Bluesky Labels My Sexually Suggestive Adult Content

Bluesky's website describes itself as "Social media as it should be." I'm all for that. In fact, I use Bluesky to publicize this very blog, every single new post.

Imagine my surprise then when I found one of my posts on the platform had been dinged Wednesday by Bluesky's moderator, possibly a bot, as "Adult Content." I had been promoting my recent post on illustrator Edward Sorel's depiction of God creating autumn and its source material from the Italian Renaissance. What then was my offense?

The label applied to my supposedly adult content by @moderation.bsky.app was "Sexually Suggestive." They added, not very helpfully, "Does not include nudity." I take that to mean nudity alone is not deemed to be sexually provocative.

Here then is my "sexually suggestive" "adult content," revealed:

I immediately submitted an appeal, of course, but the label hasn't been removed as of this posting. The censored image, for the sake of Bluesky employees and others who may have never seen it before, is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam (c. 1512) from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It's right there in the Vatican at the end of the tour. You can't miss it. I borrowed the image from Wikipedia.

Note:  You can follow me, docnad,, on Bluesky here. Who knows?— I might even post more sexually suggestive content.

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