One of my morning self-assigned ‘duties’ is to check my two favorite sites, William Teach’s The Pirate’s Cove, and Robert Stacy McCain’s The Other McCain. I have been using Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — and recently Bluesky to publicize my friends’ articles.

That seems to have angered a Mr Alan G Nixon — or so I assume his name to be from his Bluesky address — of New South Wales, who has the hashtag #ClimateActionNow in his Bluesky bio. He reposted my Bluesky skeet publicizing one of Mr Teach’s articles with a #BlockList hashtag, a method of encouraging his roughly 1,100 followers to not see my skeets, because the anti-global warming climate change activists are too much Special Snowflakes™ to handle anything in opposition.

They can’t handle the truth, but, more than that, they can’t handle what they believe to be true being challenged.

Bluesky, which so much like Twitter that it seems a probable copyright violation, but I’ll leave that up to Elon Musk to address, was started because Mr Musk bought Twitter, and removed most of the censorship the previous regime there imposed. He [Gasp!] reinstated Donald Trump’s account [Heaven forfend!] and allowed uncensored discussion of topics the further left previous regime censored.

It was November 29, 2018, that The New York Times granted OpEd space to Chad Malloy^[1]Chad Malloy is a male who claims to be a woman, going by the name ‘Parker’ Malloy. to publish an article claiming that Twitter’s ban on ‘deadnaming’ and misgendering^[2]‘Deadnaming’ refers to using the name a person was given at birth, such as Chad Malloy rather than his faux name of ‘Parker’ Malloy, while misgendering means referring to … Continue reading actually promotes free speech rather than stifling it. On October 4, 2019, the Times published an OpEd by New Yorker staffer Andrew J Marantz, entitled Free Speech Is Killing Us. Noxious language online is causing real-world violence. What can we do about it? The New York Times, that great defender of Freedom of Speech and of the Press, apparently supported restricting other people’s Freedom of Speech and of the Press!

Well, Mr Nixon is perfectly within his rights to suggest that others block me on Bluesky, and to even say that I am one of the #ClimateCriminals, but the whole notion of #BlockLists screams of the cowardice of the left. They just can’t handle the truth!