Repeating my regular spiel, take it or leave it:
blocking is a marvelously important and vital tool on social media.
you should feel zero shame about using it whenever and how you want to.
anyone who wants to shame you about blocking does not have your best interests at heart.
blocking is a marvelously important and vital tool on social media.
you should feel zero shame about using it whenever and how you want to.
anyone who wants to shame you about blocking does not have your best interests at heart.
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block someone once a week just for practice!
Block early, and block often.
Nothing is as important as your sanity. NOTHING.
Fuck that.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/so-much-for-the-tolerant-left
Everyone around me is hurting a little or maybe a lot or maybe a WHOLE LOT, so identifying my sarcasm early feels helpful.
Block the miserable assholes. Remove them from your sight. Be at peace.
You can also do this preemptively. You do not need to personally tangle with an asshole to prevent them from tangling with you.
This has only benefited evil men.
It has left the rest of us with shit on our floor.
Block them in your house.
& freedom of association includes disassociation and shunning
block: I don't want to see you, AND I don't want you to see me
that's it, that's all. covers a range of situations, very few of which are "I want you to be cast into a volcano, or the frozen ocean, or out of the solar system"
although sometimes it is also that
You have the right to express whatever you want.
You don't have the right to an audience. Or the right to be correct. Or the right to be taken seriously.
Now we get to step up and do away with that mindset for our own peace of mind.
We do it in person, after all.
These glowing rectangles are a window to my most private IRL spaces, you better believe I’m gonna curate what comes in!
A few cousins, too.
Blocking a stranger is nothing.
-bink-
...because they obviously didn't... know... that?
YOU OTHER BROTHERS CAN'T DENY
if somebody quote posts a bad take, and you comment on the quote post and block the OP, you’ll make your reply invisible even though you didn’t block the quoter.
It's yet another context where some folks don't respect boundaries or care about other people's consent.
But if they can't read my amazingly informative insightful posts,
well, there are lots of better posters than me they can read.
And I can't read my entire feed anyway, so I'll be ok too.
10K blocks
In case you were unaware (with my apologies if you were) we also have blocklists here. People volunteer their time to add unsavory characters (for pretty much any definition of unsavory you prefer) to lists that you can block en masse instantly.
Like MAGA: https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s
Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
has a number of lists you can use.
Here's a MAGA list:
https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s