Bard spotting on Bluesky 14 August 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I have a dozen block lists & have published the criteria for listing accounts on them.

bsky.app/profile/skyw...

Not listed on the criteria here are the "Triggerin' the Libz" 2015-era G*merGate troll list & the tentative Carnival Barker list, which I use only as a mute list.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I wrote up criteria for my blocklists. No alt-text because these are first-draft, all screenshots of my text editor of choice.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

All accounts on these lists are there because I witnessed the behaviour.

Each list (except Carnival Barkers) is orthogonal in type to one or more User Agreement / Acceptable Use Policy / Community Standards policies on this or other User Content Hosting ISPs

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Carnival Barkers could be titled "Won't Stop Feeding The Trolls" & the Trolls / Triggerin' the Libz list is pre-emptive.

Everything but The Bucket should be self-explanatory, & The Bucket shouldn't be a user hosted list (but it is what it is)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Several of these (notably: Transphobes) are effectively legacy lists, since usually BlueSky Moderation handles transphobia well, and promptly.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

These are an exercise in community moderation & protection, but also a gauge of how much better BlueSky is, quality-wise, than Twitter;

Before I left Twitter in November 2022, I had collected in excess of 600k blocked accounts.

Over 10 years.

Not counting blocklists subscribed to.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Head's up if you are a Spectrum TV customer — as of September 11 2024, you will be signed up for "free" Disney + Basic service thru Spectrum. There will be a window in which you can write them and exempt yourself from their arbitration clause.

I intend to take advantage of that window.

Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy (@toadsanime.bsky.social):

Disney is arguing they can't be sued for a woman dying of nut allergies at their restaurant after promising it was safe, because her widower had a Disney+ trial 4 years before - with its terms meaning you can't take Disney or its partners to court:

lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/bord...

✨𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓮𝓬𝓽✨($0/130) (@temptingcate.dev):

idk if it's wool over our eyes, or rug out from under us, but it sucks

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Trump campaign & his backers must be absolutely slavering over, praying in their knees, that Crooks was left wing ideologically motivated - it's the only thing that can save his campaign, and even the party, at this point.

All signs point to him being right wing ideological, however.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

We have a window of ~80 days where releasing the investigative report will either abruptly sink or buoy the entire GOP

Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

• Shakes magic eight ball *

Edith Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

The next discourse will be British

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Good; is it too soon to write the letter of No Confidence in the discourse, yet, or —?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Kamala Harris & Tim Walz are talking to the people.

If "news" corporations have gone to lengths to make clear that they're in the tank already for oligarchic fascism, why would Harris & Walz give interviews to those media corporations' agents?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Newspapers, Radio, & TV are products of an era when One-to-Many mass communication necessitated proxies & assistants.

Social media is a product of an era where those proxies & assistants are automatons. The infrastructure has been democratised.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The rise of fascism in the early 20th century is accurately modeled with the rise of newspapers, radio, & "television" (cinematic photography), enabling mass One-to-Many communication, inherently communicating authority of message & subject.

Maybe "the Press" needs to deal with that legacy.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

We could be witness to a turning point in political history, where the "Internet" communication model comes into its own, and the very few ultimate editorial voices of mass media corporations aren't invited to the table any longer.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

@kiraculous.net Welcome Back 💕

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

i was trying to slowplay it, no reponses only likes and reskeets...

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

out: mr beast is the literal antichrist from revelation

in: with his ambiguous foreign funding, associations with the devil, and being named jimmy, we can conclude mr beast is part of o9a

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

WHAT'S UP YOUTUBE TODAY WE'RE GOING TO CHALLENGE A GROUP OF 100 PEOPLE AGE 1 TO 100 WITH AN INSIGHT ROLL

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Greater Good (The Greater Good)

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.

6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.

Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.

Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.

Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.