Oh no, don't tell me Blueskay is already becoming mroe like Twitter? That's already been an issue with Threads as more people jump ship, I don't know if I can handle it happening here too lol.
I always so desperately want to hear the argument for why ‘folks’ isn’t sufficient. Been in queer spaces for a long time and nobody in my real life has ever had a problem with ‘folks,’ in fact it’s a go-to word.
It's a shibboleth; using it marks the speaker as being part of certain political circles... which makes evangelizing It's use outside of those circles completely pointless.
Hard agree. It’s especially self defeating when the phrase is indicative of being a part of an increasingly unpopular political point of view. Specifically due to lack real material solutions it offers and how out of touch their expectations are.
exquisite use of malarkey in the context. wondering if i should also mute it but sometimes rational people will reference certain things without actually using them.
Yesterday I saw a post saying that calling Elon"Elonia" is deeply transphobic and the replies were all like "yea that's an instant block for me", so blsky has that going for itself
I love that they tagged #misogyny, I guess so it would be included in misogynistic feeds? Is there a feed I can follow to get all my women-hating in one place?
the fact that so many people are unable to tell which parts of this are ironic and which parts are sincere is actually a pretty good case for not making ironic sexist jokes imo
like the guy replying to you is a joke account and SO many people seem unaware of that
I heard that Paul Grant is a good dude. He treats his wife really well, even offered to not force his last name on her when they got married, but Paula, his wife, was happy to move past her birth name of Ogyny. She was ready to leave “Miss Ogyny” behind and become “Mrs. Grant.”
A person who need to bemoan their failed marriage on Blue Sky, without taking responsibility for their part in the failure , is doomed to fail again. Eventually these people become so filled with hate and misogyny, they descend to Twitter.
Your post got my spidey-senses tingling, so I dove into the account. It's a #troll who follows legit progressive accounts. I have reported and added to my "Do Not Feed the Trolls" blocklist. @rahaeli.bsky.social has the perfect description of these accounts:
It will show (see below, I'm just using the basic Android Bluesky app) but you have to subscribe to the labeller. This will show you any labels applied to accounts, you can then click through to the labeller and subscribe https://blue.mackuba.eu/scanner/
Heh didn’t notice the kangaroo thing at first, not sure what that’s about. Now proud owner of an elder badge, now let’s see how long it takes to regret it 😅
Feels like concern trolling but I got banned from one of the biggest socialist discords for posting a meme w the word bitch in it. Wasnt even being used as a gendered slur in the meme lmao
I’m gonna miss having “juniper_rises_again_20” randomly pop into my feed to remind me that a lone internet warrior memed too close to the sun again lmao
can someone explain to me why people are mocking Paul so ruthlessly /gen? looking at his profile, https://bsky.app/profile/paulwritescrime.bsky.social it seems like he's someone who might be slow about some things but genuinely cares about ending bigotry?
my autistic ass has frequently been in the same not-getting-it camp =/
i don't get the orig. joke either and am kind of wondering why people would find it funny? like if a long-term female partner called me a bitch or something similarly misogynystic, i'd be uncomfortable, even if her use of the word isn't truly partriarchal; echoing oppression is still an odd choice?
like there's a set of commonly accepted words for members of marginalized groups to somewhat-ironically use them for each other in certain situations, but it's something i've never exactly understood. it took me a while with 'tranny' used playfully in the bedroom by my trans wife. jarring at first
the best answer i've ever gotten is "certain words have a history of being repurposed to mock the original context of oppression and are sometimes used in an oppressed in-group almost like a shibboleth to signal this connotative meaning" but it still strikes me as confusing & strange. i'm autistic,
maybe this is just a case of "neurotypical culture sometimes doesn't make sense and attributes certain value to things at random"
so then i wonder: what if Paul has similar gaps as i do around understanding how these things work? and then it starts to feel like low-key ableism to shit on him to me
i do a little slur play *now* but it's kind of in the category of "emulating things that are wrong, as a bit; similar to cnc but way less serious"
i still scratch my head at words that have such a history of negativity & oppression being used quasi-derogatorily between partners. it feels unkind ig
Social media lives and dies on it's ease of use and when every single image on your timeline is blurred out with some custom trigger warning requiring extra work to see the image, it makes it unusable. Not to mention the continual betrayal of "I clicked through for that?" tainting the experience.
Holy shit. I totally expected you to double down. But "that one extra click" was a bar I was fully prepared for you as a normal ass person to simply do and not having moan about.
Nah, yeah, you've got nothing to contribute to Mastodon. Good call.
Hell, there were multiple feds devoted to it. You had to manually block them yourself if you didn't want to actually get exposed to some horrific material.
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#misogyny
like the guy replying to you is a joke account and SO many people seem unaware of that
Thinking about it, it does track that people would, unfortunately.
I’m good on that hashtag
If people like anime porn more power to them, just not my thing though.
The stuff drawn like children disgusts me. I don’t care what excuses people make for it.
Apparently, it’s ableist to acknowledge the vision impaired use Braille to learn things like math, not audiobooks.
I’ll see myself out.
They've probably been a thing for a very long time and I just never noticed but still lol
really
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Okay, it sounds like you set yourself up for failure on that one. Internet Socialists suck a lot. 😂
You can't put other leftists on the wall prior to winning. You gotta win first. Lol
my autistic ass has frequently been in the same not-getting-it camp =/
so then i wonder: what if Paul has similar gaps as i do around understanding how these things work? and then it starts to feel like low-key ableism to shit on him to me
i still scratch my head at words that have such a history of negativity & oppression being used quasi-derogatorily between partners. it feels unkind ig
Nah, yeah, you've got nothing to contribute to Mastodon. Good call.
Decentralization is cool, but the barriers between servers, and the fact that your identity is centralized doesn't seem to mesh well
It's like being on IRC or Discord and if you're banned on one server, you're kicked from all of them
How do I turn it on?
Tash Hag misogyny.
Not so fast!
Has near zero literacy