Having a lot of thoughts this week about parasociality and how overidentification with public figures and their work results in a reflexive rejection of accusations of wrongdoing not just because it shatters an illusion, but because it feels like a personal attack.
ah it's the day of the year where the people who are furiously pro the troops let off a hundred explosives by their PTSD affected neighbors, who are often the troops
Obviously fireworks are cool to look at and of course I have a *certain kind* of patriotism about the American Idea, but also it never doesn't seem fucked up that the biggest global military hegemony celebrates our nation's birth by pretending to bomb ourselves.
They gave Hilary Cass a peerage. Enjoy your election victory but I’m not gonna wake tomorrow up feeling any safer or more optimistic as a trans woman. To me it’s just Friday. 🤷♀️
i gotta say if this is a problem for you, you gotta have a problem with bluesky because auto labeling swastika content from someone talking about history is basically the ur example of how this content moderation is going to fail and it's baked in
After this week's momentous Supreme Court ruling I posted about the 1933 Enabling Act in Germany as a warning about the dangers of growing totalitarianism. Disappointed to learn @moderation.bsky.app labelled it "radical views advocating violence, hate, or discrimination." Very poor job @bsky.app
Angel Fact: all dogs DO go to heaven. cats are given the option but most of them refuse. fish have their own separate "Fish Heaven", complete with oyster pearly gates
sort of a side note but it's vaguely offensive how low quality our enemies are as individuals. "i'll publish a piece in the paper of record that says i don't vote, no one will check the publicly available information about that." bottom of the barrel stuff here
I wish people would stop using the transphobia of the British press to defend an author they're unwilling to contend with. I don't like it either! Maybe the industry shouldn't protect two-faced behavior until some shithead scoops it!
