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Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

a jar of 'udderly smooth' body cream

i think it's simply unfair that this body cream is both:

1. actually real
2. isn't actually a tf item that turns you into a sexy cowgirl

Bluesky's lack of a coms team does indeed give us some of these funny moments such as:

"You're aware that you are ostensibly speaking for the company with the current role you have and the subject matter you're wading into, right?

what?"

Panel 1: We see from the inside of a house as a large, muscular leg, belonging to someone clearly taller than the doorway, kicks the door off of its hinges, cracking the door and sending splinters flying everywhere and taking chunks out of the wall that it's attached to. The door itself is flying off into the room with the handle and hinges falling off. Panel 2: A large muscular figure with a head that looks like a Minecraft dirt block bends into the doorway, wrapping the fingers of its right hand around the frame and moving its left shoulder in first. It says "ALRIGHT, TIME FOR THE MONTH-LONG MINECRAFT ADDICTION YOU GET EVERY 4 YEARS" Panel 3: We look from behind the figure's shoulder as we see that Shen is being held hostage by Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong. She is standing behind him, with her needle to his throat, as he looks at the Minecraft dirt block guy in horror. Panel 4: The Minecraft dirt block guy is outside again, on the grass next to the cement path leading up to the door, now leaning down with his left hand on his knee and his right hand closing the door gently with a "click". He seemingly put it back into place, despite it still being very broken. He says "some fights are beyond me."

guy 1: i know the project wasn't a success... but you tried really hard on it. so we've decided to give you an ape for effort! :D

guy 2: i think the phrase is "an A for effort".

guy 1:

(loud glass breaking sound, monkey vocalizations in other room)

guy 1: uh oh! :D

Why don’t you just go find a non transphobic reason they segregate trans women out of sports or something, it seems like you have fun making excuses for people.

“I’m not defending OP”

I’m glad you’re happy enough to say it out loud that you don’t think trans women matter as much as other trans people. You came on my reply pointing out ops transphobia in bringing up a random trans woman and tried to pull it into victim blaming nonsense for no reason. Dont treat women like this irl

You’re not listening to me: I perfectly understand what you’re saying. I hear what you’re saying about Lily. So what non-transmisogynistic reason does op have for bringing her up? That is why I’m asking who is playing victim, because that’s what you suggested the reason is. If it isn’t transmisogyny

I meant topic search to find the people talking about their delete/blocks; some screenshots for you. That aside, if you don’t even know op, why are you rushing to his defense against the idea he could be transmisogynistic, when he obviously is…??? There’s no reason to bring up Orchard here at all

Not to mention, no, people were not harassing her? Again, the tweet and the blocked replies are perfectly visible on clearsky. Almost all were polite expressions of confusion and disappointment, and those that were more upset still didn’t say anything terrible or spam her.

Lily is a trans woman, but I’m just asking what you meant. You said Lily was brought up because she plays victim; so who is playing victim here? Why is she brought up, if op isn’t just using her as a stand in for the concept of “angry trans woman who won’t shut up about a show i like”?

trans women being disappointed about an interpretation getting axed, and then being blocked for it unlike the non-trans women who do the same thing, is not playing victim or shit stirring. It’s literally just women talking and contributing to fandom space. which seems to be something op doesnt like.

Okay; so, again, what does that have to do with this situation at all? How are trans women “playing victim” by being upset that Dana blocked them for expressing disappointment in the same way that non-trans women did without getting blocked? Aside from, again, being trans women that op doesn’t like.

Cool; so what relevance does Lily Orchard have to this for op to bring her up, at all, aside from being a trans woman that op dislikes and can treat as a figurehead for the rest of the demographic? I highlighted the misogynistic part of the tweet to help.

girls when they play minecraft with each other:

When you get a minor injury and start acting like an oracle with terrible, secret knowledge. Do you know how many times your thumb nail brushes up against stuff during a day? I could never tell you. You couldn’t bear it. It’s my burden as a Seer.

Lily orchard voices two different characters in knights of guinevere? Really?

imagine if this was literally any other identity. if there was scenes of two girls showing a close bond, and someone asked if it was intended for them to be romantic, and she said “No, theyre straight and just friends, women can have close friendships without dating”. obviously homophobicly biased

she did not say that lol. she responded like that to shipping, and never bothered to shut down transmasc interpretations of owl house, but NOW word-of-gods frankie as cis while blocking completely polite trans women in the comments who just said they were disappointed. the bar is beneath the floor.

no way youre trying to act like you don’t just have a chip off your shoulder against trans women by bringing up a completely random unrelated trans woman you have beef with in response to trans women just simply being disappointed at such a shutdown response, AND youre pushing 30s? grow up dude

what if you wanted to relate to a character with a trans reading but dana terrace said

I genuinely don't know what to do when there's so few public trans figures that one of them having a bunch of bad ideas means that like a quarter of the total popular writing about an issue sucks shit

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The first half of 'Transsexual Empire' berates trans women for being hyperfeminine and 'upholding gender stereotypes'. We then come to the chapter 'Sappho By Surgery', where the book calls lesbian trans women who don't perform femininity invasive rapists.

Like, one assigns a trait to trans women uniquely, makes us sin eaters for the issues of the white queer community and (and this is most important) denies trans women of color a voice

The other is about how places that we need for welcome in a cold world can become hostile to those who need it most

It shouldn’t need to be said, but trans women of color talking about the ways they’ve even hurt by incidental racism in the community is not remotely comparable to tme folk saying white trans women are inherently racist, and trans women are inherently white.

"in order to prevent antitrans ideologues from socially murdering us we must play on their ideological playing field" kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me. god she doesn't even acknowledge the possibility that sexgender is one singular social construct. fucking hell

and like i could go into how it’s also largely a way for white queers to displace their own racism onto trans women, how it’s really a way of calling trans women men, or how it’s a way to be misogynistic in a progressive way… but i don’t do that today and instead will just say that i think

our oppressors know that by making constant bad faith accusations of racism, they make people skeptical of all accusations and this disproportionately hurts twoc and serves as a way to silence them.

it’s something to be aware of if you at all give a shit about trans women who aren’t white