Blerd Beats

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BLACK LIVES MATTER • Ivory Tower expatriate • 💍20 years and counting💍 • Nupe ♦️👌🏾♦️• Tuskegee '06 • blerdbeats.com • he/him

I'm coping with the fact that a mass shooting happened in Iowa the other day and I didn't see a post about it on here. I was hoping that we'd never get desensitized to such things but I guess that's already happened.

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I would also add that etiquette goes a long way. I've been a part of when a misunderstanding happens and folks go from from 0 to 100 when they only needed to go up to about 15 and now everyone is alienated instead of arriving at an understanding where the mistake was made.

JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 21h ago

Instead of trying to get bigots to come to the side of reason, you should really get every day people who are misunderstanding shit and could use a helping hand but would like to be in community with folks and just don’t know how to, which is a much larger group.

I don't like that he says they want it to change, but if they keep our moderation tools in place, it won't despite him saying that it is changing or will change. The chuds and bots lose interest when they're ignored/blocked, and the actual humans run back to Twitter when we disallow the lies.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Should be expected that Brand New Day would be trending. But that also means I'll see yall well after 2PM EST when I can speak about watching the movie in past tense. I haven't seen this much hype for a Marvel movie since Endgame. ✌🏾