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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

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Quibble While Rome Burns

@nimi0us.blacksky.app

I just think I should have a good time if I gotta be here!!! Do I have the money for that? No!!!

A teeny, tiny, Black kitten fucking GNAWS a furry lavender blanket, their paws grasping their prey in their claws. Their human chills in the back on some kinda public transport machine, a white wire and their black tracksuit peaking out. But this is about the audacity of the weak lilac blanket and how it must be ATTACKED!

November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

I GOTTA HEAR ABOUT THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE FROM *THESE* C-

An anime werewolf yells to you while he points at Goku, who stands there looking goofy in his little orange get up.

October 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Side note: don't be like me and ignore the warnings to add collagen to cold water only

You WILL accidentally jello your drink if you don't lol

October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

October 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

October 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Yal really let Mandark outta his room to do a genocide and begging Black folk to save yal?!?

Caleb City staring up at a God who has no answers for the tomfoolery he's experiencing

October 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Seems to be working fine on my end, so I did it! Screenshot so folks know what's up.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team in a post: I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

HERbron James @meekayelah.bsky.social in a Quote: If you're able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they've handled things from day 1 for our community.

[Link to Blacksky's funding page on Open Collective is shared for support.]

JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social in reply: If you want to go someplace based on racial segregation, so long.

October 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Did a quick read and this confirmed what I was saying earlier: it's an at root ATProto issue and there's nothing stating protection from gen AI. At that, there's a section saying there's no culpability concerning what third parties do. Fair, but that plus no active protections ain't it.

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To market and promote the Services, or to spotlight you or your User Content as popular or trending on the Services, although we will not publicly imply your sponsorship or endorsement of Blacksky or the Services without your prior consent;
To provide administrative notices applicable to your use of the Services;
To respond to your questions and comments and provide user support;
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For any other use to which you give consent.

As a part of this use, we may access and view any User Content that you submit, including direct messages. We do not review direct messages unless such messages are (1) reported to Blacksky moderators; (2) are related to an investigation of significant violations of our Terms of Service; or (3) as required by law.

4. Third-Party Content and Services

As a core component of the Services, Blacksky connects its users to various third-party services on the AT Protocol, including personal data servers hosting content from other users on the AT Protocol and third-party software used to access and format content on Blacksky’s services (collectively, “Third-Party Services”). Blacksky does not control those Third-Party Services, and is not responsible for any information on any Third-Party Service.

You may also use your own Third-Party Services, including a third-party personal data server and third-party moderation tools. If you’re using a Third-Party Service, the developers of that service will provide the terms and conditions that govern your use of that Third-Party Service.

As with all social media sites, when you use the Services you will be exposed to posts from users of the Services and other services on the AT Protocol. Blacksky takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any user content. You understand that you may be exposed to user content that is inaccurate, unreliable, objectionable, or otherwise unsuited to your purpose.

October 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Anyways, fuck this fascist

A shitty Red Skull edit of Stephen Miller while he talks about wanting a violent coup

October 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

At the end of the day, I want people to make informed choices on who they support and put their money behind. I want people to finally have safe online platforms and communities.

I trust folk's actions...but I also know money changes people.

That's all, make your own opinions.

Happy Halluino! @aluino.blacksky.app 10/3/2025, 4:43:49 PM

I don't understand why people make assumptions instead of just asking the source...? Like damn, he's even given out resources to how to do it too.

How are they going to assume Rudy had to play ball with Bluesky devs to get Blacksky working?

Replying to post:

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team 10/3/2025, 4:31:37 PM: It's rewriting history to say I could only be successful by being friendly to Bluesky when I literally had them all blocked when started this project

HaunTed @knowtheory.net 10/3/2025, 4:25:01 PM: Oh no the conspiracy theories were correct

Quoting:

Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/3/2025, 4:04:41 PM: dec/acc

[A green AI graphic has "DEC/ACC" labeled in bold, the text "Decentralization Acceleration" below it. Below the text is a graphic users have likened to a nazi symbol, a simplified central graphic of a person linked to 7 others in a web. Below is a simplified field of grass and weeds.]

Richard Ferro, MD @richferro.com 10/3/2025, 5:34:48 PM: Mocking people won't endear them to play in your sandbox - it'll make them want to leave the sandbox entirely

After today's tonterias lots of ppl will migrate to @blackskyweb.xyz or @transrights.northsky.social but it's also likely more will just leave ATP entirely & that only hurts Bsky's mission

Replying to:

Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/3/2025, 11:01:09 AM: You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works

Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app 10/3/2025, 5:44:52 PM: Imagine thinking the majority of Blacksky wants to keep in touch [numerous crying emojis]

Quoting:

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team 10/3/2025, 5:42:11 PM:

we already catching strays (doesn't even warrant addressing but, damn 50cent-what-he- say-fuck-me-for.gif)

[A screenshot from an article on Blacksky is shown in the image. It says: To my knowledge there's only one alternate stack that runs atproto as a complete service, Blacksky. But this isn't a turnkey solution that you can stand up as your own independent alternative; Blacksky at present barely has documentation. And even Blacksky users are still more or less under the thumb of Bluesky's moderation service, if they intend to reach 99% of the network as it exists today.]

October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

But it's not all bad! I don't think he's a nazi and I don't think that's a fair characterization. But I DO think your being dense if you pretend like there's no overlap in attitudes here - or that it isn't potentially shady to crawl through Rudy's likes in ways we haven't with Northsky's folks.

e @efromdc.blacksky.app 10/3/2025, 4:09:23 PM: Bluesky team doing free promo for Blacksky now? So kind of them to keep driving their users away

Perry! @experimilk.bsky.social 10/3/2025, 11:58:45 AM: When a Jessie Singal like instigator showed up on blacksky at around the same time they sealed him in The Device and moved on within a few days. You should be looking for alternatives like this, and they're definitely in the works

Quoting:

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team 10/3/2025, 11:26:57 AM:
for those interested, this is where you pay us (Blacksky)

https://opencollective.com/blacksky#category- CONTRIBUTE

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app 10/3/2025, 3:45:15 PM: The defederation means I don't have to care right? I love that for me.

Quoting:
spooky jas @jazzybean.bsky.social 10/3/2025, 1:30:43 PM: Jay wildin up here ain't she? [crying emoji] [crying emoji]

[A picture is shown with two Black women fighting, with the lady clearly mollywhopping the other woman into the ground being labeled "Bluesky users". The Black woman cowering on the floor, her vulnerable belly exposed, is labeled "Jay". In the back, a Black man holds up a camera and watches on, he's labeled "Blacksky".]

October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

How much is "I work with these folk and have to keep things cordial" and how much is just the tech field being filled with people who should've taken enough humanities courses to realize alienating their audience is a bad business move, regardless of not wanting to be beholden to them?

I don't know

Chronologically by likes:
hailey.at 10/3/2025, 10:25:47 AM: No, you are not our product. Our product_is_ the code that we write and distribute for others to use. For others to take and build their communities. Making the users the product is exactly the model that never works and continues to never work.

[A screenshot of a reply stating: We're your product. Without us, Bluesky is just code sitting on a server.]
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no, not that one @thatdosbox.bsky.social 10/3/2025, 11:06:30 AM: With all the talk of waffles, this seems a good time to repost this. Short version - account portability exists.

Quoting:
Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team 9/26/2025, 2:15:34 PM:

Big win. Now you can leave Bluesky AND return to their servers if you wanted to.

Folks who migrated to blacksky.app, myatproto.social, and cryptoanarchy.network were taking a leap of faith move over to servers hosted by Blacksky Algorithms.

Hopefully this de-risks things for folks.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social 10/2/2025, 5:32:00 PM: You don't need to become an expert on AT Protocol, you don't need to learn to code, but I really do want to impress upon people that "federated social media" is a vitally important concept in a time of global authoritarian and technofeudalist consolidation.

You absolutely should not dismiss the AT Protocol technology that runs this place as boring nerd stuff, because that is the exact technology we are going to need to ensure that usable social media that isn't controlled by Nazis continues to exist.

Digital sovereignty must be a key focus for all free societies in the next decade if democracy is going to survive this moment.

Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/3/2025, 9:47:44 AM: Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

Yet it's a behavior that persists across social media anyways, with negative consequences for civil discourse and society. Human nature is a contributing factor, but systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse.

We're system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

When I'm seeing Black folk already say we want more communal input on moderation decisions & that we don't want to see the kinda nonsense Jay is pulling on Blacksky

Yea I think Blacksky users should question when Rudy is liking Jay's stuff (Gen AI too) to any degree, since that's counterproductive

Chronologically by likes:
Eli Mallon @iame.li 10/1/2025, 7:26:12 PM: my favorite response was someone threatening to take bluesky's source code and go start a competing website that made different moderation decisions!

wow you really showed them

Replying to:
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com 10/1/2025, 6:42:50 PM: kinda feel like the whole reaction to this proves jay's point

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Jay@jay.bsky.team 10/1/2025, 11:54:02 AM

It will be a feature gate that you can opt into, and if you care to drill down it will tell you more about how it works.

If you would like a view into the Bluesky network that has no algorithms, no filtering at all, try rawdogging the firehose:

firesky.tv
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Boris @bmann.ca 10/1/2025, 2:52:09 PM: I'm trying to figure out which of Jay's recent posts to turn into t-shirts or stickers.

- WAFFLES

- try rawdogging the firehose

So many good choices.

Chronologically by likes:
Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/1/2025, 1:16:31 PM:

Private accounts are hard for us to do for weird technical reasons

because this site was mainly built to make it easy for people to run their own version / build on top of it. We hear the ask though, and our protocol devs have been researching it.

pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b
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Jay @jay.bsky.team 9/30/2025, 11:04:37 PM: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is pretty good. Never touch ChatGPT anymore. I also appreciate that Claude assumes you're literate and doesn't italicize and bullet point everything.

Chronologically by likes:
hailey @hailey.at 10/1/2025, 12:54:06 PM: i just want people to think rationally about things and also use the tools at their disposal to deal with problems. yelling at a group of people that you can count on a single hand isn't how you fix problems, especially when the tools are being given to you.
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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com 10/1/2025, 12:51:31 PM: jay jokes that everyone on the team is Al and I get tagged twice
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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com 10/1/2025, 12:47:42 PM: Ready to die on the hill of "social media doesn't have to suck"

Quoting:
Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/1/2025, 11:18:38 AM: Too real. We're going to try to fix this. Social media doesn't have to be this way.
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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com 10/1/2025, 12:59:43 PM: @rude1.blacksky.team the new blacksky website is incredible, I'm so jealous. Well done. blackskyweb.xyz

October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Since they aren't sharing screenshots, I'll do that because I think people should make informed choices

Imo I don't get "Rudy is a Nazi" from this but that he could have the same response to user input as Bluesky

Which worries me since, from what I've seen, that doesn't look like what folks want

Chronologically by likes:
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 9/26/2025, 11:09:25 AM: (bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??
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hailey @hailey.at 10/1/2025, 12:05:09 PM: honestly, the response given was the correct response
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Eli Mallon @iame.li 10/1/2025, 11:52:37 AM: really happy @jay.bsky.team seems to be actually having fun again lol

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Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/1/2025, 11:40:47 AM: WAFFLES

Chronologically by likes:
HaunTed @knowtheory.net 10/1/2025, 3:05:48 PM: People gotta stop treating Jay like their landlady and more like their neighbor who is letting them crash in the guest room as long as they need.

Replying to post

Jay @jay.bsky.team 10/1/2025, 1:35:54 PM: It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.
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Xan López @xanlopez.xyz 10/1/2025, 3:11:57 PM: Most people cannot see themselves as anything other than angry customers, and anybody trying to build strong communities in 2025 most likely needs to think about that really hard. That being said it's hard to feel empathy for everybody harassing Jay in every single post she makes.

Chronologically by likes:
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net 10/3/2025, 8:04:55 PM: we have been building and shipping novel safety features to protect victims of harassment and bullying on Bluesky for years, all open to assessment.

I will totally own our failures in that regard, especially when they fall hardest on marginalized folks.

but "don't want it to be safe"? fuck off
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snuffbait bodhisattva @bitdizzy.bsky.social 10/3/2025, 10:41:36 PM: you can tell who doesn't know from experience what a modest amount of persistent effort can achieve in a few years when you're consistent and believe in the mission

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Lisan Al Gai-Skeet @tcrimson05t.bsky.social 9/29/2025, 1:15:44 PM: Yeah I feel the immediate gut reaction to this decision was "this is bluesky fault" and it's like....

I'm going to ask those people the same question Smitty asked Eren

Replying to:
Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team 9/29/2025, 12:50:19 PM: We're living under a christofascist administration who explicitly hate their political opponents

The non-technical opinion columnists have painted a decentralized app as a "liberal" hiding place

VP of said administration created an account to troll

The company behind the app is trying to survive

October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

I go into my experiences here over dealing with the same shit Link did. Bluesky will email you back about it, they don't have problems admitting their overstepping at all actually.

[Both images are the same, just had to share it twice to fit all the alt text]

Bluesky Moderation Email: Hi there,

Recently, we suspended a Bluesky account you control (@bindthatbitch.bsky.social). We now believe this suspension might have been a mistake on our part, due to a bug in our investigation software. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience that the suspension may have caused and appreciate your patience throughout this process.

If you have any additional questions, please email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz.

Bluesky Moderation Team

Reply from me: Hello! After switching to blacksky, my account (@bindthatbitch.blacksky.app) was suspended again - this time without notice. I'm unsure who suspended my account, and under which jurisdiction that fell under in terms of moderation, so I'm emailing you both to get an answer on that.

To be blunt, it's disturbing me how much these lists keep receiving a scale of pushback regardless of their intent and total lack of use - to my knowledge, I'm one of maybe 3 people who use these lists. I have no interest in interacting with or receiving information from people who'd eulogize a fascist and minimize the genocidal harm they advocated for. I haven't harassed anyone, nor do I respond/reply/quote post anyone with issues with the list. That's a hard boundary I'm not crossing, so I'd like to know why my account - and my lists - were suspended.

Bluesky Moderation: Thank you for reaching out to appeal the takedown of your account on Bluesky. We have carefully reviewed your case, including the information you provided and the activity that led to the suspension of your account.

After investigating, we have determined that your account activity was in violation of our community guidelines, specifically promoting hateful content or being disruptive to other users. We take these guidelines seriously to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all our users.

As a result, we regret to inform you that your appeal has been denied, and your account will remain suspended. This decision is final and cannot be reversed. We understand that this may be disappointing news, but we must prioritize the well-being of our community and maintain a consistent enforcement of our policies. We encourage you to review our community guidelines to better understand the expectations we have for user behavior on our platform. Please do not create new accounts, since those will be taken down for ban evasion.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

October 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

I go into it over here! Bluesky Moderation seems to have overhead power and oversteps the moment it looks personally bad for them in any way

I reference this convo below but here's tldr screenshots of it
(Sorry for the censorship, been updating my fam on this lol)

Censored reply from me: Trust me, I know. My point is that Bluesky is overreaching. How will separate instances handle that, in terms of moderation? Especially if their goals conflict?

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team reply: Assuming you mean easy access to your bsky posts without Bluesky PBC taking them down and them no longer being accessible at blacksky.community. We're getting a bsky api set up

We are a separate company with our own TOS, privacy policy, etc.

Just takes time, money, and labor to get all this set up

Censored reply from me: Tbh that's not my concern. My concern is this: how will this affect moderation decisions if Bluesky's moderation standards seem to be enacted wholesale regardless of whatever instance I'm on? Blacksky has it's own TOS, and I've seen that in my experiences, but also I've seen the limits of that.

Bluesky's rules and these changes absolutely seem like a warning sign that they'll overstep the rules and regulations of other instances if they want - as they already have. How does Blacksky plan to handle that?

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team reply:

Running our own Bluesky API server is the final step to having a Blacksky experience completely separate from Bluesky PBC's rules and jurisdictions

This is different from our planned Blacksky-only posts feature

If that's not clear, check back in after we've shipped that experience and let us know.

Censored reply from me: Alright, that's what I wanted to hear! Thank you, looking forward to seeing that!

October 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

What are they TALKING ABOUT

September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Putting the sets side by side like this downright feels unfair cause like...they are both gorgeous sets of dice, but if I'm asking for fluorite dice that leans blue?

You probably shouldn't send me all green dice and expect me to be happy with that 😭

A picture of my hand against a black fur backdrop, a set of fluorite dice in hand. The fluorite dice is a range of primarily purple with bands of blue and green in it.

A picture of my hand against an edited black backdrop, a set of fluorite dice in hand. The fluorite dice is green.

September 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

100% goes back to what I was saying earlier

Black women are the largest population of college degree holders, so we're effectively punishing our highest educated and most qualified population in this country

What happens when you punish our best and brightest, only rewarding mediocrity? Guess.

Quibble While Rome Burns posts in a quote post:

"When Black folk grow up hearing "we have to work twice as hard to get half as much"

And white folk grow up hearing they are entitled everything regardless of how harmful, cruel, and mediocre they are - including our very bodies

What do you think will happen?"

This was in response to David Noll's post: "Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy" in response to a news article discussing Trump's latest federal prosecutor.

A screenshot of that article is shared below with this text:

"Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed."

September 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

And it's kinda priceless to think about cause, at least in my opinion, I thought Hinako's speech at Sukako's death was extremely sapphic coded. Running a small candy store with your best lady friend, even carrying on that dream after her unfortunate death? Her death motivating her to fight???

Queen Latifah smirking, her silk press beyond perfect for the 90s

September 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Me, joking: the f stands for feminism, of course

Me, 3 hours into Silent Hill f:

Keyshawn from P-Valley, a medium brown skinned Black woman with wavy black and gold hair, leaning forward and staring directly at a man with an intimidating smile.

September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

PLEASE, LORD, COME GET YOUR KIDS

WE ARE SO TIRED!!!

Eustace, a cartoon bald headed white man in a brown cap from courage the cowardly dog, screams. He screams like his life depends on it, his entire mouth - lips, tongue, tonsils and all - enlarged into a megaphone shape so everybody on the deserted block hears him. He yelps for a saving throw at an empty dinner table, his bony arms wrapped around his stomach like he's been starved for eons. A plant withers in a nearby windowsill, as hungry as the man is.

Still, he screams.

September 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

"this isn't who we are as a country!

Black people:

September 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

Lol am I the only one who think they announced this to drown out the Jimmy Kimmel news?

The operator, Nexstar, said it “strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”

During his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel said the MAGA movement was trying to score political points by trying to prove that Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was not one of its own.

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.

September 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM

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@nimi0us.blacksky.app

I got a canned response from Bluesky Mods but, again, I'm baffled:

-I switched over to Blacksky, so I should be under @blackskyweb.xyz jurisdiction to begin with. So this feels like overstepping?
-There was no reason for my suspension other than that folks were offended by my lists.

Bluesky Moderation Team moderation@blueskyweb.xyz

Thank you for reaching out to appeal the takedown of your account on Bluesky. We have carefully reviewed your case, including the information you provided and the activity that led to the suspension of your account.

After investigating, we have determined that your account activity was in violation of our community guidelines, specifically promoting hateful content or being disruptive to other users. We take these guidelines seriously to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all our users.

As a result, we regret to inform you that your appeal has been denied, and your account will remain suspended. This decision is final and cannot be reversed. We understand that this may be disappointing news, but we must prioritize the well-being of our community and maintain a consistent enforcement of our policies. We encourage you to review our community guidelines to better understand the expectations we have for user behavior on our platform. Please do not create new accounts, since those will be taken down for ban evasion.

September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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