Jen (they/them) says Free Link

"People are mad that BlueSky won't allow them to make death threats."

No! People are mad that BlueSky's AI automod regularly gets it wrong, moderation decisions/ penalties are seemingly arbitrary, and the moderation team has terrible comms.

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So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser.

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There is a huge difference between the BS in fandom spaces about one of the two consenting adults in a relationship being "child coded" because they're short or some BS like that, and grown ass men wanting to fuck teenage girls IRL. (This is me agreeing with you.)

7. It should also be pointed out that the number of people killed in the U.S. by neo-Nazis and other far-right, racially motivated extremists certainly exceeds any violence attributed to “Antifa.” Both are wrong of course and authorities should and do work to stop all violence.

Canada adds neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour, Combat 18 to list of terror organizations - National | Globalnews.ca For the first time, Canada has placed two neo-Nazi groups on its list of outlawed terrorist organizations.

6. The Canadian government has designated Blood & Honour (B&H) and its armed wing, Combat 18, as terrorist orgs.

B&H has also been banned in Germany and Spain, and had its operations disrupted in France.

globalnews.ca/news/5432851...

5. The Trump regime refuses to designate the neo-Nazi Blood & Honour group even though it continues to organize the rally in Budapest every year - in the permissive environment created by Viktor Orban’s authoritarian regime, which is cooperating with the Trump regime on its “Antifa” designations.

4. Antifa Ost is based in Germany but the German government wasn’t consulted on this designation. You can see why.

The Germans say the threat posed by Antifa Ost has “decreased significantly” after some arrests - contradicting the Trump regime’s threat inflation.

www.reuters.com/world/berlin...

3. So, the Trump regime is designating the “Antifa” counter-protesters who showed up in Budapest but not the Neo-Nazi group - Blood & Honour - that actually orchestrated the event and whose members also engaged in violence.

Blood & Honour has been banned by other countries, including Canada.

2. The very first entity listed is Antifa Ost (a.k.a. Antifa East or the Hammer Gang). The last attacks attributed to them by the State Dept occurred in Budapest in Feb 2023.

What State doesn’t say is that was during a *Neo-Nazi rally* that’s held every year.

Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...

1. Yesterday, the State Department designated four Antifa-affiliated entities as global terrorist organizations. It’s part of the Trump regime’s effort to inflate the threat posed by “Antifa.” None of these supposed groups is even alleged to have attacked Americans.

www.state.gov/releases/202...

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A Louisiana girl hit a boy who was sharing deepfake nude photos of her. She was expelled. “This girl was abused,” one of the family’s attorneys said, noting that she endured sexual exploitation and harassment. And the expulsion “was like pouring salt in the wound.”

This is rape culture.

This is why so many people don’t come forward.

A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her.

She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it.

Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:

not found, account has been suspended

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

VOA Staffers Urge Public To Rally Around Crippled News Service The White House shutdown of Voice Of America has opened the door to propaganda by Russian and Chinese influencers in countries from Africa to Asia, furloughed staff of the news service warned last nig...

The White House shutdown of Voice Of America has opened the door to propaganda by Russian and Chinese influencers in countries from Africa to Asia. www.press.org/newsroom/voa... #SaveVOA

Really imploring people to stop reading Meidas and OccupyDemocrats. All their stuff is written to be as sensational as possible and it's all retreads of previously published journalism. It's not new information, and it's rewritten to elicit an emotional response. 21st century yellow journalism.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

“The Department of Homeland Security spent $220M but has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Kristi Noem and her senior aides at DHS.”

Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.

This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

I feel like talking to the computer is useful when doing natural language queries on a carefully vetted database of information, but not for doing rote/repetitive tasks. Give me a key combo/macro I can use for that. Even with home automation I'd rather press a button than say a command.

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

The Left's New Moralism Will Backfire under Trump progressives have embraced the rhetoric of "moral clarity." It won't help their cause. By Thomas Chatterton Williams

"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Same that there’s no such thing as “having sex with a child” - it’s called RAPE

sexual violence is THE patriarchal technology of oppression. wherever there is any kind of oppression--colonialism, genocide, capitalism, the state, the police--there is sexual violence as its frontline operative mechanism. the child is THE archetypal object of legitimate disciplinary violence.

we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.

when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.