Imagine that a Black user is harassed by a nazi on your service. The nazi is not removed, but the Black user can mute/block them. They do block them, and can enjoy the service again👍🏿

This Black user blocks ~1 nazi every week, for a year. So far so good👍🏿

52 weeks later, another Black user signs up.

when people say stuff like this i always think of the twitter thread about the bartender kicking out a nazi.

if you let them hang out here, they will bring their friends.

i am just catching up on this but it seems pretty bad (and outright deluded) to launch a social network without explicitly blocking people from using the most well-known racial slur in the english language as a username

Hello this is Jerry Lawson the inventor of the video game cartridge :)

"Our communities are defined by the worst things that we permit to happen. What we allow tells the world who we are.” - @anildash.com

https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-immortal-myths-about-online-abuse-a156e3370aee

This line from @monicalewinsky.bsky.social 's 2015 TED Talk always runs through my head before posting:

"We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention."

Evergreen Calvin and Hobbes (now applicable to more than just TV)

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/09/30

Reposting my most popular tweet:

NASA/JPL has free, amazing space tourism posters available for download: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future

Never not true https://xkcd.com/722/