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You don’t want a nice little corner of the internet you want to run the biggest venue and then just fucking destroy the fascists who crop up there. That’s more valuable.

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social · Jul 2

If this place is gonna thrive ultimately it has to open up and go public. You don’t want a tightly curated cloister, you want a public square where everyone spends their time and then you ruthlessly police the limits of acceptable speech once it’s indispensably popular

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social · Jul 2

If I’m not a MILF then why am I getting a mommy makeover later this month? Checkmate, transphobia

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · Jul 1

Also I understand dissuading dunking on randos, but one of Twitter's strengths was an open forum/minimal gatekeeping, so (e.g.) NYT columnists and gov't propagandists couldn't spout bullshit unchecked. Musk is killing twitter partly to eliminate that, and it would be cool to have it again somewhere.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · Jul 1

I know this is the utopia and people are just waiting for DMs but until I can quote-skeet the State of Israel it won't feel complete.

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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · Jul 1

One of the biggest signals of the draw of Twitter is that I remember there was I think an American foreign fighter at Baghuz, ISIS' last stand in Syria, literally being bombarded with airstrikes every hour on the hour in a space smaller than Vatican City and he was still posting regularly

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social · Jul 1

I think social media is like nicotine there’s no way to make it good for you but cigs are so much sexier than vaping, you know?

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social · Jul 1

I mean idk maybe 😭. Being on a kind website sounds so boring I wanna fight

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social · Jul 1

I am!!!

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social · Jul 1

But I want to dunk, I love bad content 😭😭😭. This is why I stayed on twitter until the end—I don’t want a hyper fascist onslaught of nonstop transphobia but I DO want bad content