The Link banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality. Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative, Blacksky, has been able to become independent plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵

Sen. Dick Durbin presses Pam Bondi on FBI personnel reportedly being asked to flag instances of Trump's name appearing in the Epstein files. Bondi says she's "not going to discuss anything about that with you." Durbin: "Eventually, you're going to have to answer for your conduct."

Support each other and keep Bluesky fun!

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

This shit just keeps getting worse and worse.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

As Newsom's Press Office said, "This is a BFD for Democracy." 🤘🏼

Greta: "I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.” Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back? From my understanding: Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned. opencollective.com/blacksky

This is such bullshit.

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES petition by Republican Pennsylvania legislators invoking the discredited ISL theory to challenge a pro-voting executive order passed by President Joe Biden along with other Pennsylvania-specific voting policies. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night order, Judge Immergut, a Trump-appointee, has BLOCKED Trump from deploying the National Guard from ANY state or D.C. into Oregon.

they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people

“Oh yeah if you’re gay im ok with that” Well now I know you aren’t ok with it.

If I didn't know better, I'd say the people running BlueSky don't actually believe in decentralized moderation

So let me get this today’s drama right: * Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait * Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week * Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay * But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

Banning Link, a known Black user who has been here since the beginning. He is an amazing person. He hasn't done anything wrong. Bluesky exists because of Black & trans people joining and inviting everyone and making it active. Am getting tired seeing friends being banned for just talking

It's like watching a forum mod powertrip/meltdown, except they are also fash, AI-worshipping tech-junkies too

All these posts from the Bluesky team suddenly speaking out about dehumanizing language because people came up with slurs for AI are giving "friend who only became concerned about gun violence on September 10th 2025".

It's funny how open bigotry and doxing doesnt get you banned from here, but criticizing the devs/mods does🙄 Almost like the tos is meaningless, and all that matters is whether or not you kiss the ground the devs/mods walk on.

BS users need to fully understand that this site was never built around the needs of online marginalized ppl to have even a safe-ish space but rather that it uses marginalized ppl to maintain its standing and then discards of us when we become a bit too mouthy and inconvenient for its bottom line.

I missed the part where the louvre calls in bomb threats and doxxes people But yea thats totally the same thing as screenshoting yalls goofy ass posts.🙄

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Thank you. My school (New College of Florida) didn’t choose - the governor did that for us. Please tell your schools that doing this will not save their institutions- Trump will destroy them. My school isn’t even as good as GOP favorite Hillsdale College now. It was once far superior.

Me and the boys pulling up to protect the trans homies

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

They certainly arent beating the transphoic allegations either, theyve been banning and falsely labeling trans people for speaking up against mistreatment. This place ain't just cooked its fucking charcoal

Yeah like remember when everyone harassed the mods into fixing the “slurs in handle” loophole? To this day you can still find people with “bsky.team” in their handle 🤢 disgusting

For over two years, even back when it was invite-only. Moderation is hard, but abuse always disproportionately affects already-marginalized communities, and that’s where you have to focus. I’ve never seen evidence they’ve done that.

In absence of official moderation explanations, this might have been the one that got me clapped. Shame I wasn't bluffing.

It's funny how open bigotry and doxing doesnt get you banned from here, but criticizing the devs/mods does🙄 Almost like the tos is meaningless, and all that matters is whether or not you kiss the ground the devs/mods walk on.

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

"how come they banned link when he didnt break TOS" so theyre currently engaging in a complex maneuver called the Reverse Singal where they're rewriting the TOS to retroactively have been broken. the team is currently hot in discussion if "he was black and mean to me" can go into the guidelines

90° outside and of course our AC decides to go out. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

So this was a fucking lie bsky.app/profile/jay....

You're fucking scum @jay.bsky.team

racism in the trans community is extremely real and extremely dangerous. unfortunately, a lot of white trans people haven't done the work to be anti-racist and don't notice how they mistreat and dehumanize Black and brown trans women. you gotta put the work in. bring POC into your social circles.

Link is an IRL colleague and friend; his values and commitment to those values is beyond reproach. Through her actions, @jay.bsky.team continues to demonstrate her values are rotten.

There's no mainstream social media site that's gonna beat any -ism allegations because all these mainstream platforms are successful because they operate within that hierarchy and benefit from it.

Bluesky is never going to beat the racist allegations. Its been one "mistake" after another with these people

We, Black people and POC, are being deported en masse right now. The least you could do is not be a raging hemorrhoid about people dropping slurs and calling it social criticism

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

They say they couldnt ban singal because he "didnt violate TOS". But turn around and ban link who actually hadn't violated the TOS.