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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 16h

If only someone had warned them this would happen.

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 17h

Fucking this. 😢

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 18h

omg 😆

allenidaho.bsky.social @allenidaho.bsky.social · 21h

a person petting a kitten on a table with other kittens

ALT: a person petting a kitten on a table with other kittens

media.tenor.com

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 22h

here take the idol you must not let it fall into their hands

a little orange kitten wrapped up in tape and gauze so the vet can examine it

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 21h

Can't lose if you never fight, amirite??? -- NYT

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

Opinion The New York Times Editorial Board: The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire's megaphone was supposed to turn a profit, too?!

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 1d

I doubt you could get more than 91% of people to agree water is wet, it's as close to a consensus view as we'll see I think!

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 1d

I have intense schadenfreude for the de-credentialed press orgs. They all helped bring about this outcome, with the exception, I think, of Reuters.

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 2d

Asking assigned sex at birth has an immediate smell of incoming dumbfuckery, in medical and any other context.

So far the only time it's been necessary or useful to disclose is when the doctor was disoriented trying to find my cervix in a pelvic exam.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d

A fair and pretty uncontroversial take, tbh

The fact that cis people now have a genuinely useful social media home that isn’t a seething bed of misery, and actually feels chill, kind, and funny instead of toxic - is the work of Trans+ folks

Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 3d

trans people aren't being grandiose when we say we built this site. musk's hostility to us made us the first adapters, the proof that people wanted a twitter clone with fewer features. this site's existence is a result of a right wing agenda to kill us all.

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 3d

Awwwwwww

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 5d

Came here to say this, I mean, yeah, add the ICE stuff to the list of reasons to cancel … but it was already a long list!

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 18d

SO MUCH THIS!!!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18d

We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, I think you're laying down some friendly fire here. I read that post with a clear /s.

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 19d

I was going to say something like this.

I think about how it must have felt in 1940. Europe fallen. Carpet bombing in London, unrestricted submarine warfare. Victory must have felt unimaginable.

Today is dark, but there is still time to keep the key from turning.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19d

I genuinely have found stoic philosophy (and, weirdly despite it being in many ways an opposite, sceptical philosophy) very comforting and helpful in letting me fight on for this sort of purpose.

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 19d

Democracy dies in darkness lmao. WaPo helped drag it there and bury it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d

somehow they managed to do the free press but worse

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 19d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 19d

I stared into the void and the void stared back.

Noel J. Penaflor @noeljpenaflor.bsky.social · 20d

#pic #pics #pictures #picture
#cat #cats #caturday #catsky
#animal #animals #cuteanimals

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 21d

I just don't see how a mod team could reliably do this unless it's a situation of a criminal conviction.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22d

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Decarbonization at a distance

A post-American century that runs on sunshine.

doctorow.medium.com

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 21d

There's never been a social site or board with the kind of user self moderation tools available here. And more could be added.

Genuine question: do we *really* need moderation beyond removal of illegal content? Moderation will always be flawed.

Maybe opt-in community modding is the entire answer?

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21d

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then.

A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much Anil, your thread 100% reflects my sentiments on this issue.

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 21d

Bsky needs evenhanded moderation, or none.

Increasingly I think the former is impossible, so I prefer the latter.

Remove only illegal content. Let users do the rest.

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Diaries of a Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 21d

💯%.

Allowing some users (overwhelmingly, right wing voices) a safe space while banning their critics is the kind of slanted platform users abandoned with Twitter.

If you think users won't move on again if you don't learn from your mistakes (and fast), you are in for a surprise.

your friend natey @vrunt.social · 21d

then let people self-moderate. we have labelers, block lists, and other tools at our disposal. if you truly want to be hands-off and focus on architecture, then don't moderate. don't suspend accounts at all. be consistent.

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