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truly yours ♡

September 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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@caplog.bsky.social

🎨 thinking about (looks at smudged writing on hand) flowery

Various doodles of Flowey from Undertale. He's making all sorts of funny faces and trying to carry a full cup of water.

September 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM

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@nepeteaa.bsky.social

Nēnē 🌋🪿🪶

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September 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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Buggy gay simping 🏳️‍⚧️🍉

@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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@leovincible.bsky.social

An empty house.

September 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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twist

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hey guys, i didn't want to have to do this, but i really need some help.

August 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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#halflife #gman silly

July 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM

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#ggman

July 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM

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July 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM

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@shuuzaar.bsky.social

anyways.. it's TV Time! 📺⚡

June 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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ジェイド

@cosmotropic.bsky.social

Ive had a friend get no-fly-listed for making a joke before on social media. They thought nobody was paying attention, it didnt get huge or anything. Then woke up to federal agents in their house.

If its online:
Shut.
The.
Fuck.
Up.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Mar 16

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

www.404media.co/the-200-site...

June 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year.

As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor.

Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

The new restriction will sharply limit access to the Novavax vaccine for people under 65 who are in good health. It may leave Americans who do not have underlying conditions at risk if a more virulent version of the coronavirus were to emerge. It could also limit options for people who want the vaccine for a wide array of reasons, including to protect a vulnerable loved one.

May 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM

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Tamara

@tameranian.bsky.social

stupid

May 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM

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once again i am reposting this excellent piece of writing

DILF: DID I LEAVE FEMINISM is out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · May 2

ICYMI: "Masculinity!" Is it Man's eternal essence? A euphemism for "patriarchy?" A scam to sell shaving products? (It's definitely that last one, actually.) I got to talk to trans feminists Talia Bhatt, Raewyn Connell and Thomas Page McBee about what it all means: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

No one knows what 'masculinity' is, but it’s killing us | Xtra Magazine

ANALYSIS: Does “masculinity” mean anything other than “being in charge”? Let’s talk to transfeminists and find out

xtramagazine.com

May 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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April 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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Kingdom of the Biters: defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector

The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...

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March 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)

@themodsisyphus.bsky.social

This is terrifying. This could be me.

This person was born here, brown, was nearly deported.

“Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.
It's not required for citizenship.
It’s not even required to vote.”

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My friend was nearly deported in her own damn country.
She's 43. Born and raised in Miami, Florida. Both her parents are from Colombia and U.S citizens.
My beautiful friend, A U.S. citizen. Perfect English. Her Spanish? Pretty rough. And yet...
She was driving when she got stopped at an immigration checkpoint.
The officer told her she "matched the description of people they were detaining and deporting."
She asked, "Deporting? I was born here. Where are you going to deport me to Miami-Dade?"
He asked for her passport.
She said, "I don't have one. Never needed one."
His response?
"Well, you don't have a passport and you match the description."
The description being: brown and breathing, 1 guess?
Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.

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The description being: brown and breathing, 1 guess?
Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.
It's not required for citizenship.
It's not even required to vote.
But suddenly, if your skin tone or last name isn't
"American enough," you need to carry documentation like we're living under an authoritarian regime?
She was understandably pissed.
She asked him, "So because I look Latina, that's all the proof you need?"
His response, " Well, again you dont have a passport and you matched the description "
They let her go. With a warning.
A warning.
For what? For not carrying a passport?
For daring to exist in her brown skin without papers in hand?
She now needs to carry her passport everywhere she goes, not to leave the country, but to prove she belongs in the country where she was born.
What the hell are we doing?

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Are we really okay with turning the U.S. into a place where citizenship is judged by appearance?
Where being brown is enough to get detained?
Where "you match the description"
becomes the new 'show me your papers? *if tou know you know.
Sound familiar? It should.
That's how it started in Nazi Germany.
And before anyone says I'm being
dramatic....remember, the Holocaust didn't start with gas chambers. It started with suspicion. With documentation. With exclusion. With silence.
This isn't about immigration anymore. This is about racial profiling. Xenophobia. Authoritarian policing. And it's happening right now, in the so-called land of the free.
You want to know how fascism creeps in? It's this.
It's checkpoints. It's warnings. It's deciding who
"looks" American and who doesn't.
So here's a warning back:
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
And if you think this can't happen to you, just wait until someone decides you don't belong either.

March 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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¿Mr.Whatshisname? (COMMISSIONS OPEN)

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☀️🌻Vinny💫💛{Oakmoviez}

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if you're a queer person trying to leave a red State post your fundraisers , commission sheets etc below please 👇👇👇👇

March 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Nathan Frost

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ALGORITHM AUTOPSY [Banned TikTok]

March 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM

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@railroadlion.bsky.social

Goomy #pokemon #copicmarkers

March 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Andy Merrill “Brak” 🐸 ❌👑

@amerrill2.bsky.social

I know the difference between right and wrong.

I know that the trans community is being shat upon and shamed for horribly politically biased reasons.

The small minority that is our trans community are harming ZERO people. They are brave citizens and should be left alone.