what did she say?

I believe you given her whole “follow the law” shtick in the lead up to the election but I hadn’t heard about this

the Neville Chamberlain school of negotiaton

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

youtu.be/CnBu3lgdh0I?...

what was their name

not doubting just can’t seem to find it

also like what is the equivalent of “a drowning person drowning you too” in his metaphor?

if you help Palestinians too much you’ll die (?)

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thinking about the Nazi strategy of deputizing members of the SA as law enforcement

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

I think the scary thing is that as demonstrated by this guy it’s possible to become radicalized to the point where those people *would* respond to being handed a gun

politburger

Children of Men except society just decided to become Like That on its own

(Zoomer Tiktok in sepia tone and old timey garb) yo this shirtwaist factory in New York City can produce thousands of women's blouses a day and employs hundreds of fallen women!

the bit from Sorry to Bother You where they make MTV Cribs style shows about how awesome it is to be an indentured servant living and working inside a factory

lets be real they’re not proposing this because they’re huge into french culture

C.H.U.D. : corn huffing underground dweller

When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!"

They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.

“first they came for the communists…

and I didn’t speak out because why should I as a trade unionist have to speak out when this is an issue for the communists?”

screenshot from “The Simpsons” of Lionel Hutz tearing off and eating the Bar Association logo from his business cards

shouldn’t have this nondiscrimination clause here either *munch munch munch*

all light fixtures will be replaced by constantly-firing guns to provide illumination by muzzle flash

I can tell you really care about the Palestinian people Mr. “i choose war crimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

so gay *woman

maybe if “our side” are constantly on the verge of voting our rights away because “the numbers just aren’t there” they’re part of the fucking problem

capitalism in these people’s ideology holds the same place as communism did in the khmer rouge’s

in that the actual logistics of the ideologies they claim to espouse are less important than the people in charge’s weird genocidal fantasy of an imagined past ethnostate

apocalypse now 2: apocalypse nower

can’t pin it down but they seem to be taking on a certain degree of Trump’s way of speaking—like the “everything is working very smoothly so the American people can take great comfort in that" line

hard to describe but it’s very culty

There is apparently an unfinished cut of the Minecraft movie without any of the effects rendered going around and I think I know how I’m gonna be watching the movie

Map of the United States from “Civil War (2024), showing various states divided between Loyalist States, the Florida Alliance. Western Forces, and New People’s Army

thinking about a scene from Punishment Park (1971), a film about antiwar youth being detained and sent to be brutalized in death camps

“the thing that appalls me is it seems to be almost understood […] if we can just somehow create a change of spirit it doesn’t have to happen this way—but it is”