my poem about men being monsters and women laying eggs got me a seven day ban on facebook
i saw that and wondered why the day would begin this way
then i got an email from my daughter
an email
i wondered
ah
they shut my phone off
again
depression loves little itching
my negative bank account didn’t seem to be enough
now
the world is poison ivy
and i am rolling without abandon
except hope
i have firmly abandoned
that
Mike's Manic Word Depot 
well it seems their censorship employees should be more educated in English literature 😂
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Mmm. Being banned from FB always felt to me much akin to being spurned by a syphilitic weasel of degraded morality and negotiable virtue.
Although such bans have always reminded me a little too uncomfortably of piles of burning books too. And as a creator of unabashedly degenerate art I worry.
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yeah. It reeks of desperate attempts to enforce undefined morality from a place that is literally memes and hey look at me posts. my being upset came with the messenger ban. I actually talk to people through it.
It may have to do with my constant referring to Zuckerberg as a human bidet. Hmmm.
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Hmm….human bidet. Very good. I think I may have a new favorite turn of phrase.
But losing messenger sucks.
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Did you really get banned from Facebook??
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yep. all true. been a terrible no good morning so far. i can’t believe that poem got me seven days.
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Yeah, that’s bullshit. This new wave of outrage culture and pro-censorship behavior just baffles me.
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agreed. i have written worse. maybe it just finally got to the point where i offended good taste enough. sometimes it feels like the world is sending messages
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I’m an absolutist when it comes to free speech and expression. I don’t think people realize how this all can/will be used against us as time goes on.
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Orwell knew. And everyone thought he was nuts for it.
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Yup. 1984 was not an instruction manual.
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I just went and read that poem again. I’m sure it’s not worth the effort but you should appeal the ban. At least have them tell you exactly why you were banned.
I hope WordPress never goes that direction.
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i sent a message explaining there is zero hate speech in it. I’m sure the algorithm saw men are monsters and the robots that are in charge freaked out.
If WordPress goes that way so many pages will vanish overnight.
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They just sent me a message apologizing. Said they got it wrong. Yet I am still banned. Hahaha.
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At least they admitted their mistake.
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A bag of dicks to them
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That’ll get you perma-banned. They’ll have to grab their teddy bears and run to their safe space.
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Hahahaha. I’ll show them when I’m a famous author! No. No I won’t.
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Uggh, you don’t want to be famous, that would be miserable. I want my work to be read and known but not me. Hell, somebody else can take the credit, just send me the checks.
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I don’t think you get one without the other
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Damn.
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