greebledgoblin:

greebledgoblin:

greebledgoblin:

honestly surprised i havent seen anyone on my dash talking abt what is being done to Lexi Love

in brief summary,

a trans woman, drag queen and recent contestant on drag race has lost all of her social media accounts, and hence multiple bookings, because some washed up actress successfully sued her for the rights to “Lexi Love” because its what she named her business of….making shitty AI generated images. at one point she flat out said she didnt want her “brand” tarnished by association with a trans woman with a history of survival sex work, homelessness, and drug use. this poor woman has been through enough in life, was clearly going through a lot while filming a reality tv show, and now only has access to social media under her deadname.

Drag Race’ Star Lexi Love Is Fighting an AI “Artist” for Her Drag Alias. Now She’s “Forced” to Use Her Deadname

Platforms like Cameo and social media sites like Facebook have removed the drag star's accounts as a result of claims from an AI artist and

Them

FUCK SELENA SCOLA!!!!!!

obviously this is taking a toll on Lexi’s main source of income, if you’re a fan and want to send her a tip, this reddit post lists her accounts and her merch shop. unfortunately, it looks like at this time social media sites are siding with this evil cunt because of precious IP laws. share if you like, so we can do a little to help a woman who recently left rehab and is now dealing with this bs.

Reddit - The heart of the internet

reddit.com

Ven*o: @ mslexilove

Payp*l: @ mslexiloveky

(via whoopswooshkai)

atrulygoodheart:

afurioushawk:

Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are also doing the same thing:

Northeastern states consider regional approach to vaccine guidance after CDC changes

Shifting national vaccine policy under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has Massachusetts and other states exploring a regional approa

NBC Boston

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jarsjam:

loulooser:

spinostarz:

loulooser:

Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th

i know ur from the uk(?) but reading this as an american is really really funny

why 😭 it’s about twenty one pilots???? Their new album is out sep 12th????

THERE’S TWENTY ONE THIS TIME???

(via keptin-killy)

kushblazer666:

babygirl you have cancer but it’s okay we’re gonna get a bee to cough all up on your titties

(via julyzaa)

ginny-lala:

its-funnytwittertweets:

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missmacfire:

vexwerewolf:

xeansicemane:

prokopetz:

“Isn’t it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal” I mean, there’s a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn’t have enough poison in it.

Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.

We’re not fast and don’t have a lot of natural weaponry but we’re bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.

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itsabear:

drtanner:

fourohfourlifenotfound:

khazrablood:

wannabee twitter already bending the knee to terfs

If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.

And it’s not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It’s because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.

So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports– when you “flag” something as spam or inappropriate or ‘inciting harm’ (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise “how” is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it’s a bit of machine learning (“ai”, but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an “algorithm” (which is a meaningless word I don’t have time to unpack here).

The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I’ve been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time.

The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They’ll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so “inciting harm” was the excuse selected. “Inappropriate or sexually explicit content” is a common selection for other trans content.

Then what happens is the content moderation “algorithm” sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the “algorithm” has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.

This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now.

How do we fix it? There’s no easy solution. All the things about the “algorithm” that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it’s so difficult to defeat. It’s hard to teach a machine what’s a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it’s been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.

But here’s one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.

Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven’t personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it’s extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can’t convince people to fight with them and whose posts don’t gain any traction because they’re blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.

It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening.

this also applies to Tumblr, and remember, fight every account termination. It’s usually not a human actively doing it, it’s the highly flawed auto mod system being abused.

tiredyke:

tiredyke:

the time to be a mean dyke is now. be a killjoy feminist and take things too seriously, we’ve been too nice about girl math and girl dinner and pink jobs and the general infantilization of women and it’s gotten us nowhere. be a buzzkill now, for our future and our dignity

ALT

gently grabbing your shoulders as i say yes you are & it’s very important that you do, we need every trans woman and girl standing up for herself right now. i’m not saying it will be easy or that you won’t be met with backlash but these are conversations we need to have and misogynists, particularly transmisogynists need to feel uncomfortable and think twice before spouting off some regressive bullshit. we can do this!!

(via whoopswooshkai)

autisticcodex:

We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

Sign the Petition

Defend the Internet Archive

Change.org

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

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miphasdream:

VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST