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Seasons Veetings

@veeistrying.bsky.social

I hope you're fucking happy @emuhp.bsky.social

I present to you my venn piagram

A venn diagram made of pie. The left side is an apple pie with a solid pastry lid. The right side is cherry pie with no lid. The overlapping section is apple and cherry with a lattice lid. It sits on a deepish black baking tray, the pastry isn't the neatest, and it is the most ridiculous thing I've ever made.

November 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM

Jon Paul "Pope" Crouch

@pope509.bsky.social

September's Hobby Progress, finished up a Chaos Predator and a Daemon Prince of Nurgle
#Warhammer40k
#WarhammerCommunity
#DeathGuard
#ChaosSpaceMarines

October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Working Class History

@workingclasshistory.com

#OtD 7 Sep 2011 700 longshore workers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and their supporters blockaded a grain train from entering a non-ILWU terminal, facing down violent police attacks. After a long struggle, they won concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...

September 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Natália Zilio

@natizilda.art.br

also, I'm willing to bet this is why we see so many "articles" about how bluesky is actually dying and we should leave the platform

The nuclear aspect of the block feature in this website pisses them off

Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3:

"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).
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."

Text post part 2/3:

"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.
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."

Text post part 3/3:

"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. "

Response by drtanner:

"Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.
It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM

Jon Paul "Pope" Crouch

@pope509.bsky.social

This Month's Model
#Warhammer40k
#WarhammerCommunity
#Ultramarines
#SpaceMarines

August 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM

Jon Paul "Pope" Crouch

@pope509.bsky.social

Finished these Bladeguard at the end of last month
#Warhammer40k
#WarhammerCommunity
#SpaceMarines
#Ultramarines

August 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM

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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community

@chrisdeleon.bsky.social

Duolingo stock chart showing 15% drop in the past month from 410ish to around 350.
quoted post missing alt text: it's just words that say duolingo CEO says AI is better teachers than humans - but schools will still exist because you need childcare.

August 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM

Jon Paul "Pope" Crouch

@pope509.bsky.social

First half of my Hellblaster squad, next up is 3 more bladeguard so I can run them in big squads and then I'll get the last 5 of these guys done.
#Warhammer40k
#WarhammerCommunity
#SpaceMarines
#Ultramarines

5 Space Marines in Ultramarine Blue Tacticus armor armed with Plasma Incinerators, otherwise known as Hellblasters

July 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM

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tobyfox

@tobyfox.undertale.com

Hello.

It's almost been 10 years since UNDERTALE released.

Now, I'm looking for your memories.

Let's turn back together.

Face the flower and speak.

memories.undertale.com

UNDERTALE - Memories

memories.undertale.com

July 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM

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Ruby Kobold 🌹 -⃝⃤

@fluffyscales.bsky.social

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · Jul 24

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

1/🧵

Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

July 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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Bog Witch Girl

@bogwitch-girl.bsky.social

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

askvisa@visa.com

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM

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Double Fine

@doublefine.com

To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...

🤘 🖤

July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Matt 'Wib' Ward

@wib.bsky.social

Legit, one of the best moves we ever made for our YouTube was to start focusing on things we liked and found interesting over talking about things we didn't like.

Outrage sells, sure, but it's hard to sustain it and still love what you do.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Jul 20

I often think about the special hell fan community YouTube outrage grifters have created for themselves.

I genuinely believe most of them got into it because they like things. But eventually discovered their income is directly tied to hating everything and now they're stuck.

July 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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Ramona

@alderdoodle.bsky.social

No hate watching. No fucking hate watching meme with stills from Peaky Blinders.

July 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

one relatively minor thing that's come alongside the rise of SOF veterans as influencers is the idea that these people know how to win wars, when the birth of special forces as an institution can be directly graphed alongside the U.S. no longer winning real wars

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you follow me or any of the other lib-mil posters, you're probably familiar with repeated discussions about the "crisis" of masculinity and idiot cops larping as Seal Team Six.

What if I told you these are actually directly related to each other and oh boy this whole thing smacks of gender