tf

No

The petulant childish comments on this post are amazingly depressing

What has Bluesky become?

Join #Nostr, we're friendly

I never say someone "should" feel a certain way because

a) their internal emotions are not my business
b) I can't impose them anyway

Everyone is flawed

Feelings of shame are the outcome of internal assessment not external diktat

Public shaming is a character flaw

Treasury Dept. gives Elon Musk's team access to federal payment system: Sources If Elon Musk or his DOGE team were to attempt to block federal payments, it would likely face legal challenges given the money is approved by Congress.

Cognitive dissonance

"The payment system [...] is a closely held operation run by career officials"

"an unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover"

abcnews.go.com/US/treasury-...

Short Text Note by fiatjaf (reply) seen on pyramid.fiatjaf.com

It was

"how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban"

A 'feature' only available on centralized networks

njump.me/nevent1qqsqq...

Dear Lord this is depressing

The pre-Bluesky Twitter working group was full of SSB & IPFS people

Supposedly hardcore decentralization nerds

Their first and last thought on the Nostr protocol was NOT 'hey this allows people to own their digital identity without running a server'...

A small painting of a circle not full against a yellow background. It does not look like anything else. On the aides are brushstrokes of different colours. Kinda abstract

Spent the last three hours playing with acrylics.

🎨

2025: Hack the Planet, Encrypt the Future, Decentralize Everything 🏴

How did a study which apparently can't say anything about anything get funding approved

Are all the studies like this
No control groups?

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/s...

My read of the skilled immigration (SI) drama:

1. The word “Retarded” is back, and being popularized by both Elon Musk, and center left commentators like Matt Yglesias (see screenshots). Oh, and the retarded people are less skilled and successful American workers.

'he did it first'
'the ends justify the means'
'I was just following orders'

The thing about true will to power is that no one who espouses it actually believes it

It's an excuse, like the trans activists identifying as religious extremists is an excuse

Since when did spectrum mean something outside of a continuum between two oppositional poles?

Where did you and Colin hear anyone ever talk about a literal third sex? Rather than an in-between segment? Are you even listening, ever to your what your opponents say?

What was that one study?

Good Afternoon
pretty house in Belgium.

Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment | TechCrunch Now with 25 million users, Bluesky is facing a test that will determine whether or not its platform will still be seen as a safe space and place of refuge

E.g.

techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/b...

And

fediversereport.com/last-week-in...

I think the biggest obstacle are well spoken, squishy libs in the media who sanitize the extremists as reasonable representatives of a homogenous "trans community" just so they can virtue signal

Deliberately turning a blind eye to the biggest Bluesky T&S issue of mass physical threats & doxing

Walking the Transgender Movement Away from the Extremists Today's radical gender ideologues are harming the transgender community the same way left-leaning activists harmed the gay and lesbian rights movement in the early 1990s.

If centrist trans orgs exist it would be good to get them on Bluesky

And to build a community, Bluesky starter packs and block lists to block the bullies

www.persuasion.community/p/walking-th...

Tbf that crazy person is Stalinist, anti-American, anti-Nazi and anti-Semite (!)

But far left and far right are near enough anyways

I actually like having my views modified & I think most ppl do

Learning is a human survival trait as is it's opposite, tribalism

"what exactly did you mean"

Defining gender (female, male, intersex) solely by genetics... chromosomes & genes

When I listened to a trans woman describe what that means to her in terms of biology, psychology & personality it twigged that genes mean nothing without expression

If you want to change someone's opinions
* ask them why they believe what they believe
* listen, don't assume
* explain your beliefs
* answer their questions openly & honestly
* assume good faith
* be polite
* be open to modifying your opinions

Name calling is destructive

Reasonable but uninvested can explain the long duration & eventual resolution of civil rights issues

Don't mean that to sound glib

There's some tipping point of peak insanity thereafter extremists & profiteers lose their sway over the narrative

Hopefully we are near or past that point

Avenue Q 💃🤗

Totally transphobic
Can't stand trans people
Especially my cousin

"better conversation" works, I share the experience of @chasingennui.bsky.social

When I pointed this out to an extremist, their response was "I don't care"

That extremists don't care about trans welfare is obvious from their behavior

Hope better conversation can sideline them & their enablers

"You literally said you were a transphobe"

What I said was tongue in cheek ("so I've been told")

"simplistic rigid genetic categories"

My definition of gender did not result from nor translate into animus toward trans ppl

"I don't care"

Clearly