Notices by carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)

@DeliaChristina we do! It's called Loops! And the guy who runs it won't stop using AAVE in the most cringe way possible. And won't listen to anyone trying to get him to stop 🙃

@packetcat they are going to seriously regret this decision. Alienating an entire generation, many of whom can vote now and most of whom will be able to vote in the next congressional and presidential elections.

Hundreds of millions of users, thousands of people sourcing it for their income.... And the Dems will be blamed. Rightly so.

Even folks who don't care or understand that it's blatant censorship are going to be PISSED. All I'll say is I hope they're ready. I doubt it, but I hope they're ready for what's coming.

@tobi obtuse is an excellent way to put it. It's been frustrating to see you try in good faith multiple times only for him to just ignore/deflect and keep doing it.

Building an open source alternative to meta products or Tiktok is such important work and to see it handled so irresponsibly is very disappointing.

@fivetonsflax if only I did

@Jeramee yeah check my reply to my OP

@finalstaticfox SAME

Unsurprisingly, I've got a lot of folks who haven't heard about these instances of antiblackness from dansup. This is how I know most fedi users in general either aren't connected to Black users or don't listen to the ones they are connected to, since this is something we have spoken about before. This is a systemic problem.

Anyway, here's a post from WP (AKA a White Person) discussing several of his posts: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113822469270748843

And here's a thread going into more depth about AAVE, with links to contextualize and explain why his consistent appropriation of it is indeed antiblack:
https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113825727607965530

So, so typical of the fediverse that an open source, non-corporate platform like pixelfed (and/or loops) is getting increasing amounts of attention while reports of the head of the project consistently and loudly being an antiblack weirdo are ignored 🙄

If you'd like to learn more about what's in period blood now you know how to get the stains off your brand new white trousers, here's a primer... https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/112892387509272810

@Makyris okay you're not understanding what I'm saying, or what mekka said. So let's go back, once again, to what mekka posted, which you then quoted.

A key difference is that Trump doesn't expect or need checks notes 90% of Black people to vote for policies that destroy themselves in order to win elections.

So from the article that you just posted, did Trump need 90% of Black voters to vote for him in order to win? No. He won with way, WAY less than that. That's a fact. Not disputable.

90% of the Black vote is what Biden had, and he won. It's also what Kamala didn't have, and she lost. Mekka was referencing those exact numbers to make his point. Does that make more sense?

@Makyris @mekkaokereke no he literally does not need those votes. Do you know how we know?

Because he didn't have them, and he won anyway. Did you miss that?

@DeliaChristina @antijingoist disgusting.

@DeliaChristina wait wait wait. Are you saying the judge deemed the Biden proposed amendments invalid, or Title IX in its entirety?

@FinalGirl thank you so much for this thread. I'm so glad you joined the instance!!!

Hillary Clinton deserves an ICC warrant, not a medal "for freedom".

Like, the only things she has freed are bombs over Libya, Yemen or Yugoslavia.

I've been quieter on here in recent weeks, and it's been nice. that will probably continue. But on to the point.

I've been thinking about meta posts I've seen recently and previously on here, some of which are quite robust and some of which are straight up disinformation, along with everything in between. I started to write a long ass post about it but tbh that's a waste of time, so instead you get this reminder:

If your take on blocklists, fediblock, etc fails to interrogate the reason behind why most Black folks who have joined the fediverse have packed up and left, your take is antiblack.

I'll say that again. Unless your opinion on what Black folks are doing on the fediverse centers the undeniable fact that almost every Black person who set foot in this network fled and never returned, your opinion is antiblack.

We've got oodles of white folks. both cishets and queer and trans people. We've even got a smattering of people of color, also with wide ranging sexualities and genders. Who's not here? Who don't you really see many of?

You can't tell me it's not obvious.

Anyways, it's bad enough that I feel like I should start calling this place the Sundowniverse or something. Catchy, ain't it?

#Sundowniverse #Sundownstodon #FediBlockMeta

@sayyid_qishta listen. That shit REEKED of cointelpro type strategies. I felt exactly the same

@tobi some words that come to mind are "minstrelsy, coopting, overseer, and control" so that's promising

https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/113765040222504912

This is some truly sinister shit. Not the first time digital blackface has been done with AI but the first time I know of a huge megacorp like Meta is doing it openly.

Via FinalGirlBoss
@afrodiziac80
Dec 19, 2024, 6:04 PM

"Needs Seven Nation Army playing over the clip"