Jesse Singal
@jessesingal.com
Journalist, co-host of Blocked and Reported, author of The Quick Fix and an upcoming book on youth gender medicine. Mostly just asking questions.
More info: JesseSingal.com
More info: JesseSingal.com
Premium: Bluesky Users Go To War With Mods Over... Waffles
It's not about waffles.
www.blockedandreported.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Jesse Singal
Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?
October 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?
I have used the forbidden term (WAFFLES) so it is now a "Nazi dog whistle"
Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?
Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?
October 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I have used the forbidden term (WAFFLES) so it is now a "Nazi dog whistle"
Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?
Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?
folks should definitely read this
Clearly, because he hasn’t just outright said “we should kill trans kids” that means his thin veneer of “just asking questions” is actually real and he has never taken actions to harm trans people ever.
Read this from Julia Serano www.juliaserano.com/av/JesseSing...
Read this from Julia Serano www.juliaserano.com/av/JesseSing...
www.juliaserano.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
folks should definitely read this
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In my opinion if you are mad at Jay about the waffles thing -- which I agree was heinously, grotesquely offensive and possibly illegal -- it will be hard to look yourself in the mirror unless you stop posting here forever and go start a newer, better social media platform with more safety features.
October 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In my opinion if you are mad at Jay about the waffles thing -- which I agree was heinously, grotesquely offensive and possibly illegal -- it will be hard to look yourself in the mirror unless you stop posting here forever and go start a newer, better social media platform with more safety features.
lmao
October 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
lmao
Reposted by Jesse Singal
Hmm suit yourself
![Herzog argued that thirteen-year-olds were in the chatroom because
"pedophilia typically emerges around the age of twelve or thirteen",
[125:0:45:45 so Singal later concludes "thirteen-year-old pedophiles should have a place to talk about how to manage their condition or orientation or whatever you want to call it. [125):1:13:48 He adds that a problem with the subject is that people conflate destigmatizing discussions about one's attraction to children with destigmatizing the act of having sex with children, and he attributes this to "some leftist communities", an example he cites being "some actual pedophiles in like LGBT groups and stuff" though he acknowledges most LGBT people are against that. [125]:0:49:40
They also discuss use of the term "minor-attracted person" ("MAP") as an alternative to the term "pedophile", and Herzog mentions her emall exchange with an "actual pedophile" who explained that it was "pure hysteria" to believe the euphemism was coined to destigmatize pedophilia because it was "coined by mental health professionals and it's simply an umbrella term for pedophilia, hebephilia, etcetera."[125):0:34:00 Herzog and Singal cite their own past work about pedophiles in The Stranger and New York magazine respectively as further reading on the topic,
[125):0:35:45 such as Singal's 2016 article "How Should Society Handle
Pedophiles Who Haven't Hurt Anyone?" (which also heavily cites Cantor).
[133] After Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 arrest, Singal and Herzog argued it was not technically correct to call Epstein a pedophile;[8]|9|10] Singal also called this semantic distinction a "mainstream scientific opinion". [134] It isn't clear how young Epstein's youngest victims were, but at least one accuser claims that he sought girls "as young as I could find them" (135] One 2020 lawsuit alleges that he abused victims as young as eleven years old.136]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:skjqm65g4jzvuulsdxygyl3t/bafkreifmrifpm4hmxt43jpama5vot4qnpp4aqaekqzjgawqgnmd5s7nm24@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hmm suit yourself
Reposted by Jesse Singal
how much do they pay you to forget about your conscience? Try answering this one honestly Jesse: have you ever accepted money from the republican party or the heritage foundation?
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
how much do they pay you to forget about your conscience? Try answering this one honestly Jesse: have you ever accepted money from the republican party or the heritage foundation?
Reposted by Jesse Singal
This is like letting a serial killer stay in your home because he hasn't killed anyone "yet".
You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.
You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.
There's the substance of the signal issue, and then there's the pattern of behavior that jay was responding to -- the constant, _constant_ off topic responses that make this tedious.
On the substance, it's really just that the guy didn't violate the ToS. I'm sorry, that's just it
On the substance, it's really just that the guy didn't violate the ToS. I'm sorry, that's just it
October 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is like letting a serial killer stay in your home because he hasn't killed anyone "yet".
You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.
You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.
Reposted by Jesse Singal
Oh hey look who's sharing in your funny in-joke! You didn't wanna sit with the dolls after all, so by all means, meet your new friends and allies!
bsky.app/profile/jess...
bsky.app/profile/jess...
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Oh hey look who's sharing in your funny in-joke! You didn't wanna sit with the dolls after all, so by all means, meet your new friends and allies!
bsky.app/profile/jess...
bsky.app/profile/jess...
I know people are very invested in being mad at this but it is an objectively insane complaint to level at The Atlantic on every level
so you had them sign a waiver before their “before their brain was done developing”? What a hypocrite.
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I know people are very invested in being mad at this but it is an objectively insane complaint to level at The Atlantic on every level
I know a subset of individuals have genuine difficulty distinguishing reality from whatever they see on here, but the idea that I would 'out' anyone is idiotic and insulting. The teenager in question signed a release form agreeing to have their image used in a story involving youth gender identity.
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I know a subset of individuals have genuine difficulty distinguishing reality from whatever they see on here, but the idea that I would 'out' anyone is idiotic and insulting. The teenager in question signed a release form agreeing to have their image used in a story involving youth gender identity.
I genuinely don't think I've ever done a post on here that a reasonable person would consider to be 'bigotry.' Literally not one. If someone points one out to me I'm happy to consider apologizing and taking it down but I'd be surprised!
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I genuinely don't think I've ever done a post on here that a reasonable person would consider to be 'bigotry.' Literally not one. If someone points one out to me I'm happy to consider apologizing and taking it down but I'd be surprised!
MODS
MOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDS!
MOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDS!
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
MODS
MOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDS!
MOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDS!
Reposted by Jesse Singal
This was my birthday treat while visiting Iceland! 💜🎂🎈
October 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This was my birthday treat while visiting Iceland! 💜🎂🎈
There are these WAFFLES places in Berlin that, in a nice touch, will write your name in chocolate sauce. This was a good effort! Lebanese (I think) staff working in Germany trying to understand an American guy's name. I love this world.
(Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk)
WAFFLES
(Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk)
WAFFLES
October 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There are these WAFFLES places in Berlin that, in a nice touch, will write your name in chocolate sauce. This was a good effort! Lebanese (I think) staff working in Germany trying to understand an American guy's name. I love this world.
(Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk)
WAFFLES
(Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk)
WAFFLES
"Jesse should get kicked off of Bluesky because he called us crazy"
Right, so calling all of your users violent and mentally ill isnt threatening? Cause i sure do. Id love to hear your stance on this!
bsky.app/profile/jess...
bsky.app/profile/jess...
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Jesse should get kicked off of Bluesky because he called us crazy"
This is literally in the article. I explicitly said the thing I'm accused of attempting to cover up. I still don't understand why people feel the need to angrily respond to articles they haven't read.
September 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is literally in the article. I explicitly said the thing I'm accused of attempting to cover up. I still don't understand why people feel the need to angrily respond to articles they haven't read.
there aren't any rules. someone can come forward talking about their own child in a manner designed to influence public opinion, but then if anyone *responds* publicly, they're committing some sort of gross violation. the point all along has been to suppress disagreement on this subject.
It’s a little weird of them to decry people chiming in about a kid’s medical condition when they’re the ones who made it a public post in the first place.
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
there aren't any rules. someone can come forward talking about their own child in a manner designed to influence public opinion, but then if anyone *responds* publicly, they're committing some sort of gross violation. the point all along has been to suppress disagreement on this subject.
1/ It's unrealistic to have a system where advocates can publicly argue that 5yos have a sophisticated understanding of sex vs gender id/expression -- an idea that flies in the face of effectively all research going back to like Kohlberg ~1966 -- but you can't publicly question their claim.
September 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
1/ It's unrealistic to have a system where advocates can publicly argue that 5yos have a sophisticated understanding of sex vs gender id/expression -- an idea that flies in the face of effectively all research going back to like Kohlberg ~1966 -- but you can't publicly question their claim.
Here's the "director's cut" of my article in The Economist (read: too long and insufficiently edited) plus some opining on how hard (impossible?) it is to interpret youth gender research when there is no shared definition of "gender"
jessesingal.substack.com/p/childhood-...
jessesingal.substack.com/p/childhood-...
Childhood Gender Research Is Increasingly Meaningless Because No One Knows What 'Gender' Means Anymore
The ‘director’s cut’ of my latest Economist article, plus some further opining
jessesingal.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Here's the "director's cut" of my article in The Economist (read: too long and insufficiently edited) plus some opining on how hard (impossible?) it is to interpret youth gender research when there is no shared definition of "gender"
jessesingal.substack.com/p/childhood-...
jessesingal.substack.com/p/childhood-...
I would have gotten away with it if not for Bluesky sleuths
September 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I would have gotten away with it if not for Bluesky sleuths
I don't understand the point of getting mad at something that is the opposite of what the person you are tweeting at believes. Yes, that's me, classically calling for people to get fired over one bad tweet. Folks should find better hobbies.
A paramedic, Jesse. Maybe making $12 an hour.
Fired for a post that said "Maybe Charlie Kirk reaped what he sow" (sic)
Fired for a post that said "Maybe Charlie Kirk reaped what he sow" (sic)
September 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I don't understand the point of getting mad at something that is the opposite of what the person you are tweeting at believes. Yes, that's me, classically calling for people to get fired over one bad tweet. Folks should find better hobbies.