We've found an unwelcome feature on Bluesky: you can't add your own content filters, but it will randomly slap one on sometimes. Yesterday's post, which was as deeply unsexy as it was anatomically incorrect, is "sexually suggestive" according to Bluesky...
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •Ailbhe reshared this.
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •L'origine du monde is not masked. Guess they learned from the Facebook lawsuit incident.
"L'origine du monde" by Gustave Courbet, 1866. Musee d'Orsay.
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •It's a lovely day in the village and you are a horrible Zeus. Bluesky does NOT provide an automatic filter on this one, not even to hide the bad pun.
Leda and the Swan, attributed to François Boucher, circa 1740. Private collection
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •They don't have a problem with 12th century church carvings.
Kilpeck Sheela-Na-Gig, circa 12th century
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •This charming painting depicting a close friendship between two women *is* sexually suggestive, according to Bluesky.
"Les deux amis" by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (1739–1821).
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •This shunga work is the first to get flagged as "explicit", not merely suggestive.
"Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" by Katsushika Hokusai (1814)
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •A photo of a human cervix is also classified in the "Sexually Explicit" category - this is a very value-laden judgment on Bluesky's part.
Photo of a human cervix on day 15 of the menstrual cycle. Courtesy of the Beautiful Cervix project
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •Georgia O'Keeffe is NOT masked by Bluesky. O'Keeffe would be so pleased, she maintained throughout her life that she was simply painting flowers.
"Black Iris" by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926. Courtesy of MOMA.
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •This painting depicting condom use is "sexually suggestive".
We still can't figure out exactly how they're making the distinction.
"The Cautious Lover" by Nicolas François Octave Tassaert, circa 1860.
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •OH COME ON
"Cunnyseurs" by Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827)
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •At least Japanese obscenity authorities aren't making the Bluesky algorithms. This one was PERMITTED.
"Man-boat" (pussy boat) by Rokudenashiko, 2014, courtesy of the artist. The artist was arrested and convicted under Japanese obscenity laws for part of her process in creating this work, which is based on 3D scans of her own vulva.
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •So what have we learned this afternoon? Bluesky's content warning algorithm is arbitrary, applies a kind of moral judgment as to what is porn and what is merely "suggestive", and is entirely opaque.
We'd prefer to be able to apply our own warnings, thank you very much.
stux⚡
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •I love Rokudenashiko’s work! She also does amazing landscape pieces that are similarly molded & vinyl manko toys that are super cute 🤩 Folks can see more on her website:
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •Donc un col de l'utérus, ça ressemble à un gland 🤔
(et bon appétit si vous êtes à table)
Wolfie Rankin
in reply to Vagina Museum • • •"Do you want all the pronz?"
YES!
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in reply to Vagina Museum • • •Joan 🍁🍂 Mask up
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