Thomas Thiel in der FAZ, erwartbar dennoch unfassbar in der Formulierung:

"Die Geheimhaltung des Konferenzorts aus Furcht vor gewaltsamen Angriffen war keine voreilige Entscheidung. Bei der Ermordung von Charlie Kirk hat sich gezeigt, welche Militanz von Teilen der Transgenderbewegung ausgeht."

I will never forgive Israel, Europe, or the United States. Demonic fucking entities. You make me desperate to believe in a god and a hell because there is no punishment severe enough for these people

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

Only played for an hour so far but I think this one's genuinely worth checking out just to see what the fuss is about.

I'm completely serious, it is a fascinating creature.

What an... interesting... game.

IF.
ONLY.

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*sigh*

Oh well. Whatever.

LET'S GO GAMBLING!!!

For a wound to heal, it needs to be adequately addressed first.

Bandaids do jack shit when you plaster them on random places, you actually need to put them exactly where the injury is.

And it's so odd because the ACTIONS taken are actually sufficient, it's just the WORDS that are lackluster.

You had Neonazis flood your forums & doing little victory dances, posting shit & trying to doxx people, emboldened by your actions.

You (or, more likely, some of your mods) banned people critical of the whole situation.

It was a DEBACLE and I read not a single word mentioning it.

Everyone else seems pretty happy with this response so I guess it is just a me-thing here, but I do feel that, while this is undeniably a good ending to the saga, their is a lack of acknowledgement what a SHITSHOW this was.

"We opened dialogue with our community."

Could you be more specific?

"When we initially approved Pokémon Clover, we opened dialogue with our community to understand the impact of our policies."

Yeah, that's certainly one way of putting it.

You opened dialogue.

it says a lot about lowtax that whenever people bring him up its always about something so bizarre that no one ever gets around to processing the fact he went by "lowtax"

These people aren't liberals. They're tech libertarians. It's important to understand that, it contextualizes everything they do

They do not have good morals, their ideology is about finding ways to exempt themselves from the concept of morality in favor of "no one is responsible to anyone else".

Let us all welcome our new head of communications and public relations, Big Balls dot Bsky dot Team!

Probably had 500 job interviews for the position and they all went something like

*trained PR person walks into office*
*trained PR person notices groyper flags & Elon dakimakura*
*trained PR person thinks "Know what? Fuck this."*
*trained PR person leaves*
*Aaron cranks it to Barely Legal porn*

We'll never know why they can't find anyone to fill that "comms manager" job posting they've had open for over a year.

We'll never know.

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Centrists make the case for Neonazism better than Neonazis ever could.

Because if the choice is between "Dying, and the centrists get to be smug and happy about it." or "Dying, but at least the centrists get killed as well.", hm, yeah, guess what.

We should enshrine it into law that you're forbidden from having accounts on the social media you own or work at, conflicts of interest are frowned upon for a reason.

(Yes I know this is stupid, you do actually need accounts for PR, for testing, and yes: For moderation. But not PERSONAL accounts.)

It is legit funny how for over a decade, the #1 complaint about Twitter staff was them having no clue how their product is used and therefore adding features nobody needs...

...which was actually ten billion times better than Bluesky staff & community mods all being power-users with axes to grind.

Having work experience with T&S moderation means me going “ohhhh that’s why these labelers keep failing it’s created by the same person who doxxed a bunch of users for being slightly mean to their partner” at least once every few months

I gotta admit though, it's working and I hate it but I also don't care enough anymore to do more than bitch & whine about it.

If this place crashes & burns, I'm probably just done with social media.

I wish the turbo-Musk-ification of this place was more enjoyable, at least Elon spent years turning himself into a lolcow before it all.

This is just sad.