i'm hoping it's working up to a Final Destination-style all-at-once removal of the entire lineage

nipotism

"AI adoption" sounds more christmassy than "massive layoffs"

On twitter you at least understand that people get banned because it is run by a transphobic nazi billionaire who can't handle criticism.

This place? Who the fuck knows why they do anything? They marketed it as a place away from the pro-fascism of twitter. Now they are making it the same.

every interaction i've seen from bsky admin has made them all seem as petulant and thin skinned as musk

You banned a trans woman for using your own API. You banned a Black man for calling out your COO for following a transphobe. You suspended a Palestinian American repeatedly for calling out genocide. You ban Palestinians almost on sight. You've suspended immigrants for defending ourselves.

Does no one love Johnny Cash any more? "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." I mean this is just absurd on its face of it, but this is the sparkling, flopping clown dick that we just have to just pretend is actual site moderation instead of this bunch of stealth crypto weirdos.

Due to a backlog of cases, as Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a persona non grata.