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R Dean Riddlebarger @othurone.bsky.social

Pendulum swinging stuff, methinks. With ongoing fine tuning. Embrace it; after way long folks are thinking about it. Glad you had fun! Assume I’ll get feedback from daughter in a week or three as I figure she’s wiped out from Con stuff…

aug 19, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social

Respectfully, if it were truly a pendulum shift and something to embrace, they would be asking how they can support authors of color, not asking us for validation and free advice on how they can earn money writing about us. Exploitation wrapped in brownface is still exploitation.

aug 19, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
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R Dean Riddlebarger @othurone.bsky.social

Fair enough. I’ll no longer offer thoughts.

aug 19, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social

Also respectfully, I invite you to step back, look inward, and explore what makes you say “embrace it” :)

aug 19, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view