistic oppression, and I think statements like this are a fantastic step! #linguistics 🧪

i can't actually remember a single occurrence of jay doing something good

i would love to see an isaac chotiner interview that digs into this a little bit

Hm.

ok preparing to jump ship lol