Basically, cognitive dissonance. They simply refuse to believe the truth, and make up their own fantasies in which everything is backwards from reality. It makes them feel like they have some power over their life, and/or that they’re special.

99% of the time people like this are just deeply freaked out at the idea of a cold uncaring universe with nobody in control.

Related to this, there’s a Google translate button at the top that reads, in Turkish, “translate to Turkish”

Which could be evidence that the screenshot comes from somebody who speaks Turkish, which increases the chances that the person receiving the email is in Turkey.

That doesn’t answer your question, but it suggests that Bluesky may only be honoring requests regarding accounts they believe are subject to the local laws.

Two very important points:

• This is proof of nothing
• I personally will continue to use Mastodon instead of Bluesky

That’s so fucking rage inducing, and then I read the article.

First paragraph

citing the 24-year-old’s future as a gynecologist

Holy fucking shit that’s fucking EVIL

I was unaware the classified information being “boring” was a good reason for a news outlet to self censor.

Unless the concern had nothing to do with newsworthiness so much as the cost:reward ratio of publishing vs the expense of litigation against the Trump administration.

As far as you know, their intent has always been to publish and they were waiting for advice from their lawyers. You just keep jumping to conclusions though. Maybe try giving some benefit of the doubt. Again, it’s not like they’re Fox News or AON. These are people genuinely trying to do the right thing (even if they mess up sometimes) (within the context of a late stage capitalist society).

To be clear: I’m not saying they’re innocent and that you’re wrong; I’m saying you don’t know. So maybe chill a little.

Publishing classified information, no matter how innocuous or unharmful, is still illegal and it would be a dumb fucking thing for The Atlantic, or even a private citizen* to do.

However I’m to understand that since then a government representative has said that nothing in the conversation was classified and The Atlantic is now considering whether to publish everything.

Absolutely nothing about this story indicates that The Atlantic or any of its employees are “working for the government” or anything like that. They were just trying to not break any long-standing laws that 100% would land them in prison for a long time.

This is a great example if Occam’s Razor. Is it all a conspiracy between the government and a news organization in good standing (ie not Fox News/OAN/etc)? No, somebody just didn’t want to go to prison for a stupid reason, so he held back a little to play it safe.

*of course private citizens have published classified material before and they did us a great service by doing so, BUT that information was, generally, worth it

I hate him saying “get your mind out of the gutter” as if even thinking about people who are gay is itself a perverted sexual act.

Gay people exist. Acknowledging this and discussing whether a piece of media is directed at them is not “mind in gutter” stuff.

I don’t want to go so far as to say this person is homophobic, but it sure does sound like some internalized homophobia, perhaps.