🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)1d ago

#PSA: If your profile pic is a sick or battered child, then I'm not going to accept your follow request (and I might block or even report you depending on how bad the photo is).

I get like a dozen of these requests per day, and I *really* don't want to see photos of bleeding children¹ scattered throughout my timeline.

¹ same goes for profile pics of genitals, gore, guns, etc.

Show threadFranceska Mann22h ago

@alice

there is a genocide happening.
God forbid you might have to look at something on your timeline that you can scroll past.

Show threadStarkRG
@FranceskaMann @alice Yeah, that's the wrong approach there. People absolutely have the right not to have their safe spaces inundated with the horrors of the rest of the world. Yes, it is a privilege to be able to do that, it's also a right.
Jun 24 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadPatch You Up21h ago
@StarkRG @FranceskaMann @alice Not to mention this is the internet, and there are hundreds of scam accounts for every real mutual aid account. If the account hasn't been independently verified (ie, by being listed on Gaza-Verified) and they pop up in your follow or DM requests with a plea for help, they're most likely a scammer. The scammers will attempt to hijack your sympathy, and it only harms those who actually need help.
Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)20h ago

@StarkRG and I help fight the horrors I can, with the resources I have. It's beyond horrible what Israel is doing in Gaza.

It's also horrible what the fascists are doing to immigrants, trans folx, women, and kids.

Horrors abound.

And, especially, fuck scammers trying to profit off of them with scraped or AI-generated photos of bloody kids as their profile pics.

@FranceskaMann