"It was different! They were polite enough to use dogwhistles so I didn't have to feel bad associating with them."

There are a lot of Onion/Clickhole articles that have become meme-ified to the point that they serve as short-hand responses to posts - "Worst Guy You Know Makes Great Point," "No way to stop this says only place it happens," etc, but I feel like this is an underutilized one.

Not to mention they were a couple years into the tea party, and blocking every judicial nominee, and had started REDMAP, their plan to rig the next census to make sure they never lost another election.

But you know, all the bad stuff started 4 years later with Trump. 🙄

The Onion constantly gets things right by accident. Infowars constantly gets things wrong on purpose. Polar opposites.

Funny how this is the only post I've found from a Bluesky employee with the word "trans" made in the past 12 months. We can definitely trust this teams unbiased opinion that the biggest transphobe here hasn't broken any rules.

It's important to remember that the NRA only supports minorities in the abstract. If you say you want to take a groups guns away, they'll say you shouldn't. But when it comes to defending the rights of individuals in that group, the NRA will find an excuse to look the other way.

All those statements of user centrality, composable moderation, and safety for marginalized users on this platform, that’s all a bunch of bullshit, right?

They could restore Link’s account tomorrow and Jay and company would still be a bunch of transphobic, racist hypocrites.

Leaving was in fact the right way for Peterson to do his brand of politics.

They can, they do and they have in very recent memory. Even now they're banning people and removing posts simply for being critical of the team. Clearly the rules are incredibly flexible, they just like Singal and approve of his transphobia.

I'd be more capable of understanding the logic if it didn't feel just entirely bad faith. "He didn't break the rules and we won't change them just because the mob demands it" doesn't really work when we're less than a month out from them changing the rules to ban people who weren't sad a Nazi died.

If you were wondering why the sudden ban wave seemed inconsistent and illogical, that's the reason.

The bluesky moderation team essentially ignored their own TOS and instead used rightwing outrage from twitter to decide who to ban. They then sloppily issued a post hoc statement to justify it.

After using nazi outrage as a list of users to ban on bluesky, the moderation team immediately changed their terms of service to include "glorification" of violence in a statement posted to @safety.bsky.app

The ceo @jay.bsky.team also made a mealy-mouthed statement protecting the dead fascist

Funny how quickly "oh our hands our tied he hasn't broken the TOS" has turned into "we're vindictively banning people regardless of the TOS for questioning our moderation choices."

Jay: suspends a dozen people entirely on the sayso of an article from The Federalist calling them 'demonic', rewrites ToS after the fact to claim that the mere suggestion of speaking ill of the dead counts as "glorifying violence"

Three weeks later:

It wasn't just porn, it was a porn scam bot. He vindictively banned a trans woman for pointing out the head mod can't recognize scam bots.
The incident showed he's bad at his job and abuses his power. Either should have resulted in him being fired but his victim was trans so Jay shrugged it off.

Musk found a show that was cancelled two years ago with a trans character and got mad.

"Guide button focuses Steam" just makes when you hit the button in a non-steam app it brings up Steam.

The way to stop it from hijacking the guide button is "Test Input Devices" then "Setup Input device" and when it gets to the guide button, skip with A. This is incredibly unintuitive.

These are also problems that directly lead to Twitter becoming a Nazi bar: the execs refused to take action because they liked the most toxic people on the site and allowed transphobes to run wild while ignoring/mocking/punishing trans people for their concerns.
It's be nice to avoid that outcome.

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

MySims Cozy Bundle is a port/remaster of the Wii games. They also did remasters of Sims 1&2.

I’ve said it before, any judge who so comfortably and clearly shows their prejudice should immediately be barred from their jobs, but we don’t live in a world that makes sense.

We live in a world where white people get to deem racism as a simple inconvenience and be the sole arbiter of its weight.

My first assumption was "Toriel," which at this point would probably get the same response.

They're just authoritarians buying up a major media company and taking it private. I bet you can't even name one example of that being absolutely fucking terrible for everyone involved within say the last 4 years.

I once had one of my mom's coworkers mistake me for her own kid. Later my mom encountered my doppleganger and was like "yeah you know what, I see it." I never encountered my supposed clone first hand so either we're very similar or both our moms are faceblind and don't know it.