I don’t know effective change.org petitions are beyond raising awareness, but there’s a petition to fire the brownshirt wannabe police chief.

You need to internalize the idea that it’s not fair of anyone to expect yoi to do more than be a compassionate listener. Be firm about not taking on an intermediary/messenger role.

Try saying things like “You seem to be hesitant about speaking your mind to Mom, what do you think will happen if you tell her what you need?” “What’s your plan to solve this if you don’t feel like you can express your feelings to her?”

Healthy venting is solution-oriented. You’re under no obligation to entertain endless circular whining and fake helplessness from adults.

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. Most people but by no means all people step through stages of confirming mutual social attraction, then romantic attraction, and finally sexual attraction.

So start out with hanging out as friends, and if mutual chemistry or “sparks” don’t manifest then you just have a friend, and can look elsewhere for romance and sexual attraction.

It will help you a lot to figure out whether you’re demisexual and what your needs and expectations are as far as exclusivity.

If this poster-child family of “Caucasians” had it bad, I can only imagine how the Dilley concentration camp goons are torturing their kidnap victims who don’t flag the vision of racial purity.

Unfortunately chatbots cannot currently be trusted to supply appropriate responses to medical questions and any ideas coming from cronies of the sex predator grifter fash regime should be dismissed as yet more grifter woo until proven otherwise

“Texas fash bootlicker faces no charges for disposing of woke foreigner who happened to be his daughter”

no actual pro-Palestine content

Not what I said, and twisting nuanced issues into black-and-white absolutes is a classic bad-faith propaganda tactic.

Bsky gets a constant stream of bot-created scam accounts posing as Gazans soliciting donations for food, medicine, shelter etc. Sometimes as many as a dozen created within seconds, all pointing to the same donation-platform URL, with only minimal variations of usernames or post content, sometimes with donation URL obscured using short-link services.

Just like with email spam, scammers and filters are locked in an endless adaptation race. It is almost inevitable that some genuine accounts will trigger false positives when demographics or keywords overlap the flood of scam/spam content.

The situation is also very vulnerable to manipulation by the forces perpetrating Palestinian genocide. Israel’s cyberwarfare goons certainly have the means to manipulate, poison and jam Bsky’s Palestine-adjacent topic space, effectively co-opting and weaponizing Bsky’s own filters against genuine critics of the Palestinian genocide.

P.S. fuck Xitter too lol

Help me understand: was this a subreddit you participated in for months or longer, before encountering a wave of objectifying comments? Or is it more like, you were a newb to the sub when you started pestering mods about a tone that was already established as normalized there?

I am utterly baffled as to why any Canadian in their right mind would want to be annexed by the U.S.

Sure, charge them with treason, but give them psych evals. Maybe offer mental health treatment in lieu of whatever Canada does to treason, it’s clearly a cry for help to overcome Fascist Oligarch Cuck Syndrome.

Not that his word is worth a discontinued penny that was accidentally digested and shat out by a coffee bean civet

It has everything to do with identifying and profiling visitors, but I believe ad revenue is just the cover justification. Social media user profiling has crossed the technological threshold into being of interest to authoritarian states, who are very keen to know who the likely troublemakers are and to neuter social networks as potential channels for resistance organization.

“murdered”. The correct phrase is “murdered”.

I don’t disagree, it certainly has removed all brakes and hurdles.

That Maduro must have an awful lot of Epstein files

You had me at tom yum

You can download and twiddle anything you can screenshot. There is no way to garner “consent”. Was Xitter a dumpster fire already and is this feature going to make it burn faster, well yes of course. But the engagement metrics will look glorious for the shareholders for a moment, until all the adolescents get jaded again.

Authoritarianism and leftism are incompatible ideologies. The PRC and USSR both failed at their worker revolutions and swiftly ended up with corrupt oligarchy still controlling the means of production and hoarding the fruits of production. That’s not left-wing, that’s the far-right con game.

I remember a panic some years back about YT funnels of cartoon content aimed at kids, that would lead to weird and sometimes disturbing stuff like “elsa ariel and moana drown together” … I guess the algo has evolved to target nonchildren now

Garbage site, even if the Alphabet CEO wasn’t an oligarch fash toady. Happily running health scam woo ads and refuses to act on reporting of scam advertising.

Whipped cream, the uncool whip