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British person in America here. She does have a silly British name. Her references suck shit too.

The most important "British context" is that for self-important intellectual masturbators in Britain, transphobia is regarded as "brave truth telling that should be rewarded" and on BlueSky that same transphobia will get you yelled at and socially ostracized. That's what she's complaining about.

It's great to have tools to better block abusive folk and this is obviously developing in response to what a cesspit Elon's X has become. But if you're blocking people not even for what they believe, but what you mistakenly think they believe, then that's not great! (9/11)

You can be a booster of things where the community doesn't like you. It's not disqualifying.

Oh no did they call your Nazi-symp columnist bad words? I guess the system is rigged! The whinging for subs here is pathetic.

So you're arguing not for a right to speak, but for a right to force people to listen. Bluesky is as much of an echo chamber as you make it. There are plenty of conservative voices here. What there aren't many of are trolls, and that's because Bluesky recognizes no right to force people to listen.

Here to engage with you!

A lot of British people on the left like me moved here over a year ago when it became clear how deeply Musk was going to impose his ideological position. We live in very different worlds in the same country.

I do not feel obliged to engage with anyone I don't want to engage with, and in the same way that I will put on my noise cancelling headphones for some lairy man at a bus stop, I will do the digital equivalent here. I already live in a world full of sexist right-wingers, thanks.

Anyhow, nobody is going to subscribe to your website for posh cunts by shaming us into, IDK, letting the Nazis back in our lives and conversations. We will just never take the Financial Times seriously. Not that I did before.

We're literally just going back to ignoring dickheads like you before Leon took over the other site you seem to think isn't fulla Nazis nobody wants to advertise to. Just talk like this in person and try not to get shouted at. It's not an echo chamber, you've just normalized being a fascist online.

You don’t have to say ‘British’ every time you can just say ‘bad’

I mostly agree with your defense of the piece and criticisms of Bluesky's reaction, but if you can deny the unintended hilarity of "Stokes Newington Drinks Party" I'm not sure the internet is the place for you. It's amazing. Making fun of something like that should binds all of humanity

Nobody should have to know 😭

Don't you think tons of people not getting her snooty British references suggests this place isn't exactly the echo chamber she assumed?

Her references about posh dinner parties aren't British references, they're well off London journo ones.

oh, we are all too aware that the recent influx brings along quite a few of knife crime island's lowest-density éminences blanc; that's the thing, ennit, we don't much care for TERFs or the hard-of-thinking

Surely Jemima is a well-known name in the US (not one without controversy though)?

And look, I know TERFism is mainstream in the UK, but it is considered vile in pretty much everywhere else.

I reckon some people are coming here like scout ants, and like scout ants, you have to make the place unwelcoming to them, or they bring the entire nest with them and they eat through the foundations of the whole house!

To be fair, that’s the only point I agree with him on. Americans do use insular American references to worldwide audiences all the time, but we just can’t be arsed to mock you for it.

Well that would be a great shame, as I think we provide a great perspective on US news from a more international standpoint. But some of our columns from British columnist understandably use British frames of reference. Americans do this all the time too, we just tend to be used to googling them! 🤪

"We should have a town square, not a walled garden" "This is just for me mates" Ok, Chief.

STFU you Nazi tosser. We're here too and we get it. She's another TERF witch with a lady boner for 70-year-olds that shit themselves. You're a dishonest prick.

Ironic also that the neoliberal behemoths completely fail to understand that their 'Markets' god is just another face of Demos, the people.

again, not irony. swing and a miss