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🗓️ 22 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss a new controversy at Bluesky after the head of Trust & Safety gets busted for a very sexy like. Plus, scenes from Asheville, Jesse gets Lizzoed, and we revisit the attempted cancellation of James Webb.
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0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to a preview of a premium episode of Blocker Imported. |
0:03.6 | You're going to hear us talk about a little spat on Blue Sky between a user named Junie |
0:08.6 | and the site's head of trust and safety. |
0:11.7 | It gets a little bit spicy. |
0:13.7 | We're going to debate whether a certain character in this story is or isn't horny on Maine. |
0:19.2 | So you're going to want to hear that. |
0:21.0 | You're going to want to hear some other stuff we say about blue sky, |
0:23.4 | both including my own experiences on it and this bizarre bowler hat controversy involving |
0:29.0 | astronomy and James Webb and telescopes and racism. |
0:32.8 | I think it's a pretty good episode. |
0:34.6 | If you want to hear the whole thing, go to block and reported.org, become a premium subscriber for just $5 a month and up. Best deal in media, |
0:41.6 | best deal in human history. Either way, I hope you enjoy the preview. That was way too much on my |
0:46.2 | own shit. Katie, thank you for your support. I want to disagree. I'm not supporting you. |
0:50.8 | Thank you for your, thank you partially for your partial support. You don't want me to stop. You love this shit. |
0:56.5 | I don't love it. I actually, I actually don't love it. And I don't like that I have gotten roped into this. Like, I'm getting people sending me messages. Just I have, I'm officially recruising myself from your drama. I am above it. I am done. What are they sending you messages about? We can talk about it afterwards. You do you know that some stuff is going on online when people text you |
1:14.9 | haven't heard from for a while. Are you doing okay? That's always a bad sign. Yeah. Are you alive? |
1:19.5 | Okay. So yeah, things, uh, watching things devolve on blue sky has been pretty informative. And I |
1:24.7 | want to pull on a couple threads here that are less about me |
1:27.8 | and more about some of the characters participating in the present uproar. A little later on, |
1:32.9 | we're going to talk about a very sad man in a bowler hat and the James Webb Space Telescope |
1:38.1 | and how those tie into Blue Sky. First, a lot of the controversy centers on the head of trust and safety at Blue Sky, a fine gentleman, I don't want to say fine, a gentleman named Aaron Roderick's. |
1:50.9 | So Roderick's has quickly become public enemy, too, I guess, because the top spot's already taken, among Blue Skyers, because after they... |
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