Bard spotting on Bluesky 14 July 2024

Gary Horses (@khandozo.bsky.social):

Every time a story comes out that a violent boy or man was bullied in school, I really wish they'd talk to the girls and women who had to be around that guy. Killings are rarely a first act of violence.

Colleen Morrissey (@colleenmoz.bsky.social):

The way misogyny is so common that it's not considered a red flag for mass violence even when it is literally one of the most reliable early indicators...

AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social):

Is it? Or is it just a common factor in the shooter population without being an indicative tell because it's also way too common among nonshooters?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's significant enough that, as a comorbid factor, addressing misogyny directly addresses violent extremism on social media platforms. As a common factor among all the hate groups that were on Reddit, it also scaled in intensity directly to the intensity of violent rhetoric.

AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social):

Yeah, I'm just wondering if it's actually useful as a red flag or if it's too widespread for that

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The cultural pervasiveness and permissiveness for misogyny makes it an attractive recruitment vector for violent extremism. Reddit's rule against promoting hatred doesn't get enforced regularly even now against two blatant misogynist slurs. Misogyny is a blind spot, a salonfahige signal.

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

i should be hanging from hooks having my blood harvested to feed the dolls

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

With strategically placed vibrator bullets to uh, stimulate. Bloodflow. Yes

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

👀yes. blood flow. 😵‍💫

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Any list I am not on is neither a complete nor consistent list of evil trans

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Ich bin ontologische böse

Beta (@betapositive.bsky.social):

So just gonna say this as a perspective from a non-american:

The mere existence of a high school gun club is a fricked up thing to just breeze past here

Link. 🥥 🌴 (@knilirabaj.bsky.social):

Embarrassing.

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

it's an olympic sport. this is like complaining about a gymnastics club or swimming club.

Beta (@betapositive.bsky.social):

Other countries compete in the olympics but get by without high school gun clubs.

Fwiw we have gun clubs here! They're just not run out of or associated with a high school.

And no it is not the same because to my knowledge nobody has yet managed a school drowning.

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

yes it is.

ETON HAS A TARGET RIFLE TEAM. y'all have em too.

show your work on how a school team for target shooting leads to mass shootings. go back and find out if any of the school shooters were on a target shooting team. i'll bet they weren't. i bet if they tried they were kicked off the team.

Beta (@betapositive.bsky.social):

When someone gymkatas their way to a massacre then I'll accept that a gun club and a gymnastics club are the same just because both happen to be at the olympics.

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

you still haven't proven any link between rifle clubs and school shootings. almost like you picked an argument without understanding that it's not the same thing. if it were the gun clubs it would be happening in every country. so find a better target.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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

we need to talk about the phases of the moon. the phases should either be called:

new moon, waxing moon, old moon, waning moon

or

empty moon, waxing moon, full moon, waning moon

vot in the replies

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I vot u for queen

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

as your queen i decree it to be empty moon waxing moon full moon waning moon

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My Queen 🥰

Autumn,the best of the seasons🏳️⚧️♿ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

@summerbunny.boo heyyyy

summer 🐰 (@summerbunny.boo):

how are you dear autumn? 🍂

Autumn,the best of the seasons🏳️⚧️♿ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

Eepy...wishing I could have cuddles

summer 🐰 (@summerbunny.boo):

I know a special kind of cuddling…

summer 🐰 (@summerbunny.boo):

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social joust @fallgirlautie.bsky.social 16

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Autumn,the best of the seasons🏳️⚧️♿ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

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Autumn,the best of the seasons🏳️⚧️♿ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

Um....

summer 🐰 (@summerbunny.boo):

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

D'ya ever wonder whether Lenny Kravitz was born two generations too early to conquer Mars

Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️ (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

Do you think in reality there truly was a king or perhaps war leader ('dux bellorum') named Arthur living in immediately post-Roman Britain who halted the advance of Germanic invaders for a generation or does the glaring lack of primary source material indicate that he was probably apocryphal?

Aaron Huertas (@aaronhuertas.bsky.social):

Dipping back into Twitter to lurk on assassination stuff and truly, from the bottom of my heart, unless you have massively curated lists, no one in media or politics should be microwaving their neurons on there.

Aaron Huertas (@aaronhuertas.bsky.social):

I assure you, no one is psychologically strong enough to overcome repeated exposure to propaganda messages. Even if you reject them personally they become a heuristic for how you think other people think.

Jesse Baer (@jbaer.bsky.social):

How do we bring it down

Aaron Huertas (@aaronhuertas.bsky.social):

Democratic elected officials have to abandon it and post hot takes / breaking news on other platforms, which would force journ*lists to those platforms.

Funding alt platforms, assistance for local govs, weather services etc to move over.

Jesse Baer (@jbaer.bsky.social):

And how do we get them to do that? Sorry, I won't bug you if this is bugging you but I'm starving for this kind of brass tacks strategic talk that thus far I've mostly only been able to have with myself.

Like, I feel like there should be a political org, at least an informal one, dedicated to this.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The first journ*list that posted the shooter's ID who wasn't a Murdoch property or an affiliate reporter was NBC's Tom Winter, who first posted it to X, and then to NBC's site. I passed over linking or screenshotting X and linked NBC's site.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It has to start with everyone refusing to use or link to the site. Delete profiles. Log out. Deactivate. Never click to the site again and tell others.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Kate Andrews Give Me Your Salary Before You Deign To Classify Me

↙️↙️↙️ (@2darntrans.bsky.social):

Normie FBPE liberal type who I know from insta talking about the Trump assassination attempt being staged. Oh boy.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"It was staged" got spammed every few minutes on my subreddits. I'm wondering whether that was prearranged to be spammed as disinfo

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I need to be absolutely smashed into this mattress to burn off the adrenaline and anxiety and Apollojuice. Distance is transphobic

Autumn,the best of the seasons🏳️⚧️♿ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

Very much so

A Lesson In Theoretical Slutistics (@scrotum-philips.bsky.social):

someone please tell me why we aren't absolutely fricked now. i promise not to argue as long as your reason is vaguely reasonable.

i just need someone to stop me from doom spiraling really badly right now. (or at least, stop me from doom spiraling MORE)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Because the shooter was a Nick Fuentes fanboy, and not a trantifacommie. Just maybe now the GOP and Trumpers will figure out that the terrorist manifesto is coming from inside the house, like we've said, like, forever

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I don't even need to know the shooter's Reddit usernames — just how many of them had been permanently suspended.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

A 20 year old registered Republican.

Who would have been 16 when Trump lost, and 12 when Trump won. Who would have been radicalised on extremist social media.

Goddarn.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The executive bullet point of "explain like I'm five, what is accelerationism" is "chaos is a ladder". They'll say it's "pruning the dysfunctional institutions" but it's always, always "Time to steal dead men's boots"

Jared Yates Sexton (@jysexton.bsky.social):

Do yourself a favor and get familiar with the conceit of accelerationism.

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE WANTED TO KNOW MORE WHETHER OR NOT A MAN JACKS OFF TO CARTOONS

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Deleted context but I suspect this would be an /r/evenwithcontext

worried toast (@toasty.cx):

the secret service is just quiet quitting

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'd guess the countersnipers weren't cleared to shoot until there was an initial shot, and they likely had someone trying to approach from outside the rally, or cover a different angle.

And probably someone was in Trump's earpiece telling him "We have a situation, gtfo the stage now, calmly"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If so, he was probably ignoring them.

But we may never know.

Like 9/11, I don't think this was likely an inside job, but I also don't discount the sheer Take Advantage Of It of republican politicians

worried toast (@toasty.cx):

oh i don't think it was an inside job or anything i just thought it was a funny thing to post that wouldn't make the FBI show up to my house also lol