Bard spotting on Bluesky and Reddit 05 July 2024

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

its so fricking hot inside my apartment

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

packs u in ice

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

now (re)watching the extended version because i haven't seen it in 15 years and what better time to watch than when stuck at home because of covid

Johnny at Home (@johnnysthoughts.bsky.social):

Are you gonna take the ring, frodo is handing it to you

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

i won't wear rings. i'm too neurodivergent to handle jewelry. this is a good bit actually ty

Flat Pluto Society (@adhdgobl.in):

"And three rings were gifted to the neurodivergents, who would never wear them but will spend six hours explaining the ring forging process to you."

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Rings are for putting on braids

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

To be clear:

Elon Musk — owner, operator, and main character of what used to be the town square of the world — is issuing terrorist threats, to intimidate voters.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

There's an interpretation of Trump v US (the one summed up as "When the President does it, it's not a crime"), that argues that SCOTUS issued that opinion to motivate America to stop FAFO'ing by nominating & electing shitbag meme POTUS candidates, to kill "Calm Down! How bad could it possibly be?"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I don't subscribe to this view, to be clear. A colleague with apparently inexhaustible optimism holds it and I can't smash it without appealing to straight cynicism.

It would be nice if that's the effect it ultimately had.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I know / have encountered too many manchildren who want to live out their big peepee power fantasies through the proxy of "their guy" having his finger on the red button

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Want a fun, engaging hour?

Using Robert Paxton's ontology of Fascism, try to work out whether the Heritage Foundation fits into the "Traditional Elites" bucket or the "Nationalist Militants" bucket.

Because Trump disavowing Project 2025 looks a lot like the Nationalist Militants purging the Trads.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

(But it also looks like the Trads rejecting the Nationalist Militants!)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Was out running errands and had the opportunity to stop in at a Half Price Books, decided to check out the Tarot decks they had

They had a 1st edition, signed, OTO Thoth deck & book

$700.00

Not even if I had billions of excess cash sitting around

Atalanta Pendragonne (They/Them) (@atalanta.bsky.social):

... what? I mean, isn't that a pretty old fashioned Britishy sort of name?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Feminine & British for sure

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

Tbf the people in ~2001 who were saying "[AI] is going to eliminate all our jobs and we will serve our innocent robot overlords" are literally the same people at the fore-front of saying it today, and spent the last 20 years building the social & economic capital to get the business world to listen

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

The idea that AGI is the final answer to all of the social, administrative, and political challenges of humanity is a spiritual and ideological belief and always has been, and now it has a lot of powerful adherents who were woo'd into believing it by people often described as wannabe cult leaders

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

have worked in tech for over a decade & i can confirm many of the loudest AGI nerds are absolutely a fricking tech cult.

they used to be mostly trans humanist, but a bunch of them are now unfortunately fashy after efforts from Thiel & his ghouls.

Bethany, Warrior of Mojitos (@maegis42.bsky.social):

Watching former transhumanists become rabid transphobe algorithm-worshippers was WILD. They were just missing the point the whole time

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

Imo the "they aren't real transhumanists" line is similar to christians saying "well christian nationalists aren't real christians". This is, in fact, a real form of transhumanism as it is actually practiced by one particular network or community.

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

yeah i guess it's just odd because my interest in transhumanism was entirely based in radical bodily autonomy & self determination.

it was also informed by queer, feminist, & class theory, however, which is def the bigger influence for me. i just find it bizarre so many tech bros went rightwing.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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SigmundFrood (@sigmundfrood.bsky.social):

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @juicysteak117.gay 5

TTRPG Class Identifier (@bskyttrpg.bsky.social):

Challenged duelist does not have enough gold

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

I'M BROKE I GOT FLEECED BY @weiskopf.bsky.social

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @juicysteak117.gay 1.0000008

TTRPG Class Identifier (@bskyttrpg.bsky.social):

Duel has been initiated. Challenged player please reply either "Accept" or "Reject"

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

accept

TTRPG Class Identifier (@bskyttrpg.bsky.social):

The winner is juicysteak117.gay

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

WE ARE SO BACK

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

YUSSS

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslamp America for him.

Masha🖖aka (@baphometta.bsky.social):

All credit to Taraji P. Henson, but this dumb, loudmothed motherlover here probably helped a bit too

www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"I have only ever prayed one prayer, and it was thus: «Lord, let my enemies showboat & gloat before they cross the finish line»"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @bakedrachel.bsky.social 1.00000027

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Heritage Foundation & Project 2025 are the albatross around Trump's neck, and Trump is the albatross around the GOP's neck.

🏳️🌈 Loud Little Ladybug✨ (@loudladybug.bsky.social):

Anyone have a decent article about this because here, I'm feeling like just being a witch makes me a narcissist 🙃

🌷🪻 khthoniaa 🪻🌷 (@khthoniaa.bsky.social):

I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but I think there's a difference between having narcissistic traits and having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The current DSM lists the following as the diagnostic criteria for NPD, and you need 5 out of 9 to be diagnosed:

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

NPD needs a professional diagnosis.

Everyone has, to some extent, tendencies towards narcissism, sadism, sociopathy. Everyone experiences schadenfreude and everyone has a self-preservation impulse — these don't make someone Dark Triad disordered.

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

i need to go get food and drink but my back hurts so much

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Will you grant my wish, to be brave and get the food and drink you need 😘

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

i can try

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

🥰

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

i got tea but i have no appetite because of the pain

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'm glad you're hydrating ☺️

livvy the kikimouse✴️🐭 (@mousegirl.boo):

so a couple years ago i fell in with this real new agey group and the weirdest thing they got me to try was using spiders for nose cleaning. u just put a tube of spiders in yr nose and they clean out the gunk. they even ate nose hairs. there was sneezing powder u use at the end to sneeze them out

livvy the kikimouse✴️🐭 (@mousegirl.boo):

usually it was pretty funny to see all the spiders fly out at the end, but one time i guess one got into my sinuses too far, so i could still feel it crawling around in there after the sneeze. so i had to use a neti pot and it felt just like the itsy bitsy spider song was happening in my nose

grace (@acab4cutie.top):

jfc

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

thank you, grace, for saying what we're all thinking

livvy the kikimouse✴️🐭 (@mousegirl.boo):

and yet yall will literally eat taco bell smdh

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

tacobell is not living beings crawling in our sinuses!

livvy the kikimouse✴️🐭 (@mousegirl.boo):

yeah it's worse!!

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

no it's not! living beings do not belong in your sinuses!

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

Kira, Livvy is like the t-800 of skeeting:

she can't be bargained with, she can't be reasoned with. she doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and she absolutely will not stop!... ever... until she is dead!

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslamp America for him.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Holy sh—

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Real "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN" hours

Micah (@rincewind.run):

if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great

we'll be over here waiting

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslamp America for him.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"These buttholes started too soon and they're making me look worse"

drow zelensky (@dov.bsky.social):

oh no absolutely no. if there is one thing i will not do it's police how people from countries without something as insane as a nobility arrange the words in conjunctions that include "sir" and "lord" and even "keir"

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

if there is one traditional aspect of being American I live by, it's absolutely refusing to acknowledge or play along with British royalty and nobility bullshit

Alun Jones (@alun.pw):

We're done with respecting other peoples and their preferred nomenclature already?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Sir, Madam, or Otherwise —

I am one of the kind of rare knurd who can rattle off the blazon of the grant of arms to the regnant of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland just by glancing at it, and know the precedence of title well enough to herald.

I made a choice to do that. And a choice to stop.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I made that choice to not use that system because the aristocracy it represents chose to place me and mine below the bottom of the chart, six feet under as it were, for accidents of our births.

In choosing to abolish and tear down such rank prejudice, I chose to abandon its trappings as well.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I will be happy to extend such respect to Keir Starmer, any Peer of the Empire, any Lord or Lady such as they extend to me and mine.

I will not be shackled by their privilege.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"I want the Conservatives to be defeated in the next election, and for Labour to gain a majority!"

Monkey's Paw:

Bardfinn (moderator) in r/conservativeterrorism:

Our rule #5 is "No Meta", meaning no posts about Reddit.

If you find comments or posts that are racist, misogynist, homophobic, etc - please report them https://reddit.com/report

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat in Parliament and will now return to his former post managing Spinal Tap.

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

The line between real British politics and a Rob Reiner mockumentary is exceedingly thin. bsky.app/profile/rick...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

All I can hear is Terry Jones saying "SPAM and Beans, ".

I've been with a few women in my life and one thing I've noticed is that the female anus is incredibly close to the vagina, in fact they're barely an inch apart.

I'm not sure about other guys - but doesn't this disturb you? It feels like a design flaw in women actually -- like they're supposed to be so feminine and beautiful yet this ghastly little oversight is ruining everything.

Somehow it feels to me that women should be more aware of this flaw and it should affect their confidence. Whenever I see a so-called beautiful woman walking down the street so care-free thinking she's all that I just remember her anus is only 1 inch away from her kitty and laugh her into oblivion.