Fact is between shit like fleeing anti-trans legislation in my former home of North Carolina, the traumatizing ending of my last job, navigating family estrangement, the death of my hashtag (#YourSlipIsShowing) co-creator, getting my health together for gender affirming surgeries and the fun discoveries that have come with that process (hello fibroids!!), getting my mental health together and the exhausting process and even more fun discoveries that come with that (hello ARFID, hello OCD!!), watching my work with #YourSlipIsShowing be erased in real time via misgendering (sometimes thoughtless sometimes intentional), a couple of COVID infections, and discovering that the Epstein horror actually touches me directly twice over, one of them being the guy's role in the founding of the site that spurred the need for #YSIS in the first place..............yeah. Mans (me) is burnt out.

Thoroughly. Like I can’t even fake it no more.

@sotreu.blacksky.app is one of the other people who anchored #yourslipisshowing. His observation here is important too. Folks have had bots for a while. They're just getting upgrades now. bsky.app/profile/sotr...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6u67ylvymta2krbly4cofe2u/post/3mfttesuxc227
Community defenses in microblogging have notable predecessors like #yourslipisshowing, but none that were supported or cultivated into sustainable practices.

"But Ra'il how can you say that [email protected] is professionally jealous"

Because I know a bitter jealous bitch when I see one!!!!! Bringing up my dead friend to talk ill on me and completely getting #YourSlipIsShowing wrong in the process, go *fuck* yourself david, *sincerely.*

#alt4me

I think a lot about Tinu Abayomi-Paul and Shafiqah Hudson. Tinu spent so much time fighting for other people, helping promote mutual aid efforts so people could survive another night in the world. Shafiqah and a number of others (Ra'il i'Nasah Kiam and Sydette Harry) coined #YourSlipIsShowing, and she was one of the first people to identify and document the disinformation campaigns on Twitter and elsewhere on the web in the 2000s and 2010s.
The #yourslipisshowing, led by Black women, used technical means and cultural knowledge to bust rings/networks of foreign actors posing as Black women themselves. Badly. 😒paper by Kevin Winstead. #aoir2024

@david_megginson @leadegroot @AndrewHacks @greenback

#OscarsSoWhite

#MeToo

#BlackLivesMatter

#IcantBreathe

#BlackFamous

#YourSlipIsShowing

#BlackGirlMagic

#GrowingUpBlack

#NegroSolstice

#BringBackOurGirls

#BlackTwitter

But Black folk show up on Mastodon and say "Discovery here sucks and there are no Black folk." and in response people 'splain hashtags to us?
🙂🙃

Black Twitter is strong in the hashtag game. We know how to use hashtags to find posts and people. We said what we said.

@gentle_slap The mere fact that you use the word "illegals"to describe human beings shows you're not remotely on the decent, moral side of this issue (or, probably, any other ones). #YourSlipIsShowing @BrianJopek

“Her followers expressed frustration and anger that Ms. Hudson had never been paid by the tech companies whose platforms she policed, that she had not been properly credited by scholars and news organizations that cited #YourSlipIsShowing, and that she had not received the health care she needed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/shafiqah-hudson-dead.html
Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

When the hashtag #EndFathersDay began trending on Twitter, she realized it was more than a joke: It was a coordinated disinformation effort.

The New York Times
I was just thinking about #YourSlipIsShowing at the start of this week. It is sad to hear that the woman who created it in 2014 - Shafiqah Hudson - and who tackled disinformation trolls pretending to be who they weren't, has died. https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html
Years Ago, Black Feminists Worked Together to Unmask Twitter Trolls Posing as Women of Color. If Only More People Paid Attention.

The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”

Slate