Seriously, to protect yourself from what’s happening here: block Willy Stencil. Do it now. ASAP. Stop engaging, and BLOCK don’t mute, don’t let him see you.

It makes me so angry that baldur’s gate won every single game of the year award in existence, but if it had been an indie game it would not have been allowed on the any storefront or funding platforms.

I have no confidence in the current head of moderation of this site's ability to fairly moderate this site.

#savespeech #stoppaypros While Stripe and its anti-porn CEOs are to blame, kickstarter needs to be forced to walk this back. If you have time, submit a ticket to them below. All you need is an email. With enough backlash, we MIGHT get them to reconsider. We never know till we try

Okay, hang on Aaron. When users identify a patten of moderation decisions that have a disproportionate effect on a marginalized community, or disproportionately target that community, an objection can be raised as to the neutrality of the moderation infrastructure.

go yell at them. you don't need an account help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/req...

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

top democrats have decided the country should live under permanent republican minority rule

media helping to make peaceful revolution impossible: haha fuck yeah! yes!! media noticing violent revolution is becoming inevitable: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck

tl;dr: - aaron rodericks name searches and finds someone making fun of him for something he did in fact do - aaron enters a given number of strikes based on how mad that makes him - when too many people get banned they silently raise the number of strikes needed to get banned

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

liberals simply do not actually pay attention to politics

Much like I say normal libs cannot allow themselves to imagine a better world, Dem politicians cannot allow themselves to state plainly what the problem is. "You are getting fucked." They can dance around it but they can't name the villains, and there are villains, because they want their money.

Someone tell me if "moderation publicly taking sides in random niche discourse and banning everyone on the side they don't like" is good for the health of a social media website.

listen, if enough of us block billy to where he shows up on clearsky, some very funny things will happen. maybe they'll even change how blocks work. if not for your own safety, if not in defiance of the perfidious and thin-skinned moderation of this site, do it for the comedy

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

thesis: this headline is bad antithesis: but the article is good synthesis: media companies know most people just read the headline so that is the intended message. the contents of the article allow them to plausibly deny that that was the message

looks pretty bad but also like it might become good with a sufficiently powerful edible

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Seems less than ideal that big finance can and will choke off funding to a pillar of civil society based on a transparently bad-faith political prosecution by an openly fascist president

The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

"if democrats also aggressively gerrymander, republicans will have to negotiate an end to this practice if they want to survive as a party" ok but why do we want to offer them a path to surviving as a party?

Financial censorship tactics honed on adult sites and sex workers are now being deployed against groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

wonder if there will be any downsides for the ruling class as they work on pricing the average person out of existence while simultaneously reveling in destroying all legal and peaceful recourse

there is no opposition party

The Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution. This remains the case.

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

i never get tired of these stories

*watches giant moth larva slowly encase giant lizard in silk over ten long minutes* hmm... like mothra, we must leave behind a better world

I went to have cocktails to celebrate the giant meat grinder but then someone turned on the giant meat grinder and it was really loud and scary. and you're laughing

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

you can't talk about declines in trust in public health without talking about the massive dark money campaigns led by right wing billionaires which targeted pandemic policies that threatened their profits + the politicians who supported them

personally i think it's ok to steal things you need to live even if means a multi billion dollar corporation needs to make a small insurance claim as a result

Just as a raw politics level, Janet Mills' veto of the data center moratorium in Maine suggests that she ultimately has no interest in running for office anymore

@janetmillsforme.bsky.social if you don't actually want to win you know you can just drop out right?

live your life in such a way that a bunch of wild elephants don't ides of march you

every trump nomination, regardless of position, should have been a unified "no" from the democrats that is literally the bare minimum, and the party not only failed at that in the first few months -- THEY ARE STILL FAILING AT THAT NOW

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

it's gonna be important to keep in mind over the next couple of years that the main problem anti-trump conservatives have with him is that he hasn't been oppressing us violently enough

"this should be a sign that both sides need to stop gerrymandering" actually unilaterally forcing republicans out of power and dismantling their party should be a national project. then we can start on the democrats

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

this is true, but they like a high rate of false positives because it allows them to act arbitrarily

*watches giant ape get hit by lightning and subsequently punch giant lizard unconscious* hmm... like kong, we must learn to adapt

Right wing: when we express our views on campus, people frown at us or even talk back. Left wing: when we express our views on campus, we get arrested and expelled. Center: we really need to protect these right wing students

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

Absolutely, part of what we’re seeing is an anti-woke coalition that won, they beat back the organizers and activists pushing for radical change but they have to pretend they didn’t dictate the strategy of the last campaign and the party overall.