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imtravis @imtravis.me · May 24

if you want a way to help Gazans and can’t afford to donate, this is a perfect way

Bluesky gained a userbase from people leaving the Nazi’s site. Now Bluesky admins need to decide if they want to be complicit it a different genocide.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · May 24

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter]
النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه.

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza.

These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform.

Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report.

We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes:

Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language.

Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future.

Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification.

Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic.

Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision.

In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community.

We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard.

We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future.

We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community.

[To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2h

Can everyone get cool with communism really quickly

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 2h

blessing you with Winnie this Tuesday

a small tuxedo cat sitting on a little cat couch in front of a sliding glass door. She is the sweetest perfect angel baby

imtravis @imtravis.me · 17h

he wants to know why you wont throw his toy

my dog Bucket, a brown and white pitbull, with his head cocked to the side, mouth hanging slightly open, and staring pathetically

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 18h

this is exactly who the Kamala 2028 team is going after lmao

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 19h

incredible things happening on X, the everything app

a tweet from Stella Paul that says “Cuomo murdered my husband and I am voting for him.
That's how bad things are in New York.”

it is quoting a tweet from Dov Hokind that says “URGENT ELECTION UPDATE:
As difficult as it is for me to post this video, I must face the reality as I see it.
I endorsed Curtis Sliwa and while I never thought I'd say this, I am now asking that you vote for Andrew Cuomo.
Why? Because if Mamdani wins, the very future of New Show more”

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 1d

the lady at the end. omg.

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 1d

lmao people of all types are HUNGRY for de-Nazification. the Lindas & Debras talking like they can smell a drop of blood in an ocean from a mile away.

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 1d

idk if it holds up to anyone else but i still love this movie

my Letterboxd review of Cloverfield. 3.5 stars. this is a Cuomo ad about what happens to New York if Zohran wins

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 1d

one of the best movie going experiences

the big problem of watching it now is modern resolutions make the movie look worse than the grainy, film projections we still had in most theaters

imtravis @imtravis.me · 1d

idk if it holds up to anyone else but i still love this movie

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 1d

forgot that this one is best viewed in 720p at the most

looks AWFUL in 1080p

imtravis @imtravis.me · 1d

NW one of my favorites

the poster for Cloverfield. Shows a messed up NYC with the Statue of Liberty missing the top half. The tagline is “some thing has found us”

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 2d

You: “you know one time i got a really good de-“

The Joker: *desperately trying to avoid hearing about the shrimp deal* “want to see a magic trick?”

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 2d

i really think a sequel where its Curse of Strahd but the movie ends before the campaign finishes would be the ultimate D&D experience

imtravis @imtravis.me · 2d

unironically one of the best movies of the decade

my Letterboxd review of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. 4 stars.

further proof that Pine is the best of the Chrises
behind our descent into fascism, the fact that we haven't gotten a sequel yet is one of the biggest disappointments of the last few years

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imtravis @imtravis.me · 3d

tired: my brother in christ

wired: my fellow member of the blast brigade

Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 3d

Three options in two paragraphs.

imtravis @imtravis.me · 3d

the craziest part of this is seeing leftists go crazy to defend a guy who in the last two weeks has publicly rejected socialism and communism!

imtravis @imtravis.me · 3d

FFVII Rebirth allows you time to really care about otherwise side characters from the original, like Jesse.

I would LOVE to see that kind of love and time for seeing more about FFVIII’s Cid, Fujin and Raijin, etc.

imtravis @imtravis.me · 3d

the Console Wars are truly over

PlayStation @playstation.com · 3d

Master Chief comes to PlayStation.

Halo: Campaign Evolved launches on PS5 next year, rebuilt and modernized with 2-player local co-op and 4-player online co-op: play.st/4oAYnr5