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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1h

She's a one-woman Wilhoit's law in-group.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 3h

Once, just once in my life, I want a Sunday show to ask a politician about something like this, and when they inevitably respond "I have seen it 🙈" the anchor needs to say: "Alright, let's take 20 seconds and all watch it together!"

DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 21h

You're free to block whatever accounts you please.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 21h

On Android Chrome it just defaults to the profile tab.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 22h

I'm on Android.

Weirdly, it doesn't show up on Chrome, but does work with Samsung's browser.

DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 22h

What's the trick to getting the "lists blocked by" tab?

Mine just goes from "List blocking" to "Lists on" 🤷‍♂️

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

People are free to block on their own. This list will follow what its description says.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

I've added some, but not all. Most of the Twitter accounts being mirrored aren't actually engaging in trolling (since most of the Twitter userbase is already quite fascist-friendly)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA folks don’t understand that the culture of Bluesky involves everyone just blocking people they don’t like without any engagement.

They think they’re “shadowbanned” by some unseen force from above.

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Every single government agencies all joined at once tonight.
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What are they losing it over?!!!
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Every single government agency joined BlueSky all at once tonight. Including the White House.
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I'm shadowbanned on bluesky. As soon as you say anything remotely conservative, you get shadowbanned and no one can see your posts there. I can't even make fun of these folks there.
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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Careful just mass-blocking followers. You'll pick up a lot of journalists who are following for professional reasons.

Here's a curated block list that just targets the inauthentic accounts following and interacting with them:

bsky.app/profile/raha...

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, that's impressive. Usually Stancil thrives on being told he's wrong.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Actually nevermind, I think Bluesky just suspended a bunch of gov accounts that hadn't been used in several months 🤦‍♂️

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

And now Bluesky suspended the normal Department of Ed account 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@usedgov.bsky.social

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Starve them of oxygen:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the creator has cleaned it up now. There used to be about 8-10 accounts that didn't really belong.

Now the only ones I would object to are @tsa.gov and @fda.gov

TSA is just some very boring and normal posting

FDA has never posted

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Blocklist available here:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

@usdeptofed.bsky.social is the newly created (and blue-checked 🤦‍♂️) fascist version.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

@TSA.gov and @usedgov.bsky.social are posting normal stuff and don't belong on this list.

Several of the other accounts haven't posted anything ever.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

That list has several normal accounts that aren't posting MAGA propaganda.

Try this one instead:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

That one is over-inclusive. Several of those accounts are normal.

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

👍

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

That list is over-inclusive and has some accounts that aren't posting propaganda and trolling.

This list is just the troll accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

Block 'em all

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone needs it:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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