like i know from experience in threatening situations i am all fight no flight and this would do some manchurian candidate shit to me

ngl i feel like i would black out and wake up in a pool of blood. not my own.

okay. it was a bad call on my part. i got defensive about said bad call being attributed to malice (or imo worse, ignorance). i still disagree that changing the word when it's still fucking obvious what a goddamn channer would have said is /clearly/ the good call. im not sure there IS a good call.

yeah 👍

i was trying to earnestly balance not infantilizing disabled people by censoring primary sources while also acknowledging the harm of the language used by the jackasses of 4chan but just block me and get it over with

so i went back and forth on whether to censor the slur for a while. split the baby and censored it in the alt text (perhaps infantilizing to those using screenreaders) but figured the primary source being fucking 4chan (and the baggage that entails) was relevant context

NYT Opinion: My Actions Have Had the Barest Shade of a Consequence and I Have Never Been So Insulted in All My Life

add in his wife being the victim of heinous political violence and you're approaching that 'writers having a little too much fun with it' threshold

eh, your loss. have fun with the revolution or whatever

but consider, you could keep it up. list more reasons to engage different outrage sectors. find some way to bring zoning into it, or star wars, bluesky loves that.

to piss people off here on bluesky dot app

wanted to see how long you'd do this before giving up or naming an actual reason 👍

oooh how about a third

apologies for the crude language but this is the most concise distillation of this phenomenon to me

they always paid for the good shit too

it's missing the rainbow flag im pretty sure