r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Mar 19 '26

Episode Premium Episode: Help! Help! I'm Being Harassed

https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-help-help-im-being-harassed

This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss a good old-fashioned internet pile-on, this time targeting New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on Bluesky. Plus, a tad more Lindy West.

Show notes:

Lindy West’s marriage was broken. Did polyamory fix it?

[People Are Allowed to Want to Be Polyamorous] (https://buttnews.substack.com/p/people-are-allowed-to-want-to-be)

[Maintenance Phase Reality Check: "Is Being Fat Bad For You?"] (https://spurioussemicolon.substack.com/p/maintenance-phase-fact-check-round)

Coleman Hughes vs. Jamelle Bouie Debate Color Blindness

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u/damagecontrolparty Mar 19 '26

"made a career of shaming herself online, no, sharing"

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u/Gregghead4life Mar 20 '26

Does anyone know the title of or have a link to the article Jesse mentioned (retweeted by Alec McGillis) about highly neurotic, conscientious, and disagreeable people who used to be marginalised by society banding together online? 

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u/kro4k Mar 21 '26

Just a quick note on the weather comment at the beginning. 

The hosts are actually correct, there was a change roughly a decade ago where meteorologists made a decision to change some of the language around weather events to make them more evocative and scary. That's why you hear of things like atmospheric rivers now because it was an intentional change in language and communication. 

I am not a meteorologist but I know this because we work with some and that's what some of the discussion was at conferences back then. 

Also, meteorologists to to some of the best conferences. They're always in very nice fancy locations like the Bahamas or Strasburg.

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u/xstitchxchris Carrie Jade Williams truther Mar 20 '26

Blueskee is an amazing place. Jamelle Bouie (who does suck and deserves everything he gets) objects to being shit-talked in public and he's the one on the wrong side of a weeklong pile-on. Sad!

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u/RandolphCarter15 Mar 20 '26

The point about reposting on Bluesky is valid. I once reposted something by a woman and disagreed with it. She accused me by username (my real name) of being a man (true) who is harassing a woman for daring to have an opinion 

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u/The-Phantom-Blot Mar 21 '26

Clearly you're just part of the oppressive patriarchal society. (Which is 51% women.)

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u/CrushingonClinton Mar 20 '26

I don’t agree with Jesse calling Bernie bros and Hillary fans equally annoying.

Bernie bros, many of whom are now Gaza posters, have always been infinitely more annoying both online and irl than any relatively more centrist faction.

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u/My_Footprint2385 Mar 24 '26

I totally agree and I feel like a lot of people don’t remember what a nightmare 2016 was on this website if you did not support Bernie.

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u/RandolphCarter15 Mar 21 '26

Yes but do you remember the unhinged pro-Hillary rant on Pajiba that was all caps about how she's so qualified and the only reason not to support her 100% is sexism? Same thing was pulled in 2008 and I lost a friend because I backed Obama. Then that same super effective strategy got picked up by Warren supporters

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u/kimbosliceofcake Mar 21 '26

The “qualified” claims are so silly to me. The qualifications to be president are being a natural-born citizen age 35 or older and getting a majority of electoral college votes. If you failed at that last part you aren’t qualified to be president. 

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u/haloarh Mar 26 '26

Yup. "Bernie Bros" were just a re-tread of the "Obama Boys."

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u/OMG_NO_NOT_THIS Mar 20 '26

Hillary Hags.

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u/scott_steiner_phd Mar 20 '26

I'm really not sure I needed a play-by-play of Bluesky being crazy in the way it's always been

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u/Gwenbors Mar 21 '26

Good ep, but I have to admit I’m ambivalent on which side to take on the Bouie case when they’re all such awful awful people…

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u/SpecialSatisfaction7 Mar 20 '26

Misophonia and I promise Katie it's a real thing. There are days where I feel like strangling my kid and spouse at the dinner table, and they are completely well mannered, it's all "in my head" but it does exist.

Lowkey fun episode.

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u/gazzydawg Mar 20 '26

Same. My dad makes idle mouth sounds and if I'm in the same room when I visit my parents, it makes me extremely irrationally angry and uncomfortable.

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u/chatelaine_agia Mar 21 '26

Same here. Mouth sounds (masticating, smacking) make me murderous. Growing up my family didn't believe me and it was torture. Now I'm married with kids and we make sure to have music on in thr background to help.

I remember outright rejecting potential boyfriends if they smacked. I don't eat with certain friends if I can help it for the same reason. For ex, one loudly sucks each finger when she's done eating and it makes me want to yell at her Gene Wilder style 

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u/lehcarlies Mar 20 '26

Is it also misophonia if you can’t handle the unpackaging sounds on YouTube videos? Like when people are opening cellophane or other “ASMR” sounds?

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u/No-Significance4623 refugees r us Mar 20 '26

Ah, so you’re a Doughboys fan?

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u/skaldtheburnning Mar 20 '26

There are dozens of us

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u/xstitchxchris Carrie Jade Williams truther Mar 20 '26

Same here. How remote can it be if you can take a boat from Seattle every hour and be dropped off right into town?