quaaludes to the afternoon of a fawn
aisling@critters.gay
Feels like Bluesky culture as a whole has this prevalent idea of “trans safety” that is largely defined by the voices of the most popular trans people, so “trans safety” gets kind of conflated with “celebrity safety”
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quaaludes to the afternoon of a fawn
aisling@critters.gayThis is one reason why it skews toward “blocklists are necessary for trans safety”. The kind of harassment you get when you’re a big trans account gets treated as the default trans experience. It’s taken as a given that if you are trans then you will receive such a huge torrent of harassment that you can only solve it with automated tools. The low-follower trans people who are subject to vindictive silencing through blocklists rarely feature in the conversations.
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@aisling yeah cuz my bio already gets me blocked by like half of my fellow comrades or at least enough for them to go “ew”
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)
atax1a@infosec.exchangeRE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/113182731030682764
@aisling people kept telling us that bluesky was good because moderation was being done by catty trans shitposters with blocklists, and...
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quaaludes to the afternoon of a fawn
aisling@critters.gayShow content
This also enters into the moral panic around “chasers pretending to be trans to get access to trans women”. The people advancing this moral panic tend to be both popular and conventionally attractive. The kind of people who will get a lot of unwanted solicitations. Also the kind of people who less likely to be the victims of bad faith questioning about if they’re really trans.
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@aisling A friend of mine, who is trans and been very open about that, is on block lists on bsky for "transphobia" and "transphobic dogwhistling" and none of the blocklist maintainers respond to her messages asking why she is on the list or how to get off. It's great and very normal
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Alsvid
Alsvid@brain.worm.pinkI've been griping about this a lot on Blooski, actually, as one of the low follower trans women who got shut out via blocklists (over 4,000 blocked by and counting!)
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Alsvid
Alsvid@brain.worm.pink-It's one of the few websites where people aren't saying "[n-word][n-word][n-word][n-word][n-word][n-word][n-word][n-word][n-word]" when I mention I am black
-pornography
-I run a mutual aid circle on there and it would be calamitous if I just up and left
-bloomfied (bloosky oomfies)
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Alsvid
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I would say it is the mirror image of the manufactured outrage by transphobes about Trans Women Pretending To Be Trans To Go In Women's Restrooms, even.
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Alsvid
Alsvid@brain.worm.pinkYuh, that's the very poisonous Bloosky Site Culture Aisling described in a shellnut. People there regularly tell me I've saved their lives, but don't speak up much for me. Very sad.
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Alsvid
Alsvid@brain.worm.pinkShow content
This akkoma is very wise to call lists 'harassment panels'. Big ups to @lizzie for dat.
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elizabeth worm🔅
lizzie@brain.worm.pink
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@Alsvid @YKantRachelRead oh no that was amy
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adzuki "toes" bean ch. 🇨🇳 
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
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elizabeth worm🔅
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@Alsvid @YKantRachelRead i dont do shit for this instance im ngl. i came up with some of the timeline names ig
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quaaludes to the afternoon of a fawn
aisling@critters.gayShow content
@Alsvid it’s a vision of safety that’s like “don’t worry! you’ll only be sexually harassed by genuine trans people!” and im like okay thanks
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