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Danielle

@cirne.bsky.social

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My job is to simulate alternate realities and report on their development. (I'm a sci-fi writer.) they/them

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 11h

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle.

Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

There’s a Steep Cost for Ignoring Black Expertise

We live in a world bent on undermining Black life.

www.teenvogue.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.

It's resegregation in real time.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13h

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 13h

that's not a meaning I have ever heard anyone attribute to that phrase, I don't think. I would worry about someone who used it that way?

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 13h

I never got into the series but I know the plot beats, and you're right that those are some gorgeous visuals! reminds me a bit of Hey Brother for TAZ (which I still can't bring myself to rewatch because of the sad character arc, nearly a decade later 😅)

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 13h

totally fair! this animatic always stuck with me, though, just because of how well it communicated motion even without tweens 😄

The Room Where it Happens (animatic)

YouTube video by kimi kohi

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

I'm suddenly reminded of an animatic to "The Room Where It Happens" back when Hamilton... you know the one?

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

you've never seen an exododus like this one! (hey Kyle 🙂)

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

ohhhhh I'd forgotten about that one!!! so delicious, especially that absolutely stunning visual of riding the bullet out of the gun, complete chefkiss

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

SO MANY feels. and oh that video...! I wish the anime were real so much 😅

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

clearly you need a solar-powered aircraft 😂 #RaceTheSun

Race The Sun | Flippfly

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

thank you for surviving!!

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

@rajelaran.cyberelf.space I just saw the Starlight Brigade quote in your profile and it made me smile. hadn't done that yet today, so that was nice ❤️

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

but they'll have deleted the message at that point. that will have stopped the slapfight.

if the person *then* decides to slap them back, *that* would be the point to block them. and if they don't, then hey, back to civil discourse!

I wish our technology made it easier to apologize than to flee. 🤷

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

what the fuck, in my personal opinion, is wrong with people

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

okay but why should they block rather than delete the offending message, then? other than to slam the door in the target's face

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

oh I'm not feeling hurt in any way, dw! I appreciate you saying so, and I've been enjoying our discussion very much.

I've just learned that I need to walk back the "this is obviously wrong" to "this feels morally unacceptable to me in particular"

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

as have I, many, many times.

and every single time I do, I take the "fsck you" to the face, and it hurts, and it serves me right. I would never deny someone I've hurt the right to tell me so to my face. *that* would be unconscionable to me.

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 14h

yeah, my limit of "allow them to reconsider" ends when it affects someone else 😥 if someone is so lacking in self-control that they can't be bothered to think about it before they hit post, maybe the system should be putting them on a delay or something, like Gmail's "undo send".

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

there's a big difference on ❤️💔 because it's limited, not free-entry user input, so I'm disregarding that bit.

but anyway uh rahaeli and I figured out that my meter for "what is acceptable" is way miscalibrated anyway, so I retract the argument 😓

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

okay, wow, that is... not what I would consider acceptable behavior. to me that's "leave a bag of 🔥💩 on the doorstep and run away" levels of unacceptable.

it's clearly not to you, and I generally assume I'm in the minority whenever my views differ, so, uh, I guess we found our disagreement point? 😅

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

this question goes to @rahaeli.bsky.social too and is genuine. I honestly cannot think of a single scenario in which this easily-detectable behavior has a valid safety use.

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

I would like to pose you a question. You can think of a lot of good reasons to block someone, as can I.

Can you name even one scenario in which sending someone a notification, and then blocking them before receiving any notification back, is a safety behavior and not a harassment behavior? I can't.

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

why is a problem only a problem when someone does it more than once, or from more than one account? is there some rule that you're allowed to punch someone in the face, but only as long as you do it once, and you don't get your friends to join in? I'm feeling some extremely mobile goalposts here

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

all the more cause someone like me experiences a way different bsky than you do 😔 I saw the same on ao3: the behavior is optimized for the most active users, and casual users don't really get a stake.

and I can't even say that's *wrong*. it's just really alienating out here in nobody-cares-land.

Danielle @cirne.bsky.social · 15h

I'm specifically talking about a harassment behavior here. You likening it to people who don't know how to Discord is really specious.