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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 12:46:38 JST Matt Blaze

   And, right on cue, someone complains about my "political" posts not having a content warning.

   Let me explain: fuck you.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 12:48:42 JST Rich Felker

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     @mattblaze Some monster in the replies was asking for cw on cat pics. 🤬

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 12:48:43 JST Matt Blaze

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     In any event, let me tap the sign, which is clearly posted as a pinned post:

     https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115523387764510055

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 12:48:44 JST Matt Blaze

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     Seriously, if you're allergic to posts about election technology, you really, really, shouldn't follow me. Or at least keep an epi pen on hot standby.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 12:48:46 JST Matt Blaze

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     Sadly, they didn't get to see that, because I blocked them before I posted it.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 15:35:00 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Gilgamesch

     @mattblaze @Gilgamesch Being rude to trolls in front of an audience is one of the few perks of being slightly famous on social media.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 15:35:01 JST Matt Blaze

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     • Gilgamesch

     @Gilgamesch Do whatever you want. I really don’t give a shit if you think I’m too rude to trolls. Sounds like a you problem.

     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: and Peter Krefting repeated this.
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     Gilgamesch (gilgamesch@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 15:35:02 JST Gilgamesch

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     @mattblaze Although I'm with you on the CW Thing - one may filter out political terms oneself - you are becoming more and more rude lately (or always were?) and somewhat whiny/touchy about these things. My consequence? I won't block or mute you, but unfollow. This is not the kind of behaviour I expect from people on this network, even less so from someone who is a scientist/researcher.

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     Wren Reilly (akareilly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 16:45:15 JST Wren Reilly

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @mattblaze

     what.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 22:46:37 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @mattblaze

     Some people on here don't read their own home timeline -- the stream where content from people and tags they follow appears.

     Instead, they read the Everything or Fediverse timeline, which has literally everything that arrived at their home server.

     That pushes the responsibility for curation onto authors -- "Is this something that would bother anyone?"

     It's an unfair structure and it should be up to the reader to curate their home feed instead.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 22:46:38 JST Matt Blaze

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     • Len

     @Hyperlynx You might not have learned about Mastodon’s new policy where you’re no longer required to follow me or read my posts. In fact, if they really bother you, you can even mute or block my account.

     So I no longer feel the least bit obliged to cater my posts to the whims of every censorious asshole on the planet who wants to control what I write about.

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     Len (hyperlynx@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 22:46:40 JST Len

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     @mattblaze mate, I vote for progressive candidates, donate big chunks of my money to progressive causes. I recycle. I do everything I fucking can to do things right.

     I have no more energy left to get outraged at problems on the other side of the world I can do nothing to help. I am burned out.

     So if you or anyone else posts untagged, unCW'd, unfilterable politics about causes I can't do a damn thing about other than get upset about, you go on the naughty list.

     And I get this shit bubble up in the trending page?

     In conclusion: fuck you too, buddy!

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 01:35:11 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @mattblaze I agree.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 01:35:12 JST Matt Blaze

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan I don’t understand why a complete stranger would prefer that I guess what topics they consider sensitive than use the powerful tools here to filter them for themselves.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 01:35:13 JST Matt Blaze

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan yeah, making my posts maximally benign in accord with an array of unwritten and contradictory rules I never agreed to follow, interpreted by people I’ve never met, is not a game I’m interested in playing.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 01:19:22 JST Matt Blaze

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     I’m not sure I understand the mindset of someone who signs up for a social media account and then gets surprised and upset when they find people discussing *current events*.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 01:19:23 JST Matt Blaze

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     "We're not asking you not to post about US politics. We're just asking you to use a content warning. We're being very reasonable, and your refusal to do so now that we've asked is unreasonable and hostile"

     Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't clear. Fuck you.

     Steve's Place repeated this.