trying to Not Do Politics is a futile game of head-in-sand because Everything Is Politics and reckoning with that is the price of not having sand between your ears
*jolts awake* the 90% or whatever of dna that we think is nonsense is actually chemicals stacked and stacked until they became a foundation. all of existence is systems stacked
i would wager gantu has rarely if ever gotten truly intoxicated because he hates to be vulnerable and not in control.
meanwhile reuben learns about cannabis and its all joever
The people in charge of things have become so detached from reality, and so broadly antihuman, that they've completely lost the perspective of what people like or want or need. Creation for pure profit motive isn't really creation at all, it's just assembly and a demand for eyeballs and money.
I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"
Also, so we are clear: my position (correct) is that that they don't go far enough - yes, all sex is gay, and that's why it's good and why you should do it more and weirder.
I'm going to need everyone to stop being such a mark for stuff like this. They have learned through years of feedback that this gets them clicks. It's an engagement strategy as contrived as anything a social media marketing agency could put together for a SaaS startup.
PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it.
Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts.
Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.
I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.
dear god just saw how an it looks when someone's hit with the account wide adult content warning and it's fucking MISERABLE
blurred icon, blurred banner, every single post is hidden, even text posts, and posts that have images require you to hit unhide TWICE for the text and image, fucking nightmare