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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know you want to drag him, and god bless, have at it, but I just. Please I'm like on my hands and knees begging, before you post about this shit, in *any* of these cases, if you were the woman here, and you read your post, would you feel supported?

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jesus god in heaven I get on this account and the first thing I see is some post about how all SA victims are permanently, irreparably damaged goods forever and ever and this is supposed to be in defense of SA victims. You play SO fast & loose with this stuff. Christ on the cross

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wake up in my 1984 home. "Good 1984" I say to my wife (heterosexual). "Good 1984" she says back. "What are you reading?" I ask. We both are permitted five banned books to read: 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and you might guess The Hunger Games. Wrong, it's The Giver.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

She holds up her copy of Animal Farm. "Do the animals farm?" I joke. "That isn't funny, dear," she says. "You're right darling, it isn't. I denounce the evils of communism." "Hm. Well, good. I denounce it too. That poor horse..." "That poor horse."

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol what's up Michael. Slight tip, if you're prone to excessively greasy or oily skin, setting powder is mattifying. The FDA says talc is safe, for what it's worth, so if you need large volumes, you can get them cheap as free.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Re: Michael Tracey, this is the end result of the beard-&-glasses stylized-avatar lads. One day you wake up and oops you're Matt Yglesias but somehow even less powerful/clouted. In ancient days, Maddox cursed these, his cultural progeny, and none have yet had the strength to break it

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just don't like what I see this way, from literally anyone I see involved so far. How are you acting in solidarity with someone whose wishes you don't know enough to respect? His position, what this means for him & his image, has vacuumed up all of the focus & guarantees she gets flak as bycatch

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meanwhile all anyone cares about is that he's not who they thought. I respected (I don't suppose I was 'tricked,' but that's a different matter) his skill as an essayist enough that he got a namedrop in my Ogdo interview, but like. Sorry but who cares about him rn. He's not the important party here.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The thing that gets me is that either someone besides the two of them & relevant authorities sat on this and just now was like "oh by the way," or, someone looked into him, found this, and didn't reach out to her. Whatever we can say about his duty to disclose, asking her is part of due diligence.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asking bluesky if they're going to center the woman impacted by all this or the guy who did it. They laugh and say "it's a centered woman, ma'am." I look inside, it's about the guy who did it

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The good thing about watching BAKI-DOU is that, as with literally all Baki, it is literally impossible to spoil. You could tell me someone blows Baki's head off and it comes clean off and he dies, and it would be meaningless. By the next episode we could have it explained to us why he's just fine.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Deadass Simon Cowell now looks exactly like the villain from No, I'm Not a Human and I am all the way here for his transformation into a kind of sleep paralysis demon. Love that for you king!

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I appreciate your bravery in endorsing my position that literally all sports should be co-ed. You didn't have to do that for me, but you did. Blessings 🙏

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Vet these accounts that keep sticking their dick in hornets' nests. In part what they're doing is attempting to leverage their presence to act as a social proof to get more dipshits to feel comfortable saying this stuff. If they came out of nowhere & suddenly care about fairness in sports? Fake.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Fairness is important," "there are lots of reasons to care," this sort of thing. Never an actual argument, never something with teeth. Why expend the energy? Just dip, throw up some posts about the Giants so you seem normal/real, then in a little while come back and poke more. Rinse & repeat.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You're not an AI, but you also put the bare minimum of effort into your replies. For instance, nobody was talking about the constitution, and you threw it in there to try and keep the topic up. You don't get especially bogged down by making specific claims that might require heavy lifting.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the 11th you really got into it. Pad with one post about Macklemore being antisemitic, and later one about Bryce Eldridge, then today you're back at it defending "fairness in sports." Whether or not you really are a bot or sockpuppet is irrelevant to the extent you act exactly like one. You do.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If the shoe fits." Your account's history: 1 post in 2024 about Golden Retrievers 2 posts in 2025, one about city connects outfits and one about Kai-Wei Teng. July of this year, suddenly you're back and posting about "politics" and "fairness in sports," padded mostly by one-line throwaways.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Toad found a frying pan in the kitchen. “I will hit that big animal with this,” said Toad. “All of his teeth will fall out.”

Toad grabs a cast iron skillet from his kitchen.

From "Christmas Eve"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bog standard account farm behavior. This is mid. Premium farms will put some craftsmanship into their sockpuppets. A number of farms do less, though. They just march straight in and don't pretend not to be burners. Those are small fry, you're the "bang for your buck" mid-range option.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You & yours follow a regular cycle: make a number of nothing posts tangentially related, usually sports or vague politics, once in a blue moon. You fart up a nondescript profile. Then when you need a burner, there it is ready to rock and just at first, it looks like you're "just asking questions."

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's important to dress well so the family court judge knows you're serious and ready to act like an adult

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I take it back. Under 100 posts and many of them are about fairness in women's sports? Classic bot/sockpuppet behavior. Onto the list you go, my friend

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Dignity and compassion" aren't materially actionable proposals. You aren't opening yourself up to criticism from transphobes when you talk about "dignity & compassion." Those terms you use are to signal to others like you, then, because trans people can't make use of that "dignity & compassion."

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Then you are primed to accept more and worse, and each time you do, it becomes easier to accept the next line. Such as: - No GAC for anyone under 18 (or 26) - GAC off of medicaid and medicare - Bathroom bans - Freezes on GAC "pending studies" - Decency laws regarding "crossdressing" Etc.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What does swallowing it look like? A lot like this, actually. You internalizing arguments about "trans women in sports" and identifying them as though they are thoughts unique to you, as if they just arrived out of a pure and austere logical black box in your head.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"fairness" as an issue has short-circuited a certain capacity to detect that you're being primed to agree to policies you would otherwise have found excessive, cruel, etc, and which are being implemented right now. "Fairness in sports" is the bacon around that pill you're swallowing.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We could get into the problems with blanket statements like yours, ex. "where's the glut of trans athletes doing fortnite dances on previous records if this is a pressing issue for regulatory bodies or even the state," but the damage here is done, i.e.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 21/09/2026

jesus christ

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I literally told you the purpose. It was to compare your statement unfavorably with a statement that could have been made in 2006, because I feel their function is the same, having been on the receiving end of both. Yes, I think you fell for a foot in the door and said so.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I said it's *your argument* that you are not bigoted, and I made the historical comparison between your statement's function and the function of bigoted statements 20 years ago. These is not equivalent to a statement that you, a stranger, simply 'are' a bigot. It's your statement that is issue-laden

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm making a historical comparison between statements' social function

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I didn't call you a single name, and I cannot respond to an argument you haven't actually made.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the same thing. Claim you want dignity and respect and something like that at the outset, then uncritically regurgitate just the exception. Tale as old as time.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You aren't making the argument itself, you're just saying you're not bigoted for having a position that is in every way tailored to make it through the cell membrane of "is this bigotry y/n" bullshit detector. You fell for the foot in the door to the point where you ascribe the argument to yourself.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I saw all this shit 20 years ago and was a gay male at the time. It's the exact same shit as the "can't you just be happy with domestic partnerships?" people. Worse since you all are willing to reduce people's standing they already have, but the mushmouthed compromise is the same.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I believe gay people should have equal rights under the law, and should be treated with compassion and dignity. But there is a case to be made that legal marriage is not a legal 'right.' Calling me a bigot just for saying so is not helping gays' case, and I think MLK would agree with me on that."

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The proof is in the pudding. If bluesky execs are still capable of shoving their foot into their mouths (most definitely including cases where a majority of repliers misconstrue a post), PR is either slacking off or not being given enough power.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In fairness to them (I can't believe I'm saying that either, believe me), comms & PR are overlapping, but not necessarily the same thing. They need, bare minimum, to hire someone who is demonstrably really good at posting to have veto power over what they post & to suggest professional alternatives.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Oh what a tangled web we don't know how to post on"

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A dedicated and highly competent PR team is absolutely worth the cost to Bluesky as a company. I cannot stress enough how very badly you need it.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As it stands, your concern that publicizing the rubric would allow workarounds for bad actors is strange threadfellows with your public demarcation of which forms of "trans people in camps" statements qualify as worth moderation, and which are merely toxic.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It came across that "should" would be the operative word making the phrase into hate speech, but your phrasing was utterly tortured in its brevity. Nobody forced you to play it so fast & loose with your wording, certainly not on this topic in particular.

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it took an hour, maevey a day @maeveynot.online · 17/09/2026

there’s really no end to what will make me think about this one

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In proposing that we 'divorce' publicly from some broad idea of coalition, then, I am asking that we become less familiar to these types of people, more alien to them and therefore a subject they must consider anew. The presumption that we are mutually intelligible has led us into a bad spot.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Most intra-community trans issues (I mean TRANS issues, as opposed to "things trans people like that they then talk about") have very little to do with moral considerations at all. Actually, where they *do* involve a moral dimension, those tend to be obscured behind immediate practical concerns.

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Punished Mace @colophon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When cis liberals excessively moralize to/about themselves, most especially about their political choices, they can easily get themselves in a position where their understanding that rights are under increasing threat causes a kind of political flinch response that weakens their ability to respond.

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