Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

I mean…this is super basic business stuff. As a former ops manager, I can tell you of my experiences of being forced to interact with coked out rich white guys who can grasp this super basic principle. A comms manager/rep is who all questions go to and can be a scapegoat for when they fuck up

if you don’t actually want to run a social network, don’t brag about all the posts on your own product you hate

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal. bsky.app/profile/aman...

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

This platform should have been a Discord server

I don’t know man lot of people have been capriciously banned or suspended for not violating the ToS, it’s clearly less about that and more about a personal point of pride and not letting your user base win. Kinda hard to read it any other way.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Is there a Waleed Aly Pitchbot yet?

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title “Tom Clancy’s What To Expect When You’re Expecting”

I’m sorry, if you’re going to surreptitiously bribe a journalist in 2025, one hundred and sixty American dollars is criminally insufficient, why is the Adams campaign so chintzy

this seems like a very good idea actually

No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment. If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business. Please continue making censorship unprofitable.

slightly diminish a band: INmoderation

I realize that this may be seen as absurd by some, but I would argue that financial services can be as detrimental, if not more, than alcohol and tobacco.

It could also mean: PG-13 or R rated movies, music, books, or TV shows News sites Protest safety material Keep in mind that Project 2025 called for the jailing of “pornographers” and the arrest & prosecution of “librarians and teachers.”

Because I know a lot of y’all don’t follow sex work discourse, I’ll break this down (again): “Harmful to minors” (as it is described in the many bills) extends to anything the right deems “inappropriate.” This mean: Abortion access LGBTQIA+ health aimed at teens Birth control Consent sex ed

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

No problem! I say yes to “eating” and “having somewhere to live” so I don’t feel bad about asking people to pay for my work

Mark has enough money to end food instability in multiple states. He could even just choose one small state and pay off everyone's medical debt too. He hasn't. no billionaire is your friend.

Way too many religious org's are actually cults: youtu.be/tQXmxrk7dcI #Straya #Auspol Fellow Aussies, be aware that the ABC now has a strong presence on YouTube, so you can sub to this channel on YT instead of having to faff around with FreeToAir or iView to catch their good news shows.

This this this and so many folks from the margins who are the canaries in the coal mine in this country have tried to explain this to the center since forever

Do we still have to take their abortion shit seriously

just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

This argument used to be about stuff like universal healthcare and now it’s about specific groups of people deemed an acceptable loss

Imagine if Labor implemented reform that actually made things better in consultation with disabled people and advocates instead of whatever this is. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I want that weird little check mark but I don't want to work that hard for it. someone vouch for me, we all know I'm me

had the idea of collecting the most ominous or threatening images of MrBeast but fear nothing can top this

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail. Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

Can confirm that MRA bullshit was A THING in the late '70s, where they were at the time mostly about fucking over women divorcing abusive men.

Could this be the one area where AI does a better job that humans? Whomst can say?

Age verification? …Blow on a cartridge

Again I ask: what “data misuse”allegedly occurred? Seek should report it to the OAIC so Employment Hero can respond and inform users www.smartcompany.com.au/exclusive/se...

This framing is so interesting to me because Labour literally called me a "flea" that they were happy to "shake off" despite the fact that I was very involved in the party. But I am apparently still supposed to vote for them even after they told me not to do so. Is my vote important or not?

That means the task is to stop giving our energy to the establishment centre-left, and build the institutions and networks that will support us as they collapse. I don't know how we're going to produce insulin in a war against fascism, but we'd better find a way.

First Dog on the Moon Homewares! Created by Hey Saurus from cartoons by moi - this is a dream come true. Plates!

Right. As an activist I reached out to many, including those in power and opposition. They ignored Robodebt until the courts found it unlawful at the end of 2019, despite activists such as myself asking them to get onboard the campaign since 2016

i like how self-conscious they are about how wildly outdated their book is

I don't like Corbyn, I never have, but it absolutely will not be his fault if we end up with a Tory and/or Reform government. It will be Labour's fault for abandoning their voters and encouraging far-right narratives that can only benefit Reform.

this is worth repeating honestly. if you are in Australia and would like to look more into it, you can do so here: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern

None with, as usual, a great thread

Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.

Collective Shout are not a feminist organisation, but an anti-sex organisation, and founder Melinda Tankard Reist is anti-abortion. And what’s great for them is that they have positioned themselves in such a way that if you disagree with them, they can call you a paedo. It’s creeping christofascism.

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