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@beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social

Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.

Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added;

If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.

And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.

So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).

a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound;

The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time.

The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.

Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.

The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post;

This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now.

How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.

But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.

September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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I R A

@roira.bsky.social

Said this on the other app but we rly need to normalize that growing up = becoming a person with the money to afford childhood interests. The idea that you have to suddenly stop caring about cute or joyful things when you turn 18 is the reason so many ppl are so fucking miserable for 60 years after

September 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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ebi

@ebihimes.bsky.social

There's something deeply unpleasant about an org which claims to be censoring games 'for the sake of women' going after creatives (many of whom are women) and trying to wrench their livelihoods away
As a woman I don't want to be used as a shield for puritanical anti-art policies

Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Sep 1

www.thegamer.com/collective-s...

"Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not

"If Steam and itch.io had been moderating their platforms as they should have, there would have been no need to temporarily delist games."

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September 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

September 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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@jaythefae.bsky.social

switching over to gotham knights! 💜

Jay 💜🐰🌌 @jaythefae.bsky.social · Aug 30

streaming sea of stars on twitch! 🌌 might wind up switching games later not sure yet, we'll see where the vibes take us
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August 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM

Jay 💜🐰🌌

@jaythefae.bsky.social

streaming sea of stars on twitch! 🌌 might wind up switching games later not sure yet, we'll see where the vibes take us
twitch.tv/jaythefae
#seaofstars #twitch

Twitch

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August 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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My cover for Batgirls #12 featuring a Paper Doll Cover of Cassandra Cain! ☺️ I know you guys have been asking when I do one for Cass!☺️ I hope you guys like it!

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July 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM

Jay 💜🐰🌌

@jaythefae.bsky.social

more sea of stars dlc! come hang out 🥰🌠⚙️

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July 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Kelly Thompson

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News is out! It’s such a joy and honor to do this short with @gurihiru.bsky.social

Thanks to all of you for making Jeff such a star that he’s the character getting this historic opportunity. 💙

June 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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@jaythefae.bsky.social

IM ALIVE 🔥
going live with the sea of stars: throes of the watchmaker dlc 🌠⚙️
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jaythefae - Twitch

Hi! I'm Jay (they/them) and I spend most of my time gaming, drawing, and reading. I mainly play RPGs; I love a good story-driven game!

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June 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Gay Breakfast @ MFF F17

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Happy *quiet, chill* Pride.

The chill otter is laying down next to a phone with rainbow beams fanning out of it. They look at the phone and see it says June 1st, and after a brief contemplation, they snuggle up under a progress pride blanket, phone plugged in farther away. It reads “It’s ok if you are tired. Happy *quiet, chill* Pride.”

June 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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Happy Pride month everyone!! 🦊❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

June 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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Kiana Mai

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The sales help monetarily support me and the making of the project (which I do hope to make more of this year). So get a little guy if you can and if you wish! Or even just spreading the word would really help!
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June 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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✨️Zombie✨️ ~drawing comics~

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Happy Pride Month 🌈🦇

Vibrantly colored illustration of six classic Batmans, each in different color of the rainbow and posing flirtatiously. Drawn by me in 2022.

June 2, 2024 at 12:52 AM

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@curiah.city

Still open for two of these here silly guys 👍

DelShark₊°｡❆ @curiah.city · Jan 10

Almost done with my current commission queue, so I'm opening three more slots for Retro Toon style work only! These are monochrome + 1 or 2 optional accent colors.

I'll begin work on these starting later this month.

DM me here or on Kofi if you're interested. ✌️

#OC #Commissions #Artist #Toon

January 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM

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@meyoco.bsky.social

raven ✨

January 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Jay 💜🐰🌌

@jaythefae.bsky.social

happy new year! 🥳🎉

January 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM

Jay 💜🐰🌌

@jaythefae.bsky.social

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!! 🫶🏾💜🎄

December 25, 2024 at 6:35 PM

Jay 💜🐰🌌

@jaythefae.bsky.social

i got echoes of wisdom for christmas 🥹🥹🥹💜

i was gonna save it to play on stream but i don't have that kind of self control, i needed to play as zelda immediately

A photo of my copy of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom with the game running on my monitor in the background. Princess Zelda is standing on a pathway leading to an entrance into the rifts in Hyrule with Tri hovering next to her.

December 25, 2024 at 6:27 PM

Jay 💜🐰🌌

@jaythefae.bsky.social

okay i just saw the trailer for split fiction, who wants to play this with me when it comes out 🤩🤩🤩

December 17, 2024 at 10:46 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

It’s not *just over his views*, to be clear. The man coordinates harassment to direct toward trans people. He is active.m. His views aren’t some passive interior thing we’re trying to thought-police. He demonstrably aims to hurt trans people, literally and materially.