I cannot stress how important Rebecca has been for trans gamedevs. I wouldn't be here if not for her and her wife. Help if you can.

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

haze

every day I wake up next to my beautiful girlfriend and open bsky to discover the site got 50% more Hitler while I was asleep

you can say your purpose is the protocol and that can be true, but it's also true that once you run a social media site you are a social media company. you can no longer brush off bad moderation with "just roll your own" after you attract millions of people to your app. that's absurd.

Jinx & Silco #Arcane 🩵💜

Journey #art

bluesky: community moderation! we're all about community moderation! we want you to moderate yourselves! we are giving you the tools to do it yourself! one of the biggest and longest running community mod lists:

Daily bunny no.3099 is waiting for a turn

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)

Learning that the CEO of this website reads books from the middle to skip the "boring" parts really clarified the whole project for me tbh.

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

I want to thank everybody for their transition timelines btw! It became impossible for me to go, "It won't work for me," when I kept seeing people with much more masculine faces than mine suddenly become babes.

cloudy night ☁️

what kind of pants do ghosts wear? just a paranormal trousers

Daily bunny no.3098 brings the snacks

Daily bunny no.3094 has been caught red-handed

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments. 224 YEARS. This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change. We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

voyage 🐟 #art

Flush Orange. 🧡

We fixed the vintage IBM printer at the Computer History Museum yesterday. Introduced in 1959, the IBM 1403 line printer provided fast, high-quality output, printing 132 character lines. Unfortunately, one column stopped printing, so we disassembled the printer to fix a bad hammer. Keep reading...

People never seem to care much about this painting, but I like the simplicity. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

#pixelart #aseprite Sunset Field (2024)

i love how instead of just building a place for people to interact every one of these intellectually stunted coders thinks they're on some divine mission to shape human behavior

We are over 4000 future community members strong now! (That's how many folks have signed up for Northsky Social.) Thank you for your trust and support, and we look forward to welcoming you to safer skies soon!

@themossking1.bsky.social to me: "So any time I need a roach—" just normal entomology things, lol

We had our operational runway DOUBLE today thank to all the recurring support from the community, and a few generous one-time donors. We promise to put this money to good use in accelerating our migration efforts, and steward and save it for operational costs to keep the service running long-term!

I understand Jay's thinly veiled crash out on a human level — getting dogpiled sucks, and a lot of people act annoying as hell when they don't like something. But also, all of this happened because BlueSky doesn't respond to good-faith criticism. We tried it and nobody felt heard or respected.

just say no to age verification it’s indefensible

“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it

The Elrics enjoying a moment of rest <3 #fma

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

You can tell bluesky is a Democrat platform because much like the DNC its leadership is trying as hard as possible to cater to people that hate them and will never come here unless it's to try to stir shit up for content/grifting purposes.

Jay, you are hurting people. With your actions, lack of actions, lack of compassion, and lack of tact, you are hurting people. People who adored your platform, saw it as home, the one safe social space, people who talked publicly about excitement to contribute when paid services were rolled out.

The truth of the matter is, your platform is unsafe, has severely inconsistent and discriminatory moderation, deeply unprofessional leadership, and a complete and total lack of transparency around much-needed improvements. But go ahead, just keep saying “WAFFLES” in response to all that.

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Just as an aside Bluesky has addressed exactly zero of the concerns raised by the open letter to them about their treatment of Palestinians including the one basically set up for them to have a PR win- providing their TOS in Arabic

waffles brought in another 100 waitlisters

Meditate noodling over a previous daily

Alpha Testing is going well! We're successfully overcoming hurdles and moving bigger and bigger accounts. Our tools and PDS configuration are improving, and we're also working on finalizing an explainer video that should help folks wrap their heads around Migration and what it means on AT Protocol.

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bluesky partially owes its existence to the trans people that made it a fun, inviting place to be in those early days. i am not surprised that the CEO doesn't care about us -- i am not naive -- but i am angry that she acts like we are an annoyance. "if you don't like the way i treat you, leave"

the CEO of this site is trolling us because we asked for a transphobe -- someone who has done real harm to us -- to be removed from her platform. this sends a message to bad actors: not only will bluesky shield you, leadership will laugh about it. @jay.bsky.team needs to go. this is unsafe shit.

frog

*Internal screaming intensifies* Like, just, fully willfully *dodging* the point, here. It would be pretty funny if it wasn't about our safety.

By allowing him to continue they are choosing his side. They seem to imagine they are remaining neutral but they’re not. Singal says “I want to demonize and call for violence against trans humans”. Trans people say “we don’t want that”. Bluesky is choosing Singal’s side. There is no neutrality.