Bard spotting on Bluesky 23 July 2024 :marseyrandom:

BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6742795

I have a lot of opinions about this, but they're 50 pages apiece, and mostly involve the fact that the megarich use tax loopholes to dodge inheritance and gift taxes

Project 2025 (@project2025.bsky.social):

p697

The estate and gift tax should be reduced to no higher than 20 percent

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Inheritance taxes should be eliminated.

They're regressive and affect the poor most of all.

Gift taxes … keep 'em

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6742647

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They're victims of Rapid Onset Journal Diaries

What is your child hiding inside that locked notebook

Is it feelings planted in them by peer pressure

chelsea bridge 🏳️⚧️ (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

op-ed writers should have to wait until they're 25 to decide if journ*lism is right for them, and then only enter the field after a psych consult to ensure they're not just confused or faking intelligence

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6742646

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

i can't wait til i have the ability to actually function again. got about a month til i get my spinal chord stimulator. i can't explain how much pain has ruined my ability to do anything over the last 6 years. i've been functionally bedridden most of the last 3 years. i can get out of bed, but

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

(And it's a cute butt)

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6742568

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Stephen Bush (@stephenkb.bsky.social):

Funding, it turned, out, had not been secured.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6742387

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

The DSA is fricking garbage, part 8294647

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):

Yup. A tool used to stop trolling is effectively outlawed in the EU under the DSA because bureaucrats incorrectly assumed everyone uses social media in good faith.

Christopher R. Rice (@ravenpenny.bsky.social):

I'm having a dumb. Could you give me 300 characters of this?

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

"Europe is big mad about technology, thinks sites are doing content moderation Wrong, and wrote a law that completely fricks up every single possible effective tool for it while also allowing unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats the ability to completely control what people can say online"

Christopher R. Rice (@ravenpenny.bsky.social):

Well, frick. That don't won't hunt. This is what KOSA and all the other bullshit bills is going to essentially do if they pass, isn't it?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The outlawed technique in this instance, shadowbanning, is used for two primary problems:

Spammers, and extremists.

Both shift their deployment tactics if they know you're flatly refusing their access attempts. Keeping them pinned while null-routing their content is a vital tool.

Christopher R. Rice (@ravenpenny.bsky.social):

Makes sense.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6741593

tweety fish (@sifu.tweety.fish):

"No, if it's a refueling turn you can only move the panzers three hexagons. I have told you eight thousand FRICKING times that if it's a refueling turn you can only move the panzers three hexagons, RAY"

jesse (@jesseltaylor.bsky.social):

this is the most influential thinker in JD Vance's life

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Surprisingly accurate

tweety fish (@sifu.tweety.fish):

Oh believe me I hate him from a position of deep knowledge

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

MM is like … he's where I opened the book/wiki/article and minutes later had to go take a pill for TMJ & lay down, my teeth were grinding so badly

If a fiction novel writer wrote him, their editor would reject the manuscript — and yet, here we are

tweety fish (@sifu.tweety.fish):

I mean I have known, for my sins, a lot of dudes like him, just none of them were so uncouth as to be fricking INFLUENTIAL, good fricking god

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6741493

Ash Higgins (@ashhiggins.bsky.social):

GOP straight up threatening folks with a better tomorrow

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

AFAIK Bezos isn't a criminal per se, just civilly liable for a huge amount of harm

The rest of the orange jumpsuits I'll allow

Deral Fenderson (@fendersonia.bsky.social):

Throw him in jail anyways.

I'm sure he'd prefer it to what I wish we could do, which is put him into one of his peepee rockets and launch him into the sun.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6741169

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

1, 7, 3, 4, 6, 7, 3, 2, 1, 4, 7, 6, Charlie, 3, 2, 7, 8, 9, 7, 7, 7, 6, 4, 3, Tango, 7, 3, 2, Victor, 7, 3, 1, 1, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 3, 2, 4, 7, 6, 7, 8, 9, 7, 6, 4, 3, 7, 6.

Lock.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6741055

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

105 days to go 'til the GOP hate machine eats shit again

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I need folks near me to know that for the next ~108 days, I'm going to be "Make Donald Trump, JD Vance, The Heritage Foundation and the GOP Eat Shit 2024", just as I've been.

They want to hijack governments to make me and mine into legal Untermenschen, and that is unacceptable.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6740912

Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

if we're gonna be pedantic about whether something is a metonym, doesn't apply only to things which are a subset of the whole? e.g., a thing X is not a metonym for Y if they are mutually subsets of Z but neither's a member of the other.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When people start in on "Well, actually _technically_ XYZ is properly GHJ, not LMN" I just slap 'em with the ol' en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/metonym....

[metonymy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/metonymy#:~:text=metonymy%20(countable%20and%20uncountable%2C%20plural,phenomenon%20or%20a%20related%20object)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's "related", and different things are acceptably "related" depending on how the individual organises their thoughts.

Kamala's a prosecutor, which is close enough to police to be a cop, metonymically.

Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

Mmm. I guess I can't argue with that; my subjective disagreement hardly needs to be compelling to anyone else!

(At risk of being meme-y, which to be fair I am ever inclined towards, I tend to see her background as neither cop nor police but a secret third, also/differently derogatory thing.)

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6740022

marissa walmart dog (@meo.bsky.social):

if u post like this ur a cop. congrats. u deputized urself by posting wrong

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

if we can't call a cop a cop we're never getting anywhere. look at my thoughthavers dawg i'm going to jail

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When people start in on "Well, actually _technically_ XYZ is properly GHJ, not LMN" I just slap 'em with the ol' en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/metonym....

[metonymy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/metonymy#:~:text=metonymy%20(countable%20and%20uncountable%2C%20plural,phenomenon%20or%20a%20related%20object)

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6739918

Alex Newhouse (@alexbnewhouse.bsky.social):

"can you believe they put that thing in writing?" in reference to project 2025

absolutely slamming trump with project 2025. this is so good.

Alex Newhouse (@alexbnewhouse.bsky.social):

Harris sounds very good... I am even more excited www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ON...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In writing, with Stephen Miller doing promos for it on YouTube

Just chef's kiss

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6739917

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I can hear the resonances of Barack Obama in Kamala Harris' speech, in her voice

This is a good thing

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6739916

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

VDARE was the old school White Identity Extremism "think tank", and tips the hand here on what "viewpoint discrimination" actually means - it means not tolerating bigotry, hatred, and violent incitement

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

Tough ending for former Orrin Hatch staffer and National Review writer, Peter Brimelow.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 5d ago #6739915

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

Tough ending for former Orrin Hatch staffer and National Review writer, Peter Brimelow.

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

For those fortunate enough to not know what VDare is, it was once the most prominent outlet for white nationalist anti-immigrant bile. It used to be fringe in the GOP coalition, but now is fairly mainstream. Which in part is why they're low on funds. They're no longer edgy. bsky.app/profile/inte...