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   Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 23:48:56 JST Simon Repp

   «I’m not really sure how to deal with this part of my life appropriately. I have apologized to a few people individually, but it’s not a scalable solution and with many people I have no business re-opening wounds to salve my own conscience. I can offer a general apology, and I will. I’ve never found the right moment to say it, but now will do: I apologise, sincerely, to everyone who I have harmed with verbal abuse and with hateful and problematic rhetoric. If you have had a bad experience or experiences with me, and there’s anything you want from me that can help you heal from that experience – a personal apology, for example – please reach out to me and ask.»

   https://drewdevault.com/blog/Addressing-harassment/

   I only ever witnessed Drew from a distance online, so it's ultimately not my call to validate him. I will say though that the picture he paints - both in the best and the worst - is true to what I've seen and read from him over the years. I like to believe that people can change, and as such, I have a ton of respect for what he has written in this post. Being an asshole is cheap and easy (and in my own ways I've not always been my best self either), but writing something like that ... really takes a different kind of person. I wish him all the best.

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     marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 23:48:54 JST marius

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     @freebliss the one bitter tasting pill I got from Drew's writing is that he's seemingly unable to accept that perhaps he interacted with people during their "asshole" phase of their lives and that others can change and grow too. Perhaps he needs them to write a mea-culpa blog post, who knows. I've seen him at the forefront of at least two vilification campaigns at least in the past couple of years... and that feels somewhat hypocritical...

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     Gianmarco Gargiulo (gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2026 02:00:45 JST Gianmarco Gargiulo

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     @freebliss I don't know how much good faith is in here considering the attempts to hide the evidence when it was being discovered for the first time. Maybe he gave up and wrote this because of the Streisand effect? Just speculating, I also believe one can change.