Senate Gabe

Really quite bad that it *appears* that @jay.bsky.team wsnted someone banned because she found him annoying and had @support.bsky.team invent a completely Orwellian excuse based on a nonsense reading of his BSky posts

This is the kind of behavior we expect from the Twitter leadership ….

Way ahead of ya

Also here's the easy intro point to the Fediverse

My blocks meant something on Twitter too. And then one day they didn't.

I already have I'm pretty sure. It's not about that.

If they can't enforce basic rules and they insult people who suggest they do, they can't be trusted with anything. And given they are based in a fascist police state, that's a huge problem.

I've gotten a lot of out of BlueSky. Made some friends, got some impeachment articles filed, great stuff.

But I am so over these stupid games where we have to pretend the head of these social media sites aren't hateful people who rather let Jesse Singal terroize people than enforce basic rules.

Maybe it doesn't work, I don't know. But who are the investors here that we should annoy? I'm going to start moving over to something else until this is fixed. Totally inexcusable behavior.

Ok this is really pissing me off.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the technological bands which have connected them with intolerant tyrannical tech tyrants...

Jesse Singal should very obviously be banned for flagrantly violating BlueSky policies.

And it says a lot that the CEO is railing about how people are complaining about this rather than acknowledge the violations.

Anyway, no one needs to harass anyone. But you can and should get mad at powerful actors when they behave in ways that hurt people.

Oftentimes powerful people because they live in bubbles interpret truth as harassment.

I will just say having worked with a lot of politicians this is extremely not true lmao.

In fact I personally watched a senator change their entire position on the Supreme Court because someone did a snarky quote tweet. The senator insulted the person first before they quietly changed their mind.

Delusions of a Protocol | Azhdarchid On vaporware as an ideological product.

Here is a decent place to start.

There are def other places for people to write things and follow news. There are some things I would miss here but if I can't trust the people running this place at all, I wouldn't think twice.

Will admit I haven't followed the moderation teams antics because I almost didn't want to know and I've had a lot of good conversations here with a range of voices.

But that was the wrong approach and this is unignorable. And @jay.bsky.team is very wrong that it won't impact the platform.

Yeah...a variety of people would be happy to write statements cleaning things up if they wanted. But they seem to have no interest in that.

As more and more of our country becomes fascist, I will just say that my tolerance for organizations willing to throw vulnerable people under the bus is getting lower, not higher.

It's clear that behavior like that cannot be tolerated. And it makes the platform barely an improvement from Twitter.

Maybe @jay.bsky.team understands what this is doing to the userbase and doesn't care. But that is really really unacceptable behavior from someone running BlueSky.

Fundamentally this platform can simply not be trusted to protect its users. That is my takeaway. Def going to need to think about this a bit more.

Finally caught up on the controversy with the BlueSky moderators and it is indeed very bad. 

Not entertaining things with no evidence is one thing but dismissing very obvious connections with evidence out of hand is another.

There have been an awful lot of cases where a political actor does something that is not liked by the fascists and then soon thereafter, something very extreme occurs to said actors and dots are not connected.

A problem with a lot of political books is they either ignore the human costs of political actions or they only focus on how the behavior is affecting the politicians.

I loved how this weaved in her personal experiences in St. Louis and how it is impacted by the criminal behavior of the government.

I'm almost finished with @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's "They Knew" and it is such an amazing book.

Highly recommend it.

This is what you do when you're losing.

This makes me feel better because the Democrats have been doing this for years and look at what it got them.

I fully buy that Democrats and Republicans are complicit/corrupt but this really goes beyond all plausible rationality.

It is on its face absurd how everyone is shrugging off this desire to wage war on what is left of our democracy.

I am having a hard time getting over just how unbelievably unresponsive the political system is given how the Trump administration is attacking its very foundations.

I mean yes, that is usually how that goes down.

I had to look this up. This goes way back.