*at least a few protests in the suburbs...

Also at least protests in the suburbs pushed a few thousand people each. People were protesting on random street corners across the city. Other people were also staying in their neighborhoods to watch for ice.

They're blocking my moderation list for creepy transphobes. I'm probably not the only one. This change y'all are mad about will read as uncontroversial to most people and it's being used to fill the echo-chamber while they're burning mod team overtime to run marginalized people off platform.

Why is your team blocking my user safety moderation list for blocking creepy transphobes? Is the real discrimination calling a bigot a bigot now, or what?

If I have to move to a whole-ass new server and set up moderation for myself, I'll just get started on Mastodon. You don't have enough here yet to just throw away minority users yet and expect them to stay in the ecosystem.

Your team is blocking my moderation list for blocking creepy transphobes. Honestly I don't have enough invested in this site to stick around if you're going to actively make this a hostile site for trans people... even to the point of just moving my account to a private server.

Bluesky is currently running getting fluff pieces about how they're "cracking down" on content, but I guess that just means "make it more difficult to use the website like anyone else if you're a trans person." Honestly This is wildly disappointing.

I was told there would be pizza and energy drinks

Neville Chamberlain-ass behavior

And if I can't say that with my full throat without losing my job, fuck it, I'll sell my shit and find a better place to live.

That would make sense. Ah English... a language with ten thousand words for things that kill people.

I get that this is such a cringe criticism, but that's not a missile in the photo and seemingly not knowing the difference is one of the things that reenforces belief amongst right-wingers that their opposition are big dum dums or "soft."

tomato tomato

as if I needed another reason to move there

Watching the entire liberal media ecosystem suddenly pretend that they never heard of memes or dogwhistles is stunning.

It's like they all went to the same lobotomist.