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Between the censorship over Charlie Kirk, the age verification nonsense in some states, and the CEO crashing out for multiple days in a row, I’m honestly over this place. I’m not deleting outright, but I’ll be around even less than I am now. Take care of yourselves and each other. 😘

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This was such a good, but hard, read. Beautifully done.

Oh look, what all of us expected when they made photo ID's a requirement for age validation

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique.

If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you.

Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

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Always someone with “trying to make discourse more civil” or some such in the bio who goes from 0 to Condescending Asshole™️ in 3 business seconds when you say something they disagree with.

This is nonsense. If a policy can’t be thoughtfully explained it very likely can’t be thoughtfully implemented. Just b/c something is complex does not mean it is incapable of being thoughtfully explained. Jay’s answer was flippant. Just b/c you’re satisfied w/it doesn’t mean others have to be.

The Protestant work ethic nonsense compounded by the selfish idea that life is a zero sum game where any gain by someone else means a loss for you as well as the cut off your nose to spite your face racism about POC getting any benefit means most people’s self-interest is far from enlightened

Honestly this is why I don’t trust enlightened self interest as a motivation. Too many people would rather put themselves and their loved ones at greater risk than see any poor person get a “handout” they don’t “deserve.”

I think that answers about how a policy will work should be more concrete and specific than “depends.” If you (general) can’t articulate the practicalities of the policy when someone asks how it would work when implemented, it’s probably not a well thought out policy.

You don’t ever “have” to presume anything. You can listen to what a person is saying & based on what they’re saying gauge if your input is (1) responsive, or (2) helpful.

Presuming things instead of actually listening to what others are saying is how a lot of needless miscommunication happens.

Oh, I’m so sorry, Ing. And you didn’t fail him. You gave him lots of love. ❤️

I’m not in any of the affected states, but again, it is stymying to me that despite billing itself as an alternative to X, Bluesky keeps getting lapped by X when it comes to anything remotely related to free expression and interaction. Are you not embarrassed?!

AND they couldn’t catch him?! Embarrassing on so many levels.

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there were all these sci fi movies and books and tv shows about hitler coming back and it was the scariest thing and then hitler came back and people were like DOPE. COOL. and the political opposition was like SEND HIM A LETTER

And then he does not have a meeting

RIGHT?!?!

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If only we had a functional opposition party to throw up as many roadblocks as possible.

(Seriously, though, you’re such a delight. One of my favorite follows this year, a pocket of joy and hilarity when the world is Like That. 😂❤️)

Politicians are not celebrities. They are not idols or heroes or people to be praised, defended, and worshiped. They are public fucking servants, answerable to the people and no one should forget they are here to make things better for *us*, not the other way around.

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Whhhhhhy are you like this?! We’ll all be going along just fine, vibing about which cultural phenomenon Can Stay™️, and then you just … choose VIOLENCE.

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Back on my #NirvanaInFire bullshit and Prince Yu’s temper tantrum over Prince Jing getting the Capitol Patrol and being allowed into the palace whenever he wants is so funny.

Prince Yu: Wah! My baby brother is competent & popular! Woe is me!

Me: You are *also* competent & popular? Calm down, Jan.

But even when Xia Jiang is shell shocked to see his son alive and well, I can’t let go of it that their estrangement is entirely his fault.