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"I'm going to stay at the predator party because otherwise there will only be predators at the predator party" is something I almost understand, as a contrary person who will die on the most ridiculous hills... But you know, the quickest way to kill X is to leave them alone. THEY HATE EACH OTHER

they're not gonna just stay there happily without their chosen victims to torment. they literally can't be happy if they're not abusing us. the quickest way to punish them is to remove access to us. there's a reason even Trump can't manic post Truth Social into really mattering.

and I mean, yeah. there is a danger they will come over here to chase us down! but that is why bluesky's nuclear block and the culture of just immediately erasing them from our collective lives is so powerful and why they will spend every moment trying to lure us back to the hell site.

Bluesky does provide us with some great tools for this. Disable repost, hide post, block. I'm trying to remind myself to hide posts before blocking someone, that way no one else sees their awfulness either.

Good news! If you block someone being awful in your thread, no one else gets to see the awful either. We'd still see them if we knew who it was and went directly to their profile and we'll still see them being awful elsewhere, but when you clean up your timeline you clean it for everyone.

Very very occasionally I’ll do a quick dunk then *mute* them so they see it and will keep posting at me, driven mad by my total lack of response and how I’m talking about RHOSLC and don’t care?